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oh whoops i didn't realize we had a thread for this fiance and i drove up to buffalo to watch it. it was really overcast but there would be occasional thin points in the clouds where we could see it happening. we even got to see the totality for about five seconds. i now agree with people who say it's worth it even if there's total cloud coverage and you can't see anything. that was absolutely wild
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graph posted:i guess what makes totality totality is that after totality starts you can take off your special glasses and there's just this giant loving black orb in the sky, something that cameras really can't get a good picture of, and it's just dark blue and cool quiet and windy with this loving huge vantablack orb surrounded by bright white corona, just like what the gently caress yeah before seeing this i understood why ancient people freaked out when it happened but now i get it. that triggers something primal in you
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Eeyo posted:i didn't expect to see a dramatic 360 degrees sunset, that was neat. like the whole horizon was a beautiful sunset, bright red clouds in the distance with stars and poo poo in the sky. yeah I saw the prominence, too, a real surprise and absolutely incredible. Could see a couple planets in the darkness, presumably venus and idk something else behind me from looking towards the sun. first time I've experienced totality, it's truly surreal. drove up from MA to VT, getting there was a little rough at points but holy poo poo the drive home was a nightmare. Normally would take around 3 hours, yesterday it took somewhere around 7.  every road was a parking lot from northern VT all the way down to Hooksett, NH
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lol and today is clear blue sky
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Chris Knight posted:lol and today is clear blue sky same
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I'm pretty surprised at the number of people I'm seeing that didn't get the totality experience because they didn't take their glasses off.
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c/w got some nice ones
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someone got an even better one https://mattshifflerphotography.com/product/eclipse/ drat, and way more color-accurate graph fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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graph posted:having seen partial in 2017, partial, while neat, is nothing to 100% and recommend seeing it at some point. holy cripes it's the difference between being hit by lightning and being hit by a lightning bug
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Apr 9, 2024 22:38
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Chris Knight posted:lol and today is clear blue sky ouch, my condolences
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shame on an IGA posted:it's the difference between being hit by lightning and being hit by a lightning bug lol this is like twice quoted from twain
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graph posted:i guess what makes totality totality is that after totality starts you can take off your special glasses and there's just this giant loving black orb in the sky, something that cameras really can't get a good picture of, and it's just dark blue and cool quiet and windy with this loving huge vantablack orb surrounded by bright white corona, just like what the gently caress ya, it was really wild to look up and see it with my own eyes, breathtaking and I think I let out some invectives and holy exclamations graph posted:c/w got some nice ones whoa, nice! my camera was both old and has a crappy lens for shooting at that distance, but someone else had a better setup and were still pooling our photos graph posted:someone got an even better one this is really cool. we were out in north olmstead with a good view and the thing that caught me off-guard was how crystal clear and sparkling the rim was. I don't think I've seen a video or photo quite capture the dynamic edge so clearly
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Agile Vector posted:ya, it was really wild to look up and see it with my own eyes, breathtaking and I think I let out some invectives and holy exclamations yeah both cameras and displays are literally incapable of that sort of reproduction i think
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here's my somewhat janky composite of my photos. my dslr is old and i dusted it off to get most of these, a few with my phone. honestly just happy the middle turned out at all my scaling is all off, and you can tell when i stopped shooting as frequently. i'll have to get the rest of the group's photos and try to make something nicer
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Agile Vector posted:here's my somewhat janky composite of my photos. my dslr is old and i dusted it off to get most of these, a few with my phone. honestly just happy the middle turned out at all nice 
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Agile Vector posted:this is really cool. we were out in north olmstead with a good view and the thing that caught me off-guard was how crystal clear and sparkling the rim was. I don't think I've seen a video or photo quite capture the dynamic edge so clearly it was absurd and insane
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i like graphs photo best cause you can see the little solar flare at the edge there at the bottom
