The U.S. had a spectacular total eclipse today. Anyone here see it?
Way down here in south Florida we got just 77% but it was still fun. We did an easy telescope projection in the driveway. Nice clear image, including sun spots.
I also thought it might be nice to measure during and after. At 75% things didn't look all that much different, but the measurements say otherwise. 2 stops down, just like it should be. Or 25% of the light.
Anyone get good totality photos?
Way down here in south Florida we got just 77% but it was still fun. We did an easy telescope projection in the driveway. Nice clear image, including sun spots.
I also thought it might be nice to measure during and after. At 75% things didn't look all that much different, but the measurements say otherwise. 2 stops down, just like it should be. Or 25% of the light.
Anyone get good totality photos?
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I saw it. We got 96% here. Couple of hours drive south would've given me total darkness. But Oregon had declared a state of emergency and I didn't want to chance it. Lots of folks here had made reservations months, even years in advance. Anyway, it was fun!
Did you have a filter on the front of the scope?
Did you have a filter on the front of the scope?
NE TN was in the 96% band. Most people at work were out in the parking lot during the darkest phase.
Street lights came on as far as one could see. Eire twilight.
Cell phones wouldn't focus through the glasses.
Street lights came on as far as one could see. Eire twilight.
Cell phones wouldn't focus through the glasses.
Like 50% of total way up north. Little change in ambient light. #10 arc-weld filter showed the Sun with "horns" like the Moon gets sometimes.
Flew close to spot with longest duration (SW of St. Louis), saw the NASA B-57Fs flying above, saw the lunar shadow on top of the clouds whizzing towards at 1500mph. High enough that I could see across the shadow, so there was light (in the distance) all around.
Sky went an indescribable dark blue, could see some of the greater magnitude stars behind.
The lunar disc with the flares behind is something right out of sci-fi, it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Totality is all it's cracked up to be. I'm making plans for the next one.
Sky went an indescribable dark blue, could see some of the greater magnitude stars behind.
The lunar disc with the flares behind is something right out of sci-fi, it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Totality is all it's cracked up to be. I'm making plans for the next one.
The 5 year old Lumix DMC-ZS15 ($99) that has served me well for all my Tubelab pictures would not focus on the sun, with or without the glasses in front of it. I dared not point the brand new DMC-FZ1000 that I got 3 days ago at the sun.
One of the local parks had an eclipse party and there were 12 school busses full of school kids running wild. Many kids took this as a free holiday, but there were plenty of kids and adults gathered around the viewing stations which varied from home made projection systems to filtered telescopes with one scope hooked up to a 60 inch TV set.
We were in the 88% zone according to one of the school teachers.
I did an eyepiece projection here in Boston, also a couple of sunspots part way into the event. I did it in Charles River Park Cambridge so anyone could see.
I told wifey that the eclipse would be about a 1/f stop more exposure and was correct. Clouded over here in this part of Dogpatch, but I saw may groups of kids with their filters trying to get a peek. As I biked through the PRNJ I did notice the quietness, but the critters got back to biz an hour later.
No problems, my ZS40 took nice pictures after that!
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It was quite eerie watching the swirly aboritions of light flickering on the side of a large hangar here in Seattle during the peak. I was surprised that the flares would contribute that much. That to me is was cooler than the darkness I thought anyways.
It was cloudy here in the NW during the last one.
Thanks for sharing the pictures and recollections.
It was cloudy here in the NW during the last one.
Thanks for sharing the pictures and recollections.
Someone told me today that a guy set up an experiment with 80 telescopes along the path. All the same telescopes and same cameras to get a sort of continuous look at the corona. Now I have to start googling to find it.
Calgary was about 81% coverage. I was organized enough to order a shade 14 shield for my old welding helmet so we could view it directly, and that was well worth it. I tried to take a picture with an old 500mm manual telephoto on my D300, but no go. It can only do -5 exposure compensation, and it would have taken much more that that, it was clear blue sky.
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