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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by dylan604 »

tverbeure wrote: post #29
spenrose wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got caught in a day-long traffic jam leaving a rural area in North America after the 2017 total eclipse.

It’s the one time I remember when the French highway toll booths said F that, let’s just open them up and let everyone pass. The August 11, 1999 solar eclipse. The whole of Northern Europa driving back up, me included. To bad it was cloudy, not sun to be see. I saw the 2017 one in Oregon though, it was scorching hot but no cloud to be seen.

I got to enjoy the 2024 eclipse from my backyard. It was cloudy right up to totality, and I had serious concerns of not being able to see it. So unless it's raining, it's still worth a look up. Years before that there was a partial eclipse where a group of people left because it was cloudy. I stuck it out and just before sunset it popped out of the clouds to give a great view of ~80%.

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by dylan604 »

consp wrote: post #48
folkrav wrote: post #28

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The drop in temperature was the most striking part for me. It wasn't just dark, it was night in the middle of the day for a couple of minutes.

I found the sudden quietness quite a lot more interesting. It was really weird, not like nighttime where you glide into it but sudden like someone flipped a switch and it was done.

It made me think of a movie effect where they do a quick whoosh type of fade to silence rather than just cut as the totality came on. It was one of the most memorable moments of it to me.

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by tamimio »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #27
tamimio wrote: post #13

I saw the one in Canada back in 2024, I don’t think I have ever witnessed such an amazing phenomenon like that before, a white glowing ring in the sky!! I will see if I can catch the 2027.

I brought binoculars to the 2024 event and made sure to keep my eyes closed during the preceding partial solar eclipse (eye acclimation). After the total eclipse was over, I watched a single honeybee re-orient itself , having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented). Having also witnessed the 2017 total eclipse, certainly these are memorable events wor…

I have a telescope and traveled hours just so I can see it, and it’s truly memorable, not just the totality but also the trip and all the details of it, I was standing with my telescope outside on the hill (which is also an old castle) and when people were leaving after the totality, they all lined up asking me to see the partial with the telescope (I had the sun filter), kids, families, tourists, everyone!

> having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented).

Thanks for sharing that, I knew bees see different colors but not the sun’s polarity, I just spent two hours down the rabbit hole reading and watching bees stuff, till I ended up with hornets killing the whole beehives so had to stop!

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

djfergus wrote: post #50

In the Dwarkesh podcast about relativity they talked about one of the ways to prove einsteins theory was to observe a total eclipse - stars that should not be visible were predicted to bend their light rays and be able to be seen. Explorers launched grand expeditions in the early 1900s to be the first to witness and prove the phenomenon. Made me yearn for a more heroic time. They kept being thwarted by weather, cloud…

> one of the ways to prove einsteins theory

> scientists worked out the theory could be easily proven

Theories aren't proven.

Einstein, working from previous theories and models, wrote his hypothesis or proposal of General Relativity. This, too, gained consensus and gave rise to mathematical models. The models made predictions, and the predictions have been largely confirmed to date. It has proven to be a robust theory without notable falsification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

Therefore, the theory enjoys popularity and prominence, and a good reputation in the scientific consensus. There is no "proving a theory" but the models had predicted the gravitational lensing phenomenon, and empirical observations confirmed these predictions as reality, and science marches on.

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by anthk »

cladopa wrote: post #41
usrnm wrote: post #35

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Can we please stop with this nonsense? No matter where you live and which language you speak you never call the majority of places on Earth right. Can we just accept it and move on?

It is not non sense. I am spaniard myself and I did not understood what he was talking about until I saw the correction(is this a club name or something?). If I want to talk about "Seattle" and use "Siadol" a lot of people are not going to understand.

Every language has his own name for tons of places. In Spanish it's Zaragoza and in English "Saragossa". Ditto with Londres/London.

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #22
frankensteins wrote: post #16

Very detailed site. It said open source. where is the source?

https://gitlab.com/globus-faber-public/eclipsefan

Neither of the two licenses are open-source licenses. In particular, the licenses are encumbered by the noncommercial restrictions.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

The outputs, rather than the source code, are said to be under this CC-BY-NC-SA licensing.

https://opensource.org/osd

I am not familiar with Polyform, but my cursory research indicates that this family of licenses is deliberately and consistently non-open-source.

https://polyformproject.org/about

It is profoundly deceptive to post this headlining as "Open-source" when it is deliberately not.

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by monster_truck »

spenrose wrote: post #18
monster_truck wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you've ever needed an excuse to rent a sports car and drive for 4-8 hours, this is the one.

Got caught in a day-long traffic jam leaving a rural area in North America after the 2017 total eclipse.

Why were you in such a hurry to leave? I just wander around a city I will probably never go back to, taking it all in.

Re: Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

tamimio wrote: post #63
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I brought binoculars to the 2024 event and made sure to keep my eyes closed during the preceding partial solar eclipse (eye acclimation). After the total eclipse was over, I watched a single honeybee re-orient itself , having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented). Having also witnessed the 2017 total eclipse, certainly these are memorable events wor…

I have a telescope and traveled hours just so I can see it, and it’s truly memorable, not just the totality but also the trip and all the details of it, I was standing with my telescope outside on the hill (which is also an old castle) and when people were leaving after the totality, they all lined up asking me to see the partial with the telescope (I had the sun filter), kids, families, tourists, everyone! > having…

It was my favorite activity of 2024, easily. Went with my twin [&law] and met lots of very neat people. Learned a little bit about the sun, and lots about humble aweface.

My first roadtrip in my first hybrid, who knew a Camry could fjord a creek in some backroad national forest. Beautiful. Then we had tacos (instead of sitting in immediate-post traffic) and laughed some more at people, ourselves.

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>they all lined up asking me to see

I was in an area with >4m of totality, so I definitely shared my single pair of binoculars (my small group was really respectful, I got over 2 minutes zoomed in)... because I had kept my eyes closed for several minutes (before totality), I immediately was able to point out to others three red solar flares (for some reason I initially saw flashes of green, but whoTFknows).

I'm glad I shared, because that's when I first noticed Miss Lone Bee. As a then-beekeeper, I made sure to pay attention when the heliosphere returned to Her little part of this incredible world.

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>till I ended up with hornets killing the whole beehives so had to stop!

There's an entire subculture of hornet-murdering inventions (some clever, some which actually work!) to protect hive entrances. But my favorite has to be: the guy who kills them with a tennis racket.

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