Wife Roxy got several digital photos of today's eclipse. We live very near to the Parowan Gap - which is pretty well centered along the sweet viewing track. Totality occurred at about 7:30 pm. I fashioned a filter from a welding glass and a PVC coupling. The 1300mm lens was too hard to get pointed, so a 300mm was used. What we got are circular dots - but very high resolution. Should look like something on a large monitor.
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Started by Emax, May 20 2012 06:21 PM
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 07:06 PM
They said it was an eclipse. To me, it looks circular.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 07:51 PM
I am from Sandy, Utah. I took the pictures of it except the cloud rolled in and I waited for 20 minutes (part of it, I missed). It was cool.
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 05:38 AM
Emax, on 20 May 2012 - 07:06 PM, said:
Annular? Elipse?
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 06:10 AM
aug, on 21 May 2012 - 05:38 AM, said:
Annular? Elipse?
re: elipse
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 09:07 AM
Shouldn't be spelled ecclipse? Or is it eclippse?
Ah, eLLipse!
Anyway, I'm so amused by your bemusement!
Here in Romania we have one of these every night, except the corona is v e r y faint -- the interposing planet is huge viewed down from my place.
Look, ma, no welding glass!
Ah, eLLipse!
Anyway, I'm so amused by your bemusement!
Here in Romania we have one of these every night, except the corona is v e r y faint -- the interposing planet is huge viewed down from my place.
Look, ma, no welding glass!
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 10:01 AM
Razvan, on 21 May 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:
Shouldn't be spelled ecclipse? Or is it eclippse?
Ah, eLLipse!
Anyway, I'm so amused by your bemusement!
Here in Romania we have one of these every night, except the corona is v e r y faint -- the interposing planet is huge viewed down from my place.
Look, ma, no welding glass!
Ah, eLLipse!
Anyway, I'm so amused by your bemusement!
Here in Romania we have one of these every night, except the corona is v e r y faint -- the interposing planet is huge viewed down from my place.
Look, ma, no welding glass!
Well I'll be damned - you caught me in a spelling error. Shame on me.
Interestingly:
Word Origin & History
annular
"ring-shaped," 1570s, from L. annularis, from annulus, dim. of anus "ring" (see anus). An annular eclipse (1727) is one in which the dark body of the moon is smaller than the disk of the sun, so that at the height of it the sun appears as a ring of light.
So, in a twisted way, this was an anus ellipse. Maybe, as Stephen Hawking suggests, God does have a sense of humor.
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 07:15 PM
BTW Next eclipse will arrive part of US states. August 21, 2017
http://eclipse.gsfc....E2017Aug21T.GIF
http://eclipse.gsfc....E2017Aug21T.GIF
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