+- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com)
+-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Tips and Deals (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Thread: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) (/showthread.php?tid=208091)
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - Speedy - 08-21-2017
Ombligo wrote:
I can hardly wait for when we get 100% in the 2045 eclipse.
Same here but ours is in 2099.
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - Ombligo - 08-21-2017
Speedy wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
I can hardly wait for when we get 100% in the 2045 eclipse.
Same here but ours is in 2099.
by 2099, Speedy's nick may be Shuffler
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - OWC Jamie - 08-21-2017
Speedy wrote:
Ok, how did they get those shots and with such clarity?
[quote=Steve G.]
Missed it but how cool is this!
This composite image, made from four frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclipse, from Northern Cascades National Park in Washingtron.
You can tell it's fake, everybody knows there's really only one ISS.
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - neophyte - 08-22-2017
I kept driving to get out from under clouds. Started at about 25% eclipse coverage when low clouds moved in, drove roughly parallel to the eclipse path, ended up about 15 miles from my starting point, just on the edge of the cloud cover. But saw totality for over 2 minutes. Guy next to me (professional photographer) had a great telescope, filter, and camera setup, we saw Bailys Beads. I could not capture images with my phone camera; at less than totality even with a filter the sun was too bright to see any eclipse effect, and at totality the filter blocked all light to the camera yet without the filter it was still too bright! When the photog posts his pictures on his website I'll download them. But for now, I am so happy to have seen a total eclipse. I may not be around for the next one.
Oh, and I saw Venus....
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - Will Collier - 08-22-2017
100% totality in Helen, GA. Fantastic, and totally worth the trip. Even though the drive back to Atlanta s-u-c-k-e-d.
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - m.paris - 08-22-2017
Traveled to just south of Harrison NE (quite a ways away) for clear skies and about two minutes of totality. Partials are interesting but, like the Grand Canyon, only being there can do justice to a total eclipse. Pictures and videos pale in comparison to the real thing. Not only did we get a good view of the corona, we also saw the ripples on the ground (some kind of diffraction effect(?) that I have heard about and the 360-degree sunset. It was sooo neat!
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - AllGold - 08-22-2017
The minor league baseball team here had a noon game already scheduled so they made it into an "Eclipse Day" and gave out free viewing glasses.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/picture-gallery/news/2017/08/21/photos-eclipse-viewing-at-lansing-lugnuts-game/104830892/
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - cbelt3 - 08-22-2017
80% here. Partly cloudy, but the haze was just right. They were handing out #12 shade lenses at work (*cough*... we kind of sell them...) and I had my welding helmet with a LARGE #12 lens in it. We all kind of congregated out of the office in the parking lot and passed around the lenses. It was the first time I've ever directly viewed even a partial eclipse.. VERY cool. I am looking forward to 2024, but considering Cleveland I fully expect it will be snowing that day. I looked under the trees nearby but there was no 'lensing' pattern illumination on the ground alas.
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - Speedy - 08-22-2017
m.paris wrote:
Traveled to just south of Harrison NE (quite a ways away) for clear skies and about two minutes of totality. Partials are interesting but, like the Grand Canyon, only being there can do justice to a total eclipse. Pictures and videos pale in comparison to the real thing. Not only did we get a good view of the corona, we also saw the ripples on the ground (some kind of diffraction effect(?) that I have heard about and the 360-degree sunset. It was sooo neat!
I'm envious. I gave serious consideration to traveling to NE but decided the weather might make the long drive be for naught so I skipped. Thank you for the description!
Re: Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?) - Acer - 08-22-2017
$tevie wrote:I keep hearing that the shelf life on these glasses is three years. You might want to find out if that is true or not.
[quote=Acer]
Had the family on the front porch, all decked out in $1 B&H glasses for a respectable but not apocalyptic 80%. Now I have the challenge of keeping track of the glasses for the 2024 eclipse; for that one the totality band will pass with 60 miles of home, so it may be worth the trip if the April skies will be clear.
I checked that out and NASA says that glasses compliant with the current ISO standard don't expire.