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[DoctorStrangelove]

Great discussions on reddit on whether it's safe to view through two #10 welding filters.

One is definitely not dark enough, two seems fine.

Three and it's "where the feck has the sun gone?".

[xoggoth]

Oh yeh, Iv'e got an old welding shield but probably not worth risk. Eclipsey thing just about to start.

The things about using a bit of cardboard with a pin hole or a colander didn't make sense to me but gave it a try. Put a big piece of white wooden panel down bottom of garden and used the colander. Wierd! The images of the sun are 3 dimensional, they look spherical, like pearls.

[NickFitz]

Just had a look through the eclipse glasses I bought the other week, and there’s a definite chunk out of the edge

[ladymuck]

It's turned cloudy here so viewing the eclipse is a non-starter. Having to watch the Royal Observatory Greenwich live feed on YouTube.

[xoggoth]

Yeh, the eclipsey thing is real and that culander trick does work, I can see multiple partly hidden circles now.

WTF? BBC says the eclipse has reached it's peak across UK. No it hasn't! Got a way to go here, about 1/3 covered when I checked 15 mins ago.

Oh! I must have missed the peak, seems brighter now. Never seemed particularly dark.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

Slightly cold, because with my usual excellent timing I managed to get it ready for 19:05. So I left it to go and have a look at the eclipse for ten minutes or so, and kept popping back for another look now and then while I was eating

The eclipse glasses I got worked very well - it was impressive to see 90%+ of the disk obscured. It got nice and gloomy too, with the light turning odd and the sky turning a darker blue colour that seemed different to what normally happens of an evening. I remember noticing the same things in 1999

[DoctorStrangelove]

All I saw in Cheltenham in 1999 was the 10 10ths cloud cover. It went dark & that was it.

This one was better since the sky was unexpectedly clear: WTAF? it's an astronomical thing & I can actually see it? Well I never did.

The welding shield worked ok: her next door wouldn't even try it.

I projected the image from a binocular onto some white paper & looked at that.

It would appear that someone is letting off fireworks? .