Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 11438344)

I was on the BBC roof back in 1999 watching our last big one

Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 11438399)

…:love:…those are very superb images, Maru…if I had taken those, I would frame them and display them on the wall for sure…such a lifetime experience and captured beautifully….

Originally Posted by hijaxers (Post 11438425)

Yes great photo, i've seen some incredible shots today. We were also in the back garden for the 1999 eclipse, its brilliant we get to witness these spectacular things.

Originally Posted by Maru (Post 11438750)

Thank you all. I'm just glad I had anything to share. We were not expecting there to be an opening.



I will. :love: My daughter is too young to really remember this trip, but did lose her mind checking out the sun once everything blacked out. I'm thinking of framing with date/time and placing in her room. The weather was predicted to be cloud cover, but Dallas and its vicinity had a small chance of clearing based on some models, so we took to the highway and traveled while watching the radar. We stopped around the time it was beginning. We learned later we ended up on about dead center on the shadow line. It's a crazy coincidence because we were traveling on gut by that point. It was a mix of clouds through the partial and a clearing opened up during the full eclipse. Not a single bit of cloud cover in that period. Rightfully, the journey will be memorable for all of us. The traffic was tolerable also and no inclement weather though we were expected to run into a line of heavy storms otw back.



Yes and to think we (Earth) are actually rare in terms of witnessing such events. I can spend hours watching such things. There's something oddly calming about watching planets & moons traverse through a telescope.

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...1&d=1712716441

Originally Posted by Alf (Post 11438423)

Total eclipse of my arse

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 11438510)

Originally Posted by hijaxers (Post 11438425)

Yes great photo, i've seen some incredible shots today. We were also in the back garden for the 1999 eclipse, its brilliant we get to witness these spectacular things.

Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 11438755)

….your daughter may not recall so many details that you would recall, because of her young age, Maru….but you’re giving her those detailed memories in how you’ve recorded it…?…she’ll know how special it was and how her parents drove on that road trip to be able to get those images and how they wanted her to be a part of the phenomenon, you know…?…so she kind of will recall it quite vividly in her memory stores, I feel…but in a different way to your recollections …and yes, frame all of those details for her room, together with your images and help her ‘complete’ her memories, which she’ll keep through adulthood and will always be a very special day with her parents…:love:…

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 11438804)

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Originally Posted by Maru (Post 11438983)

Somewhat related, I took a normal shot of the sun today using the same lens filter and boosted the color some for contrast so the ball shape would be more visible. Sunspots are visible in some of the eclipse shots as well and it was interesting to note them in other people's shots online and see that they weren't necessarily in the same place at all times...

Just something random to add to the end of this thread...

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...1&d=1712808133

Originally Posted by Maru (Post 11438981)

Yes, I'd like to think we were making memories on her behalf. It gives her some kind of goalpost later in life if she chooses to relive these things in her own way later on. Unless we all decide to take a trip abroad...



Arsinine

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 11439039)

Solar eclipse captured from Starlink satellite

https://www.itemfix.com/v?t=74ydiv