On 16th October 2017, dust from the Sahara, Portugal and Spain obscured the sun enough that we could look straight at it with our naked eyes. (No filter.)
Well captured Lucy. All I could think of at the time was that I shouldn't be looking directly at the sun so I didn't take a single photo. Wish that I had.
Hello Anna - that was like me at the eclipse. That day, the cloud was so dense the sun was a silver disc and you could easily look at the moon crossing it without any problem . . . but all I did was keep looking furtively out of the corner of my eye - and have regretted it ever since. All the same, I wouldn't have pointed a camera at it then in case the cloud cleared but when we had the red sun, the cloud cover was so consistently dense I don't think there was a risk. Though now I'm wondering if perhaps I was too cavalier and had a narrow escape!
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Well captured Lucy. All I could think of at the time was that I shouldn't be looking directly at the sun so I didn't take a single photo. Wish that I had.
Hello Anna - that was like me at the eclipse. That day, the cloud was so dense the sun was a silver disc and you could easily look at the moon crossing it without any problem . . . but all I did was keep looking furtively out of the corner of my eye - and have regretted it ever since. All the same, I wouldn't have pointed a camera at it then in case the cloud cleared but when we had the red sun, the cloud cover was so consistently dense I don't think there was a risk. Though now I'm wondering if perhaps I was too cavalier and had a narrow escape!
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