And the birds just keep chirping! It was not like that in 1999... Birds these days yada yada
Those shadows were completely unexpected. I have never heart somebody talking about shadows being weird during an eclipse.
As a wise (because white bearded) scientist once said: »Life finds a way!«Well... two of those dux riding out the eclipse are both female so I'm not sure how many fertile eggs I'd have.
It sometimes happened with the air bubble and i would not be overly concerned for now. You will need to pay attention in the last week: If the duckling pips internally into the air bubble, all is fine.
So sorry you had such a bad experience in our state. Like many other states we do have some crazy drivers but I am in the bus driving all day long and for the most part people are pretty considerate with me. I still drive to Columbus every Sunday to go to Church as I have gone there my whole life and it is where I am spiritually fed. I moved, the Church didn't so I still make the trip. We did get several inches of rain recently and there was a lot of flooding since it all came down in a few hours. Many of the berms on our roads got washed away. We had no snow to speak of this winter and it was great weather to be able to take care of the ducks. This was our second great winter in a row. They said you had to put something like the lens of the solar glasses over your camera in order to get good shots. I hope you got some. I am going to check them out now.The state of Ohio is huuge, in comparison with West Virginia and the location i selected, near Marion, is located in the middle of duck paradise country! - You must have had a lot of rain and snow-melt recently because wherever i drove there were flood ponds, flooded woods and flooded fields. - And lot's of Mallard ducks.
Columbus was a reminder why i have moved away from the big city (Houston) into the country-side: Lot's of traffic and plenty of reckless drivers, if i had a dash-cam, i could open my own YT channel just from yesterday's experience…
I ended up in the middle of nowhere south-west of Marion at the entrance of a farm-driveway, away from the crowd with a good view around me (the little red arrow):
I befriended some donkeys:
I used two old phones, placed on the roof of my car to record tho different angles of the environment before, during and after the eclipse. And i figured out that the phone cameras are unable to take pictures from the sun.- Or maybe there was just enough cloud cover to throw the cameras off. Here is the best shot of the sun i was able to make:
The glare of the sun's corona is over-shining the moon's shadow.
However, using my NASA approved paper-glasses the picture looked completely different to my eyes. I could see solar flares coming from the sun's surface…
I am currently uploading the picture and videos from yesterday, so: »i'll be back«.
Sounds good to me.
Yes. I sometimes open an air hole anyway. Use a tiny screw to make a tiny hole.
No! You got that wrong! I really loved driving through Ohio - maybe except those stop-signs with "cross-traffic won't stop" on the way back… All that i saw were lovely landscapes, rolling hills after crossing over the Ohio river and pancake flat with plenty of dux-ponds the further i drove to the north-west. Most of the family homes had at least one pond with a fountain - and ducks.
Yes, I grew up in the city but would never want to live there again. Things have changed so much since I was a child and just even going once a week back to where I grew up is an experience in itself. I see all of the crazy drivers and get quite concerned about some of the people. It's a whole different culture now and it is a lot rougher than when I lived there. I saw my childhood home get ridden with bullet holes and then later torn down. I was sad to see that happen.
