UPDATED @ 08.22.2017 One PM EDT: Below, insofar as an iPhone might capture what I saw -- is what. . . I saw. Though in truth, no camera might suffice (read comments to this post). Nothing can capture. . . What I experienced. The last frames were only 15 seconds after totality (which lasted 2:30 where I was). It was like a kitchen light switch was thrown on. . . completely indescribable. That is Venus to the right of the badly pixelated, and washed out, eclipse-ring -- spent my moments experiencing, not shooting it per se:
I'll be gone now for a bit -- as geeky solar science now abounds, in my household (tent-hold, actually).
In the mean time, back here on the grid -- just follow it all -- right here.
. . . .off to be kissed, by the eclipse of 2017. . . .
Peace -- and solar/planetary science -- to all of good will! I'm off grid, until Tuesday. . . .
नमस्ते
2 comments:
wasn't that cool~? The geeks here were all a buzz with boxes and glasses. Wonderful.
simple thing in life was awesome.
Hoping you caught some white hot ring -- against an indigo hued sky... some serious "totality"!
I was on what was likely the same grounds -- where the Shawnee last saw totality, before America was a nation -- on the edge of what is now the Trail of Tears National Park... treated to about two and a half minutes of totality.
So hard to describe, but it looked "painted in" -- it was so perfectly luminous and clear!
I was choking back tears... all the green of the prairie grass shone silver... and above...
Ink black in the center, Bailey's beaded dots (saw 'em!) for a second only, as the sun's rays bent around the lunar mountain ranges... and then two minutes of corona flashing... paper thin wispy clouds diffusing a 360 degree rose light of "day-set" at ground level... thunderheads billowing over the crown of the hilltop plains... turning pink -- just as Venus winked into view, pink also, to the right of the eclipsed ring... amazing!
In sum... we had perfect viewing conditions!
Video on Vimeo before too terribly long.
Now... the seven hour drive toward the eclipse and tent camping on Sunday... was a nearly 17 hour return... featuring a 400 mile long traffic jam, on I-57, headed back to Chicago... but completely worth every second!
Bring on Mexico to Maine, in about four years!
Namaste...
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