Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

Just as we got 10 minutes before peak eclipse, the sky darkened...by a big thunderstorm. The effect of the eclipse was not really noticed. I did get one shot about 20 minutes past peak as a hole opened in the clouds. See if you can find the eclipsed sun in this shot. It's not where the brightest light is. You will need to zoom in.

 

[daugen]

the eclipse was a bust for me, glad some of you had fun and got some pics. Don, that's a marvelous pic.
Billie, very cool picture through the trees.
So here I've decided to mow the entire lawn and be out during the eclipse, coming in to the barn when it got dark to get my welding helmet.
I mowed right through it...never got dark, only a little darker and a little cooler. That's it. I missed it...
not like there aren't a million and one videos taken of it.

burned the burn pile after spending several hours cleaning up the last of the brush from my tree trimming project.
Lot of raking, chain sawed a bunch of limbs, got everything lugged to the right pile, hard work in the heat
and lit it off after a modest dribbling of old gasoline
taken out of old equipment and saved for just this. Burn pile doesn't care if gasoline is stale, good actually, maybe less explosive.
Wadded paper towel on end of all metal rake and after letting pile sit for ten minutes, lit it off. Top two feet was brush and bottom three feet is wood chips.
those wood chips got lit off just fine, and nothing blows around. It will smoke all night and tomorrow though, not sure the neighbors are thrilled.
After the top part burned off, I could see constant flames all over the chips, very low down, and before I came in, the pile had dropped about a foot.
It will keep burning and drop another several feet by the time it's done. Too bad i'm burning all this biomass without converting it to energy.
The idea of having a steam plant in this heat...no.
Just wondering if all these chips can be used for something other than attracting termites, bees and ants.

this tree behind my house is about to get the proverbial axe. Wrecked during a prior hurricane, had its top half blown off,
never been the same, straggly, constantly dropping dead limbs and never pretty. Will make a good tractor project.
But at the moment, no more chainsawing and brush lugging in 104 heat index weather.
And for Don, who is about to get even hotter than me, Mostly too..., my only pic of real snow in three years here.
Kinda feels cooling doesn't it?...
I might go a couple more years before seeing a really massive snow like this.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

eclipse using pin hole in cardboard.

Storm approaching. lightning and rumbling thunder.

Mowed about 1/2 the yard until dark, is really tall, so slow going.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Got the pic of the total eclipse with sun flares through my welding helmet lens.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:ullinghair::laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I wasn't in the path of totality, and the only cloud in the sky covered the sun just before the maximum, but the sun managed to pop out a minute or so later...



Got some nice sunbeams when the clouds were covering up the sun.



Ten minutes later there wasn't a clout in the sky.:confused2:

 

[txdon]

I'm glad someone got a clear pic of the eclipse.


Since I had my zoom lens out I got this pic from the back yard. All I need is a witty caption for it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Since I had my zoom lens out I got this pic from the back yard. All I need is a witty caption for it.

How 'bout: After all these years, I finally caught it!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Oh, the weather station watched the eclipse, too!



It started at 9:03, peaked at 10:17, and was all done at 11:39.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Eric, you are a wealth of knowledge. my memory of reading about capacitors is that manufacturing tolerances were broad/bad enough that high end makers like Macinstosh would have to test many capacitors to find ones with the range tolerance they needed. Basically they would cherry pick the capacitors with the closest ratings and the rest went to the general public, like me running a Radio Shack for five years.

I still have 1 old McIntosh amplifier. I need some de ox it to clean up the pots and for RNG to ride over here in his blue VW van and we'll have a fix it party.

Nice write up Eric. I have a Ipad mini that needs some very small soldering done to replace some parts. I have a stereoscope at work, but zero experience. I've watched some youtube vids and people can fix them, but even the pros cuss like sailors trying to get it done. Not sure if its worth the headache. I would give it a "snow ball's chance in hades" to get it working again.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I still have 1 old McIntosh amplifier. I need some de ox it to clean up the pots and for RNG to ride over here in his blue VW van and we'll have a fix it party.

Nice write up Eric. I have a Ipad mini that needs some very small soldering done to replace some parts. I have a stereoscope at work, but zero experience. I've watched some youtube vids and people can fix them, but even the pros cuss like sailors trying to get it done. Not sure if its worth the headache. I would give it a "snow ball's chance in hades" to get it working again.

That sounds like fun, Kyle. Never worked on a Mini, but as long as it's not mine... I'll let the mechanic know that he's holdin' you up, too!:laughing: