For the big eclipse on Monday, we are cautiously optimistic.Models are showing a decent upper level ridge over the region, butthere are indications of some increasing moisture through the dayand the potential for isolated showers or thunderstorms, mainlyin the afternoon, It looks like skies will be partly cloudy, withsome scattered cumulus clouds and perhaps some larger patches ofthin cirrus clouds. Specific sky conditions are quite difficultseveral days out, so keep checking back for updates.
Btw. A report from a friend who lives in Bend OR (basically dead center of the track) described it to me tonight as they have turned the town into a full scale Burning Man event.In other news, sounds like Sweetwater TN is completely over sold. Can't wait for the crowds on Monday.
Here in Bend it's mostly quiet and rather smokey at the moment. The forest fire northwest of Bend near Sisters has the skies rather orange. I'm crossing my fingers that the wind will change by Monday morning and send the smoke to the South. I wouldn't be surprised to see substantially depressed turnout in central Oregon because of it though.The highways between the towns of central Oregon have been pretty clear thus far, with the exception of the highway east of Prineville heading to Big Summit Prairie was pretty jammed yesterday. http://www.tripcheck.com has all of ODOT's road cam's if you want to see how traffic is.
Quote from: kevin-rf on 08/19/2017 01:07 amBtw. A report from a friend who lives in Bend OR (basically dead center of the track) described it to me tonight as they have turned the town into a full scale Burning Man event.In other news, sounds like Sweetwater TN is completely over sold. Can't wait for the crowds on Monday.Bend is about 45 min to 1 hr south of the main track, a ~30 min drive from the edge of the totality. I'm heading there on Sunday, looks like some hotels are releasing some more rooms (people cancelling extra bookings?) and I was able to secure a room. Only 5x the normal rate! Hopefully it won't be too crazy.Quote from: yokem55 on 08/19/2017 02:20 amHere in Bend it's mostly quiet and rather smokey at the moment. The forest fire northwest of Bend near Sisters has the skies rather orange. I'm crossing my fingers that the wind will change by Monday morning and send the smoke to the South. I wouldn't be surprised to see substantially depressed turnout in central Oregon because of it though.The highways between the towns of central Oregon have been pretty clear thus far, with the exception of the highway east of Prineville heading to Big Summit Prairie was pretty jammed yesterday. http://www.tripcheck.com has all of ODOT's road cam's if you want to see how traffic is.That's encouraging to hear... It's difficult to know who to believe sometimes. Some predict little traffic to some locations, while others expect a complete mauling and breakdown of all infrastructure in the very same location. I'm hoping for more of the former when I visit Bend for the first time.
Hmmmm, is 97% good enough or do I get up in the middle of the night and try to drive 100 miles? I'm such a procrastinator.
Quote from: whitelancer64 on 08/20/2017 05:13 pmQuote from: gongora on 08/20/2017 03:58 pmHmmmm, is 97% good enough or do I get up in the middle of the night and try to drive 100 miles? I'm such a procrastinator.If you're that close to totality, well, I'd drive it.Indeed.Partial eclipses aren't the main event, they're mostly the same effect a few hundred miles from totality.It's the totality that makes the event. Both seeing the outer corona/streamers, as well as watching the shadow approach and depart around you.
Quote from: gongora on 08/20/2017 03:58 pmHmmmm, is 97% good enough or do I get up in the middle of the night and try to drive 100 miles? I'm such a procrastinator.If you're that close to totality, well, I'd drive it.
I just arrived in Bend, OR from CA. What about the hype of heavy traffic? Don't believe a word of it... Route 97 (and I-5 yesterday) only had marginally more traffic than during any weekend. Bend so far looks no more busy than any other decent sized town to my eye.For those in the Bend/Madras area, here is a good map showing how long the totality will be in different spots. You don't have to drive too far north to quickly get to 1 minute totality, and after that it seems like dwindling benefits to go further to Madras for the full 2 minutes.The image comes from this link, where they have similar maps from all large areas: https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/best-places-to-view/I haven't yet decided how far into the totality path I want to drive... it will depend on crowds and traffic.
Going to enjoy the eclipse with my wife at a viewing spot within walking distance of our apartment complex in Seneca, SC. Next door in Clemson they were expecting 3 times the amount of visitors a home football (as in real football Chris B. ) game would bring. Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable eclipse.
NASA Servers are overloaded right now.
He said on his page that he prepared for 4 days, trek the area and his gf and friend helped so they would get the right position.
Am I the only one who feels sad looking at pictures of the eclipse? As awesome as all these pictures are, to me they simply pale in comparison to the memory.
You can capture a great picture. But you can never capture the experience of being there.
