August 11th 1999.
The date everyone was waiting for - the Solar eclipse.
In Bath, the eclipse was not total, but reached a maximum of about 97% coverage
of the Sun by the Moon. Consequently, a filter was needed throughout. My filter was of
the "smoked glass" variety - dangerous for directly viewing the Sun,
but I was using it for the camera, not myself.
In addition, it was cloudy. All photographs were taken through the occasional breaks in
the cloud, and exposure times needed varied from 1/4 sec. to 1/250 second.
These should be in the right order; there should be less of the Sun visible in each.
Maximum coverage occured just as I ran out of film.
Note that these are fairly big images, mostly around the 500kb mark.