Did anyone on this forum witness the eclipse either live, on tv or over the internet?

-- Typhonblue (typhonblue@hotmail.com), August 11, 1999

Answers

Wow, no one, eh? That's a bit unusual.

-- Typhonblue (typhonblue@hotmail.com), August 12, 1999.

No, but i done seen piktures...

If no one responds, can we assume that they all looked directly at the sun & are now experiencing a black blob in the center of their vision?

-- earth (sun@moon.etc), August 12, 1999.

As per my posting to the "please explain the august 11th" thread . .

I was outside, and full of expectations. But the sky was overcast.

However . .

From a bright sky, it got gloomy, then dark, then very dark, then dark, then gloomy, then bright again.

Whoopee-doo (as you americans are fond of saying).

The singular absence of CME-planetary alignment-Comet Lee C/1999/H1- apocalypse-phenomena was the most striking thing about it.

Interesting stuff coming from SOHO/LASCO and YOHKOH though.

When viewed as science, and not some spooky pre-millennial sun- worshipping "sign from the gods", the whole event has a rather nicer feel to it.

Interested parties should navigate to . .

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spacesolarastro.html

for a useful list of solar science sites and resources.

Kind Regards

W

-- W0lv3r1n3 (W0lv3r1n3@yahoo.com), August 12, 1999.

Actually it wasnt a eclipse at all. Y2k testing was being done on the sun and it blacked out for a few minutes. They just spun the story to be an eclipse. Gotta run to Sams and get another bag 55 gal barrel!

-- watcher (watcher@burnedout.com), August 12, 1999.

Watched in on CNN and in Norfolk, UK. It was too cloudy to see anything decent though ....

-- Rob Somerville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), August 12, 1999.