It got dark enough for the street lights to come on and my outdoor lights with sensors came on. I could hear roosters crowing.
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2024 Total Solar Eclipse
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Got totally eclipsed here...
Arghhhhhhhhhhhh…..you blinded me……you should have prefaced your pic with a warning.
Here is a better one after my son figured out camera settings…
One surreal aspect is the sky is almost totally dark but you can look to the horizon and see that the sun is shining in the distance.
One surreal aspect is the sky is almost totally dark but you can look to the horizon and see that the sun is shining in the distance.
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The effect would be more visible if it were flat.
Here in Boston we got to see it in a pinhole camera. As the sky darkened significantly it seemed to change color a bit too, to a colder color temp it seemed to me. At that time there was some very thin very high cloud that added to the strange effect.
I didn't get any photos this time. Too busy. I got some in 2017.
Here in Northern California it was imperceptible, but my solar panels noticed... apparently it passed us by at 11:05 this morning. Typically the output of our panels on a cloudless day like today would be roughly a parabola.
I looked at the partial eclipse here, and the sun certainly looked small through the dark flat "lens", seemingly much smaller than the moon appears in the night sky on its own.
Found a good enough reason to live to be 92+ though, a future total eclipse will run through my nieghborhood in 2045.
1200 miles one-way was a bit far to travel for a 4 minute show.
Found a good enough reason to live to be 92+ though, a future total eclipse will run through my nieghborhood in 2045.
1200 miles one-way was a bit far to travel for a 4 minute show.
Apparently missed it, it was during my afternoon nap……oh well
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With a 94% maximum and clouds it didn't get dark here noticeably.
The Redhead and I traveled to visit friends outside Columbus—in Powell, where we had 90 seconds of totality. High, thin clouds obscured the outer corona but we saw the inner corona and the diamond ring. The photographs captured solar prominences projecting from the limb past the edge of the Moon. It was quite an experience.
I have work to do with the photos when we get back home and then I’ll post a few.
Rick “expecting solid cloud cover” Denney
I have work to do with the photos when we get back home and then I’ll post a few.
Rick “expecting solid cloud cover” Denney
Great photo, thanks !!!
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iPhone 15 Pro and it's garbage quality.
Here’s the best pic I’ve seen yet (and I’ve browsed them for ages today, link to a post on headfi where the posters son who is a professional photographer took the picture, you can clearly see the flares/coronal ejection around the outline.
Direct link to solar eclipse pic on headfi, picture was taken by Mike at shutterhead studios
Direct link to solar eclipse pic on headfi, picture was taken by Mike at shutterhead studios
Here are some of the photos I took in Southern Illinois.
Equipment: Canon EOS M50, Canon 55-200 telephoto lens, Cheap universal solar lens filter when not fully eclipsed. I had to run the camera full manual to get it to take photos. It's internal logic system didn't understand what I was doing with such a dark filter and high contrast. Those dark spots on the sun are sunspots not lens dust.
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Equipment: Canon EOS M50, Canon 55-200 telephoto lens, Cheap universal solar lens filter when not fully eclipsed. I had to run the camera full manual to get it to take photos. It's internal logic system didn't understand what I was doing with such a dark filter and high contrast. Those dark spots on the sun are sunspots not lens dust.
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Lucked out in Southwestern Indiana. Heavy rain on Sunday and Tuesday. Clear skies on Monday. Light traffic and crowds. State Police warnings kept people home.
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Best shot yet. Just the way I saw it in Dallas. Got uber lucky, the clouds cleared just before the first diamond ring.
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The prominence at 6 o'clock in the above photos was plainly visible to the naked eye in Indianapolis and actually quite bright. My wife and I had traveled down to a little town on the Ohio River in 2017, and we never saw any prominences naked eye, and only a few faint ones showed up in my pictures. This time around we watched from our son & daughter-in-law's front yard with the entire family, so I didn't bother to take any pictures--I just called out the various phenomena to see, like the 360° sunset, the change in shadows just before totality, etc. I saw a piece today from Scientific American that said we were lucky to be in the path of totality during a solar maximum that allowed that prominence to be so visible.
www.scientificamerican.com
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