{"id":19097,"date":"2014-10-23T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19097"},"modified":"2014-10-23T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:53:56","slug":"did-you-see-the-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/did-you-see-the-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see the eclipse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The clouds drifted in and out for hours. Would we see it here or — as usual — would we not? See it? Not? Every minute brought different prospects.<\/p>\n

Finally when it became clear that … well, that it was going to become clear for quite a while, I did something I haven’t done since I was a little kid bitten by an astronomy bug. I drifted a piece of glass over a candle flame until I had a two-inch blackened square and had a look.*<\/p>\n

The moon slid in at the 2:00 o’clock position, then gradually eased across the top of the sun.<\/p>\n

I tried to take some pictures.<\/p>\n

They were all bad, but some were interestingly<\/i> bad:<\/p>\n

\"Eclipse-01-small_102314\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Eclipse-03_small-102314\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Some got more interestingly bad after a few minutes with the GIMP<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Eclipse-01_COLORIZED-small-102314\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By the time the moon had moved into the 12:00 position and was heading for its exit at 10:00 o’clock, a great mass of cloud consumed the whole display.<\/p>\n

\"Eclipse-05_1-small-02314\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was all over and I never did get a good photo that captured the distinct “slice” the moon took out of the sun. (Or capture the crescent sun, to put it another way.)<\/p>\n

But just having done something cool that I haven’t done since I was, oh, 10 or thereabouts felt great.<\/p>\n

So how ’bout you? Did you see it? Did you get some better images than I did? Did you ignore the whole business? Did you get any fond reminders of eclipses past?<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

* Yes, I know you’re not supposed to do it that way, but that whole looking at the projection of an image through a pinhole<\/a> thing is borrrrring.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The clouds drifted in and out for hours. Would we see it here or — as usual — would we not? See it? Not? Every minute brought different prospects. Finally when it became clear that … well, that it was going to become clear for quite a while, I did something I haven’t done since I was a little kid bitten by an astronomy bug. I drifted a piece of glass over a candle flame until I had a two-inch blackened square and had a look.* The moon slid in at the 2:00 o’clock position, then gradually eased across the…<\/p>\n

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