We were in danger of missing the entire thing thanks to the weather. In the end, I got to see most of it, as the cloud cover stayed fairly thin. I created a homemade filter, which I would never recommend doing, but it worked perfectly, both for my eyes and for my camera. kept the sun nice and dark. I really wanted to figure out a way to photograph the eclipse so I put together quite a few layers of blank film negatives, until the sun was so dark it was hardly visible. I removed layers and added layers based on the cloud thickness.
At one point, the clouds were thick enough that no filter was needed, and it was actually visible with the naked eye, which never would've been possible without the clouds.
During peak, the clouds were thicker than I would've liked, but it was still visible, although blurry.
As I said on another post, it was an experience I'll never forget. I imagine those in the 100% range really got to see a unique show, but it was pretty great here in the 85% range, too. I always enjoy things like the solar/lunar eclipses, meteor showers, and things that show us just how tiny we really are. Such a big existence out there that we know almost nothing about, and an even bigger existence that we know absolutely nothing about. We're just on this tiny sphere in the middle of nowhere.
