@divegeester saidBrain Damage gooster?....I recall no such thing!!! 😛
The was a wonderful exchange between VR and someone a while ago about which of them would win in a fight with a tiger.
Edit: might have been a lion.
I did however wrestle with baby cub bears when mama wasn't around. 🙂
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From the Valley of the Sun we are having a clear sky to see the eclipse, but it's not a total one. Has anyone looked at the shadows of tree leaves while the sun is being eclipsed? The half-moon shaped shadows are neat to look at. Too bad we can't link our photos here, otherwise I would post photos of the leaves shadows being cast on the ground by my ficus and lemon trees.
@pettytalk saidAmidst the hush of cosmic alignment, where sun and moon entwine, the tree leaves become oracle dancers. Their shadows, once mere whispers, now weave celestial secrets upon the earth. The lemon trees whisper their cosmic longing.
From the Valley of the Sun we are having a clear sky to see the eclipse, but it's not a total one. Has anyone looked at the shadows of tree leaves while the sun is being eclipsed? The half-moon shaped shadows are neat to look at. Too bad we can't link our photos here, otherwise I would post photos of the leaves shadows being cast on the ground by my ficus and lemon trees.
Will this do?
@pettytalk saidWhere I am the coverage got to 64.4%.
From the Valley of the Sun we are having a clear sky to see the eclipse, but it's not a total one. Has anyone looked at the shadows of tree leaves while the sun is being eclipsed? The half-moon shaped shadows are neat to look at. Too bad we can't link our photos here, otherwise I would post photos of the leaves shadows being cast on the ground by my ficus and lemon trees.
And it's not the shadows, but the gaps between the leaves acting as tiny pinhole cameras showing the shape of the sun, reduced to a crescent as the moon passes in front.
Eclipse perfectly seen through those ISO 12312-2 glasses. Over half coverage, the most I've seen in the time I've been in Phoenix.
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So on the second attempt, because I went to the spot a week earlier. Pointed out by @suzianne 🙄
It was complete cloud cover and nobody was interested. I looked up and the clouds parted and I started yelling "there it is! there it is!"
It was the moment the moon was dead center of the sun and everyone looked and started taking pics.
I got a good pic but cellphones aren't the best for taking pics of something like that.
The entire region was covered with clouds and our little area, that about 15 people chose, got to see the clouds part long enough to see the best part.
The crazy part is two hours later you can't see a cloud anywhere 😄
The area where people paid a lot of money for motels and good spots didn't receive such a gift. 🤣
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@very-rusty saidI'm over by Buffalo NY and it was massive cloud cover. They said an estimated 2 million visitors in the area and I'll be checking the internet later to read their posts about how they spent so much money to visit here and saw nothing 🤣
We didn't get total darkness like back in 1979, but it did get quite dark for several minutes. Luckily we had clear skies, which some didn't get. Best view was in New Brunswick and Cape Breton.
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@rookie54 saidHAHAHA
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/airbnb-bookings-eclipse-april-8-map
the link is to a map of airbnb and vrbo listings ahead of the eclipse
so many americans who travel to gaze at the sun and complain about how much it costs to do so
lol
and,
i am doing my small part to be as eclipse outrageous and disgusting as possible
i dropped a deuce today in the perfect shape of the path of totality
i took pictures, too
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@divegeester saidI've heard worse from radicals in other religions.
Bonkers gobby right-winger, you know, she’s the one hoping to sit on Trump’s lap in the Oval Office in December. Got upset with David Cameron a few months ago. Thinks America needs to repent to Jesus for electing Biden and the eclipse is a sign from God.
@pettytalk said@sonhouse has; but you knew that didn’t you 😉
From the Valley of the Sun we are having a clear sky to see the eclipse, but it's not a total one. Has anyone looked at the shadows of tree leaves while the sun is being eclipsed? The half-moon shaped shadows are neat to look at. Too bad we can't link our photos here, otherwise I would post photos of the leaves shadows being cast on the ground by my ficus and lemon trees.
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@suzianne saidI'm in the East valley, and the same %, I assume.
Where I am the coverage got to 64.4%.
And it's not the shadows, but the gaps between the leaves acting as tiny pinhole cameras showing the shape of the sun, reduced to a crescent as the moon passes in front.
Eclipse perfectly seen through those ISO 12312-2 glasses. Over half coverage, the most I've seen in the time I've been in Phoenix.
Yes, I know about the leaves and pin holes. At the time I took the photos of the shadows the eclipse was about 50% (half-moon shape). Without eye protection we are told that we can use a colander to view the eclipse indirectly.
I used, believe it or not, a Home Depot, throwaway, black plastic liner for a paint roller tray. I had a couple leftovers and unused. I only looked at the eclipse four times, and at 5 seconds intervals, at most. I hope I did not damage my sight. A neighbor had a pair of eclipse glasses, and comparing it to the liner, had what appeared to be the same blocking intensity. I did not check if the glasses were the ISO approved kind. Still, not prudent on my part on either. Or should I be blunt with myself, and say that it was a stupid thing do?