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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 1, 2012 - 10:01am PT
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Mark your calendars! On May 20, 2012, an annular solar eclipse will be visible just before sunset over much of the Western US. Check the graphic below to see if the eclipse will be visible from your location:
Click here for a timetable of the eclipse, for many cities in the Western US:
http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/May2012_Annular_table_24hr.pdf
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Catch it if you can and cross fingers for good weather!
Next chance in North America won't be for 20 years.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What do the shaded elliptical areas signify?
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2012 - 12:06pm PT
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@reilly : the shaded ovals give “snapshot” representations of the Moon’s shadow at approximately 5-minute intervals
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Does that mean the areas between the darkly shaded areas won't be a full annular?
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corniss chopper
climber
breaking the speed of gravity
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It is never safe to look at a partial or annular eclipse, or the partial phases of a total solar eclipse,
without the proper equipment and techniques.
Even when 99% of the Sun's surface (the photosphere) is
obscured during the partial phases of a solar eclipse, the remaining
crescent Sun is still intense enough to cause a retinal burn,
even though illumination levels are comparable to twilight
[Chou, 1981, 1996; Marsh,1982].
Failure to use proper observing methods will result in
permanent eye damage or severe visual loss
. This can have important adverse effects on career choices and earning potential, since it has been shown that most
individuals who sustain eclipse-related eye injuries are children and young adults [Penner and McNair, 1966; Chou and Krailo, 1981].
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety2.html
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2012 - 01:51pm PT
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@reilly : all areas between the parallel red lines in the graphic will see a full annular eclipse for some period of time.
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2012 - 10:25am PT
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Get ready! It's a little over a week away! Click on the link above for a very useful time table.
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spyork
Trad climber
Tunneling out of prison
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May 18, 2012 - 02:40am PT
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I am taking my boys up to Redding. Already got our Eclipse glasses!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 18, 2012 - 03:10am PT
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I'm headed to Redding, too... the Sundial Bridge, to shoot the eclipse
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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May 18, 2012 - 10:36am PT
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I've use 2-3 layers of exposed film to view them. But very short periods of time.
Telescope stores have filter, not cheap.
You can punch a round circle in a piece of paper, line it up perpendicular to the sun, and project an image of the eclipse on a flat surface.
Watch this link to see the shadow cross the Earth. Might even be better than going outside.
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browsw2.html
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2012 - 10:52am PT
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I had plans to link a business trip next week to Oroville with Eclipse watching on Sunday, but alas, my plans didn't work out :-(
I'm depending on you, Ed, to get some killer shots. Sunday's weather forecast for Redding looks pretty good right now.
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WBraun
climber
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May 18, 2012 - 10:58am PT
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Moon eclipse = inauspicious sign
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 18, 2012 - 11:00am PT
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But it's not really the moon, right? :)
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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May 18, 2012 - 12:50pm PT
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Please correct me if I'm wrong,
so from the image above, see Carson City and Reno and South Lake Tahoe there, the only difference in sighting based on latitude between these three is that reno will provide a more perfect annulus, is that right? because it's closer to the center line (marked in yellow).
So Klamath, it looks like, will provide a near perfect annulus.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 18, 2012 - 05:32pm PT
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I have an ND400 filter (9 stops) purchased for this event,
at f22 and a 100mm lens, the sun image in the viewfinder of my dSLR is slightly painful...
I'll probably go with f32 with 110mm lens, that's also shooting at 1/2000s
the projection of a pinhole is the safest method for observing the eclipse...
I suspect buying "eclipse glasses" would probably be satisfactory, too, but I'm sure the quality and functionality vary greatly.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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May 18, 2012 - 06:24pm PT
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Hey Ed, If you need a place to crash Sunday night after the eclipse, you are very welcome to stop on by... We are a hour south of Redding...
Can't wait to see your pictures...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 18, 2012 - 09:21pm PT
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here's an image of the Sun today around 6pm
50mm + 2x + 1.4x + ND400 f16 1/8000s exposure at ISO 100
50mm + 2x + 1.4x + ND400 f5.6 1/6400s exposure at ISO 100
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nature
climber
CO
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May 18, 2012 - 09:36pm PT
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But it's not really the moon, right? :)
nope!
