Eclipse watchers.

Here in Wilts the sky just cleared enough for a bodged pinhole to show the crescent. Yay.

(edit) And a neighbour is celebrating with a smokey garden fire: how truly Wessex.

Looked like a dull Glasgow morning here. We’re going to make it a weekly thing

Exactly the right amount of clouds for a perfect view here in Gloucestershire.

Cracking.

Hardly went dark here in Brizzle. Nothing like as dark in 1999. Bit of an anti-climax tbh.

Went very dull up here almost colourless.

Clear blue skies here in northest east wales….still underwhelming.
The 5 pairs of shades things worked a treat tho’.

Perfect on the Saddleworth border to , so much so when it started go go dark I decided to go home for the day , the temp drop was amazing from very pleasant to by god wheres my coat in 15 minutes

Same here – clouds made it dead easy to look at! Bit gloomy but nowhere near ’99.
RM.

Nice cloud cover in sheffield = a great view. even my phone took a reasonable pic 🙂

Worst.

Eclipse.

Evah.

Thick cloud in Glasgow, the sky completely obscured.

Balls!

Eclipse is happy

just seen it through the clouds a few times, my patience was rewarded, horrible cloud up here in glasgow though! 🙁

Agree 99 was better!

Peering through 2 pairs of sunglasses gave an excellent view in my office. Nobody had thought to do the same so had to hand them round to over 30 people, hope I don’t get headlice!!

Remarkably light where I am in Suffolk.

The birds didn’t seem to even notice.

Agree with the above not as good as 99.

Fife had a good amount of cloud cover (theres **** surprise) but it meant the eclipse was easily watched without filters.

Lots of cloud here.

Rhynie, Aberdeenshire – complete cloud cover and drizzle.

Good view through the pinhole in Brizzle n

Surprised that it didn’t go all that dark here when the clouds had cleared.

I thought it would go darker too. The local birds obviously thought it had mind, they went very noisy.

Wonderful clear skies near Cannock Chase:

IMG_6090 by phiiiiil[/url], on Flickr

Remarkably undark, really.

yes, but interesting tones of light.
Just remembered I have an old x-ray film in my office (mine) to use as a filter, took it out to where I could see the sun and could have made a fortune charging for views. Great stuff.

Don’t worry people, I’ve sacrificed a few hundred virgins and now the sun’s returning.

It’s was tricky finding them but fortunately there’s a Forbidden Planet round the corner.

Cloudy in Newcastle. About 150 people standing in Times Square about to be disappointed

Well we weren’t disappointed.

That was brilliant. Nothing like seeing the solar system in action.

If you thought it was boring or dull, you’re dead to me.

Fife had a good amount of cloud cover (theres **** surprise) but it meant the eclipse was easily watched without filters.

You were in the wrong part of Fife ,it was perfect in StAndrews 😛

Seagulls went a bit noisy,but it didn’t get as dark as in 99.

Best one I got…

Nowhere near as clear as 99 but we got a good view from the roof of our office in central glasgow. The cloud completely obscured it at points then filtered enough to make it viewable with a couple of brief completely clear spells. Awe inspiring viewing.

I think we have done it! The dragon is giving up and the sun is coming back.

I was concentrating too much on my Friday fry-up and forgot about it.
oh well, at least I’m full.

Just getting off the M1 onto the slip road and a bird flew straight into my windscreen, which is rare and startled me a bit. Just getting towards the roundabout on the same slip road and another flew within a foot of the windscreen. Just weird. I think the birds must be a bit confused 😕

With a pinhole it’s most interesting watching the progress

Didn’t get any good pictures, although a friendly neighborhood cat decided to come and play with the projection from my binoculars!

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Surprised that it didn’t go all that dark here when the clouds had cleared.

The darkness was really noticeable here, especially when I went back out 10 minutes later, noticed the brightness again.

In sunny Macclesfield (just) Shot with a 5dmk3 +70-200 Mk2 f2.8 with a 10stop ND.

Eclipse by NazcaMan[/url], on Flickr

Eclipse BBC by NazcaMan[/url], on Flickr

Eclipse BBC by NazcaMan[/url], on Flickr

Well that’s that for 11 years (which will probably be the last time most of us will ever see one).

This might be fun:

8 March 2016 – 9 March 2016 — Total Solar Eclipse – visible from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and from locations in the Pacific ocean.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2016-march-9

Quite amused by people showing their photos of the eclipse – there are much better ones on the web!

ps. Just jealous cos it’s all cloudy here 🙁

Some easy jet passengers got a good view on an iceland flight;

At least our pics are of the current eclipse and taken in this country (unlike yours)