06-19-2021, 03:44 PM
(06-13-2021, 02:54 AM)davidd Wrote: Solar eclipse over the ocean at sunrise?Hehe, well, some of the time it seems that way. There are drawbacks to a remote location too. Sunrise over the ocean is one of few things worth getting up That Early for
'Kay, like, you officially live in the coolest place in the world!
We do have a ton of 'merican summer visitors, usually, many of whom own property here. And, haha, I feel the same 'move there in half a second' about Hawaii
I sympathize with the clouded-out disappointment. BOTH transits of Venus (for one, I drove frantically all over the island trying to find a hole in the fog; on a back road I got about 30 seconds' glimpse)... the transit of Mercury (spent more time trying to FIND the sun through the cloud, as it was too dim for the solar filter, than I spent actually looking at it (11 seconds??))... and so on. So this was a lucky weather break.
It was definitely not crowded. No one else was nuts enough to be on the edge of a cliff down a grass track at 5:15 a.m.
(06-13-2021, 03:42 PM)Lejays17 Wrote: That is so cool! I don't mind at all the lack of a doll this week if we get something like this in its place.There was a doll; she was just on the previous page
...How long were you out taking photos (eg how long did the passage take?). And were there many other lunar-gazers out there as well?
The eclipse took 2 hours. Fortunately the site wasn't too far into the ex-campground with easytogetloston gravel roads, so it only took about 20 minutes to get there. I don't know that anyone else watched. Certainly no one on the cliff; there is one person on the island who's into astronomy that I'd ex.pect would've been interested, but it often seems to me like a lot of people here aren't really interested in that sort of thing.
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A Dal House challenge pic this week, for "Gardening".
"Yes, we really do need to weed, AGAIN, already."
".... well, get Mum to do it..."