Agreed.
What an overhyped waste of everyone's time - I'm in Hampshire and South Today said everyone would experience near darkness under the cloud - utter crap - it didn't even darken over!
Clouds made it impossible to see here in Liverpool, sadly. It didn't go anywhere near as dark as I was expecting. Great coverage of it on Stargazing Live though.
Complete anti climax in Suffolk. I went outside at 9:25am and stood there for 15 mins and it didn't even get darker. It was very cloudy outside so you couldn't see the sun, but I expected it to get a little dark. But no, I couldn't notice any change
The 99 eclipse was much better, really was dark, and all the dogs howled.
Guess I will have to wait till 2090.
I had a gardening job at the time and it was a weird feeling, day turned to night. the scariest things is that it was 16 years ago! Where has that time gone?
It was too cloudy here in N Ireland (on the north coast) to see the eclipse, but it did get a lot darker, not like night of course, more like twilight. The birds in the trees in our garden weren't singing and there was definitely an eerie feeling. As soon as it started getting lighter again the birds started their usual chattering.
Agreed.
What an overhyped waste of everyone's time - I'm in Hampshire and South Today said everyone would experience near darkness under the cloud - utter crap - it didn't even darken over!
In Berkshire it was just like it is any day when it darkens just before it starts to rain, just that we didn't get the rain. Underwhelming.
I saw it through a hole in the clouds, it looked like an exceptionally bright crescent moon and a deep shade of grey circle behind the crescent. Bit disappointing, but I'm grateful I got to see it and wasn't in Norther Ireland or Ireland!
Agreed.
What an overhyped waste of everyone's time - I'm in Hampshire and South Today said everyone would experience near darkness under the cloud - utter crap - it didn't even darken over!
This illustrates the media's complete and utter inability to report science in a informative and realistic manner. Even when the sun is 85% covered, the 15% shining through is still bright enough that the sky won't darken significantly for anyone to notice.
But no, the media has to sensationalise and misinform because they don't really know what's actually going on; they consider science some kind of flaky ever-changing opinion-based subject and have no respect for it. It is their fault you're disappointed because they hyped it into something it was never going to be.
Had it not been cloudy it would have been interesting to see the crescent of the sun forming even if plunging into darkness was never a possibility. But over London where I am, it was blanket cloud cover so you couldn't even see anything happening at all.
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Agreed.
What an overhyped waste of everyone's time - I'm in Hampshire and South Today said everyone would experience near darkness under the cloud - utter crap - it didn't even darken over!
I had a gardening job at the time and it was a weird feeling, day turned to night. the scariest things is that it was 16 years ago! Where has that time gone?
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I think 2090 is the next total.
2090 is a total eclipse like 1999, 2026 is a partial similar to today's.
I saw the diamond ring years ago...very spectacular seeing and feeling a total eclipse...got my then young children interested in the sciences.
In Berkshire it was just like it is any day when it darkens just before it starts to rain, just that we didn't get the rain. Underwhelming.
Everyone posting here today will be dead in 2090.
Really? Im sure there are teens on here, they might get to see it.:)
I would have to be about 104. never say never.:D
Their eyes will be too poorly to witness the event at it's best.
This illustrates the media's complete and utter inability to report science in a informative and realistic manner. Even when the sun is 85% covered, the 15% shining through is still bright enough that the sky won't darken significantly for anyone to notice.
But no, the media has to sensationalise and misinform because they don't really know what's actually going on; they consider science some kind of flaky ever-changing opinion-based subject and have no respect for it. It is their fault you're disappointed because they hyped it into something it was never going to be.
Had it not been cloudy it would have been interesting to see the crescent of the sun forming even if plunging into darkness was never a possibility. But over London where I am, it was blanket cloud cover so you couldn't even see anything happening at all.
I would be 102.
Not necessarily. That's 75 years away, so if you're say 18 now you'd be 93 in 2090, and by then 90 could be new 50 or something!
That looks exactly the same as all my 100+ pics ^_^
I did get a groovy one where the sun is a glowing patch in the clouds, but because of the camera lense I ended up getting 2 eclipses as well.
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