• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Any pinhole will do. My most memorable partial (haven’t been in a total path yet) was at a house where the trees cast shadows against the neighbor’s house, and there were hundreds of soft crescents all over the place from the leaves. Like a drive-in movie screen for the event.

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      3 months ago

      I remember something similar with the previous eclipse, which I watched from a different park in Kentucky. But there weren’t any leaves on the trees here yet for that to happen this time.

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        3 months ago

        Without the leaves, the shadows of trunks and limbs had hard edges during the eclipse where I was at with 80+ coverage. Like solid black ink shadows instead of the fuzzy shadows they usually have late in the day.

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        3 months ago

        I guarantee there’s no way the building lasted 125+ years with holes in its roof, or that any but the poorest folks tolerated leaky buildings even back then. It’s overdue for maintenance.

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      3 months ago

      Really need to address school shootings at a core level, so we’re not just plugging the holes in the roof each time Jebediah or Malachi has a rampage.

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    3 months ago

    Yup last time an eclipse happened all the shadows were doubled (for lack of a better word). Didn’t see it this time.