Partial eclipse of the sun caught on camera
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A few Caithness residents had their eyes on the skies yesterday morning to try and spot an unusual phenomenon and capture digital images if possible.
But apart from a slight darkening of the skies around 11am there was little to see throughout much of the county as cloud cover obscured the solar spectacle of a partial eclipse of the sun.
Paul Brown, who lives in Reay, was working from home when the event took place and hoped he might capture a still image if he was "lucky enough" and the cloud parted.
"I knew I had a Skype meeting at 11 o'clock and the largest part of the eclipse was to be about 11.15am, " said Paul. "So just before 11am I run out with my camera already set up on my tripod – willing the clouds to part for just a few minutes."
The clouds miraculously parted just long enough for Paul to fire off a few shots and then dash back inside for his 11am meeting.
"Lucky me," he added. "The image was taken with my Nikon D850 300mm f2.8 prime lens with 1.4 teleconverter, it was shot at 1/8000th of a sec at F13 and ISO 64, in my drive, in the village of Reay, wearing my shorts and slippers, rushing to get back in for my meeting."
Dorcas Sinclair in Dunnet, who heads up the Caithness Beach Cleans group, actually managed to capture the phenomenon on video.
"When it was full sun it was too bright, light cloud was fine but of course it then clouded over really badly and that was the end of it for us. The video is green because we had attached a welding glass to the front of the camera lens."
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