/sci/ - Science & Math

Completely want past me tbh. Heard about it on the radio when they said the glasses were pretty much sold out all over the country.

>>7136092
take a sooted piece of glass

>>7136077
Quick question. Is it safe to look at a partial solar eclips ( 60%-70%) if I'm using sunglasses AND a smoked glass? I don't wanna stare at it for long, just a quick glimpse before getting back to my university lectures. Thanks

>>7137955

DO NOT STARE AT THE SUN. Didn't your Mom teach you anything? Reflect that shit off of a piece of paper or something.

>>7136077
I don't have the glasses and I have too many things to do which require me not to be blind, so I'll be waiting for some picture gallery on the internet.

>>7136077
>Bloody 'murricans.

Do they have to do everything for you?

>>7136077
Who the fuck needs glasses? Stupid lazy europoors.
>not knowing how to make a fucking hole in a box

>>7136077
That is the worst possible map choice for that eclipse.

>>7138052
>That is the worst possible map choice for that eclipse.

E̶n̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶e̶n̶ darken us.

>>7138063
http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/

>>7136077
>eclipse not visible from Murika

The whole team at my workplace will be ditching their work for half an hour. we'll watch it from the roof of a shopping centre near us.

>>7136092
I picked up a pair Monday on amazon they arrived next day there is still time.

Do NOT believe the hype. The establishment dont want you looking directly at the eclipse - you will see the humungous alien ship hovering there.

All your life you are told this bs "dont look at the sun" well, how many people you know have gone blind from it.. zero thats how many !

Solar films n filters are designed to blur the ships sillouette.

I won't be watching. Glasses are expensive as hell and sold out pretty much everywhere. It's not worth damaging my eyes so I'll be sitting this out. Fucking pissed about it though, and will be all day on Friday.

>>7139184
make your own

>>7139191
I'm too stupid to do anything like that. I just realised I'll have class anyway, so it wouldn't matter either way.

>>7136077
Say I take my phone and look at the screen, using the phones camera. Would that work safely?

My scope is ready.
Sun is really boring today.

>>7136077
>>7140198

>from Switzerland (70%)
>127mm/1500 Maksutov Cassegrain (will have to do a mosaic I guess)

>>7136077
here is a link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kMEsCu6S4

>>7140198
There were a few good prominences today though but just that one spot.

>>7138813
kek

>>7140167
yes, but it'll be most small to watch

Northern England
300mm Nikkor lens + 4 diy mylar film filters with different number of layers
Should be good enough.

>>7136077
>What apparatus will you be using?
>apparatus
>not soaking up the glory with your naked eyes

The Glasses shit is a joke.

Looking at the sun normally doesn't blind you, staring at it for a long time might.

Are they seriously trying to tell us we've evolved on a planet with a sun which if we look at it will immediately go blind.

>>7139184
You're not going to damage your eyes.

No one has ever gone blind from looking at the sun, especially not a blocked out sun.

As I kid I used to go full retard with my friends and stare into the sun for a sec or two, or bright lights for that matter, until we'd start seeing spots and shit.

As far as I'm concerned my eyesight is still fine.
A quick glance probably won't permanently blind you 4 lyfe.

Is it possible to watch it through the front camera of a smartphone like a selfie ?

http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v16/n2/full/6700067a.html

Some kid on drugs spent 30 minutes looking at an eclipse and that turned out okay-ish. A couple seconds probably won't blind you, right?

>>7140540
if you make your decisions based on anedoctal evidence, I may have bad news for you.

>>7140531
Yeah, i agree

Just read this
>Even the small amount of Sun peeking out from behind the Moon during an eclipse is enough to make you go blind.
What total shit.

When you drive and the sun gets in your eyes, you squint and put the visor down, you don't go immediately blind and crash.

>>7140543
I think this is one of those pieces of advice that's continually repeated and repeated without much evidence but so much repetition that everyone believes it. Like how you shouldnt swim after food despite no evidence that it causes any problems

>>7140540

>A couple seconds probably won't blind you, right?

Sure, but you'll probably get temporary snow blindness which will probably last a few days or so. Basically it's like having sand inside of your eyes. As a welder I can assure you that UV light will fuck your shit up and you'll remember it for the rest of your fucking life.

Now, the thing about eclipses is that during a total eclipse the sun is completely blocked and it gets really dark and your eyes open up. So when the sun finally does start to shine down on you again, there you are with your pupils dilated to the max and you end up getting hitted with the full power of the sun.

I mean really, think about the times when you've just woken up, it's dark and you turn on a light. You probably felt some pain and felt a strong urge not to look directly at the lamp. That's from a regular light bulb. The sun is orders of magnitude brighter and has loads of nasty UV light that will fuck your eyes up before you even have time to notice the pain.

