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  • #1529028
    Ela_Hara
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      Will you be watching the Total Solar Eclipse of the Sun on Monday, August 21 ?

      Live video streams of the August 21 total solar eclipse, from NASA Television and locations across the USA, will be available on Nasa’s ‘Eclipse 2017 Live-Stream page’ – here’s the link: https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive-info

      The moon will start covering the sun as the Solar Eclipse begins around 1:18 pm (ET) in the US and continues through 4:02 pm (ET)approximately. VERY EXCITING! Especially since a Total Solar Eclipse hasn’t happened in the US for about 99 years!

      I’m going to have one of my computers on this live-stream at work to watch this once-in-a-lifetime show – What about you?

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      #1529030
      Ela_Hara
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        The path of Totality is going to start in Oregon so perhaps the Windstone staff will have a good show!
        Here in the Maryland-Washington DC area we will only see about an 80% eclipse.

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        #1529047
        Mary
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          I plan to watch but we’re supposed to get clouds & thunderstorms right around that time, so we might not be able to view the eclipse.  If so, I’ll watch online at NASA’s feed

          #1529051

          I’m a total armchair astronomer 😉  and am envious of those who can just look up to see it! It’s going to be a spectacular show.

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          #1529055
          Ela_Hara
          Participant

            It’s HAPPENING NOW! In Oregon!!!

            Live shot from about 8 minutes ago…… this is at 12:44 pm Eastern Time, so probably early in the morning Oregon time. Melody and Company are getting a Real Show! YAH!

            LINK for online streaming… https://weather.com/photos/places/news/solar-eclipse-american-usa

             

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            #1529056
            Ela_Hara
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              YAH! this is at 12:55 pm Eastern Time out in Oregon!

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              #1529057
              Ela_Hara
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                It’s getting dark out there? Live Nasa shot from an Aircraft in the air – 1:01 pm Eastern time:

                 

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                #1529083
                GardenNinja
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                  I don’t have the wonderful equipment NASA does, and my telephoto is rather short (300 mm) so I had to crop hard, but this is what I saw. Color variations in the sun are caused by me testing different shutter speeds.
                  [url=https://flic.kr/p/XXaPZK][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4422/36723946985_c89f2eb2a9_h.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/XXaPZK]Solar Eclipse Series[/url]

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                  #1529084
                  GardenNinja
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                    My first post links to the full size image on flickr.  This is a smaller version that I am uploading to Windstone.Solar Eclipse Series

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                    #1529088
                    Ela_Hara
                    Participant

                      Wonderful! Great photos!
                      I took bunches of screen shots as the Eclipse progressed but didn’t get a chance to post them yet – got too busy at work. I’ll try to post them tomorrow morning.

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                      #1529097
                      GardenNinja
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                        Wonderful! Great photos!
                        I took bunches of screen shots as the Eclipse progressed but didn’t get a chance to post them yet – got too busy at work. I’ll try to post them tomorrow morning.

                        That’s what vacation is for!
                        I live close enough to the path I only had to drive about an hour to a place within 5 miles of the centerline. I am in a Nature and Environmental Photographers club, and one member’s family has a farm that close. He invited all interested members to meet him at the nearest town and spend the day. He said that the farm couldn’t be found by giving directions. The directions actually turned out to be quite simple – the real problem is that nobody would have believed they were going the right way! Their road to the clearing (parts of the property have gone to forest) is rocks, steep and badly rutted, and we even had to ford a very shallow stream. I was not in a high profile vehicle, and I had to take most of it at 5 mph!

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                        #1529108
                        GardenNinja
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                          I added a copyright, and flickr changed the link.
                          [url=https://flic.kr/p/XXaPZK][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4422/36723946985_6d7672b587_h.jpg[/img][/url]

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                          #1529141
                          Susie
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                            GardenNinja that sounds like a very exciting experience!

                            I was able to watch it from the field behind Melody’s house.  We closed Windstone for the day because family and friends had come for the weekend and we had a very good time visiting and viewing!  It was pretty neat – Totality Awesome!  When you see photos of the total part, the pictures look darker than the sky was (where we were anyway) – I could see one bright star – but the sky was still a deep blue, not as dark as it appears in most photographs.  It got quite cool and crickets began chirping.  It went way too fast!

                             

                            #1529146
                            Kim
                            Participant

                              Wow, awesome pictures GardenNinja!  Thanks for sharing!  Well up In Calgary, Alberta where I live they said we would see it about 70 or 80% covered.  I went out at 11:30 am and it was still really bright.  I held up my camera to take a look at it and saw a crescent shaped shadow of the part of the sun that was covered.  then I poked a hole in a piece of paper to project the light through to another piece of paper and again saw the crescent shadow.  It got a tiny bit more orange coloured outside when it would have been fully covered further south of us but half an hour later it was just as bright again.  I watched videos though and saw pictures others posted and it was a very cool experience!  I love astronomy!  I always go stargazing when there is something cool going on in the sky and go out to an observatory once in a while outside my city to look through telescopes.  I have seen a couple lunar eclipses through telescopes here too!

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                              #1529159
                              GardenNinja
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                                It got quite cool and crickets began chirping. It went way too fast!

                                It was the opposite here. The cicadas stopped buzzing! I whole-heartedly agree that it went too fast.

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