Its cloudy in London today, can't even see the sun for all the cloud. But that's okay, they say the moon will cover 98% of the sun's disk so I can at least experience the getting dark part. I've decided to take photos using my cellphone's camera during the eclipse to show everyone how dark it gets.
9.12am
9.25am
9.36am
11.13am
So there we have it. The Eclipse of the Decade...
...which was extremely underwhelming, and to be honest if you didn't know about it you wouldn't have noticed anything different. In fact if it wasn't for the cars being in different places, you could have sworn I used the same photo over and over again, right? To be honest my cellphone camera's auto-ISO probably adjusted the brightness of each of the photos a bit, but I hardly noticed it getting any darker - especially for only 2% of the sun supposed to be showing. Did get colder though.
I liked the November 2012 Eclipse in NZ much much better. Clearly, London was not the place to be to see it!