In June of 2002 there was a Lunar eclipse visible at about 75% totality from Cardiff.

Although I felt lousy that day (I actually left work early) I grabbed my camera and headed to the beach at about 4:30PM. The peak of the eclipse would be at about 5:30 or so. The pictures you see below were some of the best I shot that day. Although I did a pretty poor job of scanning the slides, I think you get the idea.

For those of you with a photography bent, the pictures were taken and appear as they do because I hugely underexposed the film. When you point your camera directly into the sun you need to underexpose dramatically to get any detail. While the middle two pictures look like the sun obscuring the moon at night, they are actually the moon eclipsing the sun at about 5:30PM. I stacked 2 neutral density filters and a polarizer and underexposed about 7-8 stops. While these scans look pretty ragged, the slides look much better. Time to buy a new scanner!

Eclipse in clouds

Double exposure

Eclipse

Eclipse & more clouds