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Solar Eclipse
22 Aug 2017 20:26It was a lot of fun ... and HOT ... standing in the sun waiting for the eclipse. I finally had to put hat and shirt on to protect my lily white, Irish skin! I had my glasses on to watch the sky, and I remember texting friends and family when I first noticed the 'flat edge' to the sun...as the moon was just starting to come between us and the sun.
The clouds came in right after max eclipse, so I only got photos up to and including the maximum. And that was fine. Here's the requisite selfie in the hot sun --
I really enjoyed doing this -- I remember being amazed that I could see the 'weak light' -- like a cloud had gone over the sun, except there was no cloud over the sun. I can only imagine the reports from a friend's relatives of seeing stars in the middle of the afternoon!
Camera taking intervals (you can see I was able to re-use the home-made filter that I described making in a previous post) --
This was a few minutes before max --
This is a collage of pics at different times --
I had read that the light/shadows under trees would show the eclipse...I kept walking around looking but not seeing anything. And then at a certain stage, I totally saw it...here are the crescents on the porch --
And crescents on the calçada--
It was a good time...I'm glad I got to see it...Maybe I'll go see a full eclipse sometime!
The clouds came in right after max eclipse, so I only got photos up to and including the maximum. And that was fine. Here's the requisite selfie in the hot sun --
I really enjoyed doing this -- I remember being amazed that I could see the 'weak light' -- like a cloud had gone over the sun, except there was no cloud over the sun. I can only imagine the reports from a friend's relatives of seeing stars in the middle of the afternoon!
Camera taking intervals (you can see I was able to re-use the home-made filter that I described making in a previous post) --
This was a few minutes before max --
This is a collage of pics at different times --
I had read that the light/shadows under trees would show the eclipse...I kept walking around looking but not seeing anything. And then at a certain stage, I totally saw it...here are the crescents on the porch --
And crescents on the calçada--
It was a good time...I'm glad I got to see it...Maybe I'll go see a full eclipse sometime!