to quote Mr Reynolds, who sadly couldn't be with us today
We got up at 4:00 in the rain and whilst there was a small gap in the clouds in Cairns, it was mostly overcast so we rolled the dice and went inland back to Mareeba up on the Atherton tablelands. 60km drive in the dark on wet steep winding roads before having a coffee was not a good way to wake up, but we called it right and our luck was in
we missed the first 5 minutes of occlusion as the sun cleared the last of the cloudbank and trees on the horizon, then it was clear uninterrupted view all the whole time.
totality was 1.41 minutes, and you could definitely see a couple of promontories in the corona, then the famous diamond ring lasts for about 3 seconds and after that you can't tell there is an eclipse still going on without using the glasses as your eyes adjust again so quickly to the light
next one is continental US on August 21st 2017....start planning and saving now. We've put the glasses and welding lenses in a safe place, so they will probably never be seen again
top 2 pictures are Kevin's, bottom one Maria's. There are much better images on the web, but this is what we saw
We got up at 4:00 in the rain and whilst there was a small gap in the clouds in Cairns, it was mostly overcast so we rolled the dice and went inland back to Mareeba up on the Atherton tablelands. 60km drive in the dark on wet steep winding roads before having a coffee was not a good way to wake up, but we called it right and our luck was in
we missed the first 5 minutes of occlusion as the sun cleared the last of the cloudbank and trees on the horizon, then it was clear uninterrupted view all the whole time.
totality was 1.41 minutes, and you could definitely see a couple of promontories in the corona, then the famous diamond ring lasts for about 3 seconds and after that you can't tell there is an eclipse still going on without using the glasses as your eyes adjust again so quickly to the light
next one is continental US on August 21st 2017....start planning and saving now. We've put the glasses and welding lenses in a safe place, so they will probably never be seen again
top 2 pictures are Kevin's, bottom one Maria's. There are much better images on the web, but this is what we saw
Friday brings another partial to the UK. I think this one will be even more boring than 1999 from London. Track goes through Faroe and maybe Shetland.
ReplyDeletehttp://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2015Mar20T.GIF
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z29gcdm