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Re: [OM] Upcoming total solar eclipse in US

Subject: Re: [OM] Upcoming total solar eclipse in US
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:21:54 -0400
  I'm in the path of totality here in Charleston, SC. I've been ready for a
month, the big question is the weather ie cloud cover. We're been in a
protracted rainy spell for about two weeks with no sign of abatement, so I
am very concerned about visibility. I have the day off so I could hit the
road for better weather, but they are projecting about a million visitors
in SC along the path of totality, so I'm not crazy about getting on the
highway with thousands of crazy eclipse watchers dashing about looking for
a hole in the clouds.
   I have fashioned filters for camera lens, telescope, binoculars and
handhelds out of Thousand Oaks Solar Filter material.

Charlie with fingers crossed

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>      How many OM Listers will be able to take in the total solar eclipse in
> a week?  My wife will be visiting her sister near Nashville, TN, and will
> see totality of two minutes and forty seconds.  I plan on being somewhere
> on the sagebrush flats of Wyoming not too far from Casper--I'll get two
> minutes and thirty seconds of totality.  Should be a thrilling 2:30,
> indeed!
>      Any camera suggestions?  I'll have my Canon 1014 XLS Super 8 movie
> camera on a tripod, and I plan on setting the exposure manually for
> whatever it should be for full daylight and then have the camera do its
> magic single frame per second (or five, or ten, or whatever seconds) and
> get a two plus hour record of the darkening and then lightening of the
> Wyoming landscape compressed into a couple minutes of filming.  Gotta do
> the math, here, Deano.  I'm thinking of pointing the camera to the south,
> with a fairly wide angle setting, and record what happens on the
> landscape.  I'll leave a time-lapse of the moon's actual crossing of the
> sun to the pros.
>      So when totality comes, what then?  My 60-300 Tammy at 300 on the OM
> 4T and pointed right at the sun?  Any ND filter?  Or just say screw it and
> simply stand back and be awed by something I'll never see again?
>      Whatcha going to be doing next Monday, folks?
> Digest Dean
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