Tag: Eclipse

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.

What We Know About How Animals Reacted to the 2017 Eclipse

What We Know About How Animals Reacted to the 2017 Eclipse

When the moon got in the sun’s way last August, people were expecting it. Many of us humans snapped up hotel rooms years in advance and traveled great distances to stand together for a few minutes in darkness.

On Tumblr

Link: What We Know About How Animals Reacted to the 2017 Eclipse https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-animals-react-to-an-eclipse

On Wandering.shop

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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Lunar eclipse next week. Most of North America & Asia, and all of the Pacific …

Lunar eclipse next week. Most of North America & Asia, and all of the Pacific will be able to see it, though you might need to get up in the middle of the night. Maps & time conversion at the link.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-january-31

It also happens to be a supermoon (when the full moon coincides with the moon being at the closest point in its orbit, making it look bigger) and a blue moon (second full moon in a calendar month).

On Mastodon.social
On Facebook

Back from Oregon & posting more eclipse photos!

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

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

On Instagram
Expanded on K2R

Total Solar Eclipse 2017 (Gallery)

Expanded on K2R

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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On K2R