by "t0ast" (t0ast217)
Published 08/22/2017 at 13:15
by "t0ast" (t0ast217)
Published 08/22/2017 at 13:15
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After keeping a close eye on the weather, The fiance and I headed out with a few friends to Odessa, MO for the eclipse yesterday. It wasn’t *the* best spot for totality duration (~1 minute instead of 2+), but it was still totality, and more importantly, the sky remained totally clear long enough to watch the entire eclipse. Many other parts of the state weren’t so lucky.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
08/22/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 2
Can you confirm that it was neat?
"mazda616" (mazda616)
08/22/2017 at 13:20, STARS: 1
Awesome photos! We had 99.07% totality here. It didn’t get dark but it got dark enough for the building lights to come on.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
08/22/2017 at 13:22, STARS: 2
Outstanding photography. Well done.
"t0ast" (t0ast217)
08/22/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 2
Can confirm. Extremely neat. I knew about what to expect, but it was still an awesome sight.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
08/22/2017 at 13:27, STARS: 0
Awesome! We were in Tipton at a small park. What an incredible experience (with my 3 kids, my wife, and my brother and his wife).
"t0ast" (t0ast217)
08/22/2017 at 13:30, STARS: 0
Thanks, they were from a DSLR (Sony a6000) with just a modest zoom lens and borrowed solar filter. I was a bit surprised at how good they came out.
"Arrivederci" (arrividerci)
08/22/2017 at 14:29, STARS: 0
Nice! We had 96% totality, except that it decided to rain. My town has quite literally become a desert over the last month or two and yesterday, of all days, it decides to frickin’ rain. Not only that, it only rained from 1:30pm - 2:45pm, basically when our eclipse was happening. Clouds cleared quickly after 3pm, so I got to see a bit of the moon moving off the sun, which was neat, but I missed the best part. Super bummed.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
08/22/2017 at 14:30, STARS: 0
Tripod?
"t0ast" (t0ast217)
08/22/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 1
Unfortunately forgot the tripod at home, so it was instead a hasty assemblage of odds and ends to angle it up against my Outback’s roof rack.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
08/22/2017 at 14:36, STARS: 0
Even more impressive then. I managed something with my iPhone and the advice of some other observers in the library parking lot.
"thejustache" (thejustache)
08/22/2017 at 16:28, STARS: 1
Very nice! I also used an a6000 but as it was last minute (wasn’t expecting too much here in NY at just 70%) I didn’t have a long enough lens to get much detail. Still with 2 stacked ND1000 filters I was able to get a couple shots. That speck of light to the lower left - I saw that in someone else’s picture and they said that’s Venus?
"t0ast" (t0ast217)
08/22/2017 at 17:00, STARS: 1
I think that one was Mercury (assuming I read the sky maps correctly). Venus was supposed to be among visible planets at that time, but I was too fixated on the eclipse to spot the others.
"thejustache" (thejustache)
08/23/2017 at 09:04, STARS: 0
You would know better than me, but that’s very cool. Great photos!