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Post by miles on Apr 11, 2024 21:31:34 GMT
I only had to walk to the top of the hill to see the 2017 one. It wasn't ideal viewing due to haze from the wildfires, but it was an experience. It made me feel strange afterwards, kind of like waking up from a bizarre dream.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Apr 11, 2024 23:03:41 GMT
By any chance did you do any painting or other artistic endeavor related to it?
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Post by miles on Apr 12, 2024 1:43:46 GMT
Not for the 2017 one, but there was an earlier one in the late 70s (78 or 79) I saw in Oakland with a group of crazy friends that I used for an eclipse painting. Being young and stoned I looked directly at it for a second. The impression was that in totality the sun itself was the color of the sky, with a bright ring around it, not dark or black like the photos.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Apr 12, 2024 2:36:06 GMT
Not far off from when I experienced. That's silvery white ring around it was definitely present but there was sort of a not quite black not quite white appearance of the Moon in front of the sun it was I don't know how to describe it. It felt like electric black if they were such a thing with a blueish pink tinge and some of that silvery white not black like a black hole
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Post by bluedemon25 on Apr 12, 2024 2:36:19 GMT
I'd like to see that painting if you still have it and could upload a photo
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Post by bimble on Apr 15, 2024 5:44:42 GMT
Nothing to see where I live. Did you see the 1999 one? I was living near Blackpool at the time. Scared the hell out of my inner caveman.......
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Post by sticksman1 on Apr 15, 2024 13:17:38 GMT
Nothing to see where I live. Did you see the 1999 one? I was living near Blackpool at the time. Scared the hell out of my inner caveman....... I did - I was working in Slough at the time. A surreal day - I made pinhole projectors for work colleagues to see it. As it got more and more (we were not in the path of totality), who could see crescents in the shadows of the trees, and at the maximum, it got slightly darker, and the birds went quiet! An amazing spectacle.
BTW - if you follow your sci-fi... exactly one month before the Moon was pulled out of orbit after a nuclear cascade explosion (a la Space:1999)
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Post by donavan on Apr 15, 2024 17:02:54 GMT
Nothing to see where I live. Did you see the 1999 one? I was living near Blackpool at the time. Scared the hell out of my inner caveman....... Yeah, looking out of an office window in Liverpool. Went a bit dullish. Massive anticlimax. I work near Blackpool these days funnily enough. Well not really funny.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Apr 15, 2024 17:06:39 GMT
I did - I was working in Slough at the time. A surreal day - I made pinhole projectors for work colleagues to see it. As it got more and more (we were not in the path of totality), who could see crescents in the shadows of the trees, and at the maximum, it got slightly darker, and the birds went quiet! An amazing spectacle.
BTW - if you follow your sci-fi... exactly one month before the Moon was pulled out of orbit after a nuclear cascade explosion (a la Space:1999)
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Post by miles on Apr 16, 2024 2:43:06 GMT
I'd like to see that painting if you still have it and could upload a photo It's deep in the archives. I'll see if I can find a scan from the ancient slide.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Apr 27, 2024 13:32:52 GMT
Me sitting on the toilet last night with diarrhea--
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