People Have Lost Their Minds After The Solar Eclipse

Oh noes - it went dark.... Signs of Satan and the End of times... Shriek! Shriek! - Arrrggggghhhhhh Save me Jesus, Save Me.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: yeah I woke up saw it and went back to bed lol, people, especially religiously paranoid people, especially, put the eclipse on a pedistol and they almost worhsip it out of fear. All that happened that it got dark and got light, THATS IT. I used to be one of those paranoid people, back in 2009, it got me nowhere, what ever gonna happen is gonna happen, just find peace while theres still time, thats all i got for these people :P

@TheRedKnight: IF the eclipse is at a time and a place, for at least some good viewing... It's worth a look at - especially if it passes straight over you and your in the absolute dead center of it... Absolutely worth watching... Like the moon doesn't spin around the earth like a pea on a plate... The plate is substantially tilted and the plate spins too... NOW this is really rare... that the sun is way bigger than the earth, and it's just a LONG way away... SO there is a BIG soft long distance tapered cone of shadow from behind the earth.... AND then there is a very small, tightly tapered cone, a shadow of absolutely no light, coming from behind the earth....... AND IF the moon goes only through the BIG shadow... it's a reddish eclipse.... BUT absolutely rarely - really fucking rarely - as in really really really rarely - the moon will go DEAD CENTER through the shadow, or cone of absolutely NO light..... and because the moon is as black as coal.... when it goes into that cone of absolutely NO light - it completely goes absolutely black and cannot be seen.... The moon just "disappears" into the blackness of space... I have seen it happen - I stood outside one night - all external lighting switched off... and watched the whole thing.... You want to see a planet disappear into the blackness of space..... Tripping.... Far Out... Keep in tune with this: https://www.timeanddate.com/ec....lipse/next-lunar-ecl ------ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse -------- Central lunar eclipse Central lunar eclipse is a total lunar eclipse during which the Moon passes through the centre of Earth's shadow, contacting the antisolar point.[9] This type of lunar eclipse is relatively rare.

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AND because of the extraordinarily low levels of light - and the HUGE distances etc., this is really an area of specialist photography..... You can see it with your eyes - with the adjustment for night time, say 30 minutes outside with no exterior lighting or red night lighting that permits night vision to exist.... you NEED a fairly large amount of telescopic magnification to capture the event - the moon is actually small and a long way off... and the light levels are kind of like a candle at 20 meters away.... Starlight only.... more or less. So if your going to get into photographing these things, get your practice in with tracking, long exposure times etc. and only under startlight / full mon / 1/2 moon / 1/4 moon and new moon light levels... It really matters on the HUGE variance in fractional light levels.... Like a fish tank..... If the depth is say 50cm.... the last 2mm of water in the bottom, well it's not much, unless your a cellular sized bit of life like algea, bacteria, potozea etc... then the 2mm is HUGE.... same with the light levels...

@TheRedKnight: There are settings on this page for your region and type of LUNAR (or solar) eclipses... https://www.timeanddate.com/ec....lipse/list.html?regi