Solar Eclipse 2017
So who lives in the path?
I asked because I fucked up with our viewing camping plans and need somewhere driveable from MI to pitch two tents for 3-5 nights..... :D (MO, IL, TN, KYish)
But why waste a whole thread on my needy idiocy...... so have at it with any other eclipse discussion.....
....so my Brit Expat Friend who lives in the path doesn't seem to think there will be a big problem just rolling up for an unreseravble rustic campsite in a national forest or state park campground, but I'm not so sure. The sitesI had bookmarked all became unreservable or disappeared, so I'm kind of wondering if tent camping is becoming aa popular option and we will have to arrive super-early and fight for space :(
Absolutely arrive super early. There are hundreds of sites available for thousands of interested people. There was talk in my troop of camping in that area then for the eclipse, although we decided against it. But if we were considering it, then others were too.
Absolutely arrive super early. There are hundreds of sites available for thousands of interested people. There was talk in my troop of camping in that area then for the eclipse, although we decided against it. But if we were considering it, then others were too.
...there's a group site available for $130/night.
Do you think Thursday is super-early enough?
Be interesting to see if anyone is scalping campground reservations on fleabay.
...there's a group site available for $130/night.
Do you think Thursday is super-early enough?
I'd imagine yes. But if you can get a reservation, do you need to go early at all?
And can you get the group site or do you have to show that you are affiliated with some group? Maybe you could say it's a swim team camping trip?
I just bought my glasses today.
I'm sure there are lots of sources for the glasses. Make sure you get legit ISO certified ones so you don't give yourself blind spots on your retinas.
Bought mine from
http://www.2017solar.com/free-eclipse-glasses/
4 glasses for $5. They stop taking orders on August 1st so
[SIZE="5"]do it today[/SIZE] while you are thinking of it.
The eclipse is August 21st and will be visible by everyone in the US to varying degrees assuming the weather cooperates.
Now I just have to figure out how to take pictures. I see pointing your camera directly at the sun will do to the sensor what a magnifying glass will do to ants. Trying to source a cheap camera lens filter. Cheapest I can find is around 20 bucks.
About 75% here, not worth going out to look at, and why take pictures of something the internet will have millions of?
Visible to everyone? All the maps I've seen have a swath going across the midwest, but Texas isn't supposed to be able to see it, are we? Is it just that we'll see a semi circle cross along the bottom of the sun, instead of the full eclipse?
What you're seeing is the 70 mile wide TOTAL eclipse.
All the US will see some of it. I saw another site I can't find at the moment that shows 75% here.
Is it just that we'll see a semi circle cross along the bottom of the sun, instead of the full eclipse?
Exactly.
Now I just have to figure out how to take pictures. I see pointing your camera directly at the sun will do to the sensor what a magnifying glass will do to ants. Trying to source a cheap camera lens filter. Cheapest I can find is around 20 bucks.
To see the Venus transit of the Sun, I used a cd. Maybe your uber-resourceful self could make a filter from a cd?;)
We live in a divided nation according to the political pundits. This month we will be physically divided if the Eclipse pundits are correct in their gridlock predictions.
From a traffic standpoint, though, viewing the total eclipse could prove to be a little too popular. Transportation officials in the 13 states where the total eclipse will be visible have been rushing to finish preparations for dealing with what could be massive traffic jams before, during and after the celestial event. The New York Post has labeled Aug. 21 as the date that "could paralyze America," while NBC News compared it to a zombie apocalypse. To understand whether that's just sensationalism, let's look at what's actually going to happen.
linkSome internet provider (ATT maybe) said they will have mobile cell towers (in KY, anyway) on trucks to handle the heavy internet needs of eclipse watchers in the rural, no/little coverage areas of KY.
I would have never thought of that.
I might have read that here on Teh Cellar.
People Googling the eclipse.
Good info there for anyone seeing the total eclipse.
So, I never did buy glasses, but I did make my own viewing box where I will see the eclipse inside of the box. Hope it works. We have partly sunny weather right now, so hopefully its sunny at the time. Im in central Indiana, so I should get about 89%.
Just a piece of paper with one or more holes poked through it works well. I got some good pictures; have to wait til tonight to upload them, though.
Keryx made a viewing box this morning and it worked. So we went outside and watched the eclipse and picked tomatoes from the garden.
Who needs glasses or a viewing box?
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Keryx made a viewing box this morning and it worked. So we went outside and watched the eclipse and picked tomatoes from the garden.
Yeah, my box worked pretty good, too..:). Up until the peak, and then it was total cloud coverage. I did see the sun at a thin crescent tho, so I'm happy. I was able to take pics too, some are nice. I'll try to post them.
This was one of my better shots. Taken through my glasses with my good camera.
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This was one of my better shots. Taken through my glasses with my good camera.
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very nice!
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My box worked ok but the glasses were really great. One guy had a welders mask and a female cow-orker had the card stock with hole.
From the 75% coverage area, I rate this event 3/4 stars out of 1.
This was one of my better shots. Taken through my glasses with my good camera.
Nice! Far better than what I got with my cell phone.
this
or this:
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we went south and watched from 5 miles north of the centerline for a totality duration of 2:39. WAIT til you see Hebe's pix, utterly fantastic. halfway home in a motel right now. long, long journey but so worth it
On Reddit from a guy in Oregon.
I've been amped about the eclipse for months now.
This morning? This is what I saw when I drove to work:
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You'd think this goes without saying, but, apparently, it needs sayin. :facepalm: Wait, don't do that either for pity's sake!
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I know you all don't have much to compare this shot to, but I'm telling you, about fifteen minutes before maximum coverage (92% at my location) it became noticably dimmer. And definitely colder.
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This was a bit closer to the maximum coverage and you can see it's darker still.
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This is the best I got:
I may have overpromised on the "good pictures".
Oh yeah. The eclipse! It *did* happen, and I have the pics to prove it.
I made a pinhole camera and it worked well, but none of the pictures I took using it came out very well. And, I bought a welding helmet (see: personality twist that f*ck you up, subsection overpacking/compensation/fear of deprivation). I looked through it and I took pictures through it. My neighbor from the bakery brought over his colander. Top marks for creativity. And quantity.
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The big brains said we could expect to see 92% coverage at our zip code. I took pictures before maximum,
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during
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and after. It was cool to watch the moon march across the sun.
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I'm loving all these shots and can't wait to see Hebe's.
1340 mile round trip -totally worth it
She took those with a regular point-and-shoot-type camera ...no super doper flashy mahoosive lens thingy or filters
not a $50 Wallyworld job, a $300 Canon, but pocket-sized.
Looks like the title screen of Heroes.