If you missed last week’s total solar eclipse, you’ll have seven opportunities over the next decade to bask in the shadow of the path of totality. You just might have to travel to get there. Live Science tells us what to know, from where to go, how long each will last, and more. https://flip.it/eKUvzt#Science#Eclipse#Sun#Moon#Earth
One last bit of eclipse content! As totality was nearing, I set my GoPro up on a tripod to capture the event. It's neat to see totality approaching and leaving in a wave.
While I was enjoying looking at this incredible phenomenon, I had a device that was continuously counting photons. Several days later, I told a computer to do some math on the photons counted, and this is the result.
Like everyone, I took a moment on Monday to marvel that our sun and moon are just the right relative size for the magic to happen the way it does. And then for the first time I wondered if that coincidence was necessary for human-level consciousness to arise, that uncannily perfect shadow strobing over the surface of the earth on a billion-year scale gradually making animal brains bend into themselves, a missing letter in the Drake equation. #eclipse
#PPOD: The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 420 kilometers above the surface of Earth. The diameter of the shadow is 160 km. Credit: NASA
Another from the eclipse on Monday. Taken at Rangeley Lake, in Maine, during the totality for the main image. The other instances of the eclipse were composited in, in the position they were in at the time the image was taken. Each instance of the eclipse if 15 minutes after the previous instance. Prints available.
Some of the best pictures I got from Monday's solar #Eclipse. 3 of them were taken using an app called SunSketcher, a crowd sourced citizen science study of the shape of the sun. Wait, isn't the sun a sphere? Not quite, like the Earth, it rotates and is oblate. But exactly how oblate, and thus its exact shape is very hard to measure. By photographing the eclipse, and comparing it's shape to the sun's using Bailey's beads allows more precise measurements. Wicked cool and glad to help.
"We know in our minds and in our bodies what morning light is, how it feels, what time of year. We know when we walk outside that it is twilight or that the sun must be slipping below the horizon. Our hearts and minds have filed away so many kinds of light and something inside us says, ”Oh, this is evening in winter, or morning in summer”. But my mind or body had absolutely no reference point for this kind of light."
I've finally started to sort out the eclipse photos from my big camera. This came just a few seconds after my diamond ring photo, so let's call this a ruby ring.
I'm not completely sure what's going on here to create the red color. I think the red is from the Sun's chromosphere. Then maybe the red is being refracted then scattered a bit by the high cloud cover we had during totality. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Save the date: The next full solar eclipse is scheduled for 2026 and will pass over the northern fringes of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. The Associated Press has more, including other celestial events on the horizon. https://flip.it/tC9xhx #Science#Space#Eclipse#Sun#Moon
Interest to hear on our ham radio net about one of our amateurs telling the story of how he had to explain (to a couple of college kids) not only that there was an eclipse happening "why is it so dark... why is everyone out here with those glasses?" AND having to explain to them what an eclipse is. 😬 #eclipse#science#education
So many photos from the eclipse. I don't know what to do with all of them. Here's one of my favorite single subs. This was from just before the end of totality, and the prominences were incredible
For the record, this is the same image straight out of the camera. The only processing done was to debayer it (to make it color) and crop it. My wife likes it better this way. I think it looks pretty cool, even if it's not accurate.
Cool map showing the date of the most recent total eclipse for every point in Indiana. Made by the Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium at Butler University.
Great concept, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen a similar map for a larger area, ideally an interactive map for the entire world where you can see the year of the last eclipse wherever you are. The data is available, so surely someone has made such a map?
I saw the #eclipse in totality! It was one of the most arresting things I’ve ever seen.
There was a small crowd at the park we settled down in. As the sun faded, people began to applaud. That quickly erupted into a roar of shouts & cries of excitement as the sun transitioned to totality. Beyond special.
A very big shoutout to the small town of Inlet, NY for providing a wonderful eclipse experience. There was a food truck, plenty of public space in a lakeside park, and most importantly... bathrooms.
My criteria for a viewing location included minimal cloud cover and surrounding natural beauty. The Adirondack region proved to be a perfect spot.
We watched the cloud forecasts for days and then made a final decision at 6:30am. We hit the road 15 mins later. #SolarEclipse#Eclipse#Photography