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Spacey Thoughts

KakashiHatake2000 said:

did anybody happen to see the solar eclipse 8 years ago today back in 2017 or travel to see it
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I did, here in Oregon. Didn't think to take pictures or video,though. Some of the most prominent takeaways for me:

  • Sudden stilling of birds and insects
  • The Moon's shadow comes in so FAST!
  • Sunlight through tree leaves giving multiple camera-obscura images of the eclipse on the porch cement.
  • A quick glimpse up at the completely eclipsed Sun (which you should never do, and I'm lucky it didn't blind me): that black circle and its vast fiery mane (corona) were terrible and awe-inspiring. The sight has probably inspired some of the fiercer ancient religions.

Anyone else, 2017 or in other years?
 
Just for reference, Earth-Moon distance is slightly less than 240,000 miles.

 
bjdeming said:
I did, here in Oregon. Didn't think to take pictures or video,though. Some of the most prominent takeaways for me:

  • Sudden stilling of birds and insects
  • The Moon's shadow comes in so FAST!
  • Sunlight through tree leaves giving multiple camera-obscura images of the eclipse on the porch cement.
  • A quick glimpse up at the completely eclipsed Sun (which you should never do, and I'm lucky it didn't blind me): that black circle and its vast fiery mane (corona) were terrible and awe-inspiring. The sight has probably inspired some of the fiercer ancient religions.

Anyone else, 2017 or in other years?
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oh nice glad that you got to see it and interesting i think i had some friends make posts about the different ways you could see the totality solar eclipse i remember it too it was like dusk or after sunset but it was the early afternoon and i think the night critters came out too thinking it was evening it most definitely was a spectacular sight to see thats for sure
 
bjdeming said:
Just for reference, Earth-Moon distance is slightly less than 240,000 miles.

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Just came across this NASA tweet, from earlier in the month. It's for another purpose but it's kind of cool because it shows what we might look like from the comet's POV, give or take 50 million miles or so, during closest encounter (and reassuring, too!):



Apparently this is not an Oort cloud local comet but an interstellar traveler. Wonder how many of those come our way.
 
oh that is interesting it would be neat if not already we had a launch of space instrument that happened to scan far out into space maybe with the help of ai maybe as far as a galaxy or universe or something if not farther how i would have no idea sorry but just something i thought of or came up with or something
 
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