I can understand being underwhelmed by a partial solar eclipse. Without
foreknowledge and a solar filter, you probably wouldn't even notice it. A
total eclipse is altogether different. And of course it is all about
totality. There is something about seeing the corona and brighter stars and
planets becoming visible during the day that is a visceral experience. This
will be my third total eclipse. The first in 1970 here in Charleston and a
total annular eclipse in western NY in 1993. I'm already making plans for
the total eclipse in 2024 with 4 1/2 minutes of totality.
Charlie
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I hate to admit it, but events like eclipses, meteor showers etc. leave me
> pretty cold. I did caught up in the Halleys comet hype back in 1986, and
> drove to the middle of nowhere in central Florida (I was doing my PhD at
> the University of Florida at the time) with camera, tripod, fast film etc.
> The whole thing, when it happened, was decidedly underwhelming. I saw a
> solar eclipse in Israel in 1999, again, fun enough but no big deal really.
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> I guess I just have a preference for earthly phenomena.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 14 Aug 2017, at 19:09, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > 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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