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And about that eclipse Bruce
« on: August 21, 2017, 11:25:19 AM »
Nope, not even close to where it will be a full eclipse. In fact, projections show about 1/6 of the sun covered here. Far too far north for a full eclipse.

But it looks like you must be pretty close to where it will be full. If so, enjoy but please, be safe and protect your eyes; even during a full eclipse the corona will burn your retinas so you probably want to use some type of protection.

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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2017, 02:43:43 PM »
I was on the university campus in Nashville with 40,000 or so of my closest friends.  Had total coverage for a bit over 2 minutes.  Tried to take photos using the ISO rated glasses over the lens on my cell phone but they don't do justice to the event.  The funny part was the insects started chirping when it got dark then quieted down when the sun came back out.  Not total darkness, more like twilight.  And the temps dropped by 10 degrees or so.

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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 02:53:48 PM »
Cool, and interesting about the insects.

As I said, a mild darkening (no need to take off sunglasses) here and a small disc missing from the sun. Just a yawn- level event, really.

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I was on the university campus in Nashville with 40,000 or so of my closest friends.  Had total coverage for a bit over 2 minutes.  Tried to take photos using the ISO rated glasses over the lens on my cell phone but they don't do justice to the event.  The funny part was the insects started chirping when it got dark then quieted down when the sun came back out.  Not total darkness, more like twilight.  And the temps dropped by 10 degrees or so.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2017, 05:09:14 PM »
Here it was 89% occluded.  I was surprised that it means almost nothing!  It seemed like a perfectly normal day;  I expected a lot more...  had I not looked at the sun with the special glasses, I wouldn't even know anything were abnormal.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2017, 05:14:02 PM »
I stayed in the house.  Didn't want to get peripheral radiation.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2017, 05:59:36 PM »
Yeah, as I said in that other thread yesterday, it is really a very narrow path on the Earth where the eclipse is..... effective. Hence the long wait for astronomers to take the photograph that would prove or disprove Big Al's T.O.R., and it took years. And that was with global traveling to be in the right place at the right time.

Still, the center of the eclipse did traverse the US, all the way across the continent. It sounds like Bruce was near or at the corridor of total eclipse. Being 1,000 miles or so north, I was not and other than a slight 'dulling' of broad daylight, it could have passed without me really noticing.

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Here it was 89% occluded.  I was surprised that it means almost nothing!  It seemed like a perfectly normal day;  I expected a lot more...  had I not looked at the sun with the special glasses, I wouldn't even know anything were abnormal.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 06:21:56 PM »
Brian you should get your chance in 2024 when the path will go through Texas and up through Maine.  If any of you will be anywhere within a few hours' drive I highly recommend going to a place to view totality.  Pretty weird to be able to look up at the sun in the middle of the day.  Looked like a big black ball (the moon obviously) with a red halo or aura all around it.  I was all set to be unimpressed but it really was a neat thing to experience. 

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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 07:52:03 PM »
Thanks for the reflection and the alert on the next one. Personally, I have zero expectation of being here to see that one but I appreciate the thought, and hope everyone interested is able to see that one.

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Brian you should get your chance in 2024 when the path will go through Texas and up through Maine.  If any of you will be anywhere within a few hours' drive I highly recommend going to a place to view totality.  Pretty weird to be able to look up at the sun in the middle of the day.  Looked like a big black ball (the moon obviously) with a red halo or aura all around it.  I was all set to be unimpressed but it really was a neat thing to experience.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2017, 06:01:14 AM »
We've already by now seen a lot of photos of the eclipse.  This is a little different.  A time lapse video taken from the square in my home town of Franklin, TN
https://www.facebook.com/CityOfFranklin/videos/10159237925390344/

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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2017, 06:21:12 AM »
Impressive. You must have been right in the center of the path.

