[LRflex] Re: Supermoon
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:08:44 -0800
Aram wrote:
As long as we are not skunked for the August eclipse.
Hi Aram!
I've had the good fortune to see and photographed 4 eclipses... and I am very
much looking forward to next August.
I don't know about you, but I am already planning for it. For us it will be an
auto-trip most likely to Nebraska or thereabouts.
You need mobility, to find holes in the clouds. When I saw my first, in 1979
(near your home town of Yakima, WA), we were almost clouded out. About 10
minutes before totality, we got to an intersection of gravel roads, by farmer's
fields. My brother-in-law said "I'm going this way." I chose the opposite
way. I saw it, he did not.
Such is the way of Eclipse chasing, in anything but the best of weather. (Even
then, it can be "iffy". In Mexico, in July of 1991, the clouds only cleared
away some 20 minutes before the eclipse.)
If you've not not seen a total eclipse, and you live in the US of A, put the
eclipse of 21 Aug, 2017 on your "bucket list".
This one will run from Oregon through to the Carolinas, with the maximum
eclipse around southern Ohio (if I recall correctly). Duration will be 2 min.
40 seconds, at it's peak, but it will not be a lot less, in almost any spot on
the path. The path, at nearly 115km wide, will make it relatively easy to find
a good spot.
(Closer to the time, I'll be posting a series of "how to view & photograph an
eclipse", based on experience both on land at at sea.)
If we do get clouded-out (as they say), we can always look forward to the
Annular eclipse of 14 Oct, 2023 or the next total eclipse, on 8 Apr. 2024.
However, I fear those may be my last.
David.
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