dtolman
4474
Figured this would be interesting for mostā¦ woke up at 430 AM to get to a favored beach to watch the eclipsed sun rise out of the ocean. Iām dubbing this āthe devilās sunriseā.
Summary
Pink dawn at the beach, waiting for the sunrise
First contact - left horn rises
Second contact - both horns above the horizon
The bloated, distorted horned sun as it emerges from the low clouds.
Iām not going to composite the photos - but I changed settings/cameras to highlight the sun itself - imagine seeing this horned visage not in darkness, but in the otherwise bright and pink sky. Through the thin clouds and with the weird enlargement effect you get near the horizon, it really did look like this!
The sun emerges from the horizon
The Crescent Rotates Through The Clouds
Final glimpses as it fades into the clouds - note that its now a C instead of a U. The rotation took only 18 minutes from my first photo of it peeking over the horizon!
Some notes:
My setup was a Canon A650-IS P&S camera in full manual mode, brand new Olympus TG-6 P&S camera in semi-manual mode, shot on and through a pair of 10x50 optically stabilized binoculars on collapsible 5 foot tripod. Turns out one of my cameraās was set to take āsmallā photosā¦ so half of them canāt be blown up. Grrr. But on the plus side - I could at least get photos with them - the suckers with the camera phones just kept muttering how they couldnāt get a damn thing. Ha!
The Binoculars were a big help though - not just to magnify, but I could brace the camera in such a way as to cut down 95% of the light so it would be photographable (for every good shot - I have a half-dozen overexposed!).
Still need to look through each shot carefully - will try to crop/center and maybe collage them.
Great stuff, thanks! Very cool!
Thx. Iām still kind of shocked I got to see it.
I was fully mentally prepared as I drove at 430 AM to the beach that I would sit at the board walk, eat my bagel, and watch a fully overcast sky in the east (aka - what happened LAST time there was a sunrise eclipse in NY 10 years ago).
My area up by Albany has a total eclipse coming in 2023, and I know exactly where I want to go to view it. But none of the damned hotels up there will take booking this early!
CraigM
4481
You mean 2024? Because there isnāt one in 2023 in the US.
Edit: further info, there is an annular eclipse (like todayās) that hits the western US on a similar track to the 2017 eclipse, in 2023. There is also a total eclipse in December this yearā¦ in Antarctica. And one in 2023 for Western Australia and Indonesia.
Maybe 2024 then. But I couldnāt find any hotel that would book more than 12 months out.
@BennyProfane Yep thatās 2024. It goes from Ontario down into Texas and Mexico. Albany and Hudson River Valley get too many damn clouds - so not a highly desirable area to watch it. AKA - donāt sweat getting a hotel near Albany :)
Also - Iām pretty sure Syracuse/Rochester are in the Totality Path, not Albany. Both are also lousy places for cloud free viewing. Iām going to be heading somewhere less moist, even if they are in easy driving distance of my house.
CraigM
4484
For me the plan is the same as for 2017. Iām originally from Chicago, and most of my family is still there. So what Iāll do is get up at some ungodly hour, and drive to the best location for viewing. In 2017 this meant monitoring the weather for several days in advance and on the day getting up and heading towards St Louis. However as the day went on cloud cover never broke, so I cut and diverted to Carbondale, which had clear weather.
For 2024 this would be plan for Indianapolis, and break forā¦ Carbondale as backup. Given how the path tracks, Iāll have everywhere from Cape Girardeau to Cleavland within my possible reach. Thatās 3 states of full cover, certainly one is going to have clear skies somewhere!
Flexibility is the name of the game.
@BennyProfane Syracuse is the nearest to get the full eclipse, but it would be for only seconds. Rochester is near center line of totality. Niagra Falls would be a cool place though, not quite on the center but good views regardless. 3:41 of totallity!
Yep - and making sure you are there VERY early. I flew out to Tennessee, and the roads there were CHOKED for hours before and after the eclipse. Made me glad I got there early (and lingered late).
CraigM
4486
Yeah, getting down there wasnāt so bad for me, I took an indirect route (unintentionally, my plan had been hit the museums in St Louis with my son then head for the eclipse, clouds meant I turned away literally once I hit East St Louis) and had little traffic, but I started at 4am. Getting home, even though I was in a pretty out of the way obscure random spot? It took me an hour and a half to get through traffic and onto the highway. For a <10 mile distance.
Matt_W
4488
Amazing photos! Thanks much for posting them.
My plan is to go up to Plattsburg the day before. It is there that I canāt find a hotel wiling to talk to me.
Since there appears to be some interest, here is a photo-collage of the eclipse photos I took this morning.
Designed to be viewed going bottom ā up (which is a little weird on an up->down vertical forum like this).
Watching a bit of the livestream from ISS, with multiple astronauts working on deployment of new solar arrays. And of course the comments stream is full of flat-earthers mocking the āobviously fakeā video.
Meant to post this earlier, but this is very cool. Tectonics, possibly contemporary, on Venus:
