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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Nice one. I rather like the birds....we had a similar flock head back to roost as things got dark.
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Thanks Peter. I had noticed those flocks of corellas flying straight over my campsite each night during twilight. Part of my reasoning for staying there was the hope that they would do exactly the same behaviour during the eclipse and be captured on video.
The umbra was much bigger than I had expected. I saw a similarly sized 40km diameter umbra during the 2013 hybrid solar eclipse. It was projected upon very thin high cloud in the sky and was clearly seen as only a small patch perhaps 40-60 degrees diameter. This one appears much bigger but that could be an illusion and much of it could simply be darker penumbra spread over a much larger area diffused through multiple altitudes in the atmosphere.
Joe