Eclipse

[Buster's Uncle]

You rarely notice, but leaves project the disk of the sun all the time - once in a while if you're in, say, a dark tin-roof shed/barn on a stormy day, you'll see a little pinhole in the roof projects a perfect image of a thin cloud passing over the sun - but otherwise, it's always round beams of light and we just don't notice...

[Geo]

I've seen two totatilities and I think two or three partials over my lifetime. During the totalities the Sun was either still too low to see decent shadow shapes (on a beach in the morning in Australia) or the weather was too louzy (France). Same for my first partial (early evening in the back yard of my parents house in the seventies) and my last (dense clouds, you could safely look at the Sun with the Mark I eyeball).

Anyway, you can start making preparations for 2024 now. The eclipse path should be roughly southwest to northeast then.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay.  -No nagging me 'til two weeks before, hear?


Around 2:20, maybe.



I didn't crank the contrast for this one.

I'd typically take about three shots of the projection at different focal lengths, then get up and take a few shots of the pecan shade...


Lorizael is in South Carolina today, BTW, and saw totality, weather permitting, with far, far, better preparation than I, and serious astronomy training, to boot - Geo, am I correct in thinking you join me in begging him to post much better pics?

-Am I, sir?

[Unorthodox]

You could split my pics into here if ya like. 

this is my third near-total eclipse, and the first time I've seen the tree shadows, but I was REAL young the first time, and the second, it was near sunset here, so just not a good timing. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I reckon a quote will do...

So, hundreds out with telescopes and glasses...

I took my  key to a paper bag...





Even I spent too much effort as nature already had us covered. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Rusty posted that on Facebook instead of here.


I've been at this for hours straight -and GIMP seems to have crashed on me now- taking a break, more pics later...

[Rusty Edge]

I figured you already had a thread in a more sciencey section, and I was waiting for the link to turn up here before I posted that here and save you the trouble of merging threads. I saw it on Twitter.

As I expected, it was overcast here and I couldn't even tell where the sun was when I went out to check the mailbox, after the rain stopped and about  10 minutes before the eclipse. Looked great on tv in the various places.  It was kinda like that the other two times in my life I can remember a partial solar eclipse.

Let me see if I can find another image I saw today on the net...

[Rusty Edge]

https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento

Scroll down to what is currently the 3rd and 4th images ( the black and white images ). It's a satellite view of the black shadow passing across the country. Pretty cool.

If this were a ghost hunter tv show, it would be conclusive proof of a demon.

[Buster's Uncle]

Neat.

[Lorizael]

I was mainly observing with glasses and through my binoculars with solar filter attached. Took a few pretty terrible photos with my cell phone camera. Here's one of the partial with some solar filter film taped in front of the lens, and one of totality where, because I don't know how to take photographs and was overwhelmed by the whole thing, the settings are such that the corona nearly washes out the moon.

[Lorizael]

The friend I was with took some pretty excellent photographs leading up to and during totality. Got the diamond ring, got the red of the chromosphere during totality.

[Spacy]

Here are a couple from Detroit area.

First, unfiltered - you can see the blue dot below the sun - that is the moon as it starts its crossing.
2nd - filtered - you can see it as it is almost over.  Camera focused on the filter, not infinity, thus a bit blurry.

edit: they are 90 degrees off in the post.  Bottom is on the right.

[Buster's Uncle]

At somewhere around 60-75%, from the looks of it, I wandered around a bit snapping shade from different trees...






But I think these two are the usual spot.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm guessing these were around 2:30, 2:31 & 2:33 - pay attention to the direction of the crescent from here on out; it's significant...

[Buster's Uncle]

A thousand little images of the sun in the shade of every leafy tree - it does this every sunny day, and we just don't notice.





The other two are only sized down for the forum - I cranked the contrast some on this shot, turned the other way.