![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:15 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
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.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:19 |
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Can you confirm that it was neat?
![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:20 |
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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.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:22 |
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Outstanding photography. Well done.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:26 |
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Can confirm. Extremely neat. I knew about what to expect, but it was still an awesome sight.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:27 |
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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).
![]() 08/22/2017 at 13:30 |
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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.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 14:29 |
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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.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 14:30 |
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Tripod?
![]() 08/22/2017 at 14:34 |
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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.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 14:36 |
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Even more impressive then. I managed something with my iPhone and the advice of some other observers in the library parking lot.
![]() 08/22/2017 at 16:28 |
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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?
![]() 08/22/2017 at 17:00 |
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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.
![]() 08/23/2017 at 09:04 |
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You would know better than me, but that’s very cool. Great photos!