Previous evening the Total Eclipse was just getting underway with the Sun already at the horizon; little hope of anything here, and it was overcast anyway……..
The following evening a prospect of a very fine promising-looking night I was out assessing prospects for a Pons-Brooks sighting. That was already looking unlikely, then I spotted the very slim crescent Moon approaching the treeline.
Using the 12x65s I was pleasantly surprised to already catch good glimpses of the Earthshine…..with enough time I set up for a view in the darkening sky with the 20x100s.
Currently the hedgerows round about are thick with Blackthorn/Sloe Blossom – looking like snow. With a mixture of Hawthorn; and where the latter leafs before blossom, the Sloe does the opposite...The tree front of the Moon I think will be an Ash just coming, fuzzily from >0.5 mile, into leaf. Of course being April the blooming of Dandelions is ongoing - oft a disliked flower, but always a springtime favourite of mine. As it was, I happily learned, with W.H, Steavenson….the story goes his niece, at his funeral, placed a bouquet of them on his coffin.
As I mentioned in my Pons-Brooks thread: lost to me now – but the view here a nice alternative and of course the eclipse an absolute no hoper here…..Dave.
