So you saw the eclipse, send your report and post your picture

[Pete Presland]

So many excellent images in this thread! It is brilliant to see people capturing and enjoying the event, even when the clouds obscured some of the views.

[bingevader]

What an awesome collection of photos.

Fantastic!

Thanks very much.

[wxsatuser]

What an awesome collection of photos.

Fantastic!

Thanks very much.

I have really enjoyed looking at all of them.

Rather than go round liking all of them I will just like them all here.

Well done SGL you have all done very well.

[Solar_observer]

Here is my collection taken with my galaxy s4 looking through a ls60tha. Pictures not spectacular. .....sorry.

wishing you sunny days.

[DazC]

All of these pictures put my a tempts to shame , but, I used what I had to hand and I've still got a few pictures to remind me of the event.

All I had was my camera on my phone and a pair of eclipse glasses.

D.C

[stargazerlily]

This thread is amazing ... awesome photos.

Pete

[stargazerlily]

I knew I had forgotten something ... here are my photos posted in the Imaging - Solar section

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/239592-partial-eclipse-from-sunny-lincolnshire-20-march/

[ArmyAirForce]

As I mentioned at the start of the thread, we went to Beverley with a view to heading to Lincolnshire, but a weather check at 6am suggested Beverley would be better, so we headed up to the pasture next to the race course and stayed there. Despite passing cloud, we saw the whole eclipse, start to finish. I took over 800 photos, which I am only just starting to narrow down.

My wife was really pleased with her camera phone picture through her Baader glasses.

Here's my first contact.....

Shortly before the Moon covered Sun spot AR 2303.....

and maximum.....

I'm picking out one shot every 5 minutes to make a presentation of the whole eclipse and an animation, but that will take some time, especially as we have a public stargazing event tonight that I'll be leaving for shortly.

[Mick J]

I am Jordan's dad (JCJC), my little own little home grown astrophotographer  , he has this shizzle on the back burner at the moment but did get to visit Keele Observatory, Stoke on Trent for the eclipse.  Here are some snaps from his phone.

[paulastro]

The weather was better than expected in some parts of N England, but I fled to the Midlands on Thursday and stayed with my friends Chris and Sylve in the middle of Wyre Forest which straddles Worcestershire and Shropshire. The weather forecast was much better for the Midlands. In the morning we were up and out at 6am and headed towards Leominster so that we were in the middle of what we thought was the most favourable area. We also thought it was a good place to head further West into Wales (or in any other direction which looked likely) if when we arrived the conditions were not good. As it turned out six miles from Leominster we turned E to avoid some valley mist and low cloud.

We ended up setting up near Richards Castle in Herefordshire in a pull-in on the edge of woodland which is part of Mortimer Forest. It’s a place I know well from my interest in watching and photographing wild deer. At the start of the eclipse there was some cloud fragments just clearing from the Sun and some of this was on the first photos I took at first contact – but they are hardly visible on the photos. Within a couple of minutes the view was cloud free and it stayed this way for a perfect view all through the eclipse. (as it turned out, the Midlands area was extremely lucky in having clear weather and I could have stayed in bed for a few hours longer and observed it from where I was staying!)

I was particularly struck by the way the light dimmed so much for about 20mts or so either side of maximum eclipse. I have seen this at two total eclipses (three if I include my failed totality viewing of the 1999 event in Cornwall) but didn’t think it would be so pronounced considering there was still a reasonable amount of the Sun visible. The colours of the landscape was not unlike the light just after dawn or before dusk, very beautiful but somehow more intense and slightly richer. Two people who stopped by where we were observing were equally struck by the atmosphere the change in light brought about.

I’ve attached a photo I took at maximum eclipse which was at 9.28am. The seeing was good at this time and it shows some details of the lunar profile.

[paulastro]

I forgot to mention, the photo was taken through an Equinox 80 refractor at prime focus using an Olympus E-M5 camera.

[DrRobin]

My Ha animation.  This is 16 images between 09:23 and 09:51 from Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland.  Taken with a Lunt 60 DS, 0.5x FR, ASI120MM-S whilst trying to take white lights, move a solar projector and entertain the crowd.  The sun and moon helped with the entertainment.

Robin

Click to run....

[DrRobin]

About the best of the frames.

Taken at 09:37

Taken at 09:48

[Dave Lloyd]

A little reworking of my previous image in PS to improve the contrast between the clouds and eclipse

This picture deserves a prize. The four queens against that sky and the eclipse is superb.

[Thorbear]

Lots of great images here, lovely to see.

I was at work when it happened and the forecast wasn't promising, but luckily enough the sky was clear.

I brought my camera and my full aperture solar filter just in case there was a chamce to get a view in.

This was my best shot. I kept getting lots of reflection of me and the camera lens in the filter,

so I tilted it forward a bit - I guess that's why it is blue around, reflection of the sky above/behind me.

Also, i wanted to share this video. A band from the Faroe islands chose a good moment to do a video outside.

Beautiful 

[Cornelius Varley]

Widefield shot taken at work with borrowed Nikon DSLR

Just been published as picture of the week in the local paper.

[Johnny4365]

Well done Peter. Its a very atmospheric picture.

[Cornelius Varley]

Well done Peter. Its a very atmospheric picture.

Unfortunately the reproduction in the newspaper was quite small and the eclipse couldn't be seen.