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If you are travelling to see the eclipse, you may want to bring a tent: Total eclipse of the wallet: Prices to witness solar eclipse soar, hotels charge 10 times regular rates.
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I’m taking a small teardrop camper and will be parking at the home of someone in Kerrville TX. Just have to get there! (Expecting hellish traffic)
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It's too bad you can't get to totality. "almost total" is not even close to the experience of actual totality.
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When I shot the Total Eclipse in 2017 (from near Gelnrock, Wy) I thought I had captured something called "Baily's beads" and even labeled one of my images as such. Turns out, it was not Baily's beads I captured, but rather the Chromosphere. "The chromosphere is a thin layer of plasma that lies between the Sun’s visible surface (the photosphere) and the corona (the Sun’s upper atmosphere)."
The events leading up to totality should be as follows: Just before totality, the sun becomes a thin crescent; then there appears a phenomenon called the "Diamond Ring", which is a uniform bright spot at one point that looks like a diamond shining. As the diamond ring shrinks, there e appears "Baily's beads" where you see separate little blobs of sun shining through the peaks and valleys of the surface of the moon. Not as bright as the Diamond ring and looks like a string of pearls. After the Baily's beads dissipate, you will see, very briefly, the Chromosphere. It was this that I managed to photograph in 2017, which I incorrectly labeled Baily's Beads.
This time, I'm hoping to capture all three of these pore-totality events, but settings need to be changed on the camera in a very short period, so I'll be out practicing a lot between now and then. The challenge is part of the fun.
The events leading up to totality should be as follows: Just before totality, the sun becomes a thin crescent; then there appears a phenomenon called the "Diamond Ring", which is a uniform bright spot at one point that looks like a diamond shining. As the diamond ring shrinks, there e appears "Baily's beads" where you see separate little blobs of sun shining through the peaks and valleys of the surface of the moon. Not as bright as the Diamond ring and looks like a string of pearls. After the Baily's beads dissipate, you will see, very briefly, the Chromosphere. It was this that I managed to photograph in 2017, which I incorrectly labeled Baily's Beads.
This time, I'm hoping to capture all three of these pore-totality events, but settings need to be changed on the camera in a very short period, so I'll be out practicing a lot between now and then. The challenge is part of the fun.
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Good advice for many. I'm lucky in that I'll be staying (in my renter Tab 320 camper) at a friend's property. Trying to find anything in a hotel anywhere near totality at this point is going to be next to impossible and/or very costly (I have a friend who decided late on the game to fly into Waco and was only able to find a B&B for over 800 for two nights.
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You wouldn't need to drive too terribly far to at least get into the path of totality.
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Yes, you did post it. -Take a boat out to the middle of Lake Ontario so you can get totality for longer!
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Walt - here's a reason for an English class field trip to see the eclipse:
The Eclipse Of The Sun By William Wordsworth
The Eclipse Of The Sun By William Wordsworth High on her speculative Tower Stood Science waiting for the Hour When Sol was destined to endure That darkening of his radiant face Which Superstition strove to chase, Erewhile, with rites impure. Afloat beneath Italian skies, Through regions fair as...
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Shot with 18-stop solar filter.
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I live about 20 minutes drive from the edge of the projected path. Have to work that day so can't get away to go over, and they're saying the long range forecast predicts cloud/rain so might not be able to see anything anyway...
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