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Eclipse mistakes
Life.com magazine ^ | 1/1/1960 | Eliza Berman

Posted on 04/07/2024 4:01:40 PM PDT by drSteve78


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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: eclipse; mistake; totalsolareclipse
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Please folks!! The animals don't know not to look up at the eclipse. Please bring them all inside. The raccoons, opossums, snakes and deer.

Bring them inside! Save our wildlife!

21 posted on 04/07/2024 4:29:23 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Will there be sugar after The Rebellion?)
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To: drSteve78

Serious question, one I realize that the answer might be obvious. However, I will risk the fool to ask it.

As cameras have become so high definition, 16k some of them, is there a risk in watching an eclipse from the high end cameras or is there now some risk in using them to watch an eclipse through?


22 posted on 04/07/2024 4:30:30 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Robert A Cook PE

They are probably rehearsing and he looked up at the sky.


23 posted on 04/07/2024 4:32:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Jonty30

Zero risk.

Neither the light from the camera video display nor from any other playback device replicates the serious portentous for eye damage inherent in the direct light of the Sun.


24 posted on 04/07/2024 4:34:20 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik
St Albans?!?! My favorite aunt...who was my surrogate mother (my Mom died when I was young)...lived there during her married life and is buried there. I was originally gonna go up to Magog,Quebec for the eclipse then drive west to pick up I-89 to St Albans to visit her grave. But they say the traffic is gonna be horrible so I might just go up to St Johnsbury...and then home.

Every forecast I've seen says perfect weather for all of New England tomorrow!

25 posted on 04/07/2024 4:35:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Jonty30

I should note that keeping an unfiltered camera pointed directly at the Sun — even during the eclipse — will focus the sunlight on the CCD powerfully enough to torch it.

The camera needs a lens filter to attenuate the light and protect the CCD that the image is being recorded on.


26 posted on 04/07/2024 4:37:13 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Thanks.

I missed that detail in the one pic [his head is cut off in the headline pic].


27 posted on 04/07/2024 4:37:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: HKMk23

I appreciate that answer.


28 posted on 04/07/2024 4:38:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: drSteve78

When I was little we would stare at the sun until it made us sneeze.


29 posted on 04/07/2024 4:38:32 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I don’t think I see one kid in the bunch that seems to have excessive gravitas....


30 posted on 04/07/2024 4:40:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DesertRhino

Erie PA.

We have had two sunny days in a row. To have a 3rd on Monday this time of year would be more rare than the eclipse itself.

The darkness I hope to experience may be what those who witnessed Christ’s crucifixion......without an eclipse.


31 posted on 04/07/2024 4:42:29 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: DesertRhino

I don’t have to look at the sun to make me sneeze but it will only happens indoors ,LOL


32 posted on 04/07/2024 4:43:19 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Jonty30

Lens innards tend to melt with an eclipse filter


33 posted on 04/07/2024 4:46:34 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: drSteve78

Got my glasses. Going to Independince Hall tomorrow.


34 posted on 04/07/2024 4:51:14 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

I was thinking the same thing. Not a single fat person either.


35 posted on 04/07/2024 4:58:11 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: drSteve78

If you are near some trees with the sunlight filtering through to a flat surface such as a driveway or sidewalk, you will see lots of little eclipses on the ground


36 posted on 04/07/2024 4:59:59 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Robert A Cook PE
"Shadows on the ground"? What a waste. Get a pair of binoculars mounted on a tripod and a good piece of poster board. This was me in 2017 a few minutes before putting on the glasses to watch totality. You get a MUCH bigger image to view this way and it's easy to do.


37 posted on 04/07/2024 5:16:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: gitmo

I have fond memories of using a kitchen knife to cut cardboard boxes when I was about 5. My mother would have groceries delivered by our local grocery store. We were given the boxes to play with, and I would make one a house by drawing with crayons and cutt doors and windows.


38 posted on 04/07/2024 5:18:56 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: drSteve78
"OK, children. I'm the Superintendent of the Board of Education. Do you all have your Preferred Pronouns ready for the Big Show?"


39 posted on 04/07/2024 5:20:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: gitmo

PS: I never cut myself with the knife, but I did learn about the heat that can be created through friction when a knife blade burned my hand once.


40 posted on 04/07/2024 5:20:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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