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BobF
M-O-O-N that spells eclipse!

see you on the Dark Side... :)

BobF

57Gregy
It's the moon moving in front of the sun.
What's the big deal?

If the sun moved in front of the moon, we'd have something to get excited about!!
 

However, I did buy some eclipse glasses.
One dollar at WalMart*.

Check also with your local fire departments. They are giving the glasses away free for the whole family out here.
Guess they figure it's cheaper than having the hospitals inundated with blind tourists.
 
Something puzzling to me about this on the math side.
The science astronomy guys have once again revised the timing and landfall for the event.
This time, landfall is 5 miles north of our town and moved from 9:20 to just after 10:15. Big shift in prediction.
I can understand variables in the weather, but what's the deal with the timing and location of the eclipse.
I always thought these things were like tide tables where you could predict with almost pinpoint accuracy.
 
The eclipse glasses are cool to play with even now. Almost like x-rays. You can see the defined round sun even behind moderate clouds.

Things getting more desperate.
Now they are predicting a sanitation crisis. Looks like the portable toilet estimation was too conservative.
Feces will flow like water in the streets.
Allah help us.
 
John

Just testing if I can insert a Youtube link.  Will be filming the eclipse if I don't screw it up and can post a video so all can see no matter where you are.
 
If this went thru, it's the wife's slide show documentation of the crocosmia flower over this summer. Pretty species in the iris family. Prized ornamental in some places. Some kind of Greek name for the safron like smell of the dried leaves if boiled in water. Funny how supply and demand sets the value of something. Here it is looked on as an invasive weed. We long since gave up trying to control it and just let it do its thing.
 
Mozart music in the back ground. My better half is really my better half. Her music sense is way more subtle than mine. It must be true love that she can break from Ravel and tolerate my 3 chord universe.

Nope, didn't work...
Maybe I can ask Craig or someone for help.
How do you link your post to a Youtube clip?
Thanks in advance.
 

Now take that link and put it in-between [tube][/tube] tags.  Finally, remove the "s" from "https://" to get "http://" and you're good to go!
 
Note that I always type the tags first.  If the link turns blue at any time, it won't work so delete and try again.

JohnKenn
I'm gonna try for a video of the eclipse too. I'm in Portland so it won't be total, but close enough.  Kind of wondering how you were going to make your video?

Thank you Craig. Will retry this shortly. Was trying to insert the video like a single image.
 
Bjorn, using a couple Nikons on a tripod. One at the ocean and one at the sun. The sun facing video may be a bust because of the extremes in exposure but hoping I can filter the artifacts out. Don't have an optical filter which would be the logical best.

I'm using a  Sony camera with a very dense "eclipse" filter on a 400mm lens. Also going to point another camera down the street and do a time lapse of the neighborhood getting dark.