Astronomy questions

well, Rag- you didn’t miss much!!! i was at an aunt’s house just outside Torquay, for the ’99 eclipse. got some lovely photo’s of this pin-prick of light trying to show itself through the cloud during the early phases of the eclipse, then a few minutes before totality, it clouded over completely and we saw sod all!!! apparently you just had to be in the right place at the right time. one of the few places that got a glimpse of totality was the Scilly Isles. Patrick Moore was somewhere around Newquay, if i remember rightly- it was chucking it down with rain there!! (i still have the show that the Beeb did on the day on tape)
what we did see though, was the lunar shadow. it was just like this wall of darkness rushing towards you, then out to sea. very strange. tried taking some piccies to get some kind of impression of the scale of it, only for the other half (who was still in Leicestershire(apparently they could see more than we did, but obviously not totality) to ring up as i picked up the camera and start asking if i’d seen owt! there’s a lot to be said for having your mobile switched off at important times… [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]