Solar Eclipse Visible from Ireland - 20th March 2015

ollie103

Just caught a brief glimpse through the clouds which acted as a good filter so the eclipse was very evident to the naked eye. In Swords, Co Dublin.

Ciano35

Sky's moslty clear here in west cork

liamo

Got a nice 20 minute period of clear sky in Courtown with some good shots. Very overcast now with what looks like rain on the way. I think that might have been it for me.

Maximus Alexander

It's pretty dark. Shame about the thick cloud cover in Dublin.

namloc1980

Pretty clear here in Cork. The cloud is actually helping filter out the brightest light from the sun.

ollie103

Manages to track a slight break in the clouds and was ready for another brief viewing: impressive! All the better seeing as I saw absolutely nothing during the last eclipse (1999 I think). Solid grey clouds overhead now: that's it I'd say for Swords.

Mickeroo

Overcast here in Leitrim

Knifey Spoony

It's eerie here. Clear skies, 9.30am in the morning and it should be very bright outside. But, it's like dusk and it has gotten a lot colder.

Alun

Got a decent glimpse of it just now in Bray, but the clouds have just come over again.

miece16

Did anything even happen? I looked but didn't notice anything

Ciano35

miece16 wrote: »

Did anything even happen? I looked but didn't notice anything

Yeah most of the sun was covered. Got darker and noticeably colder here.

obriendj

In Dublin it got a bit dark but thought it would be more so. But because of the cloud it was dark anyway and I saw nothing. Real shame.

Taylor365

Cloud coverage actually turned out great!

Could look at it bare eyed from the office.

Got 1 break in the cloud which showed the real magnitude. Couldn't see anything with that as way to bright.

ednwireland

Could see the edge of the sun through the clouds up in donegal (ok I'm not supposed to look but it was through cloud)

Maximus Alexander

I caught a glimpse of it when some thinner cloud passed over it briefly at about 9:28. I looked right at it through heavily squinted eyes. I'm going to go blind now.

It looked cool though.

Stokolan

Lots of Cloud in Waterford only got a glimpse of it. Cloud helped to get a nice view of it.

fryup

well that was an anti-climax:(....just like a dull morning nothing out of the ordinary

namloc1980

Cloud filter in Cork!

Knifey Spoony

Peak of the eclipse from Cork (Not the best quality though):

HungryJoey

I caught a few glimpses through low lying cloud, which actually helped to provide enough cover to view. Got a good view from Navan and even managed to blindly grab a few poor pictures on an iPhone.


Specsavers will make a fortune out of this

Perhaps I should have cropped this, but you can still see the sun outline.

Schadenfreudia

Well, if the the light change on a fairly gloomy day is barely noticeable with 92% of the sun blocked we could plunge into a solar ice age and hardly notice any change in the light!

An underwhelming experience here in Dublin. The birds didn't even notice it!

peteeeed

got lucky in dublin 1

murpho999

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Well, if the the light change on a fairly gloomy day is barely noticeable with 92% of the sun blocked we could plunge into a solar ice age and hardly notice any change in the light!

An underwhelming experience here in Dublin. The birds didn't even notice it!

Just wondering how you would possibly know that?

Zapho

Had a perfectly clear view of it in Galway! The light was noticeably dimmer, but I was hoping that it would get so dark that the street lights would come on. No dice. And it was too bright to get a good photo without proper filters.

murpho999

Zapho wrote: »

Had a perfectly clear view of it in Galway! The light was noticeably dimmer, but I was hoping that it would get so dark that the street lights would come on. No dice. And it was too bright to get a good photo without proper filters.

There was never any totality expected here so it would not get fully dark so you would always have needed filters.

jfSDAS

Clouds cleared here in Dublin 4 at the right moment to see maximum of the eclipse. Very dramatic and shared the view with work colleagues too.

My heart did sink when I got up this morning and was tempted to drive south of Dublin where the weather prospects seemed better. However, I stuck it out and it was nice share the event with others. We saw occasional glimpses of the Moon gradually creeping across the Sun and then got lucky for maximum. Even now, we can see good gaps in the cloud to catch the latter stages of the eclipse.

I was really surprised at the drop in light level as I've never experienced as deep a partial eclipse before that wasn't going to be total from my location!

Hope the eclipse chasers gone to the Faroes, Svalbard, and in the air, got lucky. The live-feed from the Faroes though suggests they had overcast skies.

John

murpho999

jfSDAS wrote: »

Clouds cleared here in Dublin 4 at the right moment to see maximum of the eclipse. Very dramatic and shared the view with work colleagues too.

My heart did sink when I got up this morning and was tempted to drive south of Dublin where the weather prospects seemed better. However, I stuck it out and it was nice share the event with others. We saw occasional glimpses of the Moon gradually creeping across the Sun and then got lucky for maximum. Even now, we can see good gaps in the cloud to catch the latter stages of the eclipse.

I was really surprised at the drop in light level as I've never experienced as deep a partial eclipse before that wasn't going to be total from my location!

Hope the eclipse chasers gone to the Faroes, Svalbard, and in the air, got lucky. The live-feed from the Faroes though suggests they had overcast skies.

John

Think Svalbard is the place to be, clear skies and totality happening soon.

endacl

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Well, if the the light change on a fairly gloomy day is barely noticeable with 92% of the sun blocked we could plunge into a solar ice age and hardly notice any change in the light!

An underwhelming experience here in Dublin. The birds didn't even notice it!

My bird did.

Standard Toaster

Pitty about the cloud cover >.<

fryup

Zapho wrote: »

Had a perfectly clear view of it in Galway! The light was noticeably dimmer, but I was hoping that it would get so dark that the street lights would come on.

wasn't that dark was it:( just dull

when will we have a 100% total eclipse in ireland??