Wandered into the backyard at 3.00am to take some piccies....then had a
Doh! moment
could have slept another hour...of course penumbral phases are almost invisible!
Then had some cloud during the partial phases.
Thankfully this cleared. As Paul indicated in his post, totality was remarkably dark.
Seeing wasn't great and the neighbour's two storey roofline killed my western
sky for mid totality....
Took many frames...much HDR...anyway
here is my take on totality...partial HDR stuff will take longer