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Heavy grey overcast all morning provided only brief glimpses of the eclipse. It was so cloudy that I did not see the point of setting up a proper mounting. Then it began to brighten occasionally so I fitted the 90mm f/11 Vixen refractor onto my video tripod with a Baader Solarfoil, full aperture filter in place.
Even then the cloud was often so thick and the solar disk so dimmed that I often couldn't find it in a low power eyepiece. The first image shows the wrong camera time stamp. So, quite accidentally, it was quite close to maximum obscuration at 10:48 CET. To add to the timing confusion my watch is in for checking after it started eating batteries within months of purchase.
Image taken with Canon Ixus, short zoom, compact camera hand-held to the eyepiece. [Extra-focal imaging.]
Partial Solar eclipse: March 20th 2015 10:48 Near maximum obscuration..
Vixen 90mm F/11 refractor with 25mm Meade 4000 Plossl EP and 1.25" star diagonal for comfortable viewing and photography.
Another image taken near the end of the partial eclipse. Now using Lumix TZ7 hand held to 35mm eyepiece. Note the large sunspot close to the obscuring lunar limb. The Moon finally disappeared from the sun's disk just before 12.00.
The two, rather poor, images are the best of a number taken during the eclipse.
Click on any image for an enlargement.
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