Eclipse 2017

[ProjectWHaT]

Been stuck in traffic for over 4 hours trying to get home.

Also, the traffic on Google maps lines up perfectly with the totality line.

 

[wfooshee]

I don't have any special filters, just a Lee Big Stopper, but here was about 10 minutes before maximum coverage, and then just after. The actual moment of maximum coverage was obscured by clouds, but i only missed it by a minute and a half or so. I feel quite good that I actually got sunspots!!! The filter gives me a bluish tint, so I just adjusted to white, didn't try for the orange you see in shots through "real" solar filters. From Panama City, Florida.

 

[prousonhairy]

I finally received a bunch of the pictures my sister in law took, however they are too big to post here? Is there a way I can resize them, some of them are pretty epic.

They are almost 5000 jpegs (I think that right?) I tried to create an album, but it wouldn't let me put them there either.

 

[photonrider]

Lincoln, NE.

That's exactly what I saw when I experienced a total eclipse; and once seen never forgotten. It's just the most amazing thing - one really feels the power and movement of the cosmos.
Nothing special here in Toronto, though - kind of blah in comparison.

Also, the traffic on Google maps lines up perfectly with the totality line.

Weird how it cut across the country like that, that north and south division along that line. Even weirder was that soon after it I mentioned to my son that there would possibly be earthquakes, (since I've noticed that pattern before) and then I hear on the news that there was one. Probably just a coincidence.

I finally received a bunch of the pictures my sister in law took, however they are too big to post here? Is there a way I can resize them, some of them are pretty epic.

They are almost 5000 jpegs (I think that right?) I tried to create an album, but it wouldn't let me put them there either.

My usual modus operandi is to move any media I use on the internet to Photobucket and work on it from there - but I do that only because I've been with them from their inception; apparently one needs to practise satanic rites to practise any kind of magic through them - however, I manage. I'm very loyal to places I've been with for any length of time, so I'm kind of stuck with them.
Photos I've posted in here from six years ago are still in place.
Hopefully some member who is more adept with juggling pixels will head along and give you a hand; don't give up hope, it's not like the thread is going anywhere soon.
Really great to see so many members post their personal experiences of this - not something that comes along every month.

 

[CodeRedR51]

^^ Hell of an accidental shot there.

 

[prousonhairy]

That last one is my absolute favorite. @photonrider, I tried photobucket, but got frustrated, I used SquareSized, which was god awful as well. Ads pop up every 20 seconds, and they want $5 to remove them.

Only good thing about using it, now the pics have a watermark, lol. She would be pissed if someone stole them, although they look way more stunning at 5000jpegs.

She took over 200 pictures, she snapped one every 3 minutes. I think she wants to do a slideshow effect thing.

Sorry they aren't better quality, it's the best way I could find to get them here.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

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That last one is my absolute favorite. @photonrider, I tried photobucket, but got frustrated, I used SquareSized, which was god awful as well. Ads pop up every 20 seconds, and they want $5 to remove them.

Only good thing about using it, now the pics have a watermark, lol. She would be pissed if someone stole them, although they look way more stunning at 5000jpegs.

She took over 200 pictures, she snapped one every 3 minutes. I think she wants to do a slideshow effect thing.

Sorry they aren't better quality, it's the best way I could find to get them here.

They look great to me, thanks. Had to poach some glasses off a little kid since the Uni was doing an event for the eclipse, you just go to the NASA department there and they were giving out glasses. They were gone by the time I got on campus.

 

[Grayfox]

They look great to me, thanks. Had to poach some glasses off a little kid since the Uni was doing an event for the eclipse, you just go to the NASA department there and they were giving out glasses. They were gone by the time I got on campus.

Be like trump, stare at it assuming you think the warnings are "Fake News"

 

[Grayfox]

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That last one is my absolute favorite. @photonrider, I tried photobucket, but got frustrated, I used SquareSized, which was god awful as well. Ads pop up every 20 seconds, and they want $5 to remove them.

Only good thing about using it, now the pics have a watermark, lol. She would be pissed if someone stole them, although they look way more stunning at 5000jpegs.

She took over 200 pictures, she snapped one every 3 minutes. I think she wants to do a slideshow effect thing.

Sorry they aren't better quality, it's the best way I could find to get them here.

Try dropbox, I use it, you have a folder hierarchy like photobucket and it is free, share links dont work well on GTP though, @Jordan says there is a trick to get them to work but I couldn't get it to work when i tried it.

 

[FoRiZon]

Skip to 9:18 to hear the relevation. Wonder where he is now.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

That last one is my absolute favorite. @photonrider, I tried photobucket, but got frustrated, I used SquareSized, which was god awful as well. Ads pop up every 20 seconds, and they want $5 to remove them.

Only good thing about using it, now the pics have a watermark, lol. She would be pissed if someone stole them, although they look way more stunning at 5000jpegs.

She took over 200 pictures, she snapped one every 3 minutes. I think she wants to do a slideshow effect thing.

Sorry they aren't better quality, it's the best way I could find to get them here.

Try flickr? Though I would probably watermark them before uploading if that's a concern.

