Seen from Pyramid Lake, NV 6:30PM PST May 20th, 2012,had to drive there to avoid high cirrus coming in from front approaching from coast
Photo by Stacey Watts
Canon 1D ND400 filter plus G filter
Seen from Pyramid Lake, NV 6:30PM PST May 20th, 2012,had to drive there to avoid high cirrus coming in from front approaching from coast
Photo by Stacey Watts
Canon 1D ND400 filter plus G filter
Mike says: May 20, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Its a sign. Its a sign in the sky, O’s the one!
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Good Lord, don’t even think it! O’s ego is too over-inflated as it is. Also, you might give his PR/campaign people an idea.
What we saw from North Texas (Anna, Texas to be precise, aways north of Dallas):
. . Partial solar eclipse – http://i48.tinypic.com/2ivcsph.jpg
(Credit: Taken by a friend of a friend.)
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Wonderful photo! And “Ring of Fire” is one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs… 🙂
Great picture Stacy. You must have been dead center on the path.
Very nice Casper. I especially like the circular ground images.
I’ve seen two total solar eclipses, and been clouded out of a third. One memory was of the diffraction shadows passing over just before totality. It was almost like the last flickers of a candle before the wind blows it out, and I can only imagine what primitive people thought when the sun did that. I’m looking forward to the 2017 eclipse.
Absolutely fabulous image, the huge effort paid great dividends.
I see your ring…and raise you….a colander full 🙂
Beautiful !!! What a wonderful world we live in.
Brent in Calgary
Here in Nebraska we were treated to a clear sky and a crescent setting sun with this eclipse – max coverage was about 75% just a few minutes before sunset. Very odd to see a bright red-orange crescent setting in the west.
scarletmacaw says:
May 21, 2012 at 6:24 am
Very nice Casper. I especially like the circular ground images.
I’ve seen two total solar eclipses, and been clouded out of a third. One memory was of the diffraction shadows passing over just before totality. It was almost like the last flickers of a candle before the wind blows it out, and I can only imagine what primitive people thought when the sun did that. I’m looking forward to the 2017 eclipse.
Well, I’ve seen two total and one annular eclipses. The first occurred on 11th August 1999, and it was seen in many European countries. I saw it in Hungary at the Balaton Lake. The second one I saw in Turkey on 29th March 2006, near Side, at the seaside. I was trying to make a movie, but my video camera didn’t want to work properly while totality. The light was changing too fast: from very bright to very weak, as it would be a full moon. But I managed to take some pictures applying old-fashioned photography. I couldn’t describe my emotions, and I think there is no corresponding technique for it. You must see and feel it. I also saw the diffraction shadows, but I didn’t manage to catch them. I was just too busy.
http://nic-nac-project.org/~excel/11_08_99.htm
http://nic-nac-project.org/~excel/29.03.2006.htm
I’m going to visit Casper-City named like me in 2017. It’s on the path in the central line of totality. No joke.
Clouds and rain here in my branch of NE Oregon,.Robins gave a very short “night corus”
and it was a bit darker,,,
I have not seen this posted yet, but I received this in the mail.
A view of the Eclipse and grazing umbra on the earth in one shot from the International Space Station (ISS).
http://p.twimg.com/AtZqmnrCAAARD_c.jpg
Credit: Chet_Apichet via Facebook.
This is one incredible picture. Spectacular if it is real. but it could be a well done photoshop.
Here’s the time lapse (24x) video I shot:
Not a cloud in the sky all day, UNTIL the time of the eclipse. :-(( Go figure.
A plus.google.com page for Chet Apichet, who seems to be involved with the Nasa Solar Dynamics Observatory. A page mixed with some good photography as well as some good Photoshop.
https://plus.google.com/111326300114795926639#111326300114795926639/posts
I’m going to go with the ISS eclipse twimg above as Photoshop. The size of the sun and the curvature of the earth don’t look compatible. It might be thoroughly debunked by checking the ISS orbital position at the two possible times of earth graze.
