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05-19-2012, 08:52 PM
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Spectacular solar eclipse in U.S. Sunday
Rare Solar Eclipse to Occur Sunday - weather.com
Should be very neat for those in the southwest!! I'm hoping to see some part of it with a welding mask on, but not too hopeful in CT.
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05-19-2012, 11:36 PM
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05-20-2012, 12:34 PM
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Annular Eclipse: When and Where to View - weather.com
Looks like East of TX it'll be dark when it happens 
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05-20-2012, 03:11 PM
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Houston will see a partial sometime around 7:45 .
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05-20-2012, 03:40 PM
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05-20-2012, 08:05 PM
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Is it time for the eclipse?
 
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05-20-2012, 08:46 PM
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Just started here. Thanks for the welding helmet idea. View is great. Clouds are coming in though.
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05-20-2012, 08:56 PM
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I have high hopes that Someone here will take pictures... I'd love to be there
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05-20-2012, 09:14 PM
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Clouds are covering the sun at the moment. I'm going to try taking some shots thru the welding helmet.
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05-20-2012, 09:57 PM
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It was neat. Unfortunately I was unprepared. Shame on me. But I did manage to get a couple of pic's which I'll try and post as soon as I can upload them and link em. Assumin they're any good that is.
- Peter.
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05-20-2012, 09:57 PM
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I couldn't notice much change in the brightness of the sun here in Denver. I doubt a person would have known an eclipse was happening without dark lenses. Eclipse was not full at this latitude. Moon moved across the lower 7/8ths of the sun but was never centered directly over it. Having a welding helmet on eclipse day gets you a lot of friends.
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05-20-2012, 10:33 PM
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I was able to take some photographs but I was expecting it to be somewhat total, with more of the sun than a true total eclipse, being an annular type this time.
It soon ended though.
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05-20-2012, 11:53 PM
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 Difficult to see but the pinhole in the cardboard is projecting a tiny image of the sun with about 50percent shadow across the disk on the paper.  Here you can see it a bit more clearly. Using binoculars to project the image on to the background paper.  This is as close as I got to a ring of fire effect.  Eclipse on wife.  Eclipse on me. Not very good pictures I'm afraid. If I'd have thought more clearly about it and prepared more thoroughly I could have done better. It never got completely dark, just had a strange change in the light value towards the middle of the event. - Peter.
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