Today’s the day for the partial solar eclipse. It will start about 30 minutes from now in my location.
As usual on such occasions it’s cloudy. Luckily not heavy cloud at the moment, but enough that I can see the clouds passing in front of the sun on my telescope and images are a little fuzzy. First image of the (full) sun is attached.
The clouds are getting thicker with each passing minute so I suspect the peak will be more or less hidden from view.
It’s reached peak failure. The clouds are now so thick that that telescope can’t track the sun. End of eclipse for me.
We had no chance here, either. But we were warned that was likely to be the case. . .
The clouds here seem to be completely in sync with eclipses, auroras, comets and meteor showers.
We were lucky in as much as we had more or less clear sky this morning however we only saw a small nibble out of the sun image about 20% at a guess around 11:06. My wife said it was getting cold! Now I checked and our max pre eclipse was 11.2°C and it dropped to 10.2°C before rising again. Now my wife feels the cold but I still doubt her body can differentiate a 1°C drop 
Any way roll on 1st August 2026 when I gather we might get up to 90% totality!
Stuart
Yes same here in Hythe only saw a little bit of the sun gone..
Never mind always another time