*giggle*
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aguacaliente
climber
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May 18, 2012 - 11:27pm PT
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For the pinhole projection don't you need a dark enclosure to get decent contrast? I've seen recommendations for obtaining or constructing a five foot long cardboard box.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/how.html
Take a poster tube or other long cardboard tube or box. At the top end, tape a pinhole made from aluminum foil. At the bottom end, tape a piece of paper for the projection screen. At the bottom, cut away about a third of the tube, for a length of a few inches. This is the viewing window that lets you look down at the paper.
Make it now and you can test it tomorrow when the sun is out. I'm going to go make one now.
Another cool thing is that if you look at the shadow under a tree, the leaves form apertures moving back and forth in the wind, and make little images of the circular disk of sun. During a partial eclipse the dappled shadow of leaves turns into a swarm of crescents. It is really weird looking and a lot more interesting than you would think.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 19, 2012 - 04:31am PT
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hey there say, aguacaliente... thanks for the neat share...
ed, thanks for the neat pics!
(awww, and nita... thanks for being so sweet to folks)... :)
did not get to read all these yet...
:))
happy good eve, all..
:)
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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May 19, 2012 - 10:34am PT
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that's no moon...
rolling towards zion in minutes my own self...hang ledge, sit on ledge, drink beverage, watch show...binocs and paper seem the way to go...
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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May 19, 2012 - 12:46pm PT
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This topic was discussed on 'Talk of the Nation; Science Friday' yesterday. They recommended a #14 welders glass for safely viewing the eclipse. I've never tried it myself, but if the clouds permit, I will try it tomorrow.
What I'm more interested in seeing is the Venus transit next month. This will not occur again for over 100 years. Hoping for clear skies.
http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/where-to-be
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 19, 2012 - 03:44pm PT
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reading Chewybacca's post and following the links to the NASA site I learned about using the Hα line to view the chromosphere of the sun... I have a Hoya HMC R25A filter, with a spectral transmission of ~0% at <550nm and ~100% at >650 nm, the Hα line is at 656.28nm.
So you can see the sun's chromosphere, in principal... here is a Photoshopped image with the various channels tweaked... showing the result:
50mm + 2x + 1.4x + ND400 + R25A at f5.6 1/8000s ISO 100
here the red channel is very suppressed to be able to "see through" the chromosphere to the photosphere... the filter still lets light through below 550 nm just very suppressed
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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May 19, 2012 - 04:59pm PT
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Hmm did you actually catch a couple sunspots there?
Got my eclipse glasses today.. hoping to see the corona fairly well.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 19, 2012 - 07:01pm PT
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hey there say, all... just a bump for tomorrow...
:)
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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May 19, 2012 - 08:45pm PT
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Anyone going to try to get the annulus (aka the ring of fire) right at sunset? perhaps in the saddle of some hill or mountain ridge? Where I am it will take place 17 degrees off the horizon (and what is THAT angle called again, I think it has a name?) - that means more than an hour before sunset on the Carson Range summit from which I'll be seeing it.
If so and you got a picture, please post up.
I got my welder shades ready,
Happy viewing!
EDIT
Looks like it's just called "altitude" - duh.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 19, 2012 - 09:01pm PT
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possible weather change
cloud cover Sunday evening in Redding and Reno...
the sort of drama I could do without
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 19, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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#9 welding glass should be fine.
I've used a #10 (pretty much standard for all but really high current welding)for several previous eclipses. just grabbed the hood and went outside.
The binocular projection method or cardboard box camera obscura gives you a much more detailed and impressive view though.
That would be the ticket for the Transit. Probably wouldn't look like much thru a welding lens.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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May 20, 2012 - 03:15am PT
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Will head towards Fallon or east of Fernley along 395 if necessary
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schwortz
Social climber
"close to everything = not at anything", ca
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May 20, 2012 - 03:22am PT
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i read in multiple locations that only a #14 welding shield/glass is suitable AND that welders glass is NOT additive i.e. 9 + 5 does not = 14. fwiw...i'm not an expert but this info did come from expert sources (nasa, etc)
i bought eclipse glasses - 5 pair for 12 bucks on amazon....
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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May 20, 2012 - 03:40am PT
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I have viewed them with a Doritos bag. It works. I also use a welding helmet.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 20, 2012 - 06:03am PT
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My dad, as a young buck (8-11) suffered life long damage to his vision from viewing an eclipse back in the late twenties or early thirties.
