Denver, CO.
pixel phone camera looking through my cheapo eclipse glasses
So wonderful.
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It was a solar Prominence
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Neat, thanks - here’s an article about this one in particular
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Minneapolis/StPaul was positioned for about 79% coverage of the sun at peak eclipse. But it rained all day yesterday, and today we were completely overcast with a chance of more rain.
I rode my bicycle to a park in St Paul, figuring that I could at least spend the time outdoors and sense some changes.
It stayed overcast. But about 15 minutes before the peak, the clouds started becoming a little less heavy, so it actually got lighter and lighter out as the peak approached, instead of darker. Not what one expects from an eclipse!
For the heck of it, here’s a picture of how it looked here at peak eclipse, 2:02 pm local time:
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It turned out perfect actually though. Like the clouds just miraculously parted for exactly long enough at the exact right time.
A friend’s child came up to show me how her glowy toy was glowing now and that’s pretty funny but otherwise I was transfixed.
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OK. It is a Japanese news channel. But the Sun here seems something out from the movie Ringu.
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Ah my American friends. I’m happy for you and at the same time I feel a hint of envy. This little vignette of the child showing his toy was one of the most beautiful and cool things I read today. For a moment I felt like I was in a foreign land, far away from the Northern Hemisphere, out of this plane. Thanks. Obrigado.
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Northeast Vermont here.
We drove up from Boston area to Burlington VT the other day. Saw chance of clouds increasing in Burlington, and jumped in the car early in the morning and headed East, racing to keep ahead of clouds. Arrived in the college-y town of St Johnsbury and were planning to keep driving to get out into the quiet of the countryside, but the kids saw the crowds and parties and wanted to be a part of it, so we relented.
Oh. My. God. It was perfect.
Only two minutes where we were, but what two minutes. I’ll remember that the rest of my life.
Like a hole cut into the sky.
My heart was thumping so loud and I got pretty teary. My girls made fun of me later for crying, but I had no problem with that, I’d want to be overwhelmed like that any day.
I’ve got the bug in me now and I don’t think I can wait another 20 years. I might need to head to Egypt in August 2027.
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This. Was. Epic.
We got SO lucky.
We brought our camp chairs over into a cute little park adjacent to our rental and had an excellent view. Skies so clear we all got a little pinkened by the sun.
Mr. Linkey got these cool caps that go over binocular lenses, like eclipse glasses for your binoculars. Even before the event started, it was cool to be able to see sun spots on the sun.
I thought just sitting there for a whole hour while we waited for totality would seem long, but it flew by.
Right before totality we saw the shadow bands I’d read about shimmering across the ground. I’m SO glad I’d read about them, otherwise I would’ve thought someone had drugged me. I almost felt like I was tripping.
Then the totality. It was so gorgeous. Mostly awed silence from the sparse crowd, but someone let out a hillbilly hooray that was pretty fitting.
With the binocs I could see the solar flares around the bottom edge really clearly, they were vibrant pink and orange. Mesmerizing. And it got so cold here! I was wishing I had gloves.
What a thing to experience.
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Thank you all for this. I have chills reading these.
In four years, my house will be under a path of totality, and I just can’t wait!!!
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Highly recommend something like these:
https://www.daystarfilters.com/ULF.shtml
Having the extra detail afforded by the binocs really added to the experience.
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Monday’s NYT Crossword puzzle had MOONSHADOW, Santana’s INTOTHENIGHT, U2’s STARINGATTHESUN, and, of course, Bonnie Tyler’s TOTALECLIPSE OFTHEHEART as answers.
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… two eclipses in Carbondale
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That’s a great picture. My new Pixel didn’t get that level of detail through cheapo glasses. Did you use any particular settings?
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In case you want to plan ahead…
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pixel 4, standard everything. i think brightness at 50%, i didn’t even adjust it. I had to hold the glasses about 1/2 from the lense or it was too blurry - I think the camera was trying to focus on the plastic lense and not the eclipse? And I had it zoomed in pretty far, probably not the full 7x. Still, phone camera and cheap glasses wahoooo
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Thanks! Not that I can go back and try it again, but I’ll keep it in mind for the next one. I have two years to plan a trip to Iceland.
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Thanks for that. I know of Daystar by reputation (excellent), but didn’t know about this product.
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Ok, seems like a vacation to Sydney in July, 2028, would be a good plan.
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