There's not much red in it at all, its quite a dark eclipse, even for a partial. The last time I saw a dark eclipse like this was in the early 1990's not long after Mt Pinatubo had blown and we had a total in the evening that was all grey, no red at all.
Dammit... I thought that I could get away with binoculars, but ended up going the whole schmeer - G11, Tak Sky-90 and 40D- all set up in a blind panic. LOL!!!
Results in as soon as the run is done.
Tried to take a few pics up here, dont think I got anything exciting, except very hot and sweaty!!! Tis the tropics still as you guys freeeze ya butts off.
I decided to go for pure viewing tonight - no photos. Just lovely views from Sydney. I have the XX14i and also the SV80 set up - and two comfortable viewing chairs. Certainly the SV80 is less effected by the seeing. However, when the moon snaps into perfect focus in the XX14i - WOW! I probably won't be able to see through my left eye tomorrow.
wow!!!! after heavy cloud and rain got around 35 to 40 mins near cloud free,right when shadow at its max i cant complain with that.
raced down and opened the pod using my 35 pan and 17 nag at 87x and 179x both with filters.the 35 fits nicely in the fov and it was a clear chrisp sight with nice curviture of the shadow and a slight hint of red (very faint)and the 17 nag i was scrolling along the shadow seeing the mares and craters from a different angle as seen with terminator.
one nice feature was as changing eyepieces the shadow coming out of the diagonal was reflecting on the back of the pod and showing the curved line amazing.
after a terrible day ended up beeing a great evening just goes to show stick with it and the evening may become fantastic.
some great pictures coming through may have to get into this imaging
Im gonna have to have a word with these dam clouds 
dont give up Houghy im still out here freezing my butt off 
