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It's cloudy as fuck here, so there's not a lot to see I'm afraid.

Stared at some clouds for twenty minutes.

It's 20:04 here (night ) and pretty dark...

Well it was quite a spectacle if you're into various shades of grey.

At least 50.

seen, photographed, now posted



the cloud cover actually helped since you could look directly at it in sunglasses

Cool...

Nice pic.

kinda neat

a smiley !

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pic taken from Edinburgh - we got about 95% cover I believe. Nearest position to us for a total eclipse would have been the Faroe Islands.

we had some scudding cloud cover which allowed for naked-eye viewing as long as you were careful about it!

nice it was about 85% here, first time i've ever dialed up to 1/4000 f/32 (wasn't worth it)

Cool shit. Not sure if it was supposed to be visible from Canada or not but it was fucking rainy and cloudy as fuck anyway so fuck it.

Was mostly just pretty cloudy here too (Derbyshire), though one guy in our office did sit outside on the roof garden for about 45 minutes waiting heh.

Obviously we went to the moon.

Only a moron would think otherwise...

Last full solar eclipse was back in the late 90's, and I recall, because at the time, I was a defendant in a relatively significant court case, and the biggest farce of that part of my life occurred on that day.

During the trial, the judge broke court halfway through the prosecutions opening in order for everyone to go outside and watch the eclipse.

And so it happened. In the carpark opposite the crown court stood the defendants (us), fresh off remand, with no cuffs, the witnesses, the defence, the prosecution (barristers and solicitors), the judge, the bailiffs, the public gallery, jury, clerks, and the journalists covering the crime all in one big group looking up at the eclipse with pieces of paper which the judge had given out to everyone personally and then passed around to pin to put a hole in.

We got a Not Guilty, too. Could've got a 15 if we were unlucky.

from scumbag to riches eh

better than the other way around i guess

In Ústí nad Labem was nice cloudless sky during the eclipse Taken some pictures through floppy disk and welding glass, though not much good quality. Nice pics from USA anyway

syp0s wrote:...

heh, sounds like the judge being excited over the eclipse may have helped you out there then .

The burning questions of course are a) were you guilty (not that you'd be wise to admit to it if you were..), and b) what were you accused of?

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pic taken from Edinburgh - we got about 95% cover I believe. Nearest position to us for a total eclipse would have been the Faroe Islands.

we had some scudding cloud cover which allowed for naked-eye viewing as long as you were careful about it!

Looks like a Quake 3 sky shader

syp0s wrote:Last full solar eclipse was back in the late 90's, and I recall, because at the time, I was a defendant in a relatively significant court case, and the biggest farce of that part of my life occurred on that day.

During the trial, the judge broke court halfway through the prosecutions opening in order for everyone to go outside and watch the eclipse.

And so it happened. In the carpark opposite the crown court stood the defendants (us), fresh off remand, with no cuffs, the witnesses, the defence, the prosecution (barristers and solicitors), the judge, the bailiffs, the public gallery, jury, clerks, and the journalists covering the crime all in one big group looking up at the eclipse with pieces of paper which the judge had given out to everyone personally and then passed around to pin to put a hole in.

We got a Not Guilty, too. Could've got a 15 if we were unlucky.

lol journalists? What did you do, take a policeman's cap and put it on your bum?

It went dark

Captain Mazda wrote:

lol journalists? What did you do, take a policeman's cap and put it on your bum?

I once beat a case with a concocted defense so heartbreaking that on being told I had escaped custodial sentence, the journalist taking notes welled up and started crying next to my girlfriend.