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11 Apr 2024, 10:02 am
ToughDiamond wrote:
Jakki wrote:
People that do this type of Photography/ videos , are generally better equiped than the average person , to make a good show of the event . Many many people veiwing this had professional quality cameras....that cell phones and tablets
generally Do not have the ability to get the better quality piks, I believe, from my experience. but must admit , in person veiwing can be kinda memorable ..For fans of these types of Astrological / Astronomical events ..
generally Do not have the ability to get the better quality piks, I believe, from my experience. but must admit , in person veiwing can be kinda memorable ..For fans of these types of Astrological / Astronomical events ..
The eclipse is an unusual subject for a photograph - extremely bright sun next to extremely dark moon and sky, which brings out all the faults of a cheap camera lens. And the Sun appears so small that you have to zoom in a lot, which amplifies camera shake unless there's a tripod handy, and most people don't carry tripods around with them.
Even so, my avatar is the photograph I took the other day with a cheap camera and no tripod. I was very lucky there. I took a lot more pictures of the eclipse, in exactly the same way, but they're all rubbish compared to that one. The colours aren't much like the real colours at the time, but as they're very pretty I don't mind that.
That is a brilliant pikky of the eclipse ,, took slmost 20 piks to see if I couls get a good one ..nothing like yours, but have seen professional cameras do as well as yours.During the last Eclipse . "Good job" !
Pretty Nice.! Did not think to try to use any of mine as a avatar....and do not have a account with any of the photo sharing sites.
11 Apr 2024, 10:05 am
MatchboxVagabond wrote:
Fenn wrote:
The thrill is gone. I have seen more than one eclipse. This one didn’t thrill me. My wife wanted to do something so we watched on NASA’s live feed. My 14 year old came home from school with the glasses so I glanced up and saw it with my own eyes. Perhaps I am just getting old and jaded.
The Sun is still there now. Same for the Earth and the Moon. They are always moving. Three in a row are a bit odd but…
One thing I saw on the NASA feed that was new and different. View of North America from the ISS. Big round shadow covering most of it.
The Sun is still there now. Same for the Earth and the Moon. They are always moving. Three in a row are a bit odd but…
One thing I saw on the NASA feed that was new and different. View of North America from the ISS. Big round shadow covering most of it.
The biggest thrill is definitely the first one. I've seen 2 and the second one was also cool, I'm not sure if that's because the first one I saw was an annular eclipse and the other was like 99% of a total eclipse due to not being able to make the last few miles to the area that got completely blockage.
Yup..yup .,quite sure that the Nasa site
had to be one of the best . And I was pretty jaded too. Having seen the last one ...but oddly enough , it seemed quite rewarding at the moment in time it happened .
11 Apr 2024, 10:11 am
ToughDiamond wrote:
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There are definitely limits to the interest that an eclipse can generate. They declared a State Of Emergency here because they were worried about the effects of the eclipse's popularity, but apart from a few temporary grocery shortages at Wal-Mart and a bit more traffic on the road, life went on quite normally. Out of a block of 50 apartments, only about 12 ventured out to look, unless some had gone to find a more crowded place so they could do it as a social event. My father-in-law didn't go outside to look at it. He was more interested in talking about the eclipse he saw in the 1930s when he was very young and nobody in the area knew what it was. In 1999 many organised eclipse events on the south coast of the UK were almost completely unattended. My son was on the south coast at the time but now only remembers it vaguely.
Me, I'm not much of a passive spectator, though as I'd only ever seen 2 partials before I was quite interested in what was probably the first and last total I'll ever get to see. What probably enhanced my interest was the intellectual challenge of collecting information about it and using it to predict the times of the different phases, and of course the challenge of getting a photograph or two without spending any money. I love using my brain to get good results for free. And we didn't have to travel, so there were no dissuading concerns about getting stuck in traffic.
There are definitely limits to the interest that an eclipse can generate. They declared a State Of Emergency here because they were worried about the effects of the eclipse's popularity, but apart from a few temporary grocery shortages at Wal-Mart and a bit more traffic on the road, life went on quite normally. Out of a block of 50 apartments, only about 12 ventured out to look, unless some had gone to find a more crowded place so they could do it as a social event. My father-in-law didn't go outside to look at it. He was more interested in talking about the eclipse he saw in the 1930s when he was very young and nobody in the area knew what it was. In 1999 many organised eclipse events on the south coast of the UK were almost completely unattended. My son was on the south coast at the time but now only remembers it vaguely.
Me, I'm not much of a passive spectator, though as I'd only ever seen 2 partials before I was quite interested in what was probably the first and last total I'll ever get to see. What probably enhanced my interest was the intellectual challenge of collecting information about it and using it to predict the times of the different phases, and of course the challenge of getting a photograph or two without spending any money. I love using my brain to get good results for free. And we didn't have to travel, so there were no dissuading concerns about getting stuck in traffic.
Yes..yes.. we were part of the stuck in traffic crowd.But as we got closer..we got mych more aggressive in our travels
.Arriving at our chosen spot 1/2 hour before the event started
And almost No crowd whatsoever, when we got to the place we had chosen... 
