A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about 90%obscuration here. George H should have been in the path of totality. George? You out there,man?Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOpticalInnovations LLC /Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> Wrote in message:rInnovations LLC /Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about 90%obscuration here. George H should have been in the path of totality. George? You out there,man?Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical
Was fun to watch, surprised how I noticed things getting brighter
2 min after the max. Thought it take longer. And we only ha 89%
percent
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about 90% >obscuration here.
George H should have been in the path of totality. George? You out there, >man?
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
On 09/04/2024 02:48, Martin Rid wrote:
The very last 0.1% obscuration makes all the difference.
...
They are truly awe inspiring and I can see why eclipse chasers do it. Everyone should see one if they possibly can.
Phil Hobbs wrote:was floating above the sunset.
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about 90% >>obscuration here.
George H should have been in the path of totality. George? You out there, >>man?
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
I was on the edge of totality. It lasted one and half minutes. It got colder but it didn't get windy and it got darker but not dark enough to see the stars. I could see Jupiter and Venus. The sky was red along the horizon, so it looked like the eclipse
How many planets have intelligent life and a moon the right size and in the right orbit so that someone can see a total eclipse? Our planet is unique in the galaxy.
On 09/04/2024 02:48, Martin Rid wrote:
Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> Wrote in message:r
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about
90%obscuration here. George H should have been in the path of
totality. George? You out there,man?Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip
C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
/Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog
Electronics
Was fun to watch, surprised how I noticed things getting brighter
2 min after the max. Thought it take longer. And we only ha 89%
percent
Bit late to say it now but if you were that close to the line of
totality it is worth travelling a few hundred miles to see a total
eclipse. The very last 0.1% obscuration makes all the difference.
Surprisingly uniform and smooth corona considering how active the sun
has been recently - I was expecting to see some streamers.
They are truly awe inspiring and I can see why eclipse chasers do it. Everyone should see one if they possibly can. The ancients must have
found it completely terrifying to watch the sun get eaten up in the sky.
I thought about going to see this one but the seasonal weather
predictions for the track were not so great at this time of year.
Several of my US friends went to see it though on the main axis.
On 09/04/2024 02:48, Martin Rid wrote:
Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> Wrote in message:r
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about
90%obscuration here. George H should have been in the path of
totality. George? You out there,man?Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip
C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
/Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog
Electronics
Was fun to watch, surprised how I noticed things getting brighter
2 min after the max. Thought it take longer. And we only ha 89%
percent
Bit late to say it now but if you were that close to the line of
totality it is worth travelling a few hundred miles to see a total
eclipse. The very last 0.1% obscuration makes all the difference.
Surprisingly uniform and smooth corona considering how active the sun
has been recently - I was expecting to see some streamers.
They are truly awe inspiring and I can see why eclipse chasers do it. Everyone should see one if they possibly can. The ancients must have
found it completely terrifying to watch the sun get eaten up in the sky.
I thought about going to see this one but the seasonal weather
predictions for the track were not so great at this time of year.
Several of my US friends went to see it though on the main axis.
On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:32:25, Wanderer<dont@emailme.com> wrote:eclipse was floating above the sunset.
Phil Hobbs wrote:
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about 90%
obscuration here.
George H should have been in the path of totality. George? You out there, >>> man?
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
I was on the edge of totality. It lasted one and half minutes. It got colder but it didn't get windy and it got darker but not dark enough to see the stars. I could see Jupiter and Venus. The sky was red along the horizon, so it looked like the
How many planets have intelligent life and a moon the right size and in the right orbit so that someone can see a total eclipse? Our planet is unique in the galaxy.
We were all on the roof, looking at the eclipse (we got maybe 30%
here) and we talked about that. Earth is maybe too good to be an
accident.
We're lucky that birds can fly, and water exists in three states, and
that we can see the stars.
On 4/9/2024 6:07 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 09/04/2024 02:48, Martin Rid wrote:
Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> Wrote in message:r
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about
90%obscuration here. George H should have been in the path of
totality. George? You out there,man?Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip >>>> C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
/Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog
Electronics
Was fun to watch, surprised how I noticed things getting brighter
2 min after the max. Thought it take longer. And we only ha 89%
percent
Bit late to say it now but if you were that close to the line of
totality it is worth travelling a few hundred miles to see a total
eclipse. The very last 0.1% obscuration makes all the difference.
It was a pretty good show outside Boston at 90%, but yes not at all like
a total. It became visibly "mild to moderately dark", like an overcast
day. but the drop in the infrared was very noticeable.
What's the best spot to see August 12, 2026? In central Spain the chance
of cloud cover is lowest, but it'll be racing the sunset and low on the horizon.
Beach seems better but the chance of clouds will be higher. The sun will
be higher in Reykjavik but chance of clouds higher still..
On 4/9/2024 5:07 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 09/04/2024 02:48, Martin Rid wrote:
The very last 0.1% obscuration makes all the difference.
...
They are truly awe inspiring and I can see why eclipse chasers do it.
Everyone should see one if they possibly can.
I traveled from the Chicago suburbs to Kansas City to see the '17
eclipse. Clouds kicked in about 5 minutes before totality but I got to
see the darkness fall, cicadas started up, etc.
This time I stayed home. They'd been saying we were to get 94%
coverage, but my shadowbox images don't appear to show anything near
that -- more like maybe 70% at most. I could see the character of the sunlight got kind of gray, but that was it.
One of the local TV weathermen went to the center of the track, and was literally in tears on the air. I thought it was neat but not neat
enough to create emotional turmoil. Granted I didn't experience totality.
The difference between 99% and totality is literally like between night
and day
The return of the IR doesn't feel linear either, at some point as
coverage wanes it feels like it ramps up from not much to 100% over
about 30 seconds.
On 4/10/24 08:46, Martin Brown wrote:
The difference between 99% and totality is literally like between night
and day
NASA said that my zip code was 99.1% and it was noticeably darker, much
like heavy cloud cover from storms despite the clear sky. But it was
still quite easy to drive or even read by < 1% of sunlight.
I've since read that it needs to be 99.9 ~> 100% to have significant
impact on the amount of light.
I too have seen and enjoyed the light / shadow effects on the ground
that others talked about. I experienced thousands of tiny pinhole
camera like from trees / bushes / even building awnings during the 2017
(?) eclipse.
A pretty good partial eclipse is just ending here. We had about 90% obscuration here.
George H should have been in the path of totality. George? You out
there, man?
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