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I hadn’t intended to view the eclipse whilst on holiday in Tenerife but all the publicity got me wanting to see something. The weather looked fairly promising and I did have a BAA eclipse filter in my suitcase (who goes on holiday without one!!) The only problem was the eclipse was due to start at around 07.40hrs which is a bit early for me when on holiday and the resort I was staying in was on the west side of a large rock face. I didn’t have a car so decided to do a spot of early morning exercise and walked up the large hill (nearly a mountain) until I found a location with an easterly view. The cloud was a bit patchy but there were enough holes for me to observe the Sun and record the event on a small hand held pocket camera used for the holiday snaps!I enjoyed myself but others thought I was a bit mad……PeterThe cloud held off until the early hours of this morning here in SE Essex. I managed a series of visual sightings through my 315mm reflector from early evening up to just after midnight. I’ve also imaged several sequences of 2004BL86 crossing the 36’x27′ field of view. See my animation from just after midnight here http://youtu.be/ORPvj–5WDw Detail of the timelapse are on the Youtube page.PeterHi Nick,
I think I witnessed the bright Perseid meteor at 02:00:11UT… through the frosted glass of my bathroom window!!
I had finished a nights comet imaging just before 02.00UT and was getting ready for bed. The bathroom was in darkeness so I didn’t disturb my sleeping wife…however my following rush for a clear glass window to view the sky probably did disturb her!!
Can’t say I can confirm seeing the persistant train though.
Peter
