{"id":1432,"date":"2006-03-29T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/03\/partial_eclipse\/"},"modified":"2006-03-29T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:15:24","slug":"partial_eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/partial_eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Eclipse of the Sun in the UK 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re in my Flickr stream anyway, but here are the best of the photos I took this morning out in Golden Square of the eclipse.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty pleased with the results considering the lack of proper equipment and heavy cloud cover.<br \/>\nThe maximum magnitude of the eclipse in London was only 16.8% at 11:33 BST and, as you can see, the sky was pretty cloudy. I had to wait quite a few minutes before a sudden opening in the clouds allowed me to glimpse the eclipse.<br \/>\nThis shot was achieved simply by pointing by Nikon Coolpix straight at the sky with no filter. It&#8217;s probably the best of the three decent shots I managed to get.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/119761889\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/38\/119761889_1777be765e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Partial Eclipse 2006 from Golden Square London\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve kept my mylar glasses from a nice little book I bought around the time of the 1999 eclipse produced by the Royal Greenwich Observatory. I dug the book out the glasses were unscratched so still safe to use.<br \/>\nIn between taking photos, I used them to observe the eclipse with my own eyes rather than via my camera&#8217;s LCD.<br \/>\nThen I simply held the glasses plush to the camera&#8217;s lens, and of the ten or so photos I attempted, this was the better of the two that actually worked. This was in fact the last photo I took before cloud cover came in and didn&#8217;t look like lifting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/119761892\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/45\/119761892_cda1dacd7c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Partial Eclipse 2006 from Golden Square London\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo Easter Island in 2010 perhaps?<br \/>\nMore in the full entry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/119761891\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/46\/119761891_dda7aea674.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Partial Eclipse 2006 from Golden Square London\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/119761890\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/48\/119761890_ba5bb93c52.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Partial Eclipse 2006 from Golden Square London\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re in my Flickr stream anyway, but here are the best of the photos I took this morning out in Golden Square of the eclipse. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with the results considering the lack of proper equipment and heavy cloud cover. The maximum magnitude of the eclipse in London was only 16.8% at 11:33 BST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}