>>7140545
>When you drive and the sun gets in your eyes, you squint and put the visor down, you don't go immediately blind and crash.

Go outside, cover your eyes for a minute and then look a the sun for three seconds.

I fucking dare you.

>>7140583
Fair enough I guess.
I'm not condoning staring straight into the sun or anything, it's just that I don't think you'll instantly go blind like so many people claim.

>tfw give literally zero fucks about this stupid shit
>don't have to worry about my eyesight

I'll probably sleep through it.

>>7140550

you can literally google the scientific reason behind these things

>>7140590
>tfw you don't care about one of the few things that are quite unique, from an astronomical point of view, on this planet

>>7140594
I'm sorry but I just don't.

If you're into astronomy, more power to you, shit's nifty and all, I just can't be bothered to care that much.

Found out way too late about this eclipse and glasses are fucking sold out everywhere.

Reading about various alternative methods to view it but everything is contradicting.

Some say you can view it through a CD/DVD, others say you absolutely can not.

Some say you can view it through a DIGITAL camera on the LCD display, other say you absolutely can not.

How the fuck can it even be damaging to the eye to view it through a digital camera though? It's not like the LCD display is gonna spew UV light at you.

>tfw I have an exam in transform theory during the eclipse

>>7140602
Aren't you a cool guy telling us all how little you care...

>>7140614
Apparently you can do a selfie, articles saying is dangerous say it's just because you would be tempted to look behind you to get your phone aligned

>>7140614
It's "damaging" to use a digital camera because you'll be staring at the back of the screen, towards exactly the same direction as the sun.
So you've got it lined up perfectly, your eyes are in the "shade" of the camera and you can see the sun on the screen. Then your arm twitches.

Now you have a full dose of UV in your nicely dilated pupils.

>>7140637
>tfw exam during eclipse as well

fuck this shit

>>7140637
I have a lab and the guys will probably want to see it as well.
Which is for the best because I no longer have tainted glass.

>mfw we made some makeshift glasses with telescope sun-block sheets in the physics' student lounge today

Feels good.

Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see. But something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache.

>>7140645
It's not like you'll fuck up the image sensor.


>sarcasm

>>7137955
A quick glimpse does nothing. People are just panicking over it so no kid tries it's luck. Nothing happens if you are just taking a quick look. On August 11 1999 everybody was all over it and was sure you'll get blind if you take off your stupid eclipse glasses. I didn't give a shit and it was fucking beautiful. Nothing happened to my eyes. Most people know when it's too much, because it feels kind of painful.

>>7140669
Only that for most people it will be a partial eclipse, and most people won't just "take a quick glimpse"

>>7140669
As far as I know there are no pain receptors in the parts of your eye that actually takes damage from this. So even if you don't feel a thing you could still be causing temporary/permanent damage.

How do you take a selfie with the eclipse?
Surely looking at the camera image using the front facing camera to align the picture wont damage your eyes... right?

>>7140614
>Some say you can view it through a DIGITAL camera on the LCD display, other say you absolutely can not.

Just use a pin to make a hole in a piece of card, hold up another piece of preferable white card behind it , observe the projection of the eclipse on the white card.

>>7140674
Yeah, it's not like the glass screen will reflect any of that light back at you or anything

I know your not allowed to look directly at the sun but what if the look near to sun so its slightly off center but still in vision

>>7140537
SPON

>Newspaper said you can use a welding mask in a joking manner as if no one has them
>Have one
>Dara said you cant on stargazing
FUCK YOU NEWSPAPER!

>>7137987
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is

>>7136077
Gonna be in uni
Looks like I'll have to skip chemistry classes
Too bad I only have a pair of eye catching wielding goggles which will make me look like some idiot on a rave festival

>>7140737
I'm living in the UK, is it worth getting up to watch the eclipse if it's not going to be a total solar eclipse?

>>7140753
Didn't mean to quote.

Curiosity is gonna get the best of me m8's.
I'm gonna fuck my shit up.

>>7140722
They have to be rated at 14 or higher though to actually protect your eyes properly from an eclipse.

No chance of getting proper stuff for it now, so I'm gonna have a crack at looking at it through a couple of layers of crisp packet. Good thing I've got a pack of cheese and onion left over.

>>7140767
Just hold your phone camera as if you were taking a selfie with the sun behind you. As long as you can resist the temptation of looking directly at the sun you'll be fine.

>>7140753
looks like you're gonna have it better than us
I just don't know about the weather in London
So yeah if the sky is clear it will be worth it

>all these people thinking there's this deathball up in the sky that blinds people if they so much as look at it for a second

>>7136077
That eclipse path sucks. Most of the eclipse paths for the past decade have sucked balls. The next actual good solar eclipse will be in Aug 2017.

