Watch the Eclipse

[dragoneggs]

A great long weekend. My only son got married on Friday. Sunday we made our way down to Corvallis. Did a little wine tasting and then experienced totality Monday morning. Watched at Oregon State University campus. Lots of energy by the crowd on the large field. 4hr drive in... today 9hr drive home. Ugh! Worth it. Pics later... nothing great. Left my DSLR at home and tried to wing it with my iPhone. Mistake.

 

[CincyFlyer]

Wow! Looks like they were taken thru same filter that's on the eclipse glasses.

I used a Canon 600mm lens with 2x teleconverter, and a Thousand Oaks solar filter that was meant for a telescope.

 

[Working on Rust]

Where we are it was about 40% sun coverage. I had a look through the #12 or double up #10 welding shade every 20 minutes or so. Then near the end some high cloud came in and then a # 10 or #11 was quite dark enough. First one I have ever seen with my own eyes.

Anybody else looking forward to the April 8, 2024 eclipse? We are about an hour away from the totality path.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Can someone here please explain something to me? It's something I saw on the Internet. Supposedly, the shadow created by a blocking object has to be at least as large as the object, or larger. Makes sense to me. So how come the shadow of the moon is only 70 miles wide?

 

[tow653]

There are many things that never live up to the hype .The elclipse was not one of them. We had 2:40 of totality. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience.

 

[oliver1555]

Can someone here please explain something to me? It's something I saw on the Internet. Supposedly, the shadow created by a blocking object has to be at least as large as the object, or larger. Makes sense to me. So how come the shadow of the moon is only 70 miles wide?

Here is a link to a NASA page for students - not to insult you, but it does a pretty good job of explaining and has good illustrations.

What Is an Eclipse? | NASA

 

[John Fitzgerald]

Can someone here please explain something to me? It's something I saw on the Internet. Supposedly, the shadow created by a blocking object has to be at least as large as the object, or larger. Makes sense to me. So how come the shadow of the moon is only 70 miles wide?

The shadow gets smaller the farther the moon is away. This is because the sun is larger than the moon and the angle between the disks of sun and moon will come to a point at some distance greater than the average distance between the moon and the earth. Eclipse Shadow: What Is the Umbra?

 

[Industrial Toys]

My shadow always gets larger the farther away I get from the light source. They (whoever that is) says it's remarkable that the moon is exactly the right size to just block out the sun. In my mind, the shadow should be total across the earth. And if the sun was that much larger, then no place should have had, or could have had a total eclipse.

I also don't understand the west to east thing. I looked at the NASA site but did not understand it. Some say, their models are flawed including the earth spinning the wrong way or stopped!

 

[k0ua]

My shadow always gets larger the farther away I get from the light source. They (whoever that is) says it's remarkable that the moon is exactly the right size to just block out the sun. In my mind, the shadow should be total across the earth. And if the sun was that much larger, then no place should have had, or could have had a total eclipse.

I also don't understand the west to east thing. I looked at the NASA site but did not understand it. Some say, their models are flawed including the earth spinning the wrong way or stopped!

Study this page carefully:

Shadow Science: Why 3 Shadows?

 

[rekees4300]

Anybody else looking forward to the April 8, 2024 eclipse? We are about an hour away from the totality path.

Yes, southern 2/3rds of Indiana will be in Totality. :moon:

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