What are the best pictures of the solar eclipse that you’ve seen?
I’m weird about the whole thing (it’s a black circle 😐) but I haven’t seen much that has impressed me yet
The blood-red partial eclipse at the Washington Monument is my favorite approach so far. I suspect lots more images will come in over the next few days
We saw nothing during the eclipse other than a much darker sky than one would usually see at 3:20 pm thanks to how cloudy it was here.
The streetlights were triggered to turn on in the middle of the day, though, which was cool.
If vampires were real, they would have been able to come outside and frighten the humans for about 10 minutes there…at least until Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed up. 😛
Turns out if you are using eclipse glasses as a temporary filter on a telescope and you actually find the sun, you will know it because the eclipse glasses will have a hole burned in them (Nobody was looking through at the time, we're all ok).
Americans astonished to survive terrifying solar eclipse
Nobody has ever survived one of these before
The highest IQ nation on earth, the United States of America, experienced a terrifying situation today when the sun disappeared behind the moon for a few minutes, sparking fears it might never come back.
I did manage to get a single #photo of the #eclipse during totality. You can't see the sky around it due to the camera compensating for the brightness of the sun, but you can see the moon blocking out the sun.
You know, there's this #Neolithic clay from Skejby in #Denmark it is regarded as one of the earliest known depictions of such an #eclipse, supposedly documenting one which may have taken place May 5th in 2,789 BC.
North American #solareclipse monitoring in NE Poland????????
Yeah, however long a shot it is... but this very faint trace coming on & off, peaking literally for SECONDS around 1936z (I know the time in this waterfall plot is 4h off xD) on 1129.991 kHz can't lie...
Also w/ timeanddate.com day/night/#eclipse map for 1936z attached, w/ locations of WBBR & mine overlaid. NY was in slightly less than 75% totality at the time but a full one was right on the radio waves' take-off 😅
There appear to be two even weaker & more fluttery carriers peaking at 2004-2006z on 1140... One I guess is CBI in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦, but the other? WRVA? Wouldn't it be too late for them? 🤔
Also with timeanddate map, for 2004z. Totality was maybe around 50% on its path into the Atlantic #mediumwave#mwdx#solareclipse
Probably generated by my laptop, likely at one or more USB sockets. (But don't worry, there's not a lot of those on the Airspy compared to my old SDRPlay RSP1 😂)
880 is one. Although there's something very faint @ 880.05, but nothing matches (I don't think it could be Wisconsin XD)
Another is 1200. This freq's particularly disappointing to me as I hoped for either WXKS Boston or CFGO Ottawa, both frequent catches on winter nights. But no 😥
Meanwhile as I talk, SDR Console has generated another interesting plot, this time for 1270.
One carrier almost spot-on (poss. -2Hz in reality) from the beginning of my recording @ 1924z to last trace @ 1956z. Many options but the 10kW+ ones likely too far.
Another in @ 1945-2008z, peaking 1958-2001z, on 1270.017. No doubt CJCB NS 🇨🇦
1370: extremely weak carrier, 1941-1950z only, "best" @ 1943-1944z. Full totality over SW Nova Scotia, so must be from somewhere between New York & New Brunswick. MA, NH, ME apply. There's a 50kW in MD too though.
But there's an offset: 1370.003. This matches WDEA Ellsworth ME, even though it's only 5kW 😳
I need to go to sleep now but just to make sure: at the moment, almost all of North America is in daylight, and there's next to no signal from any of the stations mentioned in this thread. Except for Nova Scotia ones on 1140 & 1270, where it is just about sunset 🌞 #mediumwave#mwdx#solareclipse