Eclipse

[Buster's Uncle]

By this point, I've gotten better focus of my projection, but it's getting thin enough to be increasingly difficult to make out, let alone get the camera to focus on...

Pity the camera couldn't catch how creepy-dim the world was getting - the light angles and horizon were just all wrong for dawn or dusk, and it was tickling a semiconscious unease...

[Buster's Uncle]

A few minutes before peak-

-in the usual spot


-And next door, on the walkway to Myochka's patio.



Incidentally, not 30 feet from where I got the brain damage when I was six.

[Buster's Uncle]

It was getting dim - I was having trouble making out much naked eye, so I knew the camera couldn't be catching enough light to focus.


The last shade shot before peak.



-And now watch this, circa 2:39:




Swear to God these are consecutive shots.




I must've put the camera down for 30 seconds or something - the crescent didn't flip instantly, but it was really dim, and you can see I was right about how crappy the phots were going to turn out, so I guess I just watched and looked around at the weird world for a bit.

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How did it get this late already?  I'm going to bed; the pictures of the crescent of projected light get incredibly crisper again as it suddenly started getting a lot brighter out fast, and I'll post cleanup pics tomorrow - but you've seen the 97% now, if badly; the rest is just epilogue...

[Geo]

Hey, that's Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis Mare Tranquillitatis and parts of Oceanus Procellarum there on your pics! 

[Buster's Uncle]

You'll want to begin with In the Ocean of Night before Across the Sea of Suns, a better novel.  -Then the superb galactic center series, which is connected, begins with Great Sky River...

[Buster's Uncle]

A few minutes past peak there was enough light for the camera to focus again...

[Buster's Uncle]

It's definitely getting bigger and brighter again now.



Post-peak shade - the crescents have swung around about 70 degrees...

[Buster's Uncle]

About 2:50, 15 minutes before I started this thread.

The times I went back out for downside shots, when I began uploading I marked a time on the first new shot - times are more reliable, henceforth.

[Buster's Uncle]

3:24 PM, 45 minutes after peak occultation.




3:45 - one hour and six minutes past, and the last shot I took.

[Geo]

You sat through it all?

[Buster's Uncle]

I ran inside about 10 'til three, and started this thread.


To close out, here's two shots of the same shade from the same angle on a normal day, taken just now at 1:18.


One unfiddled, second with contrast/brightness cranked.


-I think I'm done...

[Geo]

You definitely are.

[Rusty Edge]

Came across this picture. It must have been really cool to see the eclipse as part of the sky.

[Geo]

Came across this picture. It must have been really cool to see the eclipse as part of the sky.

Now, are those Total Military Manoeuvers or Totality Manoeuvers. 

You ever seen a total solar eclipse, Rusty?

[Rusty Edge]

Not really. I like to live in cloudy places on account of my Celtic complexion, so it's strictly a matter of partial eclipses and dark skies getting darker. I never travelled to see one.

I saw a really great lunar eclipse once when I was a kid. That was awesome.

Saw another great image today-