This morning, at 0530 hours I was up taking some test photographs, for the eclipse which will occur in about 24 hours. Unfortunately I was greeted by a fairly comprehensive blanket of cloud across the horizon. I couldn’t see the sun rise, and only managed to capture glimpses of the sun through short breaks in the cloud cover.

In the photo below you can see some slight cover cross the sun. This photo was taken with my Canon EOS 400D with a 300mm lens at F5.6 and 1/125, ISO 400 with a Baader solar filter.

Lets hope for better weather tomorrow morning.