Wednesday 11th August

Having left Alpbach at 06:00am to be sure of reaching the region of totality before the big event, we stopped enroute for a German breakfast.

	A little later, more coffee at a local cafe while we wait and observe the clouds before deciding on the most promising location for watching the eclipse.

At our first observing stop, a test picture with my digital camera through the protective glasses.

	Julia helps Stephan project an images of the sun through a pair of binoculars

another attempt to photograph the sun

	and another..

Then the dreaded clouds close in

	and we jump back into the car to find another location..

Thorsten and Stephan jump out of the car for a quick roadside inspection of the sky

	The sun begins to be obscured by the moon..

then less desirably, by a light cloud cover..

	so we rush back to the car

We follow the breaks in the cloud cover until, as totality approaches, our advance is halted on the bank of lake Chiemsee

	which fortunately seems to hold out hope of some clear sky

so we join a crowd of eclipse watchers and set up our equipment.

We blast a hole through the clouds with our phasers....... (ok, I don't know what it is either - a strange atmospheric effect that can only be detected with a digital camera perhaps..)

	Then a nice view of the disappearing sun

then more clouds..

	and more clouds..

	But there is just time for one more relocation..

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