The big eclipse has gone through our area about an hour ago and I thought I’d share a picture with you. Here in NE Iowa we are outside of the 70 mile band of totality; we only had 91% coverage of the sun. In this photo it was only about 10 or 15% covered, although you’d never really know it because of the overcast…
Yep that’s right, we have thunderstorms building up here this afternoon…
But then that’s the only reason I tried to take a picture. The other day someone asked in a comment if I was going to photograph the eclipse and my answer was that I had no clue how to even try. Then today with the overcast I thought I’d shoot a couple of pics in the direction of the greatest light and make a joke of the whole thing but lo and behold the pics look better than the real deal, especially if you filter out some gamma light.
We never saw much of anything around here, but you sure could tell when we got close to max coverage because the light was utterly surreal…
I did take a lot of pics though, and with the clouds building and swirling, there were some very interesting effects, but let’s save that for another time…
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Here in Florida we see about 80% coverage.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I was not in the area of totality but we had 92% totality. I stepped outside and I noticed the temperature was a bit cooler and the shadows on the ground looked very interesting. But I’m glad it’s over as my place went dark inside since I have a lot of skylights.
The shadows are really cool 🙂
I hope yoiur camera lens didn’t get damaged since the rays are much stronger. You will have another chance in seven years.What was not said on television is who the main sponsor and underwriter of today was, God. I even made a mention in our churches Facebook page.
Anyway, one awesome view on NASA’s channel was the moons shadow as a giant black circle seen hitting the earth. This came from the ISS.
I saw that; way cool!
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Of course we saw pretty much what your picture shows, since we are not far from you. Our daughter in OK posted a few pictures. One was of the little spots of light that showed through the leaves of a tree onto the ground when the eclipse wasn’t quite complete. Each of the spots was a crescent! The holes between the leaves that let the sunlight through acted as pinhole lenses. I remember the same phenomenon while observing a partial eclipse here some years ago.
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We had 80% in New Orleans and the shadows were very facinating. Thanks for sharing your picture. I took some pictures of the shadows that I will share on my blog.
Excellent!
Too bad u didn’t see much- we didn’t either here in NJ but it was still super awesome!
Indeed it was
Fantastic. Looking forward to seeing more, Don. It was totally dark where I was – but that’s because it was night time, so I had to watch the eclipse on TV. But still amazing to be able to see such a spectacular event. It is interesting how it is so emotional … Our Creator God is great and this sort of event helps us to see His splendour and our insignificance. All the more remarkable when you consider that He sent His Son to die for us.
Well said Mandy! His glory is all around for anyone willing to notice it.
It was raining here in Scotland, but your photo is great!
Thank you!