I'm in the path of totality here in Charleston, SC. I've been ready for a
month, the big question is the weather ie cloud cover. We're been in a
protracted rainy spell for about two weeks with no sign of abatement, so I
am very concerned about visibility. I have the day off so I could hit the
road for better weather, but they are projecting about a million visitors
in SC along the path of totality, so I'm not crazy about getting on the
highway with thousands of crazy eclipse watchers dashing about looking for
a hole in the clouds.
I have fashioned filters for camera lens, telescope, binoculars and
handhelds out of Thousand Oaks Solar Filter material.
Charlie with fingers crossed
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> How many OM Listers will be able to take in the total solar eclipse in
> a week? My wife will be visiting her sister near Nashville, TN, and will
> see totality of two minutes and forty seconds. I plan on being somewhere
> on the sagebrush flats of Wyoming not too far from Casper--I'll get two
> minutes and thirty seconds of totality. Should be a thrilling 2:30,
> indeed!
> Any camera suggestions? I'll have my Canon 1014 XLS Super 8 movie
> camera on a tripod, and I plan on setting the exposure manually for
> whatever it should be for full daylight and then have the camera do its
> magic single frame per second (or five, or ten, or whatever seconds) and
> get a two plus hour record of the darkening and then lightening of the
> Wyoming landscape compressed into a couple minutes of filming. Gotta do
> the math, here, Deano. I'm thinking of pointing the camera to the south,
> with a fairly wide angle setting, and record what happens on the
> landscape. I'll leave a time-lapse of the moon's actual crossing of the
> sun to the pros.
> So when totality comes, what then? My 60-300 Tammy at 300 on the OM
> 4T and pointed right at the sun? Any ND filter? Or just say screw it and
> simply stand back and be awed by something I'll never see again?
> Whatcha going to be doing next Monday, folks?
> Digest Dean
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