The day before the Eclipse, went for a walk on the waterfront South East of the H mark on the map below. Not a cloud in the sky. The after about the same. A few hours after the eclipse, the clouds cleared. Unfortunately during the Eclipse
Toronto was 99 to to 99.5 % but would imagine that was closer to the lake than either my home or workplace. On the map below, my work place is the W and the my home is H. People on the beaches had posted some good images. It appeared it was less cloudy too.
The peak for the eclipse was 3:19. I set up my camera at 1:45 and came back 10 minutes later when there was break in the clouds. Still a challenge finding it on the screen. Had to scroll around until there was one cloud brighter than the others.
The A119 allows the lens to pivot enough up to catch sun at 1:45 pm. I could have scrolled it up more. I never paid that much attention to the path of the sun at work but for my home I understand. I have three office locations at work and the other two would have been better. This allows parking pretty much north /south but the others have parking in both N/S and E/w.
At one point, it looked like a terrible storm was occurring outside . It was so dark. My wife was at home and watches a bird feeder outside the patio window and said there were no birds or animals in the vicinity of the feeder for some time.
I thought the eclipse was over when I removed the camera as it wasn't as dark looking outside. After I removed the a119 (3:26 pm , peak was 3:19), I saw the sun and moon,= Not quite touching each other. At that point, a slight clearing in the clouds. As such, It appears even if it was cloudless, the eclipse would have been outside of where I arranged the camera at 1:45. Had I parked at my other office and had the camera facing more westerly as opposed to facing south ( i figure 165 degrees) ... I would have got it.
