It's good to know that my 38 year old memory hasn't pumped up the event.
Chuck Norcutt
Piers Hemy wrote:
> When I see the word "awesome" I usually subconsciously substitute "pretty
> good", or if in connection with a good deal on a piece of photo equipment,
> "fang".
>
> In this case, as I now know, Chuck (and Charlie in his post) really did mean
> "such as will engender reverential fear or wonder" for thus it was last
> week. As I mentioned originally, I had in mind the chance of cloud cover -
> location was Haçibektaş in central Anatolia, where NASA judged the
> probability of clear skies to be only 40% - but as it turned out, we had
> clear skies for the full duration of the eclipse. The advent was pretty
> impressive, for sure, to see the moon progressively eating into the solar
> disk; to see the character of the light change from midday sun to 6500K
> twilight; to see the multiple eclipses in the shade of the trees. But
> nothing, no NOTHING, not even the clear and accurate descriptions here,
> could have prepared us for the instant of totality (which extended for the
> quickest 3+ minutes I have ever experienced). I don't propose to even try
> to better what has already been said, I will just recommend that you keep 1
> Aug 2008 free, because you deserve to be travelling in the run up to that
> day. Whether Arctic Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, Siberia, Mongolia or China
> just see it!
>
> Yes, I did manage some photos (but the advice to watch the eclipse not to
> bother with a camera was spot-on). I have adequate reminders of Bailey's
> beads courtesy of a tripod mounted 3Ti fitted with Tamron SP 500mm mirror
> lens, motor driven and controlled by a M. Quartz remote release. I didn't
> need to pay much attention, it did most of the work for me, all I did was to
> whip off the solar filter at totality and adjust the shutter speed for each
> release of the shutter, to get a range of exposures (all on Fuji Provia).
> And to remember to take some images of the scene (4Ti with 18/3.5),
> including the 360deg "sunset" using a monopod.
>
> I'll get a few images posted in a day or so - I seemed to be about the only
> one not using digital - the results from a handheld 400mm IS lens on a C*non
> digital were disappointingly spectacular :-(
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chuck Norcutt
> Sent: 28 February 2006 15:20
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Solar eclipse photo advice
>
> It was intended that way. Glad it got a grip on you. However, nothing I
> can write can adequately portray the awe of a total eclipse. Have you seen
> a partial solar eclipse. Even one approaching totality? You ain't seen
> nothin' yet my friend. The difference is as between a little firecracker
> and a hydrogen bomb. Truly awesome.
>
> Cold weather and snow might put a damper on some of the emotions but spring
> and 70 degree F. in North Carolina added barking dogs, twittering birds and
> chattering people by the thousands on the campus of East Carolina
> University. At the moment of totality all went so suddenly quiet you could
> have heard a pin drop in the grass.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
>>This is perhaps the most gripping thing I ever read on this list.
>>
>>Joel W.
>>
>>On 2/27/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have seen one total solar eclipse in my life. I believe it was
>>>March of 1968 but my memory is frail. I journeyed about 700 miles
>>
>>>from my then home in Endicott, New York to Greenville, North Carolina.
>>
>>>I remember being amazed by the large numbers of people just outside
>>>the path of totality just going about their everyday business not
>>>realizing that the sight of a lifetime was but a short distance away.
>>>
>>>I had prepared for the event by taking my Miranda GT with a lens
>>>consisting of a cobbled together off-axis telescope made from a 2-1/2"
>>>f/10 mirror. All was on a mounting made of bolts, 2x4's, plaster lath
>>>and other odds and ends.
>>>
>>>If you've ever watched a partial solar eclipse the run-up to the main
>>>event is rather pedestrian... that is, until you get close to totality
>>>and the tepmerature starts to drop, birds stop chattering, dogs stop
>>>barking, shadow bands go skittering over the ground and Bailey's beads
>>>appear on the periphery of the moon.
>>>
>>>Then, BANG!! Suddenly the lights go out, the stars get switched on,
>>>near the horizon it's sunrise/sunset for 360 degrees around you and
>>>the sun suddenly is a moon sized black hole surrounded by streaming
>>>flares of red and blue several times its diameter.
>>>
>>>Well, I'll tell you I never got another shot off during all of totality.
>>> You could have knocked me over with a feather. I stood there with
>>>my mouth hanging open suddenly understanding the awe with which the
>>>ancients must have viewed this apparition. If I were to do it again I
>>>wouldn't even take a camera except maybe to shoot the crowd. The view
>>>is overwhelming and too much of a spectacle to bother taking photos.
>>>Buy them from someone else afterwards.
>>>
>>>But don't miss it. I think it's the most spectacular thing I've ever
>>>seen in my entire life. Too bad it was only 3-1/2 minutes.
>>>
>>>Chuck Norcutt
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