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Aug 21, 2017 - 7:30 AM
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Last Child
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http://stellarium.org
Then you havent "watched" them in the sense that you're witnessing them live, which is the big hype of this "event." Those are e-clipses.
Completely missed the point of the post. Any of the news organizations and astronomy outlets had already told me that I'd be in an area with only 60-ish percent coverage. And that's what Stellarium told me, too. However, I was also able to bounce around and see the view as many of my friends might see it.
But if you want to get into specious arguments, you're not really watching it "live" if you have filter glasses on. For that matter, it's not live, but sunlight about 500 seconds old making a shadow 1.3 light seconds away. There's nothing more magical about an eclipse than the "mysterious" time around midnight when demons allegedly come out, or our calendars roll over.
No, I didnt, but you completely missed the point of my post by getting defensive and going on irrelevant tangents. Seeing a photo of the Grand Canyon is not the same as seeing it in person - and as stated, that's the hype of this event. Mentioning the special glasses only proves the point that people want to see it "live"....talk about specious, you take the cake.
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I'm observing the eclipse with a viewer I built today from scraps around the house. It has a focal length of 21.5 inches (70.5 cm), and it's giving me an image of the sun a little smaller than a pea. I can clearly see the moon taking a scoop out of the sun now.
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My eclipse was eclipsed by the fact that I wasn't in the path of the eclipse. Which I didn't find out until I got impatient, wondering why it hadn't gotten dark yet, and looked it up. Florida was not in the path at all; part of the northern top of Georgia was as close as it got.
However, it did darken some here.
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