>>7140767
>>7140778
How have people never looked at the sun before? It doesn't burn your eyes out the moment you look. Just don't do it for more than a few seconds.

>>7140837
Holy shit, I can't wait for that one. Dead center of the path cuts through my road about a five minute walk away from my house.

>>7140840
Problem is, as other people have stated, the combination of sunlight with the darkness of the eclipse, the darkness opens your pupils allowing the light to fuck up your retinas much more than usual.

>>7140792
>tfw I used to look at the sun when I was young and still see perfectly

>>7140837
>That eclipse path sucks. Most of the eclipse paths for the past decade have sucked balls. The next actual good solar eclipse will be in Aug 2017.
this

fuck eclipses in our time, especially if you don't live in the fucking arctic circle.

>>7137955
just use peripheral vision to look at it, just not for too long. you'll be fine

>>7140584
I used to stare at the sun a lot as a kid and i have good vision.

It's a myth.

The dark to light thing isn't a big deal, people who go out of dark rooms into sunlight don't turn blind. No one goes literally full on blind from glancing at the sun.

>>7140614
Just fucking look at it. Jesus, all these pathetic scare stories.

>>7140792
I know right. Imagine evolving as a species which can go totally blind if they look up.

I have the same Mak as this guy >>7140206
There is going to be a total cloud cover here in Copenhagen, but I still made a nice sun filter - you never know.

Gonna set up my camera like this for a timelapse, we get 90% sun covered here in Manchester, but the sun will be behind the shot so hopefully everything just dimming will look cool enough.

>"it's just a myth"
>literally a bunch of people fucking up their eyes during every eclipse

I know a kid who used to put a laser pointer up to an inch from his eye and stare directly at it. As far as I know his eyes are still fine, so maybe you should go ahead and do that too.

Can someone explain to me how come staring at the sun is dangerous during the eclipse? I mean we live on this fucking planet and if you don't spend your entire day in a basement, you'll probably direct your vision at the sun many many times over your lifetime.

>>7141437
Wake up in the middle of the night, take a powerful led torch, point it directly at one of your eyes, and turn it on. This simulates what happens when the eclipse suddenly ends, minus the effects of UV.

>>7141437
Simply put:

Viewing the normal sun activates whatevers defense mechanisms your body got to protect your eyes from sun damage.

During an eclipse 80-90% of the sun might be covered but it still emits UV light that's harmful to the eye, however since it's a lot less light compared to normal conditions those defense mechanisms in your eye won't activate to the same degrees as they would normally.

Add to that the fact that there are no pain receptors in your eyes and you won't even feel when your eyes are damaged.

>>7141452

Thank you. This is the first piece of information I found that explains the "why".

Fucking News and websites only go "DON'T YOU DARE LOOKING AT IT CITIZEN!"

>>7141437
Staring at the sun is dangerous at all times without a filter

>>7141475
Keep in mind that looking at the regular sun is still not particularly healthy to do. It's just that it's harder to look at it for extended amounts of time since it's rather uncomfortable.

>>7140848
But i've stepped out of dark areas into the sun before, and looked up at it briefly. It's dazzling sure but I don't think I did any damage.

Will regular sunglasses protect me a bit?

>>7141611

If they have UV filter yes, but nowhere near minimal protection to be absolutely safe. Cheap $5 dollar ones definitively won't.

have fun today guys
and don't forget to praise te Sun

>went outside once
>now I'm blind

Be careful guys.

>>7141864

livestream somewhere? it's cloudy and rainy as fuck.

>>7141871
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNgVQW7Nkk

>clear sky
>beautiful spring day
>tfw no eye protection

Fuck solar eclipses.

Lunar eclipse master race.

Doesn't this happen every couple years.
Doesn't seem like that big of a deal if you miss because of lack of protective eye gear.

FUCKING CLOUDS
FUCKING LONDON

>>7141882
same here m8

>sky is literally white where live
>not a single speck of blue
>can't see shit

>mfw the glass I've bought is not good enough to actually protect my eyes

fuck this shit, still watching it. Not for long periods of time, something like 3 seconds

>>7141449
>when the eclipse suddenly ends
what

>>7136092
i am using x-ray sheets, even if i am not staring at it continuosly

Fuck it, I'll just squint and glance at it.

>>7141882
You can just put a piece of glass over a candle, smoke this shit up and look through it

HAPPENING

http://www.nrk.no/troms/direkte-fra-kl.-10_-se-solformorkelsen-1.12269242

It is happening.

Birds are freaking out here, they're either super silent and still or flying in circles and skawking like crazy.
Also just reached 60%~

g-guys am i going to die? my flatmate shouted at me from outside the window he pointed up and it was the sun and I looked at it for a second or so now im worried my eyes are going to fall out.

