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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 27, 2015 at 11:47 pm
(September 27, 2015 at 11:24 pm)Losty Wrote: Me too!! He is the only youtube channel I am subscribed to. 
Um. Mamrie Hart. Hannah Hart. (not related but best friends) Fine Brothers. Grace Helbig.
Familiarize yourself.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:05 am
(September 27, 2015 at 11:14 pm)MTL Wrote: Anyone else get a good view of the Bloodmoon/Supermoon?
I was fortunate this once in not being hindered by clouds.
It was eerie.
The moon was full and larger than usual, but immersed in dark red shadow, with light edges.
Didn't get to see totality as totality didn't happen over Oregon, but I saw a moon that 80-90% bloody with a bright white crescent about 20 minutes after maximum partial eclipse.
It's almost over now.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:11 am
(September 28, 2015 at 12:05 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (September 27, 2015 at 11:14 pm)MTL Wrote: Anyone else get a good view of the Bloodmoon/Supermoon?
I was fortunate this once in not being hindered by clouds.
It was eerie.
The moon was full and larger than usual, but immersed in dark red shadow, with light edges.
Didn't get to see totality as totality didn't happen over Oregon, but I saw a moon that 80-90% bloody with a bright white crescent about 20 minutes after maximum partial eclipse.
It's almost over now.
Yeah, I heard the West Coast wasn't going to see total eclipse, but at least you saw some of it.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:12 am
Creepily flirting with Beccs.
And watching pointyball highlights.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:14 am
(September 28, 2015 at 12:11 am)MTL Wrote: Yeah, I heard the West Coast wasn't going to see total eclipse, but at least you saw some of it.
That's okay, we're getting a total solar eclipse in August 2017.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:17 am
(September 28, 2015 at 12:14 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 12:11 am)MTL Wrote: Yeah, I heard the West Coast wasn't going to see total eclipse, but at least you saw some of it.
That's okay, we're getting a total solar eclipse in August 2017.
lucky buggers. I've yet to witness one, myself.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:22 am
(September 28, 2015 at 12:17 am)MTL Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 12:14 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: That's okay, we're getting a total solar eclipse in August 2017.
lucky buggers. I've yet to witness one, myself.
I'm taking that day off and driving until there is clear weather. I am NOT missing it.
Also, I'm going to buy a better filter for my camera than the dirty-ass welding mask shield I had for the Venus transit.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:29 am
(September 28, 2015 at 12:22 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 12:17 am)MTL Wrote: lucky buggers. I've yet to witness one, myself.
I'm taking that day off and driving until there is clear weather. I am NOT missing it.
Also, I'm going to buy a better filter for my camera than the dirty-ass welding mask shield I had for the Venus transit.
Whoa. You sound like you're a fairly serious Astronomer.
Hopefully you don't have to drive out of State, lol.
Good luck to you. I hope you get some good pics.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:35 am
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(September 28, 2015 at 12:29 am)MTL Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 12:22 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I'm taking that day off and driving until there is clear weather. I am NOT missing it.
Also, I'm going to buy a better filter for my camera than the dirty-ass welding mask shield I had for the Venus transit.
Whoa. You sound like you're a fairly serious Astronomer.
Hopefully you don't have to drive out of State, lol.
Good luck to you. I hope you get some good pics.
Not at all, actually 
The total eclipse will pass over Salem so it won't be an enormous effort to get in its path - Portland will get a pretty major eclipse, it just won't get full totality and with this likely being the only total eclipse over my home state that I'll see, I'm gonna make sure I'm in the path of totality.
Not a great photo but it's the best I got of the Venus transit in June, 2012:
I had my camera set up in the conference room at my office and made all my coworkers look How often do you get to see something like that? They needed to see it.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
September 28, 2015 at 12:44 am
(September 28, 2015 at 12:35 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 12:29 am)MTL Wrote: Whoa. You sound like you're a fairly serious Astronomer.
Hopefully you don't have to drive out of State, lol.
Good luck to you. I hope you get some good pics.
Not at all, actually
The total eclipse will pass over Salem so it won't be an enormous effort to get in its path - Portland will get a pretty major eclipse, it just won't get full totality and with this likely being the only total eclipse over my home state that I'll see, I'm gonna make sure I'm in the path of totality.
I see. Well, once again, I hope it pans out for you.
So frequently I try to watch for celestial events that we are warned about, in the news,
only to be disappointed by cloud cover, so I just become resigned.
The optimum night for my area to look for Comet Lovejoy, for example,
I was confounded by partial clouds, so I gave up on it...
however, I had a decent pair of binoculars and I gave the rest of the visible sky a sweep with them,
before heading back inside, just on a whim,
and I'm glad I did, because when I focused on Jupiter, through the binoculars,
I was startled to see several smaller, distinct points of light clustered close to it,
invisible to the naked eye, lost in the glare of Jupiter.
I realized I was seeing some of the moons of Jupiter,
and I never would have seen it,
had I not been screwed by the clouds when trying to find Lovejoy.
I actually shrieked, I was so pleasantly surprised to see that.
I never thought I'd get to see Jupiter's moons with my own eyes!
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