The day of the eclipse. We decided not to go to the Faroe Islands, fortunately so as it was clouded over apart from the last few seconds of totality. Good views from Svalbard though, and here in Leeds we had enough gaps in the clouds to get some decent pictures. Here’s an early stage, with a sunspot visible in the upper half:
A bit later:
The maximum from here (about 89%):
Here’s a timecollapsed image of 10 of the photos:
And here’s a shot of the diamond ring as seen from Svalbard on a webcast, with one of our freshly printed pictures in front:
Finally, it did get noticeably dark at maximum, and here’s the proof:
Admin1 is reading The Truth by Terry Pratchett.