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Old 15th Nov 2012, 00:50
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Jabawocky
 
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As you can see, the iPhone takes a poor photo and this is during the middle of the full eclipse, so the rays of light around the edge appear as a complete sun dot, but as you can imagine it is normally a lot bigger than that.

you can see the shaddow in the sky and similar on the ground.

The horizon is very bright, and the reflected light from the lit horizon some 100-150km away is reflecting quite a bit back to us.

Quite unreal!

When I get some better ones off the camera and gopro I will see what there is to post that is worth it. Cameras of the ordinary variety may not do it justice. iPhones do not!

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