Star gazing, astronomy was a major form of entertainment back then, esp in Merigold, MS where there alternatives were few. It never dulled his appreciation for astronomy, he could name many constellations.
By the time he was in his 70's his vision was very strained and in order to read he had to have a magnifying glass and light source has to be diffused.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 20, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
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the eclipse expedition begins...
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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May 20, 2012 - 01:32pm PT
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We had perfect sky conditions for an eclipse last night. Twenty miles to the west - in Fontana ( where else? ) - there was a forty-foot tall stack of empty wooden pallets on fire. The smoke filtered the setting sun nicely.
If I'm lucky, there'll be something like it again this afternoon.
Good luck, Dr Hartouni!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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May 20, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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Perfectly clear.
Approaching 50% in Toquer City.
Pretty dark.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 20, 2012 - 09:15pm PT
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Beware the Toquerville Trolls- they see opportunity.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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May 20, 2012 - 09:17pm PT
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Certainly I hope everyone had the good sense not to be caught on a climb on this most ominous occasion.
disaster < L from the stars
The shadows cast from the leaves of any tree are amazing.
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yo
climber
Mudcat Spire
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May 20, 2012 - 09:17pm PT
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Going dim in Cedar.
Pagans and Trekkies swarming the streets!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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May 20, 2012 - 09:34pm PT
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Were you in the hailstorm friday?
Peaking now.
Strange shadows.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 20, 2012 - 09:36pm PT
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Like dusk with the sun too high....
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jfailing
Trad climber
Lone Pine
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May 20, 2012 - 09:39pm PT
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Taken from LP, with two pairs of sunglasses and some ski goggles.... Pretty awesome!!
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MB of the Central Valley
climber
kingsburg, CA
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May 20, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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It's happening down south of fresno. Strange light, like near a big wildland fire.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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May 20, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
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Is it ok that I didn't get very excited about this?
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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May 20, 2012 - 10:06pm PT
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It's now waning from the greatest coverage. It was really good for a partial solar eclipse in San Diego. Very nice and fun.
(I think I saw something lift-off the Moon! Lol. Just kidding)
My Thousand Oaks Optical White Light Solar Filter 2+ works great. I'm gonna have to get a CCD camera for my telescope so I can take images. Nice sunspots present before the greatest coverage.
http://www.thousandoaksoptical.com/
Can't wait for the Venus transit coming up, June 5-6.
From Chewy's post . . .
http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/where-to-be
We do get a Total Solar Eclipse coming up in a few years in the USA over the midwest region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017
"It will have a magnitude of 1.0306 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 40 seconds at WikiMiniAtlas36°58.5′N 87°39.3′W / 36.975°N 87.655°W / 36.975; -87.655 in the Bainbridge/Sinking Fork area of Christian County, Kentucky just northwest of Hopkinsville, Kentucky[3]. This center is located on a historical farm named Orchard Dale."
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 20, 2012 - 10:06pm PT
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we don't need no stinkin technology.
Just a sycamore tree.
and a white wall
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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May 20, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
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From my backyard through my welding mask.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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May 20, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
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Once again, Batrock has all the cool gear.
It's been a very nice eclipse here in LA.
Waiting for Nita to check in from her totality party.
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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May 20, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
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TGT, cool photos.
Saw the same here
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 20, 2012 - 10:50pm PT
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TGT...That's too cool.
I had some cardboard and mylar-esque Eclipse glasses and checked in on it while dining al fresco. It went from balmy to pretty darned fresco over the course of it too!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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May 20, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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Got some great views lookin' thru our eclipse glasses at the
Southern Sun in Boulder this evening~!!!!!
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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May 20, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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No pics but still totally cool on the Cali Central Coast - used a pair of welding goggles and a pinhole camera from my Cub Scout days to watch the dragon eat the sun.
Anyone notice the temperature drop during the peak?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 20, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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HighFructose:
The experience of a pristine but cold night atop Bugaboo Spire under a partial moon event in 8-70 will only ever be eclipsed as a natural event that I have witnessed by one of these:
A) the birth of my daughter,12-78
B) the rock fall at Elephant Rock, 12-70
C) Harding's hangover the day after the Dawn Wall' 11-70.
1970 WAS a big year.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 20, 2012 - 11:32pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 20, 2012 - 11:44pm PT
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This didn't look like 83% in LA but what do I know?
