[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

I've been away for a few days without internet access - it's great to see everyone's partial eclipse efforts!

While not an incredibly significant event as far as solar events go, it was my first solar eclipse of any kind so I was keen to capture something. I was lucky to capture anything - rain and clouds over most of NSW, and my family and I were on our way to a camping trip at Wee Jasper, outside Canberra.

I arrived at the camp ground in patchy sunshine right in the middle of the eclipse, so I quickly dragged the scope and imaging equipment out of the trailer and plonked it down to take some prime focus images with my ED80 and Canon 350D.

It clouded over again shortly after so I was lucky to get what I did. My family and I also enjoyed the view through my eclipse shades. Definitely looking forward to the Total Solar Eclipse in Cairns, Australia in 2012.

Crop and full-frame attached.

Thanks for looking.