DrForester
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Cloud cover predictions:
Well, that sucks. Might have to try going to central/western Wyoming...
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Total Solar Eclipse (US) of 2017
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Well, that sucks. Might have to try going to central/western Wyoming...
Grimm Fandango
Member
Cloud cover predictions:
lol Minneapolis
Guess I'm not that mad that I can't find glasses anywhere.
Nostremitus
Member
I just moved to the goldilocks zone... expecting cloud-cover, though....
Who knows, maybe it'll be just enough cloud-cover that we can actually look at it, lol.
If you're still looking for solar glasses, check with your local astronomy club. They might have some available.
It's still early. It'll be interesting to see how the models are refined over the next week.
DJ Lushious
Member
How? I'm a bit behind in this thread. Would one look through the CD towards the Sun, near, or away? Any links that would detail this method?
tonysidaway
Member
Use the CD for direct viewing, holding the disc in front of the sun. I believe somebody has already posted a link to a tabulation showing the results of somebody's tests on various blocking materials, including both purpose-built and improvised materials, and the CD seemed to perform quite well.
NASA has a decent page showing how to build a very powerful eclipse projector using binoculars, a tripod and a few large pieces of card. This is very safe and should be good enough for small-scale group viewing.
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/solar-viewing-projector
Beer Monkey
Member
From that page:
Most CDs are thin as hell and you can see right through them. Also note they are talking CDs (aluminum) and not CD-R (dye).
http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/filters.html#table1
tonysidaway
Member
Yikes, yes, this was in 1999 when CD ROMs containing software were commonly quite beefy affairs made of aluminium. I'll stop recommending CDs to avoid causing somebody to harm their eyes.
Welcome to Nashville. It's going to be insane. Make sure you are in your spot at leasta few hours ahead.
Separately, does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to photograph the eclipse? I have a nice Nikon DSLR, several lenses, UV filter, but I imagine I will need a special filter of sorts?
I would like to take a picture during totality. Can I just put it on a tripod with a 10x lens and point it straight at the obscured sun?
KeyBladerXIII
Member
I'm in NC but I'll be up in the air heading towards Florida that day. Sucks that I'm going to miss out.
Cloud cover predictions:
Oh ish...look at how clear Indiana will be. Much excite.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Oh, I know. It's just my plans have always been to go east from my hotel in Wheatland the day of. Seeing those models, even if they're wrong, makes me realize I should have a western plan as well.
Beer Monkey
Member
Yes, you do not need a solar filter for your camera during totality.
Be very careful outside of totality, you might fuck your sensor or your eyes if you try using the camera without a solar filter.
If you want to build a solar filter now you probably can't get any filter material, it's tough on short notice.. So I'd say do the build your own camera filter thing but use a silver Pop Tart wrapper instead of filter plastic.
Reminder to all. Binoculars, cameras, telescopes all need filters to be used before totality to avoid causing damage. If you look through a long lens or binoculars or telescope wearing solar glasses, you may just melt the solar glasses right into your face.
Oh, look ... updated cloud cover predictions:
If this keeps up, it looks like it might be bad for people going down the I-5 corridor to see it in Oregon. Could be just partially cloudy though.
Also, I'm kind of amused by the price gouging on Amazon for eclipse glasses. People are trying to sell them for ~$10 each - even the company I bought my American Paper Optics ones from (months ago - I knew this was going to happen). You snooze you lose, I guess (still not a fan of scalping though).
Finally, to add to the chaos I expect to see from people heading down to Salem or Madras, I wanted to rent a car for the week of the 21st (not for eclipse related reasons). As of last week, there were no cars of any kind to rent on the 21st anywhere in Portland. I've *never* seen that happen before.
Rental cars have been sold out for a while now, you're waaaaay late for that lol.
The I-5 will be a catastrophic mess either way, they're predicting the biggest "traffic event" in the state's history. It'll be really interesting whether I'll make it home to BC the night of the 21st, we'll see. It'll be a mess.
