Before the p.eclipse I had a look around the sky by my 20x80s and viewed a few globulars including Omega Centauri which was nice and bright - not quite naked eye. The sky was perfect and was able to observe right down to the horizon. Venus was quite high in the sky and Mercury looked nice to - I must remember to get my scope onto it soon.
When the p.eclipse started there were a few clouds down on the Med, but nothing near where the sun was to come up on the side of one of the farm's hills. When it did come up it caught me slightly off balance with the cam as I just saw to bright points of light and I thought something was wrong with the cam, which caused me to do some fiddling. I then realised that the two "horns" of the sun had appeared at right angles to the hillside!
The first half hour was great but then the clouds came in. I did manage to see the end using my 1999 Eclipse Glasses (yes I did check them out before using them. I did catch parts of the p.eclipse on cam using a welding glass and baader solar astro film.
While waiting for dawn to break I also looked out for meteors and saw about 20 plus. As I was not looking for them all the time I must have missed double that amount!
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