Try using the Nightcap IOS app. Very useful for eclipses.
Agree 100%. I fully did not expect how awesome totality was. It was nothing short of amazing and I was not prepared for it.
Totality from Rexburg!
Quote from: Bubbinski on 08/22/2017 07:16 pmTotality from Rexburg!Beautiful! I completely forgot the rights settings and even to bracket my shots, so I missed the chance to capture the solar flares/perturbances. My shots ended up too over-exposed to capture that. Nice job!
Here are some pictures: (you can spot Mercury in the lower left of the first image)
Quote from: Lars-J on 08/22/2017 05:18 pmHere are some pictures: (you can spot Mercury in the lower left of the first image)Are you sure that is Mercury? The 'star' is about 1.5 degrees from the sun (estimating from your image). On a star chart, Mercury is roughly 6 degrees from the Sun (eyeballing it). It might be one of the stars in Leo. http://skymaponline.net/default.aspx
Here's a shot of the deep twilight in midday in Rexburg
Time-lapse of the #TotalEclipse seen over the @ViperDemoTeam at @20FighterWing. Specs: flic.kr/p/XYNAG2 #Eclipse2017
Voila! The #Eclipse2017 shadow from @Space_Station, no words needed // Voilà! L'eclisse vista dalla Stazione Spaziale, non servono parole...
ISS passing in front of the sun during the eclipsehttp://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/interactive/2017/08/us/eclipse-photos/media/23.jpgFrom here: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/us/eclipse-photos/index.html(3rd picture down)....Edit: attaching image, in case it's removed from the source at some point in the future.
Beautiful! I completely forgot the rights settings and even to bracket my shots, so I missed the chance to capture the solar flares/perturbances. My shots ended up too over-exposed to capture that. Nice job!
Quote from: Lars-J on 08/22/2017 07:24 pmBeautiful! I completely forgot the rights settings and even to bracket my shots, so I missed the chance to capture the solar flares/perturbances. My shots ended up too over-exposed to capture that. Nice job!If you are really into the tech stuff, there are a few programs that will run your camera automatically during eclipses. I used Solar Eclipse Maestro on my Macbook and can give it a big thumbs-up. For Windows, there's Eclipse Orchestrator. I was using a telescope on a tracking equatorial mount, so had to do some minor corrections for poor polar alignment every 10 minutes or so, and make sure the focus was good. But the software was in charge during totality, all 35 frames with varying exposures came out perfectly.The software used ephemerides and a lunar shape model to time everything to 0.1 second or so. I had to tell it my location (thank you, GPS!). It even predicts Bailey's Beads using the shape model, and darned if my pictures don't look identical to the predictions. It's a truly impressive piece of work, and I hope it's updated for 2024.
I took a look at Eclipse Orchestrator - unfortunately it doesn't support my camera - do you know how responsive they are to adding supportfor additional cameras (similar to existing ones - in my case a canon 77D)
Thought I'd toss out another image before everybody forgets the eclipse. There's Bailey's Beads at second contact, 6-image composite of totality in HDR, and the diamond ring at third contact. Shrunk down, etc. Camera was Canon EOS Rebel T3i, telescope Celestron Omni 127 XLT Schmidt-Cassegrain with focal reducer on a CG-4 tracking mount. Exposures taken with Solar Eclipse Maestro software. I'm still learning how to use layers in Photoshop, so the composition is a little crude yet.
Love your pic to wrap it up, jgold, the detail of the light apparently breaking through the mountains and craters etc. Haven’t looked closely, and not familiar with the viewable speed of change of flares, but do you know if the solar flares changed much during the eclipse? Thanks again for the composite from a great event.
The prominences, the red "flames," will show changes on timescales of hours. If you found images from Oregon and compared them with ones from the east, you would see changes. The basic shape would be the same, but the details would be noticeably different.
Nice pics. I'm wondering where they're taken from. Only the "4-o'clock" prominence was visible at my location and staggeringly large, even with the naked eye, while the others weren't visible. I took a day trip to just north of Scottsbluff, NE on Hwy72 and found a high spot to watch. Crystal clear skies and 360-degree horizons, of course, but specifically so I could see the advancing shadow from the west, which itself was mesmerizing for fleeting seconds.
Tweet from Scott Tilley:I check into the DSP satellite constellation from time to time... Curiously these retired spacecraft are not fully passivated after disposal as their TT&C beacon often remains active. DSP F15 [20929, 90095A] transmits and betrays a spin rate of about 9.1s...Followup tweet:As a post script, I monitored through eclipse and DSP F15's signal faded to undetectable and reemerged upon egress. So no battery left, a good sign that things shouldn't go boom.