Total Solar Eclipse, 1st Aug 2008

[Dollsworth]

It's a full eclipse over vast parts of China. Visit this website Exploratorium: Total Solar Eclipse 2008 Live from China and click to play live video, there is about a one min info video so allow for this. Tune in at 22.30 to watch, more details can be found on the website.

[ATO2]

Great to see some pix. Glad you got some viewing of it.

[Dollsworth]

Originally Posted by ATO2

Great to see some pix. Glad you got some viewing of it.

Yup, very difficult to take a photo as an amateur, had to wait for the sun to go behind some quickly passing altocumulus to reduce the glare to actually get a shot - took 216 photos, 5 of which actually showed the outline of the SUn, the others just huge white blobs
Notice how it was just the top left corner eclipsed, the rest remained? This eclipse was hardly publicised on the tv or radio, i bet if you asked someone in the street about it they wouldn't have a clue! But 1999, everyone flocked down to the southwest and onto the beaches to view the total eclipse.
A grand 10-11% of the sun was covered here today, much higher than this the further north you were (ie Scotland) but they were plagued with torrential rain and flooding unfortunately
It's a shame, 2 weeks of HIGH pressure and clear skies, and then the LOW's move in just in time for this! This also happened on 21 Feb for the total lunar eclipse!

[ATO2]

Ain't that always the way with eclipses! Now wait for a few reports about people burning their retinas out!