Darkness....

For once the side-raining, hailstoning, sunburning  Scottish weather co-operated - at first there didn't seem much hope: A path of dark blue sky mocked us and it got eerily dark.....

Then the clouds thinned a bit, and being a desperate cadre of engineers and scientists we all improvised filters and went outside. Someone more forward thinking then handed us all proper filters so we didn't end up blind...

Above: My workmates and I are grown up professionals, we didn't all come rushing outside when someone in software shouted "The clouds're thinning!". No, we're scientists and engineers, we always planned to sneak out the back door...

Above: The Scottish weather managed to combine itself with the eclipse rather dramatically....

Where we had clouds and viewing on our tea break, the Proba-2 spacecraft got the full glory:

It was strange, and beautiful! How did your eclipse go? If you've got a good eclipse story leave it in the comments section!