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Nice report, the highlights for me, I had a chance to give my pentax xw 10mm its first run, the best view was from my 26 mm plossl though, it was nice sitting in my backyard and hearing the ppl next door say, 'Its started', I think a lot of ppl became astronomers last night even if only for the night, even the old lady across the road was looking, one regret of mine was I was a bit slow setting up, and as the eclipse moved on, I wished I'd set up in a local park, it would've allowed ppl to see the moon through a scope which I'm sure most ppl in this town wouldn't have done before.
As the sky darkened it allowed me a chance to take a look at Jupiter, and Lagoon, Triffid and Swan, all of them through the Pentax 10mm, I can't wait to try this ep out on a dark site, I think it is going to be something special for me.
As someone else said on here its in the top 5 events easily, the colours were awesome, the timing was perfect too, and on top of that the neighborhood dogs stopped barking as the moon slipped into shade.
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