Stephen Rasey says:
May 21, 2012 at 8:33 am
My guess not so well done. First, there was no umbra, only penumbra, this look s just way too dark. Second, at 50% coverage, the brightness on the Earth would be reduced one f stop – I think the dimming would stand out much better in a photograph, but I don’t think the track would be as wide as it is here. I think the geometry is messed up too and the shadow is too far to the right.
But most of all – is this were real, it would be at the top of http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
There’s a real NASA/ISS total solar eclipse photo at http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/02dec_isseclipse/
Oops – it’s from Mir of the August 11, 1999 Total Solar Eclipse. See also http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830.html
Tim C. asks: Would anyone (who saw the eclipse “live”) be willing to say whether they noticed any unusual behaviour of any animals (including humans, birds etc) through the maximum annular phase, or (of course understanding exactly what was happening at the rational level) be willing to describe briefly their own subjective experiences/reaction in as objective a way a possible? Might turn into an interesting project …
About 50 years ago I drove my young family down from NJ to Cape Charles, VA to witness a total solar eclipse. We parked near a wooded area and nearby salt-water flats that were teeming with wildlife. I recall clearly watching in amazement the settling down into the trees of numerous birds as dusk proceeded. And as the sun approached full eclipse, it seemed that all the natural wildlife sounds fell silent until the crickets started chirping. It was a beautiful, truly full eclipse, Bailey Beads and all! Soon the entire sun disappeared and only Bailey’s Beads remained, like a fiery necklace where the Sun had been?
Note to Anthony — when you took that magnificent photo, was there too much of the sun showing so brightly that the Beads went the way of Daedalus’ son Ikarus, or maybe even Phaeton?
Wonderfully centered image od the eclipse, you must have been right exactly on the cented line. Makes me wish I had travelled north – here’s how it looked from Berkeley, California:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47945928@N02/7242024568/
This looks great, centered and no blurring. This is what my son and I saw from about 12 miles North of Pioche, NV. We used a 2″x4″ Shade 14 welder’s glass that was near impossible to find in LA/OC. Then held it right in front of a tripoded Canon SX260HS (Powershot) pulled up to 50x up to 80x. Sure took a while to go from 5:21pm local to full annularity at 6:33pm. I began to doubt it was going to center at all. Glad we all shared the adventure.
@Ric_Werme: is this were real, it would be at the top of [nasa.gov]
Except that Nasa Public Relations Office is totally clueless about what to put on their websites.
I agree, the Apichet image is computer generated. Neat concept though.
Here’s what the shadow looked like from the space
http://www.universetoday.com/95298/the-may-2012-annular-eclipse-as-seen-from-space
It was visible in a THUNDERSTORM in Gardenerville (NV) and 15 miles north it was a total DUD! Nothing. I feel really cheated.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/21/article-0-13343D5F000005DC-862_964x633.jpg
@ur momisugly Bob Diaz says:
May 21, 2012 at 8:42 am
“Not a cloud in the sky all day, UNTIL the time of the eclipse. :-(( Go figure.”
Usually the air temperature drops by 7-10°C while max phase. If air is moisture enough, the clouds may be formed.
Here is my alarm clock. You can see: date, actual time, alarm and temperature while max phase of annular eclipse (3/10, 11h11m36s, 6:50,15.2°C)
http://nic-nac-project.org/~excel/astro/Zacmienia/03.10.2005/IMG021.JPG
And here you can see: date, actual time, alarm and temperature after annular eclipse (3/10, 12h30m00s, 6:50,22.0°C)
http://nic-nac-project.org/~excel/astro/Zacmienia/03.10.2005/IMG023.JPG
The temperature dropped by 6.8°C.
A coworker of mine, who lives in Folsom, Cal, just sent me a photo of the shadow the eclipse caused. Mighty wild. Thousands of perfect images of the crescent limp of the sun, as it peering around the moon, reflected on the ground.
Anthony… I think I have you beat! 🙂
http://sonicfrog.net/?p=7247