OT - Solar Eclipse plans
August 20th, 2017 at 7:48 PM ^
... but for god's sake, don't ruin your phone camera, especially on the really high-end. Put a filter over the lens if you're going to be taking pictures. It's not going to be a good picture unfiltered anyway. And super small.
Better advice: just experience it with your own (ISO-certified filtered) eyes and don't miss it by watching your screen.
EDIT: there's a mix of advice on web about this, but I asked an engineer who actually works on the iPhone camera. He said filter that pup.
August 20th, 2017 at 7:49 PM ^
BTW, are there any bars to watch the Jerryworld game in Split, Croatia?
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August 20th, 2017 at 9:04 PM ^
Not going to watch--I already read a spoiler about what is going to happen.
August 20th, 2017 at 7:56 PM ^
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August 20th, 2017 at 8:19 PM ^
Here in Charleston, hotels are completely booked everywhere in the city. My employer gave us an 'Eclipse Holiday', because experts are estimating enough traffic in the city to mimic hurricane evacuation. I'm just hoping for clear skies.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:24 PM ^
Good luck. Unfortunately every day in Cali is no clouds. Eclipse is up in Oregon though.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:31 PM ^
Kind of jealous. I was at the Rose Bowl a decade ago, and I was blown away by the amazing weather, no pun intended. It's been 90 and 75% humidity for a month straight here. I miss the Michigan summers.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^
I hear you. I'm near Sac where it's 95 and 20% humidity all summer. Love the weather but the place is a little crazy. I too miss the Michigan summers. Love Higgins and Traverse, etc.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:04 PM ^
I love how you could see 99.5% of it, but you wanted the whole show so that you travelled to gain the other 0.5%. Seriously, that's awesome.
I have a busy afternoon at work, but I'm sure I'll find the time to at least walk outside for a few to check out what everything at ground level looks like. I don't have any of the glasses, so I'm going to have to wait until photos online to get a good look at it.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:05 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^
Hate to admit it, but I'm on my 5th 8.2% Lagunitas on a Sunday. Sad.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:07 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 8:14 PM ^
Where can I get the shades? 7-11 selling them?
August 21st, 2017 at 5:31 AM ^
Just stare at it through a couple of your empty Lagunitas bottles. I'm sure you'll be fine.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:27 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
Word. Wish I was there.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
...in that I will be on a flight right around the time of the eclipse, above the clouds with an unobstructed view, but I didn't get a pair of glasses.
First world problems.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:36 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 8:41 PM ^
I am going to strip naked. Cover myself in sea salt. Then I am going drink absinth and pray to mother Gaia for protection. I will then take my ceremonial blade Blackfyre and commit Seppuku.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^
Don't commit seppuku bro. I love you.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:13 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 8:42 PM ^
Guys, I fucked up today warning my son about staring at the son and now he is afraid to even be in the daylight during the solar eclipse. I feel terrible; I wanted to leave a strong fear in him but not like this...
parenting is hard.
August 21st, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
Like in a mirror or...?
August 20th, 2017 at 8:43 PM ^
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August 20th, 2017 at 8:55 PM ^
Jealous. Awesome. We only get 81% down here.
August 20th, 2017 at 10:22 PM ^
live in Oregon in the path of totality - got my eclipse glasses - going to buy a mocha, grab a nice lawn chair and sit out back and watch
August 20th, 2017 at 8:51 PM ^
Hey, it's free kool-aid and I like the way tinfoil feels on my skin. Until then, I'll be shooting the eclipse with a camera rig I built for the occasion, hopefully not frying the camera. See you on zeta ritculi.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:13 PM ^
Should I neg you for "anti-Semitic" comments? I guess not as you haven't spoken poorly of Arabics so far as I can tell.
August 20th, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 9:05 PM ^
about a 40 mile drive south to the "zone of the totality" - will make that in the AM.
Projected to be partly cloudy/partly sunny across Nebraska tomorrow - cross the fingers.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:09 PM ^
I work at a college so they are going to do a viewing on the quad. Some of the scientists will have glasses, pinhole cameras, and a telescope set up to project the image onto a screen (or something like that--I'm in the Humanities so I don't really understand all this stuff). We're only 60% coverage, but apparently for the 2024 eclipse we'll be pretty close to totality (upper New England).
August 20th, 2017 at 9:27 PM ^
I live in Oregon, right on the totality path. I'm going to work, but taking like an early hour lunch break to hang out on the patio behind the office starting around 9:45.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:38 PM ^
I'm in St. Louis for totality, debating how far and in what direction I may drive because of clouds. I've got two kids and no other adults on the trip with me... so probably we'll just hit the park and hope that the sky is clear here.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:45 PM ^
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August 20th, 2017 at 10:26 PM ^
I don't have any glasses but I already have a dangerous compulsion to get a quick look anyway. I'm in Evanston and I read we have an 87% eclipse.
August 20th, 2017 at 10:52 PM ^
and am driving to Wyoming. As a nerd about all celestial events, I can't wait.
August 20th, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^
I left Denver late this AM on I-76. That's a typically quiet and boring highway - today it was jammed. Looking at traffic going the other way, I think there were 5 times as many cars heading east as heading west.
August 20th, 2017 at 11:04 PM ^