Eclipse At 86 Percent

[fotografr]

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This is all I could get using my M10-R and 90 Elmarit with a couple of ND filters stacked. It looks more like a radioactive banana that a solar eclipse. I think people with glasses enjoyed it more. I did not look through the lens while doing this. I just guessed and pointed the camera in the direction of the sun, then checked the monitor.

M10-R/90 Elmarit

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[Pintpot]

Well I'm glad you got to see it, over here in N West UK it was 10/10 loud and rain.

And more importantly the weather totally ruined the last day of the Lancashire county cricket club match v Surrey 😢

[spydrxx]

I was not in the direct path, but observed this individual who appears to not have gotten the memo on safely observation

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[fotografr]

38 minutes ago, Pintpot said:

Well I'm glad you got to see it, over here in N West UK it was 10/10 loud and rain.

And more importantly the weather totally ruined the last day of the Lancashire county cricket club match v Surrey 😢

I must say it was rather eerie. Street lamps came on and ducks over at the river went kind of crazy. Shame about the cricket match.

[fotografr]

30 minutes ago, spydrxx said:

I was not in the direct path, but observed this individual who appears to not have gotten the memo on safely observation

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Opthalmologists are going to be very busy for a few months.

[Louis]

I didn’t have your luck! In South Florida it was, I think, about 40%. I was waiting with my camera, but nothing really happened!…, I think the Florida sun was stronger than the eclipse! 🤣

[war]

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Nice clear sky over Chicago. It was great, I think about 94% with strong winds and temperature drop. Didn't want to take a chance loosing a sensor with even multiple ND's.   Sacrificial iphone produced some crappy shots though.

[fotografr]

2 hours ago, war said:

Nice clear sky over Chicago. It was great, I think about 94% with strong winds and temperature drop. Didn't want to take a chance loosing a sensor with even multiple ND's.   Sacrificial iphone produced some crappy shots though.

Oops. Did I actually risk sensor damage? I shot with two very dark ND filters and used f22 @ 1/4000th. I shot with the same camera later in the afternoon and it all looked fine. 

[war]

1 minute ago, fotografr said:

Oops. Did I actually risk sensor damage? I shot with two very dark ND filters and used f22 @ 1/4000th. I shot with the same camera later in the afternoon and it all looked fine. 

 

1 minute ago, fotografr said:

Oops. Did I actually risk sensor damage? I shot with two very dark ND filters and used f22 @ 1/4000th. I shot with the same camera later in the afternoon and it all looked fine. 

I'm probably over cautious. Never did the research to determine if there is any truth to it, that would require using my head.

Your image is interesting and it is a good record of an unusual event. 

[fotografr]

8 hours ago, war said:

 

I'm probably over cautious. Never did the research to determine if there is any truth to it, that would require using my head.

Your image is interesting and it is a good record of an unusual event. 

I'd love to have been where it was full, but I had no desire to be in the heavy traffic. I can barely handle rush hour in this medium size Midwestern town.

[war]

5 hours ago, fotografr said:

I'd love to have been where it was full, but I had no desire to be in the heavy traffic. I can barely handle rush hour in this medium size Midwestern town.

Me too, and you are right about the traffic. Here rush hour is all day, don't people work anymore. And when schools let out with kids getting picked up and the yellow buses, OMG.

[stuny]

It suddenly got windy and colder here.

[Alan Friedman]

On 4/8/2024 at 4:56 PM, spydrxx said:

I was not in the direct path, but observed this individual who appears to not have gotten the memo on safely observation

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Did you have reason to believe that his instruments were not safely filtered?

[spydrxx]

It was a cheap telescope, he had no safety glasses as he proceeded to setup, the procedure for setup with a telescope is to project from the ocular to a white surface. not peer directly thru it. That wa my reasoning.