Just amazing. Great capture of this very strange phenomena. 

The Sun did briefly come out right in the middle of all of that which would have at least allowed the crowds on those three hills to be able to see a little bit of that although it all seemed like almost a case of “blink and you’ll miss that”.

Nice one and i used white paper and a pin hole paper so it shown very well like yours and it was really sureal how the colour of darkness and it seem all gone quiet.  Temperatures was not effected as still 32.5C. 

What was most noticeable was how quickly it got light again - someone remarked that it was just like sunrise but in the West. 

Not as good as a full eclipse but it definitely felt pretty spectacular especially for the few minutes either side of maximum.

And I managed this fence view.

We've just had a few more spots of rain and I can see showers on the radar around Glasgow and stretching towards The Forth

I got a few half-decent pinhole images. Some people managed to adjust the brightness control on their cameras to get quite good selfies, facing away from the sun with the eclipse over their shoulder. I tried but couldn't get enough dim-out for a good photo.

I didn't notice any showers of rain during the eclipse itself, but I do notice that now. I will of course, go more into that in this week's CC thread.

King Hill.

http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/kingshill.htm 

Saw the same thing on my shed. Creepy,   

To be honest, if no one had told me this was happening, I would not have noticed, as it gets darker at that time anyway these days   1999 was more noticeable, even though it was a cloudy day.  The darkness happened in the morning and that did feel very surreal

https://youtu.be/EnEziBy4KB8 

Some of the footage from Majorca, on Sky, of the back end where the sun reappears, is quite something 

Even a 95% eclipse is nothing special at all. Totality is just entirely different. I thought cloud was going to scupper it here in Mallorca but we got a great view albeit the corona was quite diffuse through the thin cloud. Then 15 minutes later the sun set as a still thin crescent 🌙 Amazing stuff. 

Yes, Alastair Bunkell's reporting was excellent, because he showed you what was happening on the ground,  instead of endless footage of the Sun itself.  I find the darkness and how wildlife react more interesting.  

Even here, it was weird at 7.12pm.  The strange shadows on the fences  and animal behaviour did change. 

A series of photos of the drop in light levels

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/userpics/20260813/20260813083442.jpg 

Maybe God did create the Earth after all!  Or somebody did as an experiment.  There seems to be no other complex life in the rest of Space.  If there was , they would have made contact.   Maybe our planet is a totally freak one off, or the religious nuts were right all along.  

I'm sure you were taught the Latin expression: "Post hoc ergo propter hoc." 

Planets and their satellites come in many sizes and layouts, but the laws of Physics apply. There does not need to be an underlying intention or design at work. Where things work they will survive/persist. If not, they won't. The same applies to life and evolution. By all means reflect on human efforts to make sense of it, from metaphysics, theology and philosophy to quantum physics, but the process of existence will "find a way".  

It is humbling that "Isaac Newton’s metaphysical and theological writings, largely preserved in millions of words of unpublished manuscripts, explore absolute space as the "sensorium" of God, the rejection of mechanical occasionalism, and deep inquiries into alchemy, anti-Trinitarian theology, and biblical prophecy." [AI]

As Galileo is supposed to have put it:  "Eppur si muove"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves 

The Moon is gradually receding away from Earth. When it formed it was much closer than it is today and eclipses were pretty much a daily occurrence (and the Moon was much larger than the Sun in the sky, completely covering it). In another 600 million years, it will have receded so far away that total solar eclipses will become impossible and every eclipse will be annular. It just happens to be that we exist at the time where the Moon is at the right distance to appear a similar size as the Sun in the sky.

Anyone who thinks the eclipse they saw was only 5% off totality really doesn't know what they're talking about. Seeing the full thing was one of the greatest moments of my life. When the shadow approaches and the last shard of light disappears, it really is indescribable. I saw the 1999 one from London, which was about 98% IIRC, but this was truly something else.

It didn’t happen in 1927 and 1999, the last two total solar eclipses from Great Britain.

It didn’t happen in 1858, 1961 

1912 and 1921 had large clearly skies but those eclipses were not as deep for good parts of England and Wales as the one just gone.

We were very fortunate.