rygar Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 58 minutes ago, LibertyBell said: during totality it's perfectly safe, but not during the partial phases. I bought this double filter system to take pictures, one filter blocks 99.999% of all visible light and the other one blocks all UV and all IR. ARe you shooting w/ full frame and are you trying to get the sun with a telephoto or something wide? i've never shot an eclipse or the sun, and have lost my mind trying to read up on the best settings. And of course this week it's cloudy and rainy so i can't even practice. I want a wide angle timelapse. So will start with the solar filter on (16 stops) and then take it off and adjust the shutter speed quickly. But I am sure i am going to screw it up. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 16 minutes ago, rygar said: ARe you shooting w/ full frame and are you trying to get the sun with a telephoto or something wide? i've never shot an eclipse or the sun, and have lost my mind trying to read up on the best settings. And of course this week it's cloudy and rainy so i can't even practice. I want a wide angle timelapse. So will start with the solar filter on (16 stops) and then take it off and adjust the shutter speed quickly. But I am sure i am going to screw it up. it's a Panasonic FZ300 I selected it for 4K video as well as good telephoto (constant f/2.8 lens) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rygar Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 3 minutes ago, LibertyBell said: it's a Panasonic FZ300 I selected it for 4K video as well as good telephoto (constant f/2.8 lens) that great 600mm telephoto will be fun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 9 minutes ago, rygar said: that great 600mm telephoto will be fun Yeah I have a few cameras but this is my newest so I'm bringing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Seems to me that the bottom line is you can't plan where you're going until the afternoon before. This isn't tracking a storm, it's looking for a clear(ish) sky and you can't predict that more than 12-24 hours out. I've been looking forward to this for 30 years and have run through a million scenarios and it keeps coming down to leaving home by midnight and heading for the choice spot to be there before most people and before local LEOs have closed stuff off. There are only 2 things that will change my plan and they're both revolving around our fathers whose health is rapidly fading, my dad is in hospice and my FIL could leave us at any time. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 The die is cast. It's sink or swim for me at Heart Lake. It's not the max 4 minutes of totality, but 3 out of 4 ain't bad. Got my cellphone camera ready to go 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzLuv Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Looks like Niagara Falls now forecasting mostly cloudy - after mostly sunny for days. Hopefully changes back between now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Star Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 14 hours ago, LibertyBell said: ultra violet rays man, they can penetrate the skull.... (jk) My hearing wasn't affected by the eclipse, just lost it, like my ability to make much sense these days... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANDA Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 10 hours ago, gravitylover said: Seems to me that the bottom line is you can't plan where you're going until the afternoon before. This isn't tracking a storm, it's looking for a clear(ish) sky and you can't predict that more than 12-24 hours out. I've been looking forward to this for 30 years and have run through a million scenarios and it keeps coming down to leaving home by midnight and heading for the choice spot to be there before most people and before local LEOs have closed stuff off. There are only 2 things that will change my plan and they're both revolving around our fathers whose health is rapidly fading, my dad is in hospice and my FIL could leave us at any time. So sorry. I know the feeling well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rygar Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 6 hours ago, BlizzLuv said: Looks like Niagara Falls now forecasting mostly cloudy - after mostly sunny for days. Hopefully changes back between now and then. Tough game time decision between a partly sunny forecast for where we plan to go vs a fully sunny forecast somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rygar Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 14 hours ago, gravitylover said: Seems to me that the bottom line is you can't plan where you're going until the afternoon before. This isn't tracking a storm, it's looking for a clear(ish) sky and you can't predict that more than 12-24 hours out. I've been looking forward to this for 30 years and have run through a million scenarios and it keeps coming down to leaving home by midnight and heading for the choice spot to be there before most people and before local LEOs have closed stuff off. There are only 2 things that will change my plan and they're both revolving around our fathers whose health is rapidly fading, my dad is in hospice and my FIL could leave us at any time. Hang in there, not easy Eclipse wise is in max totality or bust for you? Or are you fine with 2 min. Asking because a midnight leave is difficult, you must be searching prime time real estate with near 4 minute totality I'm hoping for 2+ without many people. Tough to find day of, but going for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RU848789 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 20 hours ago, gravitylover said: Seems to me that the bottom line is you can't plan where you're going until the afternoon before. This isn't tracking a storm, it's looking for a clear(ish) sky and you can't predict that more than 12-24 hours out. I've been looking forward to this for 30 years and have run through a million scenarios and it keeps coming down to leaving home by midnight and heading for the choice spot to be there before most people and before local LEOs have closed stuff off. There are only 2 things that will change my plan and they're both revolving around our fathers whose health is rapidly fading, my dad is in hospice and my FIL could leave us at any time. Exactly why I'm deciding where to go on Sunday afternoon, after the 12Z models come out. And even then, one can have a "sunny" forecast, but clouds could crop up just at the point of the eclipse ruining the blocked sun visual (but not all the other cool effects of daytime darkness). And areas forecast to have clouds could simply get lucky for 5-10 minutes. It's going to be a bit of a crapshoot right up until totality. