eclipse next week

[Doctor_Wibble]

You don't need fancy specs. I still have fabulous photos of the '99 eclipse that I took from the reflection in a black bucket of water.

Good bit of thinking there! I might give that a go, in conjunction with a mirror.

I don't think I got any pics of the one in 99 (I would surely remember! or they ended up in a box when I moved and have not seen the light of day since), it was a bit of an occasion as a 9 (or was it 10) storey office building emptied into the car park as management surrendered and made it sort of officially permitted when they realised that everybody including the non smokers would be nipping out for a fag break at the exact same time

 

[RaveChampion]

Totality is an uncanny feeling/experience.
Everything hushes.
It's kind of profound.
Then everything starts up again and you feel kind of relieved.
it's a primal/atavistic/caveman type feeling.
Hence real "awe".

I fancy seeing another one now.

 

[Doctor_Wibble]

woohoo I now have a collection of rubbish overexposed underexposed blurry smudges to cherish especially as the peak moment was ruined as I suspected it might be, by those ridiculous laws that say I'm allowed to blow up my neighbour's trees.

 

[Doctor_Wibble]

Some of us will be slumming it without the fancy specs by means of 'pinhole projectors'*, unless somehow the stack of negatives I used in 1999 suddenly emerge from a dark dusty corner.


* handy portable tube version of which now on standby for when the phone camera burns out...

 

[Bobby Chariot]

Totally obscured by cloud here, it's just turning quite dark.

 

[Merpedy]

Obsessed with the bbc showing us clouds it’s just very British

 

[HockyRorror]

https://tattle.life/threads/lgb-discussion-2.41058/page-51

It might resurrect the thread

 

[bcfc999]

I'm up north and hoping for a decent view although of course it won't be totality for us. I got my glasses a few weeks ago and am now being bombarded by posts on social media of people asking where they can get any as they've all sold out / won't be here in time!

 

[Doctor_Wibble]

In the blue peter box (along with stuff last used to help neighbours who forgot their keys...) I found a black plastic pie tray (as in half a dozen probably mince) that you can just barely see the sun through which has now had the scissors applied and has a new lease of life as phone camera protectors.
Also dark enough to allow a brief look to check if I should be starting the obsessive pic-taking!

Sky news are interviewing Hurley from Lost right now so spoiler alert they end up in Palma! That or it's his twin brother...

 

[RaveChampion]

I like that pic.
The minimalism/sparseness reminds me of a design Peter Saville would probs have come up with for a Factory records sleeve.

 

[RaveChampion]

It will probs go "slightly darker" for a couple of mins in my area according to detailed reports and analysis.
I'll take their word for it and not be arsed to look if I'm busy doing something else which I likely will be unfortunately.

Then (in my region at least) there'll probably be some "paganesque/primal" intensive firework "celebrations" on the suns return which will set more crops/tinder dry fields alight!
I'll be able to see/smell/breathe/experience that so all is not lost.
I hope everyone finds some meaning/worthwhile experience in what they're looking for or looking at though TBF.

Now I've fully commited to an action plan of "not being arsed to have a look" it will probably be superb.
Cosmic FOMO or somesuch.

 

[RaveChampion]

I'm a bit confused now.

 

[RaveChampion]

With the partial ones I've not been enamoured/arsed.
If I see this one it'll be down to nagging/peer group pressure "you have to see this you miserable bastard" TBF.