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Agile Vector posted:here's my somewhat janky composite of my photos. my dslr is old and i dusted it off to get most of these, a few with my phone. honestly just happy the middle turned out at all that's pretty neat op, nice job e: i kinda feel like i should've set something up in advance but i just kind of last minute grabbed the closest camera and tried using the paper glasses i had over the lens lol. i would've at least used a native lens but i just wasn't expecting to see much honestly, they were predicting like 48% maximum coverage and florida is almost always overcast Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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drove to texas and stayed with my cousin for a few days. we drove up the road about half an hour since his place was just barely inside the zone of totality. found a field adjacent to a walmart and it was a real nail biter during the lead up with clouds obscuring and then clearing, but we got supremely lucky and about twenty minutes or so before totality we got a big break. there were a couple of light clouds that drifted past but most of totality was completely unobscured. we got something like 3:30-3:40 of it. the tension and anticipation leading up to it resulted in a wave of giddy euphoria when it happened that i don’t remember having felt for a very long time. on top of our weather luck we also had zero problem with traffic. i think because we weren’t going to/from major cities and most folks in the area were content to sit tight where they were. making my way back home now. going to see the grand canyon for the first time on my way back. also the national nuclear museum in new mexico like someone here suggested a while back. also seen two of the meow wolfs already, definitely planning a third at santa fe, might give in and duck up to las vegas to do the grand tour.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:there were a couple of light clouds that drifted past but most of totality was completely unobscured. we got something like 3:30-3:40 of it. the tension and anticipation leading up to it resulted in a wave of giddy euphoria when it happened that i don’t remember having felt for a very long time. that specific blue is still forefront in my headFarmer Crack-rear end posted:making my way back home now. going to see the grand canyon for the first time on my way back. also the national nuclear museum in new mexico like someone here suggested a while back. also seen two of the meow wolfs already, definitely planning a third at santa fe, might give in and duck up to las vegas to do the grand tour. hell yeah safe travels fca
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graph posted:
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mediaphage posted:right? almost actinic no it takes years of overexposure to sun to get that kind of keratosis
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I was too busy staring at the sun and missed this thread. As impressive as the eclipse was I was more amazed at how perfect the weather was in Cleveland for it. The week before was cold (it sleeted one day), rainy, and completely overcast. For the eclipse we had clear skies and weather that hit 70. We never have weather cooperate like that. I had the parents and a family friend come up the night before, because my house was directly under the totality path and they were predicting trafficgeddon for the past month. Traffic was totally fine the whole day, but it was still a great time and I was happy to host. I still can't get over how much the light changes from 99% to 100% occlusion.
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TerminalRaptor posted:As impressive as the eclipse was I was more amazed at how perfect the weather was in Cleveland for it. we got so lucky TerminalRaptor posted:I still can't get over how much the light changes from 99% to 100% occlusion. it was like *click* you're now in ultraworld !
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a contrail drifted in front of the eclipse here and it was the first time I noticed the faint clouds moving. it was an eerie parallax effect that you'd normally see at night but it felt too close with the eclipse as point of reference you can see it in the terminal tower photos linked in the thread. looks like they both took their photo just after it passed
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TerminalRaptor posted:they were predicting trafficgeddon for the past month. Traffic was totally fine the whole day yeah, we drove in from columbus early in the day and it was lighter than 71's weekend traffic. considering there was a college championship, the home opener, and the eclipse, it was the exact opposite of expectations
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read this whole thread and now my head hurts and i cant see very well did anyone else make this joke yet pls say no
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TerminalRaptor posted:I still can't get over how much the light changes from 99% to 100% occlusion. it says something about how much energy is coming out of the sun that it can be 90% covered and it's maybe a little darker than usual.
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Midjack posted:it says something about how much energy is coming out of the sun that it can be 90% covered and it's maybe a little darker than usual. it says more about how human vision is like 10x logarithmic but yes the sun is absolutely exceedingly overwhelmingly bright
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local man: ball of nuclear fusion a million miles across is "very bright"
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I realized after the eclipse that it was actually a lot less bright during the peak, even at just 60%. it was colder too. I mean the sun was at just 40% of its normal strength so the numbers make sense
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graph posted:
this is real nice :-)
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