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Impaler member
Member # Joined: 02 Dec 1999 Posts: 1560 Location: Albuquerque.NewMexico.USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 6:04 pm |
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How many of you caught it? As I post this, the moon's still humping the edge of the sun. You know, I must be unlucky. In the state of 350 clear days a year, EVERY solar eclipse in my entire life was obscured by clouds. For me, that sort of thing is analogous to an artist missing a chance for a free set of Primacolors, 10 times in a row.
[edit took out jimmy hoffa edit]
[ June 10, 2002: Message edited by: Impaler ] |
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the_monkey member
Member # Joined: 20 May 2000 Posts: 688 Location: BC, Canada
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:06 pm |
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yeah i caught it.
i took a few pictures (btw, is that bad for your lense??) and you cant really see the eclipse unless you look at the lense flare. (its strange, you can see the moon bordering the sun a little)
ill post them later! |
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BloodStone member
Member # Joined: 16 Mar 2002 Posts: 143 Location: Sacramento, CA
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:48 pm |
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It's too dark here, I wish I could have seen it. |
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Coaster member
Member # Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 508 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 9:07 pm |
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Saw it.
I used an elaborate device of such ingenious design that.. ah hell I used a cue card. |
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Rat member
Member # Joined: 10 Feb 2002 Posts: 851 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 9:12 pm |
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Saw it. We just used a welder's mask. Took a few pics of it through the glass in the ask. (monkey, I don't think it's particularly good for it, anyway). |
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Nilwort member
Member # Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Posts: 319
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 2:09 am |
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posssst piiiiCCCCCSSSss! |
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Rat member
Member # Joined: 10 Feb 2002 Posts: 851 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 6:53 am |
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I'm not sure how ours turned out, whether they were trashed, or what. I had to sit outside with the junk dad left out there. I'd take photography over the sun any day. |
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Awetopsy member
Member # Joined: 04 Oct 2000 Posts: 3028 Location: Kelowna
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:39 am |
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it was pretty cool.. it was fairly sunny out but I caught a glimpse weraing my sunglasses and the sun-strips around the windows of my truck... was actually pretty cool. |
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pixelsoldier member
Member # Joined: 18 Dec 1999 Posts: 728 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:17 pm |
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I looked directly at it, and now I go spontaneously blind .ethruity574hlr dksfykjlh af.. doh. |
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Dr. Bang member
Member # Joined: 04 Dec 2001 Posts: 1425 Location: DENHAAG, HOLLAND
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:22 pm |
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shit, did i missed it!?! dfkalfkldsfsd
oh well, i was too lazy to get up and look out my window. fdsfksdlfkdsfjakl |
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[666]Flat member
Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2001 Posts: 1545 Location: FRANKFURT, Germany
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 3:07 pm |
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quote: Originally posted by pixelsoldier:
I looked directly at it, and now I go spontaneously blind .ethruity574hlr dksfykjlh af.. doh.
Can I have your porn archive now? |
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Impaler member
Member # Joined: 02 Dec 1999 Posts: 1560 Location: Albuquerque.NewMexico.USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 4:17 pm |
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I made the neighbor kids (4-8 years old) freak out when I showed them the sun through some eclipse glasses I have. They had no idea there was an eclipse.
Monkey: I seriously doubt it can damage the lens itself, unless you magnified the beam and melted some coating. I think you might burn out ccd cells, too, but I don't think that happens on post-97 models. Nevertheless, shooting all those fantacular shots of the sun requires very fast exposures and filters, usually just a solar filter, or an alpha-hydrogen filter, which is the one astrogeeks use to get all those amazing pictures of solar flares and the sun's surface. |
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Nilwort member
Member # Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Posts: 319
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 5:53 pm |
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I saw a lunar eclipse a while ago, that was cool. The moon turned almost a dark redish color. With binoculars you could actually see the shadow of the earth on the moon sinking down into it's craters and stuff... |
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Jezebel member
Member # Joined: 02 Nov 2000 Posts: 1940 Location: Mesquite, TX, US
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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 2:43 pm |
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Yeap... I caught it
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Awetopsy member
Member # Joined: 04 Oct 2000 Posts: 3028 Location: Kelowna
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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 3:30 pm |
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Awesome Beth, Those are great shots. |
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Godwin member
Member # Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 701 Location: Singapore
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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 9:56 pm |
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are those people lying when they say u get blind looking at these things? |
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