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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: Libertas on May 20, 2012, 01:15:28 PM
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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/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 (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 (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...
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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/ (http://shadowandsubstance.com/)
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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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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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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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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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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.
::thumbsup::
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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 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2147587/Solar-Eclipse-2012-Heart-shaped-sun-seen-LA-rare-ring-sweep-world.html)