11 Apr 2024, 2:06 pm
Jakki wrote:
That is a brilliant pikky of the eclipse ,, took slmost 20 piks to see if I couls get a good one ..nothing like yours, but have seen professional cameras do as well as yours.During the last Eclipse . "Good job" !
Pretty Nice.! Did not think to try to use any of mine as a avatar....and do not have a account with any of the photo sharing sites.
Pretty Nice.! Did not think to try to use any of mine as a avatar....and do not have a account with any of the photo sharing sites.
Thank you
The advice on the Web was not to bother trying. They said the results would be lousy and I'd be so busy messing with my crappy camera that I'd miss seeing it. But there was an hour and a half between the start of the eclipse and the totality, and another hour and a half to the end, so there was plenty of time to see the partial and take a lot of pictures. The totality was only 4 and a half minutes, so I only tried one shot of that (which turned out very badly), and spent the rest of the time looking at the thing itself (very briefly because in my ignorance I feared it would blind me) and at the surroundings. I forgot to look for Mercury, which can't be seen except during an eclipse, but I wouldn't have known where to look for it, as I hadn't managed to get any info about where it would be. In fact I forgot to look for any stars. Somebody on Facebook got a sharper picture than I did, but he'd done it with a proper telescope on a tripod with 2 layers of mylar over the lens. His contrast wasn't as high as mine, and the colour was a dingy pale blue. But like I say, it was sharper, so I don't know who wins the prize.
I'm thinking of temporarily swapping my avatar for one of the not-so-good shots I took. Most of them aren't worth looking at, but one or two have fairly sharp but multiple images of the partial, and the colours are nice, so all in all it could be argued that they have some artistic merit as psychedelic photography.
11 Apr 2024, 5:53 pm
Understood totally..( lolz,totality) ..Did demostably notice the planet to the lower left of the eclipse .. but was not aware that it was mercury but it showed up in most all of my piks ....Am pleased to know this now .. the company,I was with did not realize this either..Thank you very much , it was very distinct . Was quite perplexed by my tablet not getting a better pik, of the actual totality , that I was able to veiw with my naked eye.( by the way NO ill effects afterwards)
The image , i got repeatedly , was that of a Sun Image with a tiny black spot in the middle of it . ( thought of the song
with the line"saw a little black spot on the sun today") was precisely the image my camera caught. With the planet Mercury on lower tight . Lolz , maybe in 2044 will be better prepared..Lolzz..provided, I can either arrange ,cryogenic freezing for myself
or possibly some great super supplement that causes my life to be extended..
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Love the coincidence of eclipse being the same day [the Great Hedron Collider was restarted] and the wonderous conspirascy therories around that.. ( mandela effects..etc..) ...
Nice that you had extra time to set up as the eclipse was starting....
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12 Apr 2024, 12:03 am
Jakki wrote:
Understood totally..( lolz,totality) ..Did demostably notice the planet to the lower left of the eclipse .. but was not aware that it was mercury but it showed up in most all of my piks ....Am pleased to know this now .. the company,I was with did not realize this either..Thank you very much , it was very distinct . Was quite perplexed by my tablet not getting a better pik, of the actual totality , that I was able to veiw with my naked eye.( by the way NO ill effects afterwards)
The image , i got repeatedly , was that of a Sun Image with a tiny black spot in the middle of it . ( thought of the song
with the line"saw a little black spot on the sun today") was precisely the image my camera caught. With the planet Mercury on lower tight . Lolz , maybe in 2044 will be better prepared..Lolzz..provided, I can either arrange ,cryogenic freezing for myself
or possibly some great super supplement that causes my life to be extended..
~~~~~~~. ~~~~~~. ~~~~~~. ~~~~~. ~~~~~~~~
Love the coincidence of eclipse being the same day [the Great Hedron Collider was restarted] and the wonderous conspirascy therories around that.. ( mandela effects..etc..) ...
Nice that you had extra time to set up as the eclipse was starting....
The image , i got repeatedly , was that of a Sun Image with a tiny black spot in the middle of it . ( thought of the song
with the line"saw a little black spot on the sun today") was precisely the image my camera caught. With the planet Mercury on lower tight . Lolz , maybe in 2044 will be better prepared..Lolzz..provided, I can either arrange ,cryogenic freezing for myself
or possibly some great super supplement that causes my life to be extended..
~~~~~~~. ~~~~~~. ~~~~~~. ~~~~~. ~~~~~~~~
Love the coincidence of eclipse being the same day [the Great Hedron Collider was restarted] and the wonderous conspirascy therories around that..
( mandela effects..etc..) ... Nice that you had extra time to set up as the eclipse was starting....
My photo of the totality looks similar - just the Sun with a small and vaguely darkish blob in the middle, like blurred frogspawn. The camera optics must have spread the light from the bright corona. Didn't capture Mercury. But I saw it as it is. Just goes to show how good human eyes are. I was surprised how small it looked. I guess I'm used to those giant zoomed-in professional shots that the experts show off.
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13 Apr 2024, 12:27 am
Maybe, they could be personally colkectable ?
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