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How did you find all these cameras? Am I stupid?
Are these questions related?
I'm conflicted about upvoting sarcasm but it made me laugh so....
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I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here you never know).
How it ended up? South of Catalunya was clear sky as far as the eye could see, was a great evening :) We got maybe 30-40 seconds of totality I think in the end.
It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered.
I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see next year's one :D
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There is nowhere in Europe that is true. Why exactly are you posting misinformation?
True in Germany. Schulpflicht. Why exactly are you posting defamation?
Well today I learned. I guess Germany has problems getting away from its police state past. By "many places" did you just mean Germany?
I can post defamation because I live in a better country.
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How did you find all these cameras? Am I stupid?
Are these questions related?
I'm repurposing a meme where someone asks something like "Why didn't you ___? Are you stupid?"
Basically I'm wondering about the answer to the first question, but the utter absence of any explanation of it makes me wonder if it's common knowledge, and so I also wonder about the answer to the second one.
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Don't forget 6-planet alignment.
Aligned with what, exactly? It is true that 6 planets have found themselves on the night-side: excluding Venus (currently an "Evening Star"); with Pluto setting just before Mercury and Jupiter rise. But the chances of seeing them all aren't great; Jupiter's only about 10° away from the Sun as it rises. Uranus and Neptune, as always, are far too dim to see without a good telescope. But they are not aligned with one an…
I mean the whole eclipse was shortly before the sunset and shortly after the sunset you could see 6 planets nearby. That's quite unique, don't you think?
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aligned with what, exactly? It is true that 6 planets have found themselves on the night-side: excluding Venus (currently an "Evening Star"); with Pluto setting just before Mercury and Jupiter rise. But the chances of seeing them all aren't great; Jupiter's only about 10° away from the Sun as it rises. Uranus and Neptune, as always, are far too dim to see without a good telescope. But they are not aligned with one an…
I mean the whole eclipse was shortly before the sunset and shortly after the sunset you could see 6 planets nearby. That's quite unique, don't you think?
No. It would not be unique if it were true, and what you said is false.
"Unique" is a one-time occurrence. Perhaps we could say a unique alignment is once in a human lifetime. There will be more eclipses, and the planets are nearly always there to be found! Everything in our solar system is cyclical!
During totality, you may possibly have glimpsed Venus, Mercury, Jupiter.
Shortly after the sunset, only one planet was visible (besides Earth): Venus. The others were below the horizon. See my GP post.
I don't know what you mean by "nearby". Jupiter and Mercury are quite close, and making a closer approach within a couple of days.
The planets, as sibling points out, are strung out along the ecliptic plane. From our vantage point on Earth, there are wide distances between most. There is a very wide distance across the sky for the set of six.
The set of six planets are on the night side and they are most visible just before sunrise. Not after sunset. Check your reliable websites: NASA, ESA, Sky & Telescope, EarthSky. Check a reliable simulation app, such as Stellarium. Don't trust your randos on social media.
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#147Best Total Solar Eclipse Photos | EarthSky | https://youtu.be/KVgZ4k9hRW4?is=8w4sanOuLRMC9Ija
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How it ended up? South of Catalunya was clear sky as far as the eye could see, was a great evening :) We got maybe 30-40 seconds of totality I think in the end.
It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered. I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see next year's one :D
Oh no, that's sad! Better luck next year indeed! We're thinking of Tunisia instead, take advantage and visit our African neighbors across the sea :)
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That area (Taymyr Peninsula) looks crazy remote and inaccessible. It would be wild to be there, let alone experience an eclipse there. I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit, though I'm also curious what enforcement looks like in an area so far from what we think of as normal infrastructure.
It still started in russia though, even if nobody was there to see it
Oh, sure, this is just my rumination on experiencing something that seems so existential in such a solitary place.