It is 20 past nine in the morning and it is getting dark. In about 20 more minutes we will have an almost total solar eclipse. We seem to be in a prime position in our part of England as the sky is clear (for the first time this week.)

Excellent pic! Eclipses are very cool. I saw the last lunar eclipse and another one is coming in a week or so.

I was lucky to be in the right place once and saw one, Nothing quite like it. Please post pics.

What a geat picture. I watched the sun ... or was it more months during the day??!!

What has been interesting is seeing comments on the BBC news pages of what happened and where. But this afternoon it has clouded over and rained so I realise we were so lucky to see it so very, very clearly this morning

Didn't see much of it today - only the sky darkened a bit for some time but nothing spectacular. So you were more lucky in Lincoln area!!
Sunny greetings - Maria

Spectacular...

How marvelous to watch as God His wonders to perform. Thank you for allowing us to see also Sue/Lillian

WOW WOW WOW!

How neat that you were able to see this!!!!

Wow! The solar panels really tell the story of the eclipse. It had to be amazing since I remember an eclipse at week years ago and we were all out watching it in the reflection of a windshield.

Thanks for sharing it with us. The only one I remember was very unnerving. It got so quiet and still.

Great picture Sue. I remember as a child living in Twickenham seeing a total eclipse. We all went to school with our little pieces of blackened glass.

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by spendlove 20 Mar 2015

That would be 1955!

by airyfairy 20 Mar 2015

That would be about right - I was still at primary school

by asterixsew 20 Mar 2015

Just reminded me of doing this too

Its been very interesting here and the cat has gone mad. We have totally clear skies so it have had about a 90% eclipse. It has completely passed Gruff by as he kept trying to escape from the garden. I have found it interesting as the bit of the garden that goes dark last was the part that was affected first. The grey light is lifting and the birds are starting to sing again

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by spendlove 20 Mar 2015

Interestingly, our birds kept on singing. We met a neighbour while we were walking the dog at 9.45 and she hadn't noticed it! She was wearing sunglasses but still.......

9.30am here in Cambourne, overcast and dull, I think we have missed everything

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by spendlove 20 Mar 2015

Fingers crossed for the next one in 2090 then!

by carolpountney 20 Mar 2015

He he will look forward to it

Lucky you! I hope Mike can get some nice pictures.
We are having a grey sky. Usually the sun makes the clouds dissolve, but a 84% eclipse does not help doing that.
Remember one when I was in my early teens and one in '99 - strange experience to see it get dark in the middle of the day.

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by spendlove 20 Mar 2015

We were on a train between Grindlewald and Zermatt for the one in 1999. We did see it, but not as well as today.