The clouds cleared for me for about 10-15 seconds during totality. Long enough to get a glimpse and some cool pictures. Then, about 5min after totality, the clouds completely cleared out. Thanks mother nature.
Worst part was finding out that somehow the massive fucking fatass cloud that blocked the sun was somehow localized to my neighborhood, because everyone else in the city seemed to be able to view totality in it’s entirety, despite being cloudy until just after totality.
I guess the good news is that, in this day and age, it’s not truly once in a lifetime, you just have to travel. Admittedly that’s expensive, but you can do it.
Edit: here’s a cool pic I managed to get in spite of the cloudy bullshit. Sorry for the low res, it’s cropped and was taken with my phone’s 10x optical zoom camera.
Edit 2: I think the thing I like the most about the pictures I managed to get are the solar flares. Everyone likes posting pictures that have that iconic diamond glare, but imo seeing the solar flares is what makes it really cool. Normally the sun is too bright to see them. Even crazier to think that the earth could probably fit into those tiny red wisps.
I hope you get a chance to see it again at some point, even if it means traveling halfway around the globe. Tbh I don’t think it’d have quite the same effect as it does when it happens at home (all of the daytime sounds I’m used to completely stopped during totality, I’m not sure I would have noticed that elsewhere), but it was really cool and worth going outside and staring at clouds for 30min hoping to get a glimpse of it.
It’s likely you got the cool pic because of the clouds. I got a good pic of a partial eclipse in 2017 because of the clouds. When clouds were in the way, I could get a good pic. Without the clouds it was garbage.
This year I saw totality with clear skies and couldn’t get a good pic of partial or total using the same camera.
Huh, I couldn’t see it unless the clouds moved out of the way. It got really dark during totality, dark enough that my camera’s shutter speed was fairly low (it was around 1/125s with an iso of 50).
The clouds cleared for me for about 10-15 seconds during totality. Long enough to get a glimpse and some cool pictures. Then, about 5min after totality, the clouds completely cleared out. Thanks mother nature.
Worst part was finding out that somehow the massive fucking fatass cloud that blocked the sun was somehow localized to my neighborhood, because everyone else in the city seemed to be able to view totality in it’s entirety, despite being cloudy until just after totality.
I guess the good news is that, in this day and age, it’s not truly once in a lifetime, you just have to travel. Admittedly that’s expensive, but you can do it.
Edit: here’s a cool pic I managed to get in spite of the cloudy bullshit. Sorry for the low res, it’s cropped and was taken with my phone’s 10x optical zoom camera.
Edit 2: I think the thing I like the most about the pictures I managed to get are the solar flares. Everyone likes posting pictures that have that iconic diamond glare, but imo seeing the solar flares is what makes it really cool. Normally the sun is too bright to see them. Even crazier to think that the earth could probably fit into those tiny red wisps.
Thats a cool picture. All I got was clouds…
I hope you get a chance to see it again at some point, even if it means traveling halfway around the globe. Tbh I don’t think it’d have quite the same effect as it does when it happens at home (all of the daytime sounds I’m used to completely stopped during totality, I’m not sure I would have noticed that elsewhere), but it was really cool and worth going outside and staring at clouds for 30min hoping to get a glimpse of it.
It’s likely you got the cool pic because of the clouds. I got a good pic of a partial eclipse in 2017 because of the clouds. When clouds were in the way, I could get a good pic. Without the clouds it was garbage.
This year I saw totality with clear skies and couldn’t get a good pic of partial or total using the same camera.
Huh, I couldn’t see it unless the clouds moved out of the way. It got really dark during totality, dark enough that my camera’s shutter speed was fairly low (it was around 1/125s with an iso of 50).
Several dozen earths could fit inside each of those wisps, the sun could fit something like 10k earths in it