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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May 21, 2012 - 12:02am PT
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Dave German, Judy Rittenhouse, John Williams, Sean and I went up to Montgomery Pass. John had looked up on the Naval Observatory site that we would get 31 seconds of annularity. Anyway, a cloud came over and we missed out 31 seconds. Still, very cool.
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squishy
Mountain climber
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May 21, 2012 - 12:32am PT
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crescents from sac with love.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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May 21, 2012 - 12:54am PT
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Squishy, ...way cool picture!
Fantastic Day!!...way fun.
unfiltered..
Filtered..
Just when i thought the day couldn't get any better...Ed Hartouni showed up at our door..Hoot!!
edit: Mr Bolte...wow..
Spider, hung out with several friends, and several more bailed... weird.. how we were all got a solar high from the day's event...very little drinking and.. i didn't see any drugs..
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 21, 2012 - 01:03am PT
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 21, 2012 - 03:44am PT
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just got in... thanks so much for Nita and Andy for my too brief stop over, a life saver!
I'll post more images later, and a story, but here is the eclipse at roughly 17:43:05
as seen from Redding, CA
a bit of cloud cover, but not so much to obscure too much (though I like the one Mike posted from Japan!)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 21, 2012 - 03:56am PT
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I was born in Redding, a so-called "hub city" if you would believe the CofC.
How freaky symbolic.
Pleasantville dreams, Ed.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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May 21, 2012 - 04:38am PT
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...appreciative of all the in...and out of this world photos!
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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May 21, 2012 - 09:09am PT
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Great photos everyone, thanks for the share.
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RtM
climber
DHS
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May 21, 2012 - 11:51am PT
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Heres what it looked like in Joshua Tree. I totally forgot there was going to be one, then it started getting notably darker around 6:30, thats when I remembered hearing about an eclipse. Took a few blind photos of the sun and there it was! Shot f45 at 1/8000th, no filter
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
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Wow, lots of amazing photos! I'm especially blown away by the glowing crescents formed by light filtering through tree leaves -- I would have never imagined that happening.
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213
climber
Where the Froude number often >> 1
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May 21, 2012 - 06:46pm PT
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Marvin flies by...
And impacts the solar irradiance (spike at 1400 is a cloud, but notice how the slope changes around 1745 and eclipse peaks out around 1840)
Better eclipse in Reno:
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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May 21, 2012 - 08:00pm PT
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This was the best I got from Santa Clarita, CA. I used every trick and filter I had...a 3 and 2 stop ND filters, a polarizing filter, shot at f40 and 1/4000 at iso100!
Solar:
And for the fun of it here's a lunar eclipse from last Nov:
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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May 21, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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fsck
climber
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May 21, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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from moab..
no filters (didn't occur to me to use my sunglasses)
f32, 1/2500, iso100, 250mm tele
lots of great shots in this thread!
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susan peplow
climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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May 22, 2012 - 12:48am PT
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Solar filter on telescope - used my iPhone at the eye-peice.
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
the green triangle, cali
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May 22, 2012 - 01:54am PT
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some cool pics here. my contribution from a mediocre handheld.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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May 22, 2012 - 02:12am PT
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From my backyard: pear tree + aspen + eclipse =
And here's a nice series from Tahoe's east shore, shamelessly nicked off Facebook from the very talented Grant Kaye:
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 22, 2012 - 03:38am PT
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here from Redding, still working on the composite this is a first draft
the blurring is due to the cloud cover, it's not so bad in the individual images but I have to work on the "blend" in Photoshop.
Used my 50mm x 2 x 1.4 = 140mm lens, equivalent to a 210mm lens on my dSLR
ND400 and Red(25A) filters
f5.6, 1/2000s exposure at ISO 100
and the Nikon MC-36 timer to trigger the camera every 2 minutes... (note that I covered the camera in between shots to prevent the shutter from overheating due to the sun image)
the times are taken from my GPS Waypoints I entered every exposure, and cross checked with the camera times.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 22, 2012 - 04:19am PT
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excellent Ed!
