[HN Gopher] Eclipse 2024
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       Eclipse 2024
        
       Author : h2odragon
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-04-07 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (andywoodruff.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (andywoodruff.com)
        
       | theandrewbailey wrote:
       | > I took the photo below less than one minute before totality in
       | 2019, when the sun was reduced to a mere sliver in the sky, and
       | in the photo it's still... well, kind of sunny.
       | 
       | When I saw the 2017 eclipse, I noticed that the Sun was quite dim
       | about 15 minutes before and after totality that that photo
       | doesn't quite capture. It was like the dying embers of a fire,
       | except the light was yellowish instead of red-orange.
        
         | zamfi wrote:
         | Yes, though this photo was immediately recognizable to me as
         | "almost eclipse time" and I haven't seen an eclipse since 1999.
         | 
         | It is like being on a planet with a different (distant?) sun.
         | Literally otherworldly.
        
         | JKCalhoun wrote:
         | Agree, and yet I regret even bothering to take a photo of the
         | last eclipse.
         | 
         | If you had a camera set up pointed at the sun, automatically
         | snapping photos every so many seconds -- go for it. You can
         | forget abut the camera and enjoy the event.
        
           | jrockway wrote:
           | That's interesting. I took a lot of pictures in 2017, which
           | was my first total eclipse, and don't regret it all. I kind
           | of had a vision in mind for the picture and it came out
           | perfect. (Looking through a telephoto lens at the sun is
           | probably the least interesting picture. I took a wide shot
           | with the corona clearly visible and the rest of the scenery
           | and the eclipsegoers on the ground. I'd like to get 4 minutes
           | worth of star trails sometime, but I'm too lazy to bring my
           | tripod this year. Maybe next time. It's going to be cloudy
           | anyway.)
        
         | jrockway wrote:
         | That's what was most surprising to me. You're used to seeing it
         | get dark at night every night... but it gets orange before it
         | gets dark. With an eclipse, it doesn't get orange. In 2017 my
         | brain's auto-white-balance function had a lot of trouble with
         | this and everything looked strangely blue. I was also surprised
         | by the temperature drop and stillness.
         | 
         | This time, it looks like it's going to be cloudy. I have no
         | idea what to expect.
        
       | EGreg wrote:
       | I thought this was gonna be about the latest release of the IDE
       | hehe
        
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