On Dec 20 2010, 8:29*pm, Rich wrote:
Immobile, low-hanging clouds killed even a glimpse. *But, after seeing a
Christmas day solar eclipse under flawless conditions years ago pretty much
used up Toronto's quota of tolerable eclipse weather...However, there are a
few hours left, something might change.

I live in the Los Angeles area, but drove up to the San
Francisco Bay Area the night of the eclipse (not for
that purpose, but to visit family). Southern California
was almost completely clouded out, but the weather began
to clear up as we made our way up north, and by the time
we arrived at about 10:30 (near the start of totality),
it was only partly cloudy. I was able to make out the
very first nibble of the umbra at the (selenographic)
western edge of the Moon. But I had to haul our luggage
in.

'Round about 12:20, it occurred to me that we should be
near mid-totality, and went outside with my Canon 10x30
IS binoculars. I was able to get a brief glimpse of the
Moon: Danjon about 3 (I had rated it 2 initially, but it
turned out I had misremembered the scale), and the umbra
seemed noticeably darker in the middle than at the
edges, and slightly off center of the Moon. I had about
ten seconds before the clouds wiped it out, and the sky,
of course, was rather dark now. Still, ten seconds is
better than nothing.

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