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 08:37am PT
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Yes, nicely done, Ed.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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May 22, 2012 - 10:15am PT
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I'm surprised someone hasn't posted this shot I lifted from FB. The shadow on the clouds is surreal
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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I doubt the ^^^^ photo is legit. Cool looking, but parts of it likely photoshopped. At the very least, it appears that a shot of the galactic core (the Summer-visible part of our galaxy) has been pasted next to the eclipsed Sun. I'd like to be proven wrong, though :-)
EDIT: I just checked NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD) pages, and nothing remotely resembling this image has been posted; if the FB photo were for real, something that spectacular would have likely made into APOD.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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May 22, 2012 - 11:25am PT
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could be XX, I just thought it was very cool looking and shared it.
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 11:33am PT
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It IS cool, for sure! Glad you put it up.
Here's the real deal, taken from the ISS:
EDIT: Another view, from space, taken by the ESAs Proba-2 Sun-observing satellite.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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May 22, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
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The quasi low tech approach
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2012 - 12:17pm PT
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That's a sweet telescope setup you've got, Russ. Man, with that and dark, high-desert skies, every night could be a space-fest.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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May 22, 2012 - 12:23pm PT
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This one took place back around 1990 or there abouts, our own Warbler took this shot from the wilds of La Jolla.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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May 22, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
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The scope is a Celestron C-90... had one bitd for looking at El Cap. I'm running a porro prism so I don't get confused as to orientation. The field of view when looking at climbers on El Cap was about 40 or 50 ft. You could see what size hook they were pulling off the rack! Cool stuff....
Then I sold it.... lived with that mistake for about 2 decades and then bought another one a few years back off of Craigs List. It happened to come with a solar filter so I busted it out, grabbed a brew and went all low tech with the iPhone. Fun stuff!
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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May 22, 2012 - 11:45pm PT
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Thanks everybody for the pictures!!...enjoyed all of them........................... Thought about Juan durning the eclipse ..
very good blue highlighted links... copy & paste..
If you missed it, you'll have to wait until Oct. 23, 2014, where a partial solar eclipse will strike Russia and the Western United States, including California. The center of the eclipse will pass "above" the North Pole, meaning that there won't be totality anywhere on the planet, according to Wikipedia.
On Aug. 21, 2017, however, a total solar eclipse will sweep through the United States, intersecting Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Maximum eclipse will occur at about 5:16 p.m. on the West Coast and 6:47 p.m. on the East Coast, with variations between the two depending on the location and the totality of the eclipse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_October_23,_2014
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html
edit: del cross, i'd love to go to Australia...never been.
edit...del, hhmmm, Tasmania......I wish...(-;
edit:..del...LOL....(-;
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 24, 2012 - 02:19am PT
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revised the image above...
and here are the 24 minutes centered on "totality"
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2012 - 09:12am PT
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Really cool, Ed. A lot of hard work paid off.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 24, 2012 - 09:47am PT
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Edwins!
Eclipses all mortals with efforts.
Ned we say the magic word?*
(Is it Edwin or Edword?)
*that would be "bump."
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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May 28, 2012 - 05:41pm PT
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Near the summit of Mt. Lemmon
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Trad
Trad climber
northern CA
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May 28, 2012 - 09:04pm PT
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Here's an example of a lucky shot. I meant to bring binoculars to project the eclipse (like the above) but forgot. Oh well, hope springs eternal so I took some shots anyway and discovered later that the lens aberration (?) of a Canon point-and-shoot gave a decent image. (Admittedly, this is pretty lame compared to the other images in this thread.) Lovers Leap/South Tahoe was near the southern edge of full annularity.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Temporarily Chapel Hill
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May 29, 2012 - 01:09am PT
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I was belaying on pitch 24 of the Muir wall when suddenly it got all dark and cold....then I remembered it was the eclipse! What a special event!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol
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May 29, 2012 - 02:10am PT
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Bummed I missed the eclipse. Cool photos everyone!
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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ok, so who is watching the transit of Venus tonight?
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Bummer...
Eclipse was great! Strange shadows from leaves were a bit freaky.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Transit of Venus is of more historical interest.
It led to Cook's explorations.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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a welder's mask works quite well in viewing
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Tozo
Trad climber
East of West
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https://vimeo.com/43260893
here's a link of a video I made of the eclipse.
Looking forward to venus, but unfortunately overcast skys in SLC
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Just was watching that with my binocs on paper too :)
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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It's happening! I think you can see it with sunglasses and through a CD, though much harder than with the eclipse. Also...some CDs are bad for this, so...I'm opting with don't look too long?
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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cloudy and raining up here for this one...
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