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Eclipse watchers in America on April 8th.
David Hess:
--- Quote from: BrianHG on April 08, 2024, 09:07:00 pm ---I used 2 professional sets of photographic quality polarizers when rotated at their darkest cut light at over 1million:1.
I was able to adjust the contrast through rotation throughout the eclipse and had the best possible view albeit the loss by the overcast clouds...
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I wondered if that would work. I will have to check it out for next time.
Ended up in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. My point and shoot camera could not focus through a dark filter, but worked for the total eclipse.
jbeng:
I viewed the event from my friend's farm in southern Illinois. The weather was great - we had high clouds which were essentially transparent, with a temperature of about 75F (24C) and light winds.
Here are a couple shots:
BrianHG:
Anyone watching the eclipse get the sensation as totality approached; This must be the appearance of daylight from our sun if we were living on one of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons?
Andy Chee:
--- Quote from: BrianHG on April 10, 2024, 02:13:09 am ---Anyone watching the eclipse get the sensation as totality approached; This must be the appearance of daylight from our sun if we were living on one of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons?
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I haven't done the math, but I don't think any of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons has the correct size-distance ratios to have the same effect.
Or in other words, the effect would be no different to living aboard the international space station and passing through Earth's shadow, and experiencing the sun emerge through the edge of the earth every 90 minutes or so.
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: Andy Chee on April 10, 2024, 04:33:08 am ---
--- Quote from: BrianHG on April 10, 2024, 02:13:09 am ---Anyone watching the eclipse get the sensation as totality approached; This must be the appearance of daylight from our sun if we were living on one of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons?
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I haven't done the math, but I don't think any of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons has the correct size-distance ratios to have the same effect.
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:palm: That isn't what I meant. You cannot live on Jupiter or Saturn itself as they are gas giants without a surface. I was talking about if you built a colony dome city on one of those moons, or in a space suit on one of those moons, just having a dim sun as you maximum day light level because you are far away from the sum. I was not talking about an eclipse on the planets Jupiter or Saturn.
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