Solar eclipse this evening.

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Who's going to be watching the solar eclipse this evening? I hope it's better than the last one back in 1999. That was a total non- event!

Clear blue skies here in Cheshire and everywhere has gone very still and the light has changed to a very strange colour.

Can see it dispersed through our trees and onto our fence panels.
no need for kitchen utensils or pin hole cameras here.

an unexpected bonus!!!
getting eerily darker here in Essex

Just seen it cross the sun using pinhole camera! Crescent got smaller and smaller then it seemed to move upwards and get larger again.

Unlike the one in 1999 it didn't really get much darker but we were only due to have about 80% totality where I am, I think.

Well, I won't see that again, I'll be long dead by the time the next one happens.

Thank you!!!!! I couldn’t work out why it wasn’t working for me!

Where do the birds actually go?

@banivani Snap! Which is super annoying as it’s been blue skies all day!

Can see it on our big parasol too.
first time I’ve ever been grateful to have a garden on multiple levels 😂

great view in Gloucestershire, very eerie in our garden. The dog is getting unsettled.

The light is extraordinary here. Not as profound as 99 but still extraordinary. The cats are out and a little bemused. There is a "stillness" in Surrey. There is also a cooler feel to the air than 30 mins ago.

All the dogs in the street are now barking!!

Got better crescents through my colander in 2015! Nothing like that tonight.

Photo of 2015 crescents, West Yorkshire.

It's a bit shit here, gone a bit darker but nothing dramatic and very thick cloud obscuring the sun. North Gloucestershire.

Nothing happened here in North Yorkshire!

One of my cats has just been meowing.

In Hampshire, just a bit dim here and birds gone quiet. Nowt much else.

Nothing happened I saw in London - didn’t get darker ?

Meh.

Looks like a 🥐

Somerset here, we thought we might get cloud cover at the crucial moment but we did get a good view, thanks to my 1999 solar eclipse specs which I think came free with a newspaper, remember them?

I expected it to be much darker and colder.

Actually I’ve taken a photo with my camera and ChatGPT is very excited as at the top of the picture it caught the eclipse in reflection

We were amaze£ at the efficacy of the colander method!

My pics are a bit hit and miss and on my tiny phone I can’t post them here, as my keyboard is in the way of the posting button! It did go a marginally cooler (not enough though) but got warmer again.

Lancashire. We had clear blue skies. Went eerily dusky and coolest it’s been all day. Warming up again now!

This was us at max a few 100 km north of the track of totality ,- sorry about quality but it was a last minute set up using a 300mm lens with filter on a SLR.

Not much of anything to rave about here, sun stayed bright through out it didin't change light and was only mildly cooler. Huge non event. !999 was epic though.