Where are you guys planning to view the event? Albany or Salem? I still need to book a place to stay the night.
You're like 3 months late for that. Check religiously every couple hours hoping people cancel and be ready to pay a LOT of money
(or do what I did and buy points for the program and pay with fixed-value points to save money)
I'm staying in Albany, no rooms in Salem ever popped up, so Albany is the closest I got.
huge difference
no it won't get very dark
99.5% coverage will still be as bright as 10'000 full moons, so 90% extrapolate from that.
Oh well. Might as well sleep through it.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
It won't be dark, but if you can find yourself some glasses, it's still stunning to look and see part of the sun blocked out.
5 miles will get you inside the totality but you probably want to drive just a little bit more to extend the time window.
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html
Driving to Alpine will give you 30 seconds of totality, driving to Teton Village will give you 140 seconds of totality.
Nathan_Drake
Member
Right outside Charleston SC. Have a photoshoot set up with my girl. Using it to propose and have an excuse for a camera there. Mother Nature please help out, no clouds or rain.
perfectchaos007
Member
Finish the legend:
Did you know if you have sex under a solar eclipse, you will __________.
Did you know if you have sex under a solar eclipse, you will __________.
Yeah, I wasn't planning to rent one for that reason (I have a visitor coming and wanted to take him and a few friends up to Seattle, and there's not enough room in my own car) - I'm staying far, far away from anything resembling a road that heads south, to the point where I'm going to stay home from work just to avoid I-5, I-84 and 26 (both of the latter feed into I-5).
I still know someone who thinks he can leave at like 6AM and head down to a baseball game in Keizer that's happening during the eclipse. I have yet to convince him that even 'taking the back roads' isn't going to help any with that.
Yeah, I think we'll go up closer to Teton Village or Jackson Hole. It's going to be crazy going up that canyon towards Jackson, I bet. My plan is to pack a lunch, extra snacks, plenty of water, and get on the road SUPER early the day of the eclipse. Normally that's about a 45-minute drive from our cabin, but I'm betting it's 3-4 times that long at best on the 21st.
At this point, consider spending a ton of money to camp out on someone's property. Things have been booked in Salem for months.
perfectchaos007
Member
Go to about 3:45 in this video to get a good feel for what it will be like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0th9PYP4kq4
1991 Solar Eclipse ^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0th9PYP4kq4
1991 Solar Eclipse ^
I only hope that clouds and smoke from wildfires don't screw that up. It looks incredible.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
My work was selling the solar glasses---they went FAST, and people were calling for them all night.
I picked up two myself just in case before they sold out, one for me and one for someone extra if I can find someone to go with---I have someone in mind but I'm not sure about their status.
I picked up two myself just in case before they sold out, one for me and one for someone extra if I can find someone to go with---I have someone in mind but I'm not sure about their status.
Lol @ people clapping
"You did good, earth, sun, and moon. You did good."
Every video on the eclipse you see people cheering and making audible gasps and such
Especially since there's a high probability of cloudy skies in Oregon.
DrForester
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Add it again, you mean? Of course it was already in every playlist.
tonysidaway
Member
The average flat earther seems to have difficulty understanding how basic astronomy works.
Patient Zero in the flat earth outbreak is usually considered to be Samuel Rowbotham (18161884). The most durable vector for the contagion seems to be Rowbotham's published work. Other risk factors are innumeracy and bad geometry.
Rowbotham's idea of how the eclipses work is especially delicious. I won't spoil it.
You can find more about the flat earth ideas, which have changed very little over 150 years and still can't find a way for Australia to not be a stupid-looking sausage on their silly map, in Rowbotham's works, which are easily accessible by googling. Yes, the flat earth has gone global.
perfectchaos007
Member
I found it interesting the reporter said "Mexican women will wear red underwear to protect themselves from the eclipse".
What kind of legend is that I wonder...