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As long as the weather cooperates, I’ll be pulling my kids out of school next Monday to drive east into the path of totality during the solar eclipse.

Do you have #eclipse plans?

Path of totality via The Planetary Society

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2y

Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse

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2y

"approved" and safe Eclipse filters are starting to get harder to get delivered by the eclipse date (esp if you want to do some testing ahead of time). Lots of glasses styles still available though I assume they will start to get harder to get delivered soonish #eclipse #solareclipse #filters #astrophotography

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2y

In the 2019 solar #eclipse in Chile there was this couple next to me. Right when totality started, the woman turned around, facing away from the Sun, and asked her husband to take a pic of her with the eclipsed Sun behind her.

The guy was visibly confused, his face clearly saying "wtf are you doing, you're gonna miss it." He struggled to get a pic, as the Sun/Moon are much smaller on the sky than what most people think.

Totality is brief, enjoy it! Forget about pics if you're not experienced.

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2y

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #eclipse

A full solar eclipse. The sun hangs in an eerie, purple sky, fully obscured, only a green and white corona visible. Below are several craggy mountains, also illuminated with a weird green light. On top of the closer mountain stands a small figure wearing a cloak, both arms raised to the sky, a staff clutched in the right arm. The figure appears to be staring directly at the sun without eclipse glasses, which one should never do, even if one is a sorcerer summoning the apocalypse.

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2y

Tips for enjoying the #eclipse when you don't have eclipse glasses:

- make a pinhole projector so you can face away from the sun and project the eclipse onto light colored paper

Instructions here: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/how-to-make-a-box-pinhole-projector-video/

- trees will naturally project the eclipse in their shadows in the gaps between the leaves

- you can watch a live stream here:
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/how-to-watch-upcoming-total-solar-eclipse-with-nasa-from-anywhere/

Stay safe, don't look at the sun with your naked eyes.

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2y

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.

They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/53645140833 #space #eclipse #space #astronomy

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

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2y

For folk that are not in the path of Totality (or under cloud cover, or are stuck inside, or...), friendly reminder that NASA is doing a live view party:

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/live/

Last time, the stream was really good, and I expect it'll be better this time around.

(Plus, you won't burn your retinas out.)

#eclipse

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2y

As a Java developer, I could have told you that staring at #Eclipse for too long makes your eyes hurt.

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2y

#humour #eclipse

A picture of an eclipse, showing a flat band, with the shadows of four elephants under that and the shadow of a giant turtle underneath. Yes, it is Diskworld.

Don't know who made it: it was sent to me sans provenance.

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1y

Há tantos anos, ainda que não seja exatamente notório por estabilidade, #Eclipse ainda é o canivete suíço dos desenvolvedores na plataforma #Java que não queiram comprometer sua liberdade.

#TerSoftware

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🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕

NASA💫 captures 2026
total solar #eclipse from
50k feet.✨

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1y

I don't know who Jesse Singal is, but I assume he must be alright if most of Bluesky hate him. Can we get him bridged here via #eclipse ? @0461fcbe

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The difference between a 99% solar #eclipse and a total one is like the difference between smelling food off a fork vs actually eating it. There's no "close enough": if you're not inside the path of totality you're going to miss a unique spectacle. #astronomy

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I'll have my telescope ready tomorrow for some awesome #solar #eclipse pics ☀️ + 🌔 = 🕶️ 🔭

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/netherlands?iso=20260812

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29d

L'éclipse du 12 août m'est passée par-dessus la tête. Pourtant, j'adore ce genre d'évènements. Je n'ai pas de lunettes spéciales ni de filtre pour la filmer. J'ai eu la chance de voir celle de 1999, j'étais à Paris avec mes grands-parents. Peut-être que j'ai zappé à cause de la chaleur ou parce que c'était un moment heureux avec eux... Enfin, 30 millions de lunettes gratuites avaient été distribuées à l'époque par l'Etat. Pas cette fois.

