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Post by June Scarlet on Aug 21, 2017 17:43:30 GMT -5
I'm back. I live just outside the path of totality, but my mom works in a small office that had 49 seconds of totality, so I went with her to work to watch it. It was actually pretty amazing, and fun leading up to it. Ended up sharing my solar glasses with others in the office, and even a few people at neighboring businesses. It takes long enough there's plenty of time to share the view of the partial, so no need to be greedy with the glasses. You can only stand staring at the sun for so long anyway, even with the glasses.
I actually took notes in my sketchbook, observations during the 3-4 hours it happened. I think I'll probably scan them in or type them up to share.
I did see the oft mentioned corona, but to me the black hole of the sun, and the sparkly edge were much more notable.
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Post by June Scarlet on Aug 21, 2017 20:33:52 GMT -5
Not to double post, but I did make a drawing of what I saw that I'd like to share. Probably the biggest thing is that pretty sparkly ring, it was so pretty, but I have hardly seen any pictures of it. A few pictures with hints of it, but the sparkles were all around. It was very interesting. I don't know how well I captured it, considering I only have my own memory to go off of here, but I feel it's better than the pictures at least. |
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Post by Breakingchains on Aug 21, 2017 22:44:12 GMT -5
^ That's a pretty good representation, I think! It did sparkle, like it was constantly moving. Totality was wild. I did NOT expect it to get as dark as it did, or for the darkness itself to be so surreal--dim sunlight coming in at the wrong angle for it to be so dim. In another context it might have been kinda creepy. The cicadas all started up, too. Like how are they supposed to know it's not actually nighttime? xD; I had some weird stuff turn up in my photos. The sun itself looks normal, but I got teeny-tiny crescent shapes reflected in the lens flares: And bonus, spotted on the interstate |
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Post by Birdy on Aug 22, 2017 1:22:25 GMT -5
We had about 96% coverage where I live. I looked up times and all so I'd know when ingress/egress and all were.
And what do you know, right at about the time for ingress (moon first touching the sun)...
The clouds come a-rolling in. <3
The sun peeked in and out for most of it, but it was almost complete cloud cover for the time when we were supposed to have the most coverage. </3
You'll notice I said "almost complete cloud cover" for the time of most coverage.
Because whatdayaknow, at exactly the time of most coverage (and I do mean exactly - like, to the minute), there was a small break in the clouds. \ o /
My mom and I didn't have glasses, but we got to see it anyway - due to the cloud coverage, we were just able to see the moon covering the sun. =DD ((You know how on some cloudy days, you can see the disc of the sun though them if you glance for brief periods of time? Yeah, that - the clouds provided just enough coverage that we were able to safely view it (and hopefully nab some pictures xD;). So no worries, we didn't burn our retinas out looking directly at the sun. XD ))
It got a little dark - but not like, nighttime dark. More like... late afternoon/early evening dark? Dusk-ish, or thereabouts. (Of course, cloud cover didn't help with that, probably.) Didn't really notice any changes in wildlife behaviour either, except for a few birds calls like one might hear more towards the evening.
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