US Eclipse - April 8, 2024

[kmclemore]

The weather was exciting too… when we arrived on Wednesday the place looked like this:



Two days later it looked like this..(!!)..

[Stickinthemud57]

@ kmclemore

Love the first video. "The darkness is here!"

Couldn't access the second one. Needs permission?

[kmclemore]

@ kmclemore

Love the first video. "The darkness is here!"

Couldn't access the second one. Needs permission?

Yep, it was permissions… should be fixed now.

[OverEasy]

Nice videos Kmclemore!

Basic physics on grand display! Neat stuff!
I read somewhere that the Ancient Egyptians had a rudimentary means of calculating when an eclipse could be expected.
Both solar and lunar eclipses!
Pretty cool that people were able to ‘do the math’ based off of general observation and analysis .
Pretty neat given the time and tools available to them in their day.
Smart curious people have been around for a long long long time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -eclipses/




(I find it incredulous that there are purportedly educated people today that don’t, or deliberately choose not to, understand a simple basic physics event….. )
( While there will always be those who like to portray such normal natural events with pseudoscience and fear-mongering, actual knowledge of how things actually work is always much more impressive and reliable….)

Did you get to see any of the coronal mass discharges or solar flares?
As we only had a 70% eclipse down here we missed out on that aspect.
Still it was fun to watch and a great excuse to get over to the beach for the day.
The Admiral had a program in preparation for the eclipse last week to show kids how to make ‘pin hole’ or ‘shadow box’ cameras to safely view the eclipse. Saw a couple variations in use at the beach. One family used two paper plates with one plate having the pin hole.
(Ancient (hundreds of years) BCE Greeks used to make ‘pin hole’ cameras to entertain themselves… some even having dedicated rooms to enjoy seeing the upside down images of people walking about outside in the sunlight!)
Fun to see the same technology set of the ancient Greeks being enjoyed today all those millennia later.
(Note: A long long time ago when I was a kid we built a pin hole shadow box camera out of a refrigerator box to view a solar eclipse. The projected image was about the size of a dime. It was cool to have all the neighborhood kids over to watch it .)

Glad the late winter storm didn’t upset you family plans at the lake house.
(Over in NH the storm toppled trees in the soft soil with all that wet snow weight… lots of power outages…)
Glad it melted away for you all to enjoy the day.

How was Lake Champlain? Any ice left?
Lake Winnipesaukee already had ‘ice out’ a couple of weeks ago.
One of, if not the, shortest ice seasons for Lake Winnipesaukee.
No Winter Carnival or ice airport this year on the lake.

Best Regards,
Over Easy

[NiceAft]

Whatever beliefs some may have, it is not this forum’s place to knock or demean them. Just saying.

[kmclemore]

No ice at all on the lake - indeed, I was wishing I'd had my boat up there, but I need it here at home for a while to teach sailing to my Scouts. We are taking them on a sailing adventure at St. Thomas this summer.

[Russ]

… and a couple of videos…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11pWTuh ... p=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y3DsvD ... p=drivesdk

How cool to be able to experience this and even better at your lake house.

[kmclemore]

How cool to be able to experience this and even better at your lake house.

…And with my son, his future wife, my own wife, and my best hunting buddy and his wife to share it with. It only could have been better if my younger son could have made it out from Boulder, but his research work (active experiments) prevented it.

[Stickinthemud57]

How cool to be able to experience this and even better at your lake house.

It only could have been better if my younger son could have made it out from Boulder, but his research work (active experiments) presented it.

Dang. That must have been prostrating.

[kmclemore]

How cool to be able to experience this and even better at your lake house.

It only could have been better if my younger son could have made it out from Boulder, but his research work (active experiments) presented it.

Dang. That must have been prostrating.

Touche.

[OverEasy]

Hi All

Now that the “Great Eclipse of 2024” has been observed and enjoyed and marveled at by literally millions of individuals in North America I thought for those interested, an article about eclipse prediction published in Scientific American:
APRIL 5, 2024
How Ancient Humans Studied—And Predicted—Solar Eclipses

Best Regards
Over Easy

[Slartibartfast]

Quite the offer! Wish I'd seen it in time. We had a good view out on Hammond Pond not far from you, though.