Some amazing images in this thread - well done everyone.
After doing some more research ( on the bosses time no less
) I have determined that the Shimmer effect I referred to earlier was in fact " Shadow Bands "
As there seems to be a lack of information on this subject ( but an awful lot of theories and conjecture ) i am asking anyone who experienced these while observing today's Total Solar eclipse to record the details of their observations in my new thread
"Cairns 2012 Total eclipse shadow band observations."
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