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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 22, 2012
Description:
This is a shot I took of the Solar Eclipse Sunday evening. I was in Albuquerque to visit family and see the Eclipse. I took hundreds of pictures and made a video. Enjoy
Date Taken:
May 22, 2012
Place Taken:
Albuquerque, NM
Owner:
Jeff Arnold
File Name:
P1080356.jpg - Photo HTML
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Category:
252, crazy stuff
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Jeff Arnold - May 22,2012
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Don Maxwell - May 22,2012
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Very cool, Jeff! And just before sunset--it must have seemed extra dramatic.
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Jeff Arnold - May 22,2012
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Yes, Don, very dramatic. I was suprised how light it was with 95% of the sun blocked. It was noticably dimmer, but you probably would not turn on your head lights. Now, I want to see a total eclipse!
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Don Maxwell - May 23,2012
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I've seen a couple of partial solar eclipses, Jeff, but they weren't the perfect annular ones like yours. About 20 years ago, there was a long total eclipse--about 7 minutes--whose path of totality passed right through a little village in Mexico where Carol and I and our older kid had lived about 15 years earlier. Naturally, we had to go back for a visit and to watch the eclipse. Both the kids went, too.<br /><br />We watched it from the top of the hill--this is in central Mexico, at about 7000 feet MSL, so the view from the hilltop is always spectacular, and on a clear day you can see 50 miles or more and mountains 100 miles away. During the totality, it got quite dark where we were and turned chilly, but we could see the partial sunlight zone maybe 20 or 30 miles on each side. That was very cool. The light was horizontal.<br /><br />Our friends in the village had been well indoctrinated by their government about the danger of viewing the eclipse directly. They all stayed indoors and watched it on TV.
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Jeff Arnold - May 23,2012
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Watched it on TV! What an incredible missed opportunity. I have read that viewing the corona around the sun during totality (with the naked eye) is an unforgettable experience. Did you check out the corona, Don?
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Don Maxwell - May 23,2012
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Ah! The corona was... ineffable.<br /><br />But I'll try anyway. The disc was dark but not black, and around the edge was a sort of bluish purplish magentish glow that seemed to dance and flutter, probably due to atmospheric distortions, but very lovely to watch. The birds had been saying good night during the partiality, but my recollection of totality was of complete quiet, except for the wind past my ears. It was quite chilly--felt like night, but because of the horizontal light from the hills and mountains on both sides of the path of totality it was very different than night. Not like normal twilight, either. The sky straight up was very dark, and we could see countless stars through the thin air at that altitude. But to the sides it all was moderately bright. The colors of everything were very pale--had been paling all during the eclipse and at totality everything seemed washed out, as if misty, but there was no mist so everything looked crisply pale. The air seemed thin, everything seemed thin...
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