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Apr 4, 2024 7:51:57 GMT -8
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Apr 4, 2024 7:51:57 GMT -8
Anyone planning on seeing the April 8th eclipse? My brother is gonna go try…I’ll be on duty at the hospital, bedside with Mom. Weather is looking iffy. When I watched the 2017 eclipse, somebody was playing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album, timed so the totality would occur during the musical climax of the record (Brain Damage/Eclipse). Genius. So I found instructions for this eclipse… Eclipse Timing (Eastern Time Zone): You will need to start Pink Floyd's landmark 1973 album, 'Dark Side of the Moon,' at precisely 2:32:54 PM in order to sync up the totality of the eclipse with the musical peak of the album, where the band sings 'And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon'.
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Apr 4, 2024 7:55:35 GMT -8
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Post by marmotstew on Apr 4, 2024 7:55:35 GMT -8
Maybe you should play the movie cloudy with a chance of meatballs? Yeah, that’s right I’m a total Debbie downer.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 4, 2024 7:58:24 GMT -8
Maybe you should play the movie cloudy with a chance of meatballs? Yeah, that’s right I’m a total Debbie downer. Clouds... that's my worry. There's a reason the Iroquois weren't known for their astronomy.
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Post by reuben on Apr 4, 2024 8:00:04 GMT -8
Interesting. From a somewhat small part of my previous job, I knew that a lot depends on both the incoming and outgoing freqencies/wavelengthes, but hadn't hear of that effect. Absorption bands, etc. Thanks for posting that.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 4, 2024 9:04:41 GMT -8
Clouds... that's my worry. Same here. Although now at least the forecast is giving me a bit a chance with rain/clouds in the morning to a partly sunny afternoon. If there are clouds around I'm for good timing.
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Apr 4, 2024 9:05:36 GMT -8
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Post by driftwoody on Apr 4, 2024 9:05:36 GMT -8
Anyone planning on seeing the April 8th eclipse? My brother is gonna go try…I’ll be on duty at the hospital, bedside with Mom. Weather is looking iffy. When I watched the 2017 eclipse, somebody was playing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album, timed so the totality would occur during the musical climax of the record (Brain Damage/Eclipse). Genius. So I found instructions for this eclipse… Eclipse Timing (Eastern Time Zone): You will need to start Pink Floyd's landmark 1973 album, 'Dark Side of the Moon,' at precisely 2:32:54 PM in order to sync up the totality of the eclipse with the musical peak of the album, where the band sings 'And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon'. Where were you at that time? Yesterday I talked to a friend who said he did exactly that in 2017 (in rural Kentucky). I'm sure he wasn't the only one. We may try to see it in Indiana or NE from there this year.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 4, 2024 9:06:01 GMT -8
When I watched the 2017 eclipse, Its because I saw the 2017 eclipse that I've been planning for monday. We'll see what mother nature does.
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Apr 4, 2024 9:19:41 GMT -8
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Apr 4, 2024 9:19:41 GMT -8
My brother is gonna go try…I’ll be on duty at the hospital, bedside with Mom. Weather is looking iffy. When I watched the 2017 eclipse, somebody was playing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album, timed so the totality would occur during the musical climax of the record (Brain Damage/Eclipse). Genius. So I found instructions for this eclipse… Eclipse Timing (Eastern Time Zone): You will need to start Pink Floyd's landmark 1973 album, 'Dark Side of the Moon,' at precisely 2:32:54 PM in order to sync up the totality of the eclipse with the musical peak of the album, where the band sings 'And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon'. Where were you at that time? Yesterday I talked to a friend who said he did exactly that in 2017 (in rural Kentucky). I'm sure he wasn't the only one. We may try to see it in Indiana or NE from there this year. Terrebonne, Oregon…next to Smith Rocks. Beautiful setting. Yeah, I’m guessing these DOTM instructions have been circulating around the internet for a while.
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Apr 4, 2024 9:20:03 GMT -8
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Apr 4, 2024 9:20:03 GMT -8
When I watched the 2017 eclipse, Its because I saw the 2017 eclipse that I've been planning for monday. We'll see what mother nature does. Good luck!
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Post by texasbb on Apr 4, 2024 9:34:35 GMT -8
However you watch the eclipse, I recommend leaving the telephoto lens at home and bringing a wide angle. There will be a million zoomed pictures of the eclipse on the internet, all of them virtually identical...steal one of those if you need it. But the real action happens here on Earth. Shoot the fully occluded sun in its wider context, and give yourself plenty of time to experience totality without your eye(s) affixed to a viewfinder or screen. Yes, you can look directly at the fully-occluded sun without any protection. Disclaimer: This advice comes from my vast experience with one total eclipse.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 4, 2024 10:39:48 GMT -8
Disclaimer: This advice comes from my vast experience with one total eclipse. This my first eclipse with what I call a real camera but not a zoom lens that I need (I have lens that 300mm) is max. Not sure pushing it to the max will make for good shots anyway. I've been going back and forth between not worrying about my camera and just experience it again or at least trying but when you only have 3m:57s there is only so much you can do. Here are 2 pics from my point-n-shoot in 2017
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Post by rebeccad on Apr 4, 2024 11:36:58 GMT -8
Saw the 2017 eclipse with my first-born. I wanted to see this one, but the timing just doesn’t work, and one of the best places to see it (Texas) is under my personal boycott anyway. Plus, I don’t want to deal with eclipse travel/prices.
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Post by texasbb on Apr 4, 2024 13:04:12 GMT -8
Disclaimer: This advice comes from my vast experience with one total eclipse. This my first eclipse with what I call a real camera but not a zoom lens that I need (I have lens that 300mm) is max. Not sure pushing it to the max will make for good shots anyway. I've been going back and forth between not worrying about my camera and just experience it again or at least trying but when you only have 3m:57s there is only so much you can do. Here are 2 pics from my point-n-shoot in 2017 Yeah, sun-only pics with any wide lens are going to be mostly uninteresting, and the limits of P&S cameras hinder the wider views. It also matters how high in the sky the sun is at totality. I didn't quite have enough wide angle to include the lake in the one semi-interesting shot I got in 2017. 'Course, I only had about 1m:45s. I'd have killed for your 3m:57s!
Edit: This was Camp Lake, Wind Rivers
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Post by trinity on Apr 4, 2024 13:51:06 GMT -8
(Texas) is under my personal boycott Mine too. Unfortunately, I'm stuck living here a few more years. Our home in the Texas Hill Country is one of the prime locations for viewing the eclipse. Unfortunately, clouds and rain are in the Monday forecast.
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Post by balzaccom on Apr 4, 2024 14:47:01 GMT -8
I saw a total solar eclipse outside of Paris around 1998 or so. And it was cloudy. But the joy of seeing the entire city square of the town of Laon filled with French people wearing those crazy looking mylar film eclipse goggles and staring open-mouthed at the sky is still a fond memory. You don't get to see French people looking that gauche very often.
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