#Eclipse #Science #Astronomie #Politique #Gouvernement

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Boqueroni/117081640412517506

Madre mía, si llevan dándonos por saco con el eclipse desde que empezó el año.
Que si el eclipse, que si prepárate, que si mira al cielo, que si las gafas… ¡a este paso me sé el acontecimiento mejor que mi propio cumpleaños! 😂

Espero que después de tanto anuncio dure algo más que un suspiro, porque como me pille fregando los platos me va a dar exactamente igual. 🤣🧽

En fin, hoy toca mirar al cielo y comprobar si realmente pasa algo o si nos han montado otro capítulo de «El gran acontecimiento que llevamos meses esperando». 🌞🌑😂

#eclipse #eclipsesolar #12deagosto #cosasdeluniverso #humor #vidareal #miércoles #madremia

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29d

“What an incredible coincidence it is that our moon fits exactly over our sun…”

—In his 2009 parallel-universes novel TRANSITION, Iain (M) Banks suggested that one of our planet’s near-miraculous total eclipses would be a perfect place to look for alien tourists

@bookstodon

https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/iain-banks/transition/9780349139272/

#Scottish #literature #IainMBanks #IainBanks #sciencefiction #scifi #eclipse #eclipse2026 #aliens

"Now, most jet travel on Earth is for tourism. Not business; tourism. Would our smart, curious aliens really be that different from us? I don't think so. Most of them would be tourists. Like us, they'd go on cruise ships. And would they want to actually come to a place like Earth, set foot – or tentacle, or whatever – here? Rather than visit via some sort of virtual reality set-up? Well, some would settle for second-best, yes. Maybe the majority of people would. But the high rollers, the super-wealthy, the elite, they'd want the real thing. They'd want the bragging rights, they'd want to be able to say they'd really been to whatever exotic destinations would be on a Galactic Grand Tour. And who knows what splendours they'd want to fit in; their equivalent of the Grand Canyon, or Venice, Italy, or the Great Wall of China or Yosemite or the Pyramids?

"But what I want to propose to you is that, as well as all those other wonders, they would definitely want to see that one precious thing that we have and probably nobody else does. They'd want to see our eclipse. They'd want to look through the Earth's atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can't survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they'd still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it's possible to arrange. They'd want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes.

"So that's where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn't coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass.

""If they're anywhere, they're there, and as distracted – and so as vulnerable – as anybody else staring up in wonder at this astonishing, breathtaking sight.”

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28d

I’m ready! Now hope I get a reasonable view

#eclipse #DWARF3

Got solar filter ready for DWARF3 digital telescope to photograph the eclipse today

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29d

❝ Unfortunately, much of the population of North America will not see a lot. A total of 9 percent of the sun will be covered when viewed from New York City at 1:54 P.M. EDT, while Portland, Maine, will see 19 percent of the sun covered at around the same time. ❞

BOOOOO! Iceland, Ethpain and Portugal gonna have all the fun.

The Scientific American guide to 2026’s total solar eclipse | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientific-american-guide-to-2026s-total-solar-eclipse/

#science #bitch #eclipse #Iceland #Spain #Portugal #nyc

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Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair…

—Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), “The Eclipse”

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage

The Eclipse
Allan Ramsay

Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair.
The earth mair beautiful and fertile grew;
The flow’ry fields in rich array,
Smil’d lovely on the beamy day,
Delightful for the eye to view;
Ceres, with her golden hair,
Displaying treasure ilka where,
While useful plenty made her stalks to bow.

A thousand little suns glanc’d on the wave;
Nature appear’d to claim the sun’s respect,
All did sae blyth and beauteously behave.
“Ah!” cry’d the moon, “too much for him ye deck;
“My aking een cannot this glory bear;
“This sun pretends nane in the sky
“Can shine but him, then where am I?
“Soon I the contrary shall clear:
“By ae bauld strake,
“With him I’ll make
“My equal empire in the heaven appear.”

“’Tis me that gives a lustre to the night;
“Then should not I my proper right display,
“And now, even now dart down my silver light?
“I give enough, this sun gives too much day.”
The project fram’d, pale Cynthia now to shaw
Her shining power, right daftly run
Directly ’tween the earth and Sun.
Unwise design! the warld then saw,
Instead of light, the Moon
Brought darkness in at noon,
And without borrowing, had no light at a’.

Thus many empty and imprudent men,
Wha to their ain infirmities are blind,
Rax yont their reach, and this way let us ken
A jealous, weak and insufficient mind.

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Had to find a different spot since tree branches got in the way

The result

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28d

Fuck that building #Eclipse

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The eclipse was only 20% or so where I am, if I read correctly, but it nevertheless made the light outside fairly eerie for a bit.

#eclipse #SolarEclipse #maine

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