What happened here might have confounded the ancients a little but they would have kept right on [Sodom and Gomorrah]'ing and so forth. But I can see how what happened where you are would make them straighten up and fly right, at least for a while, 'cause that would make almost anyone think they were making someone, with a really high pay grade, cranky.  ;D

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We've already by now seen a lot of photos of the eclipse.  This is a little different.  A time lapse video taken from the square in my home town of Franklin, TN
https://www.facebook.com/CityOfFranklin/videos/10159237925390344/
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2017, 07:47:20 AM »
I was standing with a group of fellow adults, and it ended up being very good for my self esteem.

I KNOW I dont have an extensive education, and I know nothing about the solar system. However, compared to many of the others, Im an a certified genius.

Comments I heard were anything from, "I thought this happened, at night...." to, "So, does this happen again, in one hour?" 

The comments did not stop.  One guy worried about viewing the picture he took on his i phone. Cross my heart, and hope to die, he slid his welding mask on to view his i phone.

The insect part is interesting. We were in an area with millions of mosquitos.  For a few minutes, they started swarming around the parking lot lights.




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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2017, 07:58:23 AM »
Complete totality here. It was dark for over two minutes right here in my front yard. Absolutely stunning!
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2017, 08:05:14 AM »
Jimmy, was it dark enough to where you would have needed headlights, if you were driving?

It was about 90% where I was. It looked like @ 30 minutes before sunset.


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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2017, 10:13:32 AM »
Jimmy, was it dark enough to where you would have needed headlights, if you were driving?

It was about 90% where I was. It looked like @ 30 minutes before sunset.
Oh yeah. It was dark. It was crazy how if just a tiny sliver was still showing, there was light, but for two minutes, it was night time.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2017, 02:16:17 PM »
Flew up to Perryville MO. Awesome sight! 99% is not close enough. The last 30 seconds to 100% was amazing.






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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2017, 02:49:54 PM »
87% coverage @1;20 here but I saw none of that. Around noon I caught a glimpse of the sun and moon then the clouds moved in and it rained for a bit. if I hadn't known that there was an eclipse going on it would have seemed like an ordinary cloudy day.
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2017, 03:48:55 PM »
Oh yeah. It was dark. It was crazy how if just a tiny sliver was still showing, there was light, but for two minutes, it was night time.

That's what I noticed here where we were 88 to 89% maximum.  Even with all that blocked, it barely changed the look outside at all.... it must take a WHOLE LOT of blocking, like 95% or something to really notice something is happening.  Watching others' videos of the ambient outside light, once it went from 99% to 100%, there is a HUGE difference.

Of course, part of it is probably that our eyes are constantly adjusting for exposure :)
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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2017, 03:52:39 PM »
 



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Fantastic photos there Rhino! 

We drove up to Nebraska as we thought that it would be less crowded, especially after the cloud cover forecast came out at 73% but we found a cloud hole with some minor litter in it near Fairmont Nebraska. There should be a law about the length of totality. 2 minutes and 30 odd seconds just isn't long enough. I panicked and forgot everything I know about photography.
So I have mostly crapola for photos from the eclipse. Fortunately I remembered to bring the GoPro with the chipped lens along and set it up. The time lapse it took shows the curve of the moon's shadow fairly well on the surrounding clouds as it passed by. The pano I took is blurred but it shows the lighting more realistically in the area much better than the GoPro does. Now from what I've learned, I will be fully prepared when 2024 rolls around .......and it's cloudy here.  :(


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Re: And about that eclipse Bruce
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2017, 05:04:34 AM »
Eclipse shadow from space.

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SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE STRATOSPHERE (UPDATED): During the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21st, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus and Spaceweather.com launched 11 high-altitude balloons from 5 states in the path of totality. We hoped to catch the Moon's shadow sweeping across the landscape from a vantage point in the stratosphere--and we succeeded. These pictures show the inky-black shadow of the Moon darkening a 70 mile-wide patch of Wyoming/Nebraska:



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