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 7 hours ago, rygar said: Hang in there, not easy Eclipse wise is in max totality or bust for you? Or are you fine with 2 min. Asking because a midnight leave is difficult, you must be searching prime time real estate with near 4 minute totality I'm hoping for 2+ without many people. Tough to find day of, but going for it. Thanks. It sux This has been on my radar since I only got about 80% in the 1994 one. For the last 20 years I've been working on getting it right this time. 2 minutes might be alright but if I can I'd like to max it out. I don't mind the overnight trip, I do that for work a few times a month so it's not too far outside my routine. All I need is food, beer and a bathroom so if there's a supermarket parking lot inside the zone I'm good but I'd rather not have a bunch of people around talking dumb shit. There's a perfect parking lot a few minutes north of Paul Smiths college outside Saranac Lake that's one of my targets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 10 hours ago, gravitylover said: Thanks. It sux This has been on my radar since I only got about 80% in the 1994 one. For the last 20 years I've been working on getting it right this time. 2 minutes might be alright but if I can I'd like to max it out. I don't mind the overnight trip, I do that for work a few times a month so it's not too far outside my routine. All I need is food, beer and a bathroom so if there's a supermarket parking lot inside the zone I'm good but I'd rather not have a bunch of people around talking dumb shit. There's a perfect parking lot a few minutes north of Paul Smiths college outside Saranac Lake that's one of my targets. cloud cover forecasts are subject to change, even on the day of the eclipse. The sun came out here and I see lots of blue skies here today and there wasn't supposed to be any sun here until Sunday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Big Jims Videos Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 I'm most worried about that band of high cirrus coming from the west. What we noticed in South Carolina back in 2017 once the eclipse started the cumulus clouds actually decreased as more of the sun became covered. Less heating perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 cloud forecasts must be taken with a grain of salt, it's been sunny all afternoon today! Lee Goldberg just said Monday will be very similar to today! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Star Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 I have to chuckle at all the social media posts, telling you to keep your pets inside with the shades drawn! When was the last time you saw a dog stare at the sun? When was the last time you saw a bear walking into a tree? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 52 minutes ago, Dark Star said: I have to chuckle at all the social media posts, telling you to keep your pets inside with the shades drawn! When was the last time you saw a dog stare at the sun? When was the last time you saw a bear walking into a tree? if anything animals scamper back to their homes because they think night has fallen. people are scared of anything these days, if anything the animals will be looking at us and laughing inwardly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 2 hours ago, LibertyBell said: cloud forecasts must be taken with a grain of salt, it's been sunny all afternoon today! Says the guy who's been asking for cloud forecasts for weeks 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 14 hours ago, IrishRob17 said: Says the guy who's been asking for cloud forecasts for weeks yeah well we all have to make plans THERE WAS JUST AN EARTHQUAKE HERE, T WAS AN 4.8, MY SECOND EARTHQUAKE HERE, MY FIRST ONE WAS IN AUGUST 2011, THAT WAS BEFORE A HURRICANE HIT, THIS ONE BEFORE A SOLAR ECLIPSE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 16 hours ago, Dark Star said: I have to chuckle at all the social media posts, telling you to keep your pets inside with the shades drawn! When was the last time you saw a dog stare at the sun? When was the last time you saw a bear walking into a tree? yeah alot of nonsense out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rygar Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 80% sure I am bailing on the Finger Lakes and heading to the Adirondacks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANDA Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Shooting for in or around BTV as of now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 There aren't too many N/S roads in VT, if the traffic is bad you'll be choosing a spot somewhere without snowbanks (along with everyone else). As the forecast homes in on the low cloud zones it's getting real. My plan got blown when my dad died this morning but go straight north and do it overnight so you get to your chosen plowed area by sunrise. The recent and current storm really reduced where you're going to be able to stop your cars and that's going to become the primary limiting factor. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsPens87 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 5 minutes ago, gravitylover said: There aren't too many N/S roads in VT, if the traffic is bad you'll be choosing a spot somewhere without snowbanks (along with everyone else). As the forecast homes in on the low cloud zones it's getting real. My plan got blown when my dad died this morning but go straight north and do it overnight so you get to your chosen plowed area by sunrise. The recent and current storm really reduced where you're going to be able to stop your cars and that's going to become the primary limiting factor. Damn very sorry to heat that man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Thanks, I appreciate it. I've been working on this simple plan for 20 years, the snow complicates it and makes the travel and viewing spot arrival time even more important. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 1 hour ago, gravitylover said: There aren't too many N/S roads in VT, if the traffic is bad you'll be choosing a spot somewhere without snowbanks (along with everyone else). As the forecast homes in on the low cloud zones it's getting real. My plan got blown when my dad died this morning but go straight north and do it overnight so you get to your chosen plowed area by sunrise. The recent and current storm really reduced where you're going to be able to stop your cars and that's going to become the primary limiting factor. I am sorry to learn of your dad’s passing. You have my fullest condolences. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rclab Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 1 hour ago, gravitylover said: There aren't too many N/S roads in VT, if the traffic is bad you'll be choosing a spot somewhere without snowbanks (along with everyone else). As the forecast homes in on the low cloud zones it's getting real. My plan got blown when my dad died this morning but go straight north and do it overnight so you get to your chosen plowed area by sunrise. The recent and current storm really reduced where you're going to be able to stop your cars and that's going to become the primary limiting factor. Through your pain and sorrow, I pray you find peace. As always …. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 RGEM and CMC show some clouds but partly sunny, GFS is cloudier - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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