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Post by Twillie on Aug 21, 2017 10:01:13 GMT -5
I just had to skip my first day of stats due to how bad it's storming outside, sooo we'll see if it clears up in time xP
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Post by Shinko on Aug 21, 2017 10:14:00 GMT -5
One of my coworkers sent out an email a few weeks ago saying that she was gonna order 100 eclipse glasses for us to give out. So we've been telling the students they can get glasses here.
8'D Then she apparently didn't order them because the price went up too much, and never bothered to tell anyone she hadn't. So yeah. This is gonna be fun to explain.
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Post by Celestial on Aug 21, 2017 10:19:47 GMT -5
If anybody does not have eclipse glasses, during the partial eclipse here in 2015 (85% coverage in my area) my mum, who works in IT, brought back a bunch of old floppy discs from her work. The film that is inside them can be used in a pinch. Now, obviously, floppy discs are not a common thing these days and they are not as good as actual eclipse glasses but they will do as long as you don't look at the sun for large amounts of time. Shinko, maybe this will help you if there's a stash of floppy discs lying about somewhere? Have fun and stay safe, guys. ^^
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Post by Huntress on Aug 21, 2017 10:38:04 GMT -5
Can confirm; when we had the partial eclipse, everyone used floppy discs. The trick is to break them open and fold the actual disc inside over, because a single layer doesn't quite cut it.
Of course, that was back when floppies were much more commonplace (sometime in the mid-00's, I think it was) but they're also the kind of thing that are frequently stashed away in parents' basements.
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Post by Carolyn on Aug 21, 2017 13:24:55 GMT -5
Watching the total eclipse over live stream, watching partial outside
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Post by Rabbit ♠ on Aug 21, 2017 13:25:46 GMT -5
It's getting darker here! |D (I'm in the partial area.)
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Post by Geo 🇺🇦 🌻 on Aug 21, 2017 13:26:10 GMT -5
I didn't have a proper solar filter for my phone camera but I saw the (nearly total) eclipse! It just passed through! The birds stopped chirping and the insects stopped their noise for that brief moment.
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Post by Twillie on Aug 21, 2017 13:33:14 GMT -5
Watched totality about twenty, twenty five minutes ago. Amazing how it went from thunderstorms to clear skies in just a few hours, but not complaining x)
Clouds just started to roll in at peak, actually, but were thin enough that we could see the sun without glasses as the diamond ring came in. It felt like late evening with the dim skies, cool air, and crickets chirping, and it was just an overall beautiful experience <3
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Post by Geo 🇺🇦 🌻 on Aug 21, 2017 13:39:10 GMT -5
Watched totality about twenty, twenty five minutes ago. Amazing how it went from thunderstorms to clear skies in just a few hours, but not complaining x) Clouds just started to roll in at peak, actually, but were thin enough that we could see the sun without glasses as the diamond ring came in. It felt like late evening with the dim skies, cool air, and crickets chirping, and it was just an overall beautiful experience <3 I was worried about those thunderstorms too and I did get some clouds as well. Now more storms are coming. You could not have timed it better!
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Post by Shinko on Aug 21, 2017 14:02:39 GMT -5
We just passed our peak coverage here (we're in an area of about 80-90% coverage) and it was really surreal. It was still plenty bright enough to see, but it was just dark enough to give everything a distinctly weird quality. Not dark like on a cloudy day, it was brighter than that, and not dark like at sunset because everything still had the midday color cast to the illumination. It was just... like someone put a filter over the sun, almost. Or like the whole world was put through photoshop and had it's brightness reduced several shades.
It also got really cool outside too- given that I'm in Florida and the realfeel is something in the neighborhood of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 Celsius) it was super noticeable. Not even cooler like "oh it's nighttime or a cloudy day" cooler, it was almost like the temperature in an air conditioned room.
Pretty dang cool all told, even if I didn't have glasses (or access to a floppy disk) to look at the actual eclipse through.
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Post by PFA on Aug 21, 2017 14:06:12 GMT -5
It wasn't quite total here but it made some real cool shadows! Our neighbors had some spare glasses that we got to use too, which was rad. I tried taking pictures through them but they didn't turn out well, lol.
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Post by Thorn on Aug 21, 2017 14:13:52 GMT -5
Watching it live on Youtube now. Pretty cool stuff! I watched the transit of Venus in 2012, that was really lame compared to this. xD
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Post by Twillie on Aug 21, 2017 14:31:55 GMT -5
Watched totality about twenty, twenty five minutes ago. Amazing how it went from thunderstorms to clear skies in just a few hours, but not complaining x) Clouds just started to roll in at peak, actually, but were thin enough that we could see the sun without glasses as the diamond ring came in. It felt like late evening with the dim skies, cool air, and crickets chirping, and it was just an overall beautiful experience <3 I was worried about those thunderstorms too and I did get some clouds as well. Now more storms are coming. You could not have timed it better! Lol yeah definitely! Storms this morning, then by the time coverage started there were clear skies, and right when I was getting ready to go back to campus, it started raining again xD PFA Ooh, yeah! A little before totality, a guy actually came up to the group I was in and pointed out how you could also see the eclipse through the shadows of the tree leaves. I didn't know that, it's very cool!
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Post by PFA on Aug 21, 2017 14:43:53 GMT -5
PFA Ooh, yeah! A little before totality, a guy actually came up to the group I was in and pointed out how you could also see the eclipse through the shadows of the tree leaves. I didn't know that, it's very cool! Yeah, I was that guy this year, lol. There was a partial eclipse here a few years back and I remembered the shadows from then. It's definitely super cool! (And easy to take pictures of, haha.)
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Post by Geo 🇺🇦 🌻 on Aug 21, 2017 15:58:19 GMT -5
I won't be in the path of totality for these unless I decide to travel (which who knows, maybe I will): arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/so-youre-not-seeing-the-eclipse-today/The next total eclipse is April 8, 2024 and the folks in Carbondale, Ill. will be lucky because they will see this one too (they had the longest period of totality today). Then the next one will be August 12, 2045 which is just like today except shifted a few hundred miles south. Most of us will be considered "old" then and probably start saying things like "Back in MY day, we didn't have commercial flights to outer space."
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