Eclipse – KelsonV Social Posts

Observation: differing social media reach of my lunar eclipse photos

– One conversation each and a handful of likes on Flickr, Tumblr and my blog.
– A double handful of boosts on Mastodon (Photog.Social).
– Roughly the same number of likes/favorites on Instagram, Mastodon & PixelFed, with Pixelfed slightly ahead.
– 10x as many views on Flickr as on my blog. (I don’t have stats on other sites)
– No reaction at all on Twitter.

Double the fun: Appearance of the 22° halo during a total solar eclipse – Halo Phenomena

Cool: A simulation of what a 22 degree halo *during* a total solar eclipse would look like. It turns out it’s not just the brightness that would differ, because the corona’s a ring, not a disc!

Double the fun: Appearance of the 22° halo during a total solar eclipse – Halo Phenomena

At the Arbeitskreis Meteore (AKM) spring meeting in March 2018, we discussed an observation made by Jörg Strunk during the “US eclipse” from August 21st, 2017: A 22° halo was visible in cirrus clouds around the sun up to around half a minute before the onset of totality. Similar observations…

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OK, one more total eclipse video…

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Carhenge was in the path of last week’s eclipse. Here’s a nice time lapse

Carhenge was in the path of last week’s eclipse. Here’s a nice time lapse of a storm, starry nights, and the day of the eclipse set to music.

On Facebook

Back from Oregon & posting more eclipse photos!

Photo taken at: Woodburn, Oregon

Back from Oregon & posting more #eclipse photos! We took a family vacation up to Portland & went down to Woodburn for the day of the eclipse.
Seeing a total solar eclipse in person was amazing. Photos just don’t do it justice.

For one thing the corona is really bright. Not harmfully bright, and not enough to block out stars and planets, but enough that it drowned out the shadowed moon when I tried to do full-sky shots.
The sky was dark blue like twilight, with a light orange band around the horizon. Where the sun would be was the solid black disc of the moon, surrounded by the streaming white corona, looking like a home in the sky.

It lasted a little over a minute. It felt like no time at all.

More thoughts & pictures at the link in my profile, in case you’re interested.

#eclipse2017 #solareclipse #solareclipse2017

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Total Solar Eclipse 2017 (Gallery)

Early in the eclipse, seen though glasses.

The outlet mall at Woodburn was offering eclipse parking for $20. Lots of people took them up on it, some of them with more elaborate equipment than a pair of glasses. Like this filtered telescope.

Binoculars also work great as projectors (just don’t look through them!)

Light filtering through trees creates hundreds of tiny pinhole cameras, projecting the image of the eclipse!

Moments before the total eclipse. The camera’s auto-correction makes it look normal, but it was a lot dimmer than usual. Not yellowish like golden hour light or reddish like wildfire smoke (we got plenty of that later in the week), just…dimmer.

Corona! Photos really don’t do it justice. The whole sky turned dark blue, like twilight, with the shadowed moon looking deep black, like a hole in the sky. And the corona is *bright*! That’s something I’d never really grasped from photos: it’s not harmfully bright, and it’s not enough to drown out stars and planets, but it’s still *much* brighter than the sky around it.

Something that photos never prepared me for: the sun’s corona is still very bright, just not harmfully so. In this shot, it’s bright enough to drown out the black circle in the center. But the fact that you can see Venus and the sun at the same time is kind of a hint as to what’s going on…

Special coffee drink for the eclipse. Not sure if all Starbucks had it, or only those within the total eclipse’s path.

RAM also had a special beer for the eclipse.

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Partial solar eclipse, taken through eclipse glasses. Still in progress!

Partial solar #eclipse, taken through eclipse glasses. Still in progress!

Shooting the moon. It’s been going through cloud banks…

Shooting the moon. It’s been going through cloud banks, fading in and out of view, usually only the brighter, uneclipsed part visible. We’re at an intersection at the top of a hill facing east, along with a lot of other people. Someone just pulled up to the stop sign and asked, “What time is the eclipse?” Response: “Now!”

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Very cool: a 360º fish-eye view of a solar eclipse.

https://slate.com/technology/2015/04/solar-eclipse-fisheye-view.html

Very cool: a 360º fish-eye view of a solar eclipse.

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Reflected eclipse, multiple lens flare.

Projections of the solar eclipse through overlapping tree leaves, at greatest extent around 3:30.

Solar eclipse projected through tree leaves.

Solar eclipse tomorrow. I need to pay more attention to this sort of thing

Watch the Moon Eat the Sun: The Partial Solar Eclipse on Thursday, Oct. 23

Solar eclipse tomorrow. I need to pay more attention to this sort of thing so I can plan farther ahead.

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Eclipse Mosaic

Lunar #eclipse mosaic, starting around 11:00 and finishing around midnight Pacific time, just as totality set in. #moon #stargazing #notaphone

–Instagram

Four views of the moon over the course of tonight’s lunar eclipse, starting around 11pm and running until about midnight. I actually got some shots at the second stage without the phone line in the way, but I liked the way this looked.

–Facebook

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