Hey Russ,
just looked through your site, you have got some great images there. I see you have been to a lot of eclipses too. I love the images from Africa. Corona looks heaps different too.
Mike, well fortune favours the brave sometimes. Even though it was cloudy I did say several times during the lead up days that I would be happy if I could see the corona through high cloud. I guess the weather gods were listening and making sure I got what I asked for.
Bottom line is though that as I said on the morning, this is astronomy and sometimes things don't go according to plan. Anthony Wesley once said to me, this hobby is not for the impatient. He was referring to planetary imaging, but on a broader level astronomy long term is for the very patient. If we missed out we would have gone again to another one. Steven Lee (on the trip) has been to many which were clouded out and not seen a thing, yet he keeps turning up to see them. Big man or not, I reckon we just lucked it this time.
Thanks all for the comments.