Another eclipse picture

[andrew_jorgensen]

Another eclipse picture. I constructed this animated .gif from several of the pictures we took as the eclipse moved from its diamond ring phase (where the moon obstructs the last little bit of the sun's disc) into totality (when the corona becomes visible). All shots were 1/250 at f/11, I believe.

Comments

[ann1962]

*That* is cool! On so many levels. Wow. Thank you.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Way, way cool! Wow, that must have been a sight to see!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was. I'll have video up later in the week maybe.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

hard to stop looking at that one. :)

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Huh! That icon looks kind of familiar!

I am trying to quit

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I'll have to see what I can do tomorrow. I am on the laptop by duress and it is doing odd things. Would "eclipsed by d'herblay" be too over the top?

Regarding the earlier Q about Pamela's books, I really hesitate to rec books to people, I am usually so wide of the mark. But Juniper, gentian and Rosemary has an astronomer as the main character (tempt tempt), and Tamlin is one of my top ten favorite books.

ben and I were talking "high replay value" games and books last night, and she's got very high value. They are officially YA books but the main characters sound like core voice in my head (shush)I can't place them agewise except by experience. The other thing is she's incredibly mmph reread knowledgeable? But wears it lightly. Tamlin throws asides of Stoppard and Christopher Fry and Shakespeare, and oh lots of things, you'd probly get more than I would. So you are always finding soemthing new.

No Dumas. Not that I noticed. have I mentioned Steven Brust before? There's enough there I may have missed it. I have a real fondness for the ballad itself (and I think JGR sparked off Childe 1) but the way I read Janet in that ballad; I don't usually see that in author's riffs.

I think underneath that and why I am drawn to that particular ballad has to do with basic things about people. I've probably totally scareded you off the book by now. Anyway, no need to rush out and get it, just someday when you run across it.

Re: I am trying to quit

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the other day about some of my high-replay value books the other day, and how long it had been since I had reread any of them.

I'll keep Dean in mind.

(I don't think it's over the top at all, but I tend to err on the side of over the top when it comes to icons.)

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

*mesmerized*

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Look away! Or at least put on some mylar glasses!

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh, AWESOME.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I don't know why I'm taking credit; the moon did all the work.

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

So, the moon has a publicist. This is bad?

[c-mantix.livejournal.com]

Ah! Proof that things that are ephemeral possess a special kind a beauty.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Yes. Like my updating my LJ.

[anomster.livejournal.com]

That is just cool, d'H! Thanks for posting it. For some reason the animation didn't kick in for quite some time on my screen, but when it did it was worth the wait!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

It's a huge file for its size -- almost 400 KB, which is the main reason it's behind a cut-tag. Thank you, by the way!

[anomster.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK--guess I was looking at just the 1st pic & didn't realize that not only the others but the animation code was still d/ling. The 1st time the photos cycled through the sequence, it went pretty slowly; that must've been each 1 being d/led, although it went faster than the 1st one.

Heh, "huge for its size" sounds like a contradiction--but it's not! I like that.

[rebekahroxanna.livejournal.com]

You reminded me of the most special time, when you take the mylar off just before you really should and look up and can't see the moon yet because the sun is still too bright, but you can tell that the sun is way, way too small. And you watch the sun disappear until that final flash just before Bailey's beads (or is it just after).

Next time maybe we'll just watch.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I think the final flash is either before Bailey's beads, or it's equivalent too Bailey's beads, I don't know. I'm leaning towards just watching the next one, though I'd kind of like to have a small scope to look at prominences, which means we need the tripod anyway, so we might as well take pictures! Maybe if I somehow piggybacked the video and the camera, so that they could be aimed at the same time . . .