Solar eclipse 20 March 2015

8.23
8.35
8.43
8.47
8.57
9.07
9.12
9.17
9.22
9.25
9.28
9.30
9.32
9.33
9.33
9.34
9.36
9.46
9.52
9.56
10.03
10.05

Friday 20 March

Today, a 97% partial eclipse was visible in Stornoway - totality was visible from the Faeroes, 250 miles (400 km) to the north, as well as in Svalbard, north of Norway. The weather was better than forecast, with some bright and sunny spells to give me good opportunities for photography - 110 images. The light got really strange around 9.30, when the eclipse was at its height, temperature dropped and the wind got up. I'm posting a separate entry with eclipse pics.

Thursday 19 March

Still hazy today, with some drizzle. It is reported that the Point Show, thus far held at Aird School, has been cancelled because the roof was blown off the school buildings. There is now a distinct chance that the building will have to be demolished.

Wednesday 18 March

Very hazy conditions today, as shown in the images with the MV Clipper Ranger (by the lighthouse) and the MV Loch Seaforth, parked at Arnish for the day. The last image shows the RNLI lifeboat bringing in a disabled fishing boat; her steering gear was damaged after one of her nets was allegedly caught by a passing submarine - not NATO?

Tuesday 17 March

 
Four vessels in the above pics: apart from the fishing boat, there is MV Loch Seaforth, gastanker B Gas Linda and MV Isle of Lewis. In the evening, there was a magnificent display of the aurora borealis - but I didn't have my camera set up properly to capture the pehnomenon...

Monday 16 March

Sunday 15 March

I found a TV program from 1970 which was rebroadcast on the Gaelic channel, BBC Alba. I took two screenshots, one showing Cromwell Street Quay, and the other the Arnish Peninsula. No Fabrication Yard, but Kildun Farm where it used to stand. The latter was burned down and the hill it sat on bulldozed in 1974 to make way for the Fabrication Yard.

Saturday 14 March