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The Solar Eclipse!
« on: August 21, 2017, 05:12:37 pm »
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For those whom will be able to experience the solar eclipse today, are you excited? Will you be viewing it today? Will you watch outside or through a news outlet, if at all? Did you purchase glasses? Are you in the path of totality? Is the eclipse something you consider to be special or important-- why or why not?
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2017, 05:50:27 pm »
I have solar glasses to watch it, just got back in from looking. Looks like it's halfway there. Where I am we'll see totality, I plan on getting a pic of totality.
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 06:47:35 pm »
I'm still waiting for it here actually. Don't have glasses or anything BUT maybe my phone pointing behind my head snapping pictures will work I dunno. I just hope it happens cause it got really dim here for a bit (not totally dusky like it should though) and lightened back up? And where I am it's supposed to get quite dark.
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2017, 07:10:22 pm »
Eclipse just passed, my sister got a pretty good pic of it.
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2017, 07:21:41 pm »
I'm on the wrong side of the earth for it but...

You can wear welding mask, or make a pin hole camera to view it from a cardboard box, a sheet of waxed paper and a towel.
Or find a broken LCD screen and often those had the 2 layers of polarized plastic in them? at least the old ones did.
Take the 2 tinted sheets from the screen and hold them over one another and twist one sideways so it's now a "vertical A4 sheet of paper" in contrast to the other "Horizontal sheet of paper" way.. this should adjust the brightness.  Happy viewing.
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2017, 08:29:12 pm »
Update: It was a ripoff here. It got a bit dim and  trippy but that was it. Still neat but wish it would have been a bit more exciting. Oh well! xD
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 08:59:52 pm »
Vespian got curious.
Vespian stared right into it directly.
No protection.
Worst .001 second of my life.
It hurt.
It still hurts.
Teivel's still laughing at me.
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 09:08:10 pm »
All it did here was dim a bit to the point the shadows were visibly darker... I feel the same as Azura ^ xD
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2017, 09:10:19 pm »
Quote from: Vespian on August 21, 2017, 08:59:52 pm
Vespian got curious.
Vespian stared right into it directly.
No protection.
Worst .001 second of my life.
It hurt.
It still hurts.
Teivel's still laughing at me.
I did that too, by accident though. I thought it was still safe to look at but the moon moved enough to make the light not so safe. Thankfully the spot I got from looking at it is already gone, but it lasted a few painful minutes.
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Re: The Solar Eclipse!
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2017, 09:27:02 pm »
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