Posted on 08/21/2017 12:32:03 AM PDT by cba123
Those are great! A girl in my office was so tickled by those crescents, she took lots of pics - I had told her it would happen, but she was surprised (I hadn’t known about this - just learned about it here on FR a couple of days ago. :-)
I had no clue such things existed.
Outside just looked ‘odd’ so I took the dogs out and there they were and I thought “WTH is that? Ooooh....wait...crescents from the eclipse!”
Thank God I’m smarter than I look and made a good wild guess before I missed them.
:D
There was some slight darkening and the insects went nuts but not much else to see.
I wish it would rain and get it over with.
Happily I have no sisters for him to bite.
And if he wants to bite my SILs I would advise him to make sure his shots were up to date.
:(
Sorry.
It was not a huge deal for those of us with only partial eclipses.
Oh, well I get to see all the neat pictures that other people took.
I’d been watching the NASA coverage of it, mostly.
Saw lots of eclipse pics but what I *wanted* to see was the world going dark at midday.
They didn’t really bother with that and in that, I am very disappointed.
It was cool, I’m at Harrah’s in Cherokee. Very surreal, dark as night and the corona was weird, bright red spot on the upper right but generally white fading out almost misty looking, there were two spikes like wings on either side. Live band, pretty decent actually, they broke into Black Hole Sun just as totality arrived and the large crowd gathered cheered and roared. When it started coming back the light was like nothing so much as an arc welder. Very piercing.
OMG that sounds awesome!
I’ll post some pics when we get back, traffic is awful.
I was in about 83 percent coverage. As the coverage approached maximum, the light started to dim to a point where it seemed like I was wearing sunglasses, but I wasn’t. Also, the shadows from the power lines looked as funny as hell.
I was out on a walk, and when I got back to my house, about the same time maximum coverage occurred, things seemed cool and dim inside, and this was with the sun shining through the skylights.
Great picture! I took a few up those with my camera phone, but it seemed that I could see all those crescents with my own eyes better than the camera could.
I took my aging Mom out on our back deck during maximum coverage (about 83 percent) and had her look at the crescent sun through my No. 14 arc welder’s filter.
Pinhole effect, with the shade trees effectively creating images of the sun and throwing them everywhere.
The patterns the sun made under the trees were really beautiful. Someone showed me photos of her friend and dog, under trees - a big crescent moon on doggie’s forehead, and a big one on the lady’s cheek.
We didn’t even think of trying to get pics of the moon ‘on us’ ;-)
oops! Those were picks of crescent SUN!
Thank you!!!
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