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Default North American Solar eclipse 8/21/2017

I'm not going to be in Oregon on August 21st, but I think I'll try to capture what I can see in Redmond.

I just got a solar filter to fit on my telephoto lens: My telephoto lens is not really adequate for the job, but I'm not spending a lot of money getting a better lens - I'm already out $60 on a solar filter.

I have some practice I need to do - this is the best I got so far, and it's very processed.

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It's coming right over us, well if I drive south a little. I may need to look at a solar lens filtery thing. Or maybe take pictures off a reflection or something.


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I wish I had the time and money to come to Oregon for this astronomical event, but instead I am driving up to NE Kansas.
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I wish I had the time and money to come to Oregon for this astronomical event, but instead I am driving up to NE Kansas.
You'd never find a place to stay this late in the season if you did.

All the state parks in the path are already booked (most were booked a year in advance) and hotels/motels/etc. have been gouging customers.
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I wish I had the time and money to come to Oregon for this astronomical event, but instead I am driving up to NE Kansas.
You'd never find a place to stay this late in the season if you did.

All the state parks in the path are already booked (most were booked a year in advance) and hotels/motels/etc. have been gouging customers.
I think Ding has shirttail relatives in the Bend/Redmond area. But then, they may have sold out their spare floor space and back yard already, too.
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I wish I had the time and money to come to Oregon for this astronomical event, but instead I am driving up to NE Kansas.
You'd never find a place to stay this late in the season if you did.

All the state parks in the path are already booked (most were booked a year in advance) and hotels/motels/etc. have been gouging customers.
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I wish I had the time and money to come to Oregon for this astronomical event, but instead I am driving up to NE Kansas.
You'd never find a place to stay this late in the season if you did.

All the state parks in the path are already booked (most were booked a year in advance) and hotels/motels/etc. have been gouging customers.
I think Ding has shirttail relatives in the Bend/Redmond area. But then, they may have sold out their spare floor space and back yard already, too.
I have places I can stay, that isn't the problem. It is the time and expense of getting there. The land area affected by a total eclipse is massive, so finding a spot to be in the umbra isn't a problem. We can just pull off a highway or side road somewhere.
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It slipped my mind, I do seem to recall now that Ding mentioned relations in central Oregon.

Coast is one of the better places to see the eclipse, but central Oregon would still be very good.
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Hmmm...I'd think the coast would be too likely to have cloud cover. I'd think that central Oregon would be just the ticket. And, as Ding says, just pulling over in to the verge in most places will do just fine.
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I keep getting the emergency services in Oregon asking me if I can volunteer for the impending Eclipse disaster. A lot the area in the path of 100% eclipse is mountainous roads, no cell service or service stations. Gridlock there would be very, very bad.
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the impending Eclipse disaster. A lot the area in the path of 100% eclipse is mountainous roads, no cell service or service stations.
This could be the makings of an awesome(ly bad) movie.
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I keep getting the emergency services in Oregon asking me if I can volunteer for the impending Eclipse disaster. A lot the area in the path of 100% eclipse is mountainous roads, no cell service or service stations. Gridlock there would be very, very bad.
uhh, its not like all the light in the world disappears .. like are those roads used at night? Are not vehicles in that state required to have headlamps??
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I keep getting the emergency services in Oregon asking me if I can volunteer for the impending Eclipse disaster. A lot the area in the path of 100% eclipse is mountainous roads, no cell service or service stations. Gridlock there would be very, very bad.
That and for a few minutes it will be dark as night.
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That and for a few minutes it will be dark as night.
That must be very scary for some people.
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I keep getting the emergency services in Oregon asking me if I can volunteer for the impending Eclipse disaster. A lot the area in the path of 100% eclipse is mountainous roads, no cell service or service stations. Gridlock there would be very, very bad.
Will that really be a problem?
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Btw, why is the eclipse going from west to east when the earth spins the opposite way?

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Maybe you should look that up.
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Maybe you should look that up.
I did, NASA provides animations with the moon flying around the earth with great speed (it takes 27 days according to the current model), or they have animations with the earth spinning the wrong way! As if the sun rises in the west and sets in the east!!

Iow, there is no valid scientific explanation that fits our current understanding of the heliocentric spinning ball model.
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Assuming you mean this animation: SVS: Flying Around The Eclipse Shadow

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I did, NASA provides animations with the moon flying around the earth with great speed (it takes 27 days according to the current model), or they have animations with the earth spinning the wrong way! As if the sun rises in the west and sets in the east!!
Twit, it's not showing the Earth rotating the wrong way, it's the "camera" changing its angle, which is why the sun and the moon also "move".

At about 10 seconds in, the camera stops moving, and the rotation of the Earth can be seen... moving in the correct direction.

The shadow moves from west to east because the moon is moving in that direction as part of its orbit.
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Uh, if the moon is moving that fast it wouldn't take the moon 27 days to rotate around the earth, it would take 11 hours.

See, to explain it you have to speed up the moon well beyond the speed described in the spinning globe model.
:psst: the Moon doesn't move along the Earth's surface, twit. The length of its orbit (the circumference, so to speak) is much, much larger than the circumference of the Earth.

You can't possibly be serious with this idiocy.
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Let's just do the math regarding how long it should take the Moon to revolve (not rotate) around the Earth.


The Moon's mean distance from the Earth is 384,400 kilometers. That means the distance it travels to complete an orbit of the Earth is approximately 2,415,256 kilometers [circumference = pi x the diameter, as we all learned in elementary school]. The Moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle, but it's close enough for rough calculations.

The Moon's orbital velocity is given as 61 kilometers per minute. There are 1,440 minutes per day. So, the Moon travels approximately 87,840 kilometers along its 2,415,256-kilometer orbit each day.

So, it should take the Moon 2,415,256/87,840 days to complete one orbit. That equals 27.5 days, which ... checks out, actually.
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Assuming you mean this animation: SVS: Flying Around The Eclipse Shadow

You can't possibly be serious with this idiocy.
He seemed to be serious about the flat-Earth nonsense, so why not this as well.
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You can't possibly be serious with this idiocy.
He seemed to be serious about the flat-Earth nonsense, so why not this as well.
Jerome doesn't believe shit, he's a troll by his own admission and description. He's not even a particularly amusing one in his own right, like a few of the ones we've had. As someone pointed out, I think it was Ari, his primary value is the surrealist entertainment of Jerome Minus Jerome.
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Well, I guess that settles it then. I have to make new plans for the 21st since the eclipse will not be happening.
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