 

[Danoff]

Drove from Denver to Wyoming to see it in totality in clear skies. Absolutely awesome and crazy. Took me 6 hours to get home (normally a 2.5 hour drive), but it took some people a lot longer. Photos do not do it justice. You cannot get a proper sense of scale from photos. Either it looks tiny and you see people in the photos, or it looks huge but you're disconnected from context. In person, it's crazy large in the sky with the corona extending far from the lunar disk. There is a 360 degree sunset, the stars are out, and the corona is impossibly bright. It's something that has to be experienced in person.

10/10 would recommend. Comes back through the US in 7 years, eclipse cruises also exist.

 

[Jordan]

Absolutely awesome and crazy. Took me 6 hours to get home (normally a 2.5 hour drive), but it took some people a lot longer. Photos do not do it justice. You cannot get a proper sense of scale from photos. Either it looks tiny and you see people in the photos, or it looks huge but you're disconnected from context. In person, it's crazy large in the sky with the corona extending far from the lunar disk. There is a 360 degree sunset, the stars are out, and the corona is impossibly bright. It's something that has to be experienced in person.

That's an excellent description, @Danoff, but as you say, totality really is impossible to describe or capture. No photo or video even comes close to doing the experience justice which is why I think more people do not make an effort to get to see 100%, and that's a real shame.

I tried something a bit different to capture the eclipse with my drone. I flew it up to a high altitude about 10 minutes before totality began and left it flying for 10 minutes afterwords to make a time lapse. It doesn't fully capture the experience, either, but it's fun to watch:



I picked out this field on a country road using NASA's Eclipse Map, to get as close to the point of maximum totality as possible.

Can't wait for 2024!

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Eclipse 2017

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It was an amazing experience. If you can, I definitely recommend seeing totality. It is something you just have to experience.

 

[wfooshee]

@Jordan, that drone video is incredible. Seeing the distant sky outside of the eclipse's shadow in full sunlight while it's dark is just amazing! It almost looks like a sunset, except for not having the sun in the middle of it!

So drone warriors planning for the next one, pan through 360 while it's up there and dark.... Show the sky lit up in every direction!

 

[Jordan]

@Jordan, that drone video is incredible. Seeing the distant sky outside of the eclipse's shadow in full sunlight while it's dark is just amazing! It almost looks like a sunset, except for not having the sun in the middle of it!

So drone warriors planning for the next one, pan through 360 while it's up there and dark.... Show the sky lit up in every direction!

Thanks!

It was incredible to see the horizon change like that. As you can see, the atmosphere was a little hazy on the horizon, but when the shadow hit, all of the distant clouds — that you had no idea were even there — suddenly became visible. Really hard to describe, and only during an eclipse can the sky change so much, so fast. Sunrise/sunsets just don't work like that.

Hopefully 360-degree cameras will be standard equipment on all drones by 2024.

 

[UKMikey]

Skip to 9:18 to hear the relevation. Wonder where he is now.

Tragically, Frank Reynolds never got to see this year's eclipse as he passed away four years after that broadcast at the age of fifty-nine.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/21/obituaries/frank-reynolds-abc-newsman-dies.html

 

[Danoff]

If you're contemplating your next opportunity (and how could you not be), there's the total (blue) in 2024 of course. There's an annular (purple) in 2023, but those are only marginally better than a partial.

Alternatively you can take a cruise to see one in the southern pacific in 2019 and 2020, or go to Antarctica in 2021. A hybrid eclipse (near Australia) is where part of the eclipse is annular and part of it is total depending on how far the surface of the Earth you're standing on is from the moon at the time of the eclipse.

Apparently in 2045 there will be 6 minutes of totality from Northern CA to Florida.

 

[wfooshee]

Ooh, I marked 2045 on my calendar. I'll only be 88!! I'll have the nurses wheel me outside with my IV stand....

My hometown is in the totality zone, and only about 15 miles from the center of the zone!

The 2024 eclipse would be a bit of a drive, but I have family in Dallas. I think. We went there to visit cousins when I was a kid, anyway.....

 

[Dennisch]

The 2024 eclipse would be a bit of a drive, but I have family in Dallas. I think. We went there to visit cousins when I was a kid, anyway.....

Perhaps we should meet up there, as I am really contemplating to plan a USA trip with the Eclipse.

 

[Blitz24]

Perhaps we should meet up there, as I am really contemplating to plan a USA trip with the Eclipse.

The 2024 one will pass right through Buffalo, New York. Now you have an excuse to come to the Big Apple and bring some Danish .

 

[ukfan758]

Skip to 9:18 to hear the relevation. Wonder where he is now.

If you're talking about the anchor, that is Frank Reynolds of ABC News, who passed away from cancer in 1983. You may recall him covering the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt and getting frustrated at his co-workers for getting incorrect information.

 

[photonrider]

Even weirder was that soon after it I mentioned to my son that there would possibly be earthquakes, (since I've noticed that pattern before) and then I hear on the news that there was one. Probably just a coincidence.

And then there was two . . . and then there was more . . .
Just a coincidence, of course.

If I'm to believe in Amerindian folklore, through, seems like the mighty Sila is quite upset with the children. Maybe we should all calm down a bit.

 

[Danoff]

Just fyi, live stream of the chile eclipse is going on now. Eclipse is about an hour out.

https://www.eso.org/public/live/?ut...mpaign=SocialSignIn&utm_content=%23LaSillaTSE