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Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse (media.kbin.social)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Man, it was a little disappointing.

Mind you, here in the southern Appalachians, I didn't expect anything highly dramatic, but I figured it might get dim outside. Nope, without the glasses and looking directly, I wouldn't have known it was happening.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://i.imgur.com/bgJ6cXs.png

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Screw the Golden record, let's send a complete archive of XKCD comics on the next interstellar mission.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even the interactive ones?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Especially the interactive ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That means we also need to ship a fully working web browser, with an interface to accommodate any potential type of alien body type. Keyboard and mouse probably won't cut it.

Thank you for volunteering to develop this!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Total vs partial solar eclipses are a literally night & day difference. The pictures you see online do not do it justice

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I took a picture of the parking lot I was in and it looked normal, but actually looking at it felt like the sun was broken.

People don't talk about what the world looks like in the moments before total eclipse. Everything looks flat and desaturated. Kinda looks like a photo from the 90s but in HD.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It literally just looked like a cloudy day. The thing that you're talking about happens every time its cloudy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Nah, the shadows don't look broken on a cloudy day.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, i hate to say it, but unless you're in the path of totality, it's pretty lame. Sure, the light gets weird, and you can make neat little crescents with shadows, but that's about it

Being in totality is without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiring things you could ever witness

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Had a few people tell me how they are in the 90% path and didn’t see a reason for seeing totality.

I tried explaining it to them in terms of sex: “I was 95% close to getting laid! Sure, that was probably fun, but you should really see totality.” Realized they just didn’t think it was worth it as an experience. Their loss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I traveled to a city for 1 min of totality because I couldn't afford a hotel to stay the night and had out from there. Totally worth, it's one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. Like a ring of absolute silver. It felt like night too because the crickets came out and started chirping.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

What is neat is how you experience sunset from a 360 degree perspective rather than just the normal western arc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Had totality for 1 min 22 seconds. The entire time I was slack-jawed or going "Holy shit!" My kids were going bananas lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Idk near Philly I thought it was pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

See, that is cool. Here, it was just sunny.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I..... Disagree. But I'm a space nerd anyways so the thought of 2 celestial bodies as far away as they are from each other to be such a perfect ratio that they basically perfectly overlap, to be just the neatest little cosmic joke on our improbable planet. It's a fun quirk and being at all able to see it is neat.

Also, I'm sorry but I was in northern Appalachian where for like half an hour it got slowly darker by just a little bit at a time and by the time it got mostly covered a perfect cloud coverage hit to make it viewable from the naked eye behind the clouds as a crescent for the next hour and it was very cool to see that sliver of crescent sun just hanging up there.

It was neat for not being totality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Totality or bust. See you in South America or Spain!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What percentage was the eclipse? It probably got dim, but human eyes are very good at filtering out wide range of intensity changes to handle both full sun and cloudy sky. You really only notice an eclipse maybe at 80-90 %. But it isn't that special even at 99 %. On the other hand, total eclipse is absolutely incredible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

at 99% I think you can see the clouds several km away turn dark from the shadow of the moon, might get a nice view of watching the shadow move along.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That sounds very interesting. The time I saw total eclipse, at 99 % I was to excited about totality and it was cloudy. But I think I remember seeing the shadow rushing over the landscape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I managed to drive south for an hour and found a spot that reached 1.006 magnitude. It was really surreal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it was 75% here? I'd have to look it up, but that's about what it looked like.

I tried taking a few pics, but I had taken the wrong bag, so that was a bust. My phone actually took the best shot, and it was washed out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

For partial eclipses, very cool is watching the light underneath trees. The small holes between leaves work a bit like camera obscura, so they effectively project crescents of the sun on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Don't feel bad. I 3D printed the NASA approved pinhole camera to see an 80% eclipse I never got to see.

According to NOAA the chance of overcast has historically been 53% for the the 8th of April for where I live. I was on the the wrong side of the 53% chance.

At my age, in 20 years I probably will be dead according to statistics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It's crazy how bright the sun is. At 98% it got to something close to golden hour.