March 20th 2015, partial eclipse of the sun

[Mouse]

Tis proper dimpsey here, but it's foggy so I can't actually see the sun at all. I'm in the office but my desk is right next to the window so hopefully if there's a break I'll see something.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Chased off the beach by high tide. No obvious change here but seabirds started roosting ten mins ago. Still good view.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Oiooh starting!

 

[Brian G Turner]

ooh update we have blue skies appearing and it's going your way Brian

We've got thick cloud blowing in from the west, threatening a light rain.

 

[Mouse]

Well, they've turned the lights on in the pit (that's the office next door) and they never turn the lights on in there so it must be dark. Can't see the sky at all though.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Overcast here, alas.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

We've got thick cloud blowing in from the west, threatening a light rain.

Us too but it is going very dark. BBC said Moray has good visibility and was one of the best places to see it. I'm wondering where.

 

[Mouse]

Was that it? It's light again here now. Still foggy. Rubbish.

 

[Brian G Turner]

It got a bit dark here, as though a thunderstorm was approaching. Starting to lighten up already, and still no sight of the sun.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

For those disappointed - I had the sun the whole time and at nipping could I see the moon eclipsing it. It got darker but no eclipse ie the moon crossing the sun. You all missed nowt. For evidence I'll post pics in a while....

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Actually we got this weird fab light over the hill at the back (Califer Hill) - it wouldn't photograph but was worth missing the eclipse for.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Got a brief flash of the sun at 10pm - put my viewing glass one, and saw about 25% of the sun covered.

So, got to see something, but a shame my family didn't.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Well, here is a photo 9.30 directly at the sun, at the height of the eclipse allegedly. Um.... Is is just me or is that a lovely full sun?

 

[HareBrain]

It was all faked! A conspiracy to divert our attention to the sky while They were doing stuff on the ground!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Down in the South West so we had a good 90% view. It was cloudy so it wasn't looking too promising, but then it thinned out to the perfect thickness that let you look directly at the sun and see the shape beautifully.

Images to be put in in a couple of minutes.

This was at 8:45 on the way in.

And these on the way out.

Just took with my mobile with a couple of adjustments to the settings.

 

[farntfar]

What I worry about is which government is supplying us with all these conspiracy theories.



We caught this shining through our grey cloud for a minute or two.

[GALLERY=media, 1534]eclippse by farntfar posted Mar 20, 2015 at 1:00 PM[/GALLERY]

I reckon the cloud made it more easy to see.
Not long after the cloud thickened up again and there was nothing.



PS. It looks like a fake to me.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

It was all faked! A conspiracy to divert our attention to the sky while They were doing stuff on the ground!

Which will explain why near an airbase we saw nowt - they wanted our attention on the ground!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Tis like the dress. We all saw it differently.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

It was green - it was green.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Grey