The Astronomy Thread

Watched the eclipse in totality, felt very surreal with how fast the light changed from dark to light. 10/10 would eclipse again.

Shoebox viewers suck, find glasses.

We had 90% blockage here or something, disappointing. Should have made the trip to Oregon.

Tie fighters.

I was outside for totality, had a little over a minute of it. Was pretty cool. Wish I would have had a filter for my camera to take photos.

All the fake glasses stuff got me paranoid, even though I bought mine direct months ago. Only 70% ish here, but still looks cool.

The ones I used were issued by WKU and had a lannard. Wasn't even glasses was a reflective card you couldn't see through unless you looked at the sun. 10 minutes ago we hit total 100% eclipse for 2 minutes. Near total darkness then everything started to brighten. Insane shit to be honest. The temperature change, the lack of movement from birds and noise. Was very creepy feeling as all the shadows we are used to seeing at dusk were out of place.
I probably fried my phone camera but I took over 300 photos.
The nutty thing to me was the fact that at 0% sun hidden by moon it was 90% dark. A minute later with just 1% of the sun exposed it was 50% dark. That sun is one powerful bright motherfucker. Hopefully this steers kids more into space and science and away from gender study degrees.

Araxen said:

Dupe... ignore.

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Recently I went to buy stuff for my van. A year ago it didn't exist like this but I was able to buy a knock sensor, coolant sensor, cam sensor and 4 oxygen sensors for $76 between amazon and ebay. Autoaone/advance price? $390 for those 7 sensors. I can buy a brand NEW complete radiator on Ebay atm for $62 shipped. Autozone $169+ core+tax. Many ebay sellers are stocking their goods into Amazon warehouse now as well. Many things I buy on Ebay get 2 day shipped from Amazon.
Goodbye old world, hello new. BTW those sensors work perfectly. I tested with OBD and ECM voltage and codes. All working to spec and reading as they are supposed too.

The glasses are fucked up though. Amazon is notoriously bad about not vetting sellers( causing people to wait weeks/months for a item that never ships ) and products. More than once I had a full refund because flea medicine for my cats were counterfeit.

At 10 minutes until eclipse through the sun protector and at 1 minute till.

Pharazon2 said:

We had 90% blockage here or something, disappointing. Should have made the trip to Oregon.

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86% here and clouds rolled in. So it just looked like it was going to storm. Fucking thing sucks.

100% clear here, I left that out. The total part was the best part. Even 5 minutes before and 1 minute after it only looked like it was dusk. When it hit total, it didn't get pitch black but there was no shadows and it was like being inside a house in late afternoon. It was pretty freaky. Just prior and just after, not so much. I wish I had recorded it now.

Taken 1 mile from me downtown.