Well, I've been offline since 3pm yesterday - so sorry I wasn't part of the 1400!
Made the decision at that time to drive north until I was sure of clear skies.
Ended up on the side of a country road outside Murchison - some 150 k north.
Had a GREAT
night's observing and pushing the shutter on the camera. Don't know about the images yet - film is at the processing lab now.
It was great being under dark skies during totality. I also had a flat location with low tree cover so had the whole sky to look at. Binoculars only, but seeing those faint stars beside the moon being occulted through the totality period - t'was magic.
Packed up and drove back around midnight - stopping for some overdue dinner.
A bit of a sleep in, then get everying packed away then get film in then check IIS and see you guys had bigtime meltdown! Congratulations!
Just surfing through the great images and stories - lots of reading to catch up with!
Hope I'll have something interesting to post.
Now that, was fun - so TOTAL!
Eric
it's all cloudy over here in the West.
