I had the chance of viewing this eclipse at the local observatory in Ghent, Belgium_and my first look through an H-alpha

Armand Pien Observatory, RUG - University of Ghent, Belgium.

Here's a view through a fellow member's telescope; who was kind enough to let me use his 6" skywatcher achromat. The photograph suffers from reflections and is technically the worst of the bunch I'd say..BUT I kinda liked the effect...


Nico

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=clouds

BTW Doug, I noticed on the site I linked above, if you enter 'mars' at the search function, then scroll down to the link;

"07 september, 2005 Marswagen Spirit op top! (Nieuws/Astro-naslag) "

You'll see..

Nico

you had clouds..ah sssshhh**

In Glasgow, there were solid clouds after maximum, but beforehand it was possible to see a nice partial eclipse.

The phrase Marswagen just makes me laugh somehow

Nice too see my piccies about - but they could have used the GOOD one

Doug

I like 'em with the clouds bob. Even though they can be annoying...

I will ask to put up your improved version Doug

Now I have to go, goin' for a ride in my new MarsWagen

Nico