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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The clouds cleared for about 10-15 seconds during totality. Long enough to get a glimpse and some cool pictures. Then, about 5min after totality, the clouds completely cleared out. Thanks mother nature.

    Worst part was finding out that somehow the massive fucking fatass cloud that blocked the sun was somehow localized to my neighborhood, because everyone else in the city seemed to be able to view totality in it’s entirety, despite being cloudy until just after totality.

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thats a cool picture. All I got was clouds…

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      • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I hope you get a chance to see it again at some point, even if it means traveling halfway around the globe. Tbh I don’t think it’d have quite the same effect as it does when it happens at home (all of the daytime sounds I’m used to completely stopped during totality, I’m not sure I would have noticed that elsewhere), but it was really cool and worth going outside and staring at clouds for 30min hoping to get a glimpse of it.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Several dozen earths could fit inside each of those wisps, the sun could fit something like 10k earths in it

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s likely you got the cool pic because of the clouds. I got a good pic of a partial eclipse in 2017 because of the clouds. When clouds were in the way, I could get a good pic. Without the clouds it was garbage.

      This year I saw totality with clear skies and couldn’t get a good pic of partial or total using the same camera.

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      • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Huh, I couldn’t see it unless the clouds moved out of the way. It got really dark during totality, dark enough that my camera’s shutter speed was fairly low (it was around 1/125s with an iso of 50).

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  • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why did nobody give a fuck about the 2023 eclipse?

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    • stark@qlemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      2023 was an annular eclipse not a total eclipse. Very different experiences for the viewer.

      space.com/difference-between-total-solar-eclipse-…

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    • joshthewaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The annular one over north America? Because it was annular. While a cool event it is really a specific kind of partial eclipse. Totality is incomparable to even a 99% partial eclipse. I heard it described as the difference between mostly dead VS dead and recently I’ve seen the xkcd comic that does a decent job conveying the difference too.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        xkcd.com/2914

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      • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s like hearing vs. seeing fireworks

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      2017 had a total solar eclipse in the US in the southeast. People did care about it, but it wasn’t as big of a deal as this one I don’t think. I think part of the reason is people were made aware of how awesome (literal meaning) the event is in 2017 and this was almost perfectly centered across the US so accessible to almost everyone if they really want to.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The image used for the eclipse in this reminded me of the show Heroes

    Such a great show that fell off a cliff after the first season

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    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Want it supposed to be an anthology series, where each season was a new cast? But then they were like “her everyone loves these characters! Quick make up some stuff so they all have to stick around.” Then we got weird shit like that character who has a bunch of twins or something, and psycho serial killer Syler joins the team.

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh really? I didn’t realise that was the case!

        I think the biggest thing I remember killing it was that there was a writers strike halfway through the 2nd season and instead of waiting until the end of the strike, the show runners slapped together a shit ending for the season and then it never really recovered

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  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The clouds may have even made it look more dramatic.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

      Yeah - it was awesome from my yard!

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  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have another shot in 20 years in the us

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And you have many more if you’re willing to travel. This one was “once in a lifetime” because it was right through the middle of the US, so accessible to a ton of people, and also there was a comet that may have been visible at the same time. There was another eclipse just a few years ago in the SE US. Clearly not “once in a lifetime” though it is fairly uncommon and very special.

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  • Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I spent the week leading up to the eclipse looking at weather forecasts trying to give us the best shot of clear skies. When we got in the car Monday we still had to drive around a bit to get out from under the clouds. Ended up on some dirt road in NW OH in the middle of nowhere under a small patch of blue sky

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same as it ever was

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    • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same as it ever was

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