I managed to take one almost good picture of the total eclipse that's going on right now.

Ran outside as soon as I heard about the eclipse, bout five minutes ago. Anyone interested in some pics of a completely dark, and overcast sky?

Not bad at all, what camera did you use, did you tried shorter exposure time, some digital cameras(if that's what U used) have a lot of noise due longer exposure times ??? :)

@Xenic: post them please !!! :)

It's a sony DSC-f717. I used a tripod and apature mode and full zoom. I tried the 800 and the 400 film emulation. This is the 400 and I think it looks better. The camera came up with an exposure time of about 4 seconds.

Don't actually have a camera, so I wandered off and rendered one (eclipse not camera).

sounds about right. I was afraid earlier today I would miss it due to clouds. We got soaked in band but the clouds moved off. I took some pictures and will have them developed as soon as possible. I wish I had a nice dgital camera :(

Here's a few more I managed in between the clouds. This is one with the same settings before the thing really started. The face is completely washed out but the clouds are nice.

heres one with the film set at 200 and a longer exposure time.

Here's a last one with the eclipse getting over. I probably need a polarizing filter to keep the light from washing out the image but I liked the halo.

I used my 6.3MP Fuji FinePix S7000 and I will see how it turned out in the Morning but I think the Battery was Low because I saw the same Blue Noise as I was Taking the Shots...

Saw thw whole thing, start to finish. It was overcast here all day, but the clouds, quite literally, vanished five minutes before the show began. Quite spectacular! :)

How sad am I......read the thread title, opened the thread, saw the top pic, and wondered if electroglyph had used Blend Fuzzy, or two spheres :^(

Others looking better then the first one, these are my settings I usually use when shooting at nite (DSC-F717 here too) Night shots are definetly not easy, manual settings are the best if you have time, and tripod and remote are the must ! :)

I wanted to see this last night and we had absolute and total cloud cover. Very thick cloud cover in facy. Missed the whole thing. 8(

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I got lucky, clouds rolled in sometime early this morning.

i didnt even know about it hits himself with bryce manual but i couldent see it anyway; clouds all over the place :o( CZ

we have an arrangement with God; all special occasional astronomical phenomenon are blanketed by overcast skies..:| Wonder if there are any astronomy jobs in Seattle..;)

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Here's my shot of it, very grainy.

And an earlier shot