April 8th eclipse

[acptulsa]

 

[CaptUSA]

I was close to the center of the path of totality (it reached magnitude 1.014 out of the 1.057 maximum). It got dark as evening after sunset, and the transition from "almost total" to totality was significant and abrupt (like someone twisting a dimmer switch). I was able to look directly at it for a brief while, when it was just a thin ring of light around a pitch-black circle. It was pretty impressive.

Yeah, this was the first one I saw in totality. Something magical happens when that last crescent disappears. I used binoculars without any special lens during the blackout and could see those solar flares. It was really other-wordly. And the temperature dropped significantly, too. The only unfortunate part was that instead of reverent silence, lots of people in the lakes are were setting off fireworks.

Still, something I'm glad I got to witness.

 

[Intrepid]

The best short video of the 2024 eclipse I have seen. https://twitter.com/i/status/1777444569447014647

That's awesome LOL

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Yeah, this was the first one I saw in totality. Something magical happens when that last crescent disappears. I used binoculars without any special lens during the blackout and could see those solar flares. It was really other-wordly. And the temperature dropped significantly, too. The only unfortunate part was that instead of reverent silence, lots of people in the lakes are were setting off fireworks.

Still, something I'm glad I got to witness.

Yeah, they were showing scenes on Tv from some areas where there were stages, bands, light shows, fireworks, etc. during the eclipse.

If I ever go to a place for a total eclipse, I'm going out in nature away from people. I believe that it is the birds that are most noticeable as they go silent during a full eclipse.

 

[acptulsa]

 

[Occam's Banana]

And this one was extra special, during an active solar cycle. Some of the video shows a lot of solar flares from the sun when it was fully eclipsed. Did you get to see any of that?

Unfortunately not. Apart from my naked eye, all I had was a phone camera.

Speaking of which:

Yeah, this was the first one I saw in totality. Something magical happens when that last crescent disappears. I used binoculars without any special lens during the blackout and could see those solar flares. It was really other-wordly. And the temperature dropped significantly, too.

I took a video with my phone, but it's not at all impressive. The image of the sun remained a blazing ball of light all the way through. During totality, the sky in the video darkened a little bit (but not nearly as much as it did to the naked eye), and the size of the blazing sun-ball reduced noticeably but didn't disappear (if you look closely, you can see the moon in the middle as a faint grey circle washed out by the blaze, but you wouldn't even notice that unless you were looking for it).

The only interesting things in the video are (1) Venus becomes visible as a bright dot below and to the right of the eclipse as totality is achieved, and (2) a few alarmed birds fly around chirping in a "what the hell?" kind of way as the eclipse proceeds.

The only unfortunate part was that instead of reverent silence, lots of people in the lakes are were setting off fireworks.

No fireworks here, fortunately. (Fireworks? Really? The literally cosmic spectacle of it wasn't enough? SMH ...)

However, someone in the neighborhood did yell "Hey!", and someone (the same person ?) honked a car horn a few times for some damn reason. The former was distracting, but understandable. The latter was just annoying and uncalled-for.

Still, something I'm glad I got to witness.

Same here.

 

[ClaytonB]

Unfortunately not. Apart from my naked eye, all I had was a phone camera.

We weren't on the path of totality but here's what I captured in my local area as the eclipse was near maximum (using the old "pinhole projected on a paper plate" trick):

 

[susano]

The best short video of the 2024 eclipse I have seen. https://twitter.com/i/status/1777444569447014647

Oh, lol, I hadn't see that. That's some alpha level trolling of the libs right there. I know they had shitfits about it.

 

[Anti Federalist]

[MENTION=1515]susano[/MENTION]

My daughter took these.

The whole family headed over to VT to get a better view.

Note the sunspot.

Getting closer.

Almost there.

At the split second of totality, you can just see "Bailey's Beads".

Safety First!

 

[susano]

[MENTION=1515]susano[/MENTION]

Fantastic pics! What did she do the photographing with and did it require a special lens?