Eclipse

[Buster's Uncle]

Aprox. 1:40.

I couldn't see what I was doing, so no more pics of the sky.

I ran indoors and drove a nail through a piece of plywood:

And you can see a little projection on the paper at the bottom.

I gotta go get some shots of the horns pointed the other way before I process more pics...

[Buster's Uncle]

1:47

#Science #Space #Astronomy #Sun #Moon #Eclipse #AudreyII #FeedMe

[ColdWizard]

I went outside near maximum and just stared at it (safely, with appropriate cardboard glasses by a reputable manufacturer purchased last year). And then again about 20 minutes later. Coworkers shared the extra glasses, except those that were busy/didn't want to. I'll go out again in a bit, maybe try to catch the end.

[Buster's Uncle]

As you can see, badly, in the OP, the Sun was behind a cloud - enough to make the early shadows dim and fuzzy, but not thick enough cover to photograph successfully.  I'd have sworn it had a little bit out of it already 15 before, but it's not like I could really look.

I wish I had a better-focusing camera for this -and everything else, actually- but I got the nailhole projector better focused on the paper as it went on, so fingers crossed as I look for not-hopelessly-out-of-focus shots between running out to get shots of the backside of the event in progress...

[Buster's Uncle]

-Unfortunately, the camera thinks all shots were taken at 1PM, 2010 - so no more timestamps, I'm afraid.  It peaked at approximately 2:39 here.

[Buster's Uncle]

I went outside near maximum and just stared at it (safely, with appropriate cardboard glasses by a reputable manufacturer purchased last year). And then again about 20 minutes later. Coworkers shared the extra glasses, except those that were busy/didn't want to. I'll go out again in a bit, maybe try to catch the end.

Wereabouts is that?

[Buster's Uncle]

The sun is approximately southwest at this time of the day, and I was facing approximately west to take the pics.  Naturally, the projection is inverted...

[ColdWizard]

I went outside near maximum and just stared at it (safely, with appropriate cardboard glasses by a reputable manufacturer purchased last year). And then again about 20 minutes later. Coworkers shared the extra glasses, except those that were busy/didn't want to. I'll go out again in a bit, maybe try to catch the end.

Wereabouts is that?

Near DC, probably only 82% or so.

[Buster's Uncle]

Allegedly 97% here at the foot of the NC mountains, head of the Catawba River valley.  It got nothing like night, here, but was creepy dim for a sunny afternoon, worse than a middlin' overcast day.


-Taken around 2, these pics of the shade of the pecan tree get a heck of a lot more impressive later.

Facing roughly towards the sun:


-and away, which I mostly tried to do later.


They're only just faintly beginning to show a million little crescents here, and I've cranked the contrast for clarity.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm being careful to at least put these up in the order I took them, aside from the shot of the nailhole plywood on the chair in the OP...

[Buster's Uncle]

10 minutes or so later, definitely getting unmistakable...

Makes it look like the shade of a palm tree.


Took my last shot about 20 minutes ago - only a little, small, bite out of the disk left then, about an hour and seven minutes past peak...

[Buster's Uncle]

Approximately 2:10 to 2:16.






I wish I'd taken notes.  Just jotting down times when I took a pic would help me sort/remember...

I always take multiple shots of everything, never having worked with a single digital camera that was reliable about focus.  That's why the range of sizes and some variation of angle despite trying for some consistency facing the same way - shooting at different distances hoping for one in focus.

[Geo]

I thought you had 97% totality?

Never thought about checking the shades of objects.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm still back at a half hour before peak, and processing bad photos as fast as I can...

It was REALLY hard to see the crescent at all at peak.  I doubt any of those photos will be usable.  I'd say 97% is pretty close.

[Buster's Uncle]

Never thought about checking the shades of objects.

Young man, either I'm a genius -I am, and Uno, too, but that's neither here nor there- or you just gave away that you never saw an eclipse maybe as much as 50% with any trees in the vicinity.  I think this is the most eclipse I ever saw, but it gets pretty obvious somewhere over a third occultation, ISTR from a couple eclipses in my youth.



I pity city people...