Eclipse weather...

[ffutures]

...not looking good. With 15 minutes to go it's completely overcast, really doesn't look like any improvement is likely. Also cold, damp, and miserable. But I've got my cameras ready and will keep an eye open for any break in the clouds. Still more than an hour to the maximum and I might get lucky.

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[nelc.livejournal.com]

Wasn't looking good at dawn, here in Cheltenham, but I suddenly realised at about 8.30 that the sun was out, spent 10 minutes dashing about getting my camera stuff together, then went down to join the Cotswold Astronomical Society at Imperial Gardens. It stayed clearish until around maximum, then a sheet of thinnish cloud rolled over, covering the sun until the eclipse was over.

Just sorting my pics out now. Not many good ones, since the autofocus couldn't cope with the bright sun even through an IR filter, and the manual focus sucks (or I suck at manually focussing).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Light reduction is what it's all about with this stuff - your eye can handle a much bigger range than most cameras.