Did you use a colander to see or take pics of the eclipse? I know we laugh at it, but I seriously enjoy seeing others’ colander pics. In such a divided time, at least we all have colanders in common! Anyone remember Hands Across America? This is like that, but with colanders 🤣 Please post your pics and use the hashtag #Colanderstronomy (and maybe #ColandersAcrossAmerica?). Here’s mine, from #Colorado:
Yay - work brought me to a place one might see something interesting on eclipse day. Then the weather got clear enough. Then the work thing had a large enough gap to do the seeing.
So I didn’t plan for it but I had a camera and a decently long lens and an unanticipated opportunity and got a couple of half decent shots I will keep a long time.
I think this is my favorite shot from today, still need to do a lot of processing and playing around things. Super happy with how skies treated us. #eclipse#eclipse2024#SolarEclipse
You can see the corona surrounding the darkened disc of the sun, with filament like structures radiating out from the sun in various lengths. On the bottom left you can see a bit of red from the prominences sticking out past the moon's shadow.
My eclipse pictures are on my photo blog: https://www.urbandinosaurs.org (though I do have to delete the Twitter link…).
For those who don't want to go there, here’s a picture of totality (note the solar prominences), and another of a post-totality crescent sun—it's smiling for the great show it gave us. #eclipse#eclipse2024
The real winner of the eclipse lottery is my in-laws who drove to Kingston on a whim and ended up at an "eclipse brunch" with bottomless mimosas #eclipse2024
Solar eclipse watchers from Vermont and Arkansas topped the list of people searching Google about their eyes hurting after watching the April 8, 2024 eclipse. Most searches came from states directly in the path of the total eclipse.
Just got back from the #Eclipse2024 path of totality. I initially wasn’t worried about photographing the eclipse, despite how beautiful it was, because I figured the internet would have me covered. Sadly, it seems pictures can’t do the event justice. It was breathtaking