Ah, it's beautiful.
'99 was crazy because everyone was in the streets and it was more of a collective experience, but this is great too.
>people with the most ridiculous apparati to block sunlight
>parents struggling to explain kids how exactly solar eclipses happen
>that sudden drop in temperature when it was hot as fuck just before
>calling your friends who were on trip where the eclipse was nearly total

>>7141899
FUCK THESE FUCKING CLOUDS I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SHIT FOR TWO FUCKING YEARS FUCKING FUCK

>>7141926
You'll definitely die

Seems like using all that duct tape to nigger rig my binos to a camera tripod was a waste. Had rare sunny weather all week but it just had to end in time for this.

>go to the shop
>dozens of people watching the eclipse on the way
>literally nobody has any kind of protection

I love my city sometimes.

My eyes hurt. Been wearing two pairs of sunglasses.

I've only been stealing quick glances to check how far across it is. Cut me a break wouldya?

>No clouds covering the sun about half an hour ago
>As soon as it approached, the cloud dogpiled over the sun
I don't know what I expected.

>>7141938

I'm not worried. If I go blind half of my Plymouth will go down with me.

>Burgers not getting shit
>Northern Yurop being cloudy as fuck
Souther Yurop proves to be where it's at again

Nope, all cloudy here in Ireland. Can't even see where the sun is in the sky. Shit sucks, man.

It's at the peak here now. Can't see shit thanks to clouds but it's become pretty cold.

Who /100%/ cloud cover here?

>>7141895
It is the last one for a decade or something like that

>>7141946
Right here bro. Waited for this for fucking years

>>7141942
>not Longyear

i injured myself watching it

no, not my eyes, i fell down my stairs i was so damn excited

>>7141953
>no, not my eyes, i fell down my stairs i was so damn excited

way to go

>>7141946
>tfw

Suddenly it's pretty cold outside

Caught a glimpse of it for 5 seconds, fuck this cloud.

Ruined my day

>>7141953

>>7141895
>>7141947
The Saros 120 cycle is composed of 71 eclipses, each one distanced 18 years, 10 days and 8 hours from the other.

>>7141956
Too spooky.

>>7141956

temps have only dropped 1.5c here

Jesus that was shit, I thought it would be cool for some reason. There was also 95% cloud cover here

i didn't noticed any temperature drop or birds going crazy

Hi guys, I found this little red egg outside, someone knows what it does?

>>7141959
no i actually did, i think i sprained my ankle :<

also broke my pin hole projection box i just made previous

popped a lense in some cheap sunglasses and double lensed it, got some good viewing in. herefordshire here, high up mackeral clouds, not thick enough to block the veiwing. nice view, i am doing a degree in maths and specialize in astronomy, so this was a real nice reminder of where we are and what we are made of

Car and house alarms in all my street suddenly started going off. Can hear a few dogs barking like crazy too. wtf?

>>7141965
People are making stuff up so they feel like they are part of something

Is it over already?

Didn't even go fuckin' dark. Just slightly more shadows than normal. Anticlimactic.

I've stole a few glances of the sun with bare eyes, what's the chances of me going blind?

I couldn't live without watching my chink cartoons

>those dogs barking at the Sun
Lol, git gud fags

>>7141967
maths and physics* sorry, i smoked a joint during

>cloud cover
>acts as a filter, can see it clearly without glasses
everything turned out better than expected

Literally wouldn't have known there was an eclipse of that happened as I was going about my day

>>7141966
no idea my friend. Lend it to me!

Just took a picture of it, its funny you can see the cresent but under the sun And inverted

There was 2 suns where I was watching it. There was the sun blocked out but the moon but then a really bright area off to the side that made it impossible to look at or take a picture of. Were there 2 suns for any of you guys?

YES, clouds are getting thin enough now for me to be able to see it with sunglasses!

>no eye protection
>gonna look NEXT TO the sun
>problem solved
>mfw

>>7141969
The dogs barking and the birds skawking are definitely real.
Birds have been acting strange since before it started, dogs started going off like 20 minutes ago here. Of all the things one could make up to impress anonymous people on an anime imageboard, do you think it's this shit I would do, when it's proved it happens during eclipses?

>>7141983
This guy seems really trustworthy, though, I think it's a good idea to give him the egg.

I always wondered about this shit. Isn't it dangerous the moon getting that close to the sun? I don't get why it doesn't melt or get pulled into its gravity

>>7141989
Why the fuck would dogs bark. You're finding pattern in randomness. The dogs probably bark all the time. They don't know shit. If it's dark they think it's night time. Birds, maybe as they actually use the sun

>>7141991
this bait sucks m8

>>7141963
don't know how