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Post by ratty on Apr 8, 2024 21:38:29 GMT
It was quite cloudy in upstate New York. We were able to watch with pin hole viewer and then look directly at it through peak. It got fairly dark and the temperature dropped quite noticeably but I didn’t think to check my digital thermometer.🤓 Make a note for the next one.  |
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Post by ratty on Apr 8, 2024 21:45:39 GMT
Watching the eclipse was almost like watching a man-made video. Through the eclipse glasses everything was perfect with the sun in a black sky slowly disappearing and reappearing. I took my eclipse glasses off at the full eclipse and saw the perfect corona. Unfortunately the pictures my wife and I took through our I-Phones were not as sharp and there was some glare in the pictures, maybe due to some very wispy high clouds that were barely visible to the naked eye and the imperfect focus from the small lens. The temperature dropped about 8 degrees per my rough observations. It got darker than I expected right at the moment of full eclipse and I could just make out the golf flag 100 yards from my house. Although it was an amazing sight to see the sun completely disappear, I'm still surprised at the huge numbers of people who flocked to our area from 100's of miles away to see a full eclipse rather than a partial eclipse. The last full eclipse in Ohio was in 1806 if I read correctly.
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Post by walnut on Apr 9, 2024 0:56:22 GMT
I was welding on something which I think is difficult to weld outside and I used the low light time to get it done. I could look up with my welding hood and see the progress clearly as it went.
I was surprised by the noticeable temperature drop. Turn off the radiated heat and it's felt very fast. Now that it's over I wish I'd been a little more attentive to the eclipse, because it really was amazing. The strange ethereal dim lighting can't really ever otherwise be experienced. Very different than dusk.
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 9, 2024 12:26:57 GMT
That temperature drop was was pretty dramatic. Eight degrees as measured by duwayne at his location. Now we know why every early civilization had a sun god. Think they knew something that our Woke urban morons have forgotten?
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