What technology are you using to watch the solar eclipse?
Glasses? Goggles? Solar Telescopes? Live streams?
Pic related, im using a welding mask, shade 12. I feel like a Borderlands bandit at my uni's quad.
anyways, solar eclipse and the technology required to safely view it thread
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Just so you are aware, shade 12 is not enough for prolonged viewing. You need at least shade 14 to safely view the eclipse.
live streaming thru it?
Nasa says shade 12 is good. they say 14 if you feel 12 is too bright.
on my shade 12 it looks fine. granted im not staring straight at it for the entire time, only 10-15 seconds periods here and there, its working fine
Pic related
I have a binoculars and I'm projecting the sun on a piece of cardboard
were using a solar telescope here at uni
What about a magnifying glass to project the image?
I hold a magnifying glass in from of my eyes to enhance the image during totality
So how long until it happens
Its happening already.
Can't see shit here
I have a pair of paper glasses that I'm not sure will protect my eyes, but my buddy is recording it via weather balloon so if nothing else I'll wait for the photos.
I bought some solar filter paper to make my own filters but got scammed because they won't come until the 23rd.
Oh well. My mom lives in the totality path in Arknasas when the 2024 comes.
I do astrophotography so I'll make sure to prepare for that one :)
Here's the Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula) taken with a shitty Cannon 450 and a shitty telescope with a shitty motor in a shitty city with light polution
If you are in the east it will be soon.
Antistatic bags, 4 works for me
>when the 2024 comes
Blocks your path
Well that was cool.
I'm so happy we got clear skies today. Last one I attended was in Europe in 1999 but it was cloudy and we couldn't see shit.
It's always a gamble. Solar eclipses are more common than people like to think, however it may require you to travel to Tahiti or somewhere really far
Won't you burn your eyes or something if you look at eclipse directly?
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The ancients looked at the sun too. Just make a tiny slit with your fingers and look at the sun. Just for a few seconds.
Obviously it hurts to look at the sun. Most people will turn away. The real danger is looking directly at the sun with binoculars or a telescope. Your retinas will be permanently damaged if you do so
Is this a meme? I stare at the sun and it doesn't burn my eyes.
I should be fine if I don't stare longer than a couple seconds at a time
>falling for the solar Jew
European here.
Last time I used DVD's.
That's how long ago it was for us, lol.
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The issue really is that during a totality the eyes can't adjust fast enough when the sun shines through again. That's where damage occurs.
Are people really too stupid to not just do the pinhole trick?
>Won't you burn your eyes or something if you look at eclipse directly?
Not at the full eclipse.
But the partial eclipse before and after requires some kind of protection.
Not that it's worth seeing, it's just the sun with a part missing.
>totality occurs: look at the eclipse
>the sun begins shining through the eclipse
>"ow fuck my eyes"
> ... turns away
The damage occurs if you use optics to look at the sun. If you focus the light enough, the intensity of the sun will hit your retinas causing permanent damage. It's like when you burned ants with a magnifying glass but with your eyes.
I wonder if the optical viewfinder of a DSLR is safe.
With it you don't look directly at the sun.
Instead the image is projected on a focusing screen and you look at that through a prism.
If the lens is stepped down a lot and you have aperture preview on
Yes, that's certainly possible.
Kinda risky though, one slip of the finger and you open the aperture completely.
>I wonder if the optical viewfinder of a DSLR is safe.
I wouldn't risk it unless you have a proper solar filter.
optics get hot when you look at the sun with them too.
We had shade 10's and clear skys and it was more than comfortable in terms of brightness.
Thank god I live in the path and didn't travel for this shit
Well, that was, uh, exciting... I guess
KC?
Denver
I live in L.A. Woke up late and used 3 sunglasses to catch a glimpse. RIP my eyes
400ish miles east here. Yeah, it was boring, just a bit dark.
If you just look through the viewfinder without a lens you'll just see a blob of blinding lights, and if you use a lens without a filter you're fucking retarded.
>Turn back to sun.
>Point front facing phone camera at sun.
>View on phone screen.
Partial solar isn't that much fun.
The few minutes of totality are really cool though.
The sun shows up in pictures all the time.
I would be weary of pointing a telephoto lens directly at the sun, but I'm sure it happens accidentally all the time and I've never heard of a photographer getting eye damage.
Might pick up 's suggestion one day and slowly ease open the aperture.
Last time for me we made glasses with VHS tape.
If those are for oxy-acetylene torches might as well look at it with Ray-Bans
Shit dude.
Do you live on the north pole or something?
This is true, but it's either a blown out blob or a black dot because the sensor cuts off at that range.
If you look through just the viewfinder then you'll just see light and no definite forms since you just have scattered light hitting the mirror. There's also optical elements in the viewfinder itself so that makes it equally risky.
No.
Shittsburgh. There was a partial in the 90s.
OP here.
just got done viewing the eclipse.
welding mask was pretty comfy. had alot of people asking to borrow it.
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Got a Coronado PST specifically for this, only $589 shipped straight from Meade..
I ran to a gas station and bought a couple of Mountain Dews to get a pair of solar glasses
Can you put your peter in it
Pic related from my lg v20
You could see it in my phone's lens flare which was pretty cool.
My eyes hurt.
I'm in new york
hey it worked!
Seems steep. I thought they were around $350
Cloud cover fucking my shit up
Can't see shit
I'm in Philadelphia and I feel scammed
I just used a 33k resistor in series with an LDR with my multimeter connected across the LDR to watch the eclipse. I measured an increase an voltage across the LDR from about 49mV a few minutes pre-eclipse to 56mV at totality. There was a slight dip in light but there was 7/8 cloud cover and my area was only supposed to get a partial eclipse anyway, ~70%. All in all it was rather disappointing.
Thanks Obama
Kinda tight..
Actually that was like $120 off; was originally$699. They've got an array of solar filters though, & I think the one for their regular (non-solar) 90mm scopes is ~$350ish...that might be what you're thinking. Solar scopes are expensive as FUCK
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>just make a tiny slit with your fingers and look at the sun
This, but I advise a box cutter over a knifw, as it makes a cleaner slit for better solar viewing.
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