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Libertas
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5-20-12 Eclipse
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May 20, 2012, 01:15:28 PM »
Anybody in a good viewing area for this?
http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2012/05/A%20solar%20eclipse%20darkens%20American%20skies.aspx
http://www.astronomy.com/sitefiles/utilities/image.aspx?item={DEDBC9F7-DAB5-4EEC-A485-6AD292E16B5E}&mw=900&mh=650
UT chart -
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHtables/OH2012-Tab03.pdf
Should be close to sunset here for a "partial" viewing...but it has been rainy/cloudy past 24 hours...and showers are expected to continue, especially from 7-9 pm before clearing...so once again this fine Minnesota weather screws up another viewing opportunity...
Hope y'all have better luck!
Oh, and check this out...shows time by state and what you should see (if you have no clouds that is!) -
http://shadowandsubstance.com/
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May 20, 2012, 01:55:54 PM »
Thanks for the heads up. We are within the northern limit of the eclipse and should be able to experience it fully at around 7:30pm local time.
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May 20, 2012, 09:39:55 PM »
We drove to Shiprock, NM and experienced it about as well as possible.
The battery in my auto darkening welding helmet was dead, though, so we had to make do with a shadow box to view it.
It was pretty cool watching things get progressively dimmer.
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Re: 5-20-12 Eclipse
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May 20, 2012, 10:30:18 PM »
Rain/clouds so it was a no go.
I do remember years ago my elderly neighbor running over with his shadow box so my young children could see an eclipse. Very cool.
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May 21, 2012, 12:11:25 AM »
We had absolutely clear skies. If I had had more time to prepare we could have had a welder's helmet. I checked the Lowes and the Home Depot in Farmington, NM and both of them were sold out...even the expensive self darkening helmets were gone. If I had had a really dark filter for my digital camera I could have gotten some good pictures of the sun but I didn't. I will post the images from the shadow box in a little while (after I get them uploaded to imageshack). I had one shadow box with a small hole that I was able to project onto a sheet of paper from about 2 feet away. That was with a 1/8" hole. I made up a 1" hole at the last minute and got it focused from about twelve feet away. It cast an image about as big as a saucer. Not as nice as a direct observation but it was really cool watching the image move. It was almost fast enough to see it move.
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May 21, 2012, 08:13:14 AM »
Cool, glad some people got to see it. It's fun to see if people have sun filters on binoc's or telescopes, even welders glass...but I've done the shadow box before too.
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May 21, 2012, 11:32:29 AM »
It's always interesting to see the compositions people come up with -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2147587/Solar-Eclipse-2012-Heart-shaped-sun-seen-LA-rare-ring-sweep-world.html
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