Speaking of the Eclipse....
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I took 271 photos of it today from my back patio.
89.1% Partial Eclipse. Decided to stay home this time.
Canon 50D on a fixed tripod w/18-200mm Zoom at 200mm f5.6 1/1600 sec exposures, ISO 100. Baader Planitarium Solar Film Filter.271 photos aligned, registered and output to avi movie format using PIPP (Planetary Imaging Pre-Processor)
Link to video
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Pretty sure it’s pronounced cicahda in the parts of this country where they occur.
Don’t have them outbhere, so it’s a
matter of tomato vs toemato or potato vs potaeta.@Renauda said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Pretty sure it’s pronounced cicahda in the parts of this country where they occur.
Don’t have them put here, so it’s a
matter of tomato vs toemato or potato vs potaeta.Americans correcting the British on their pronounciation is nothing new.
Some fucker will pipe up in a minute and say 'back in medieval times everybody in England sounded exactly like John Wayne, you know!'
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At one time all the Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
At one time all the Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins.
Welsh?
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@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
At one time all the Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins.
Welsh?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
At one time all the Americans sounded like Anthony Hopkins.Welsh?
Probably. I'm not sure I could understand either.
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@George-K said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Anthony Hopkins.
Who is a US Citizen, by the way.
Actually dual British/American citizenship.
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@George-K said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
@Mik said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Anthony Hopkins.
Who is a US Citizen, by the way.
Actually dual British/American citizenship.
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Total eclipses are seen every 18 months on some part of the globe.
https://www.space.com/25644-total-solar-eclipses-frequency-explained.html
How is it then that only when eclipses are to be seen somewhere in North America that the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse hearld the event? Ridiculous superstition still governs the minds of many.
@Renauda said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
Ridiculous superstition still governs the minds of many.
Yes because standing outside wearing tin foil glasses and holding colanders up to sunlight is, like, not at all weird.
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I took 271 photos of it today from my back patio.
89.1% Partial Eclipse. Decided to stay home this time.
Canon 50D on a fixed tripod w/18-200mm Zoom at 200mm f5.6 1/1600 sec exposures, ISO 100. Baader Planitarium Solar Film Filter.271 photos aligned, registered and output to avi movie format using PIPP (Planetary Imaging Pre-Processor)
Link to video
It's not perfect, but it's still pretty cool.@mark said in Speaking of the Eclipse....:
I took 271 photos of it today from my back patio.
89.1% Partial Eclipse. Decided to stay home this time.
Canon 50D on a fixed tripod w/18-200mm Zoom at 200mm f5.6 1/1600 sec exposures, ISO 100. Baader Planitarium Solar Film Filter.271 photos aligned, registered and output to avi movie format using PIPP (Planetary Imaging Pre-Processor)
Link to video
It's not perfect, but it's still pretty cool.
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The eclipse from space.
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/04/014/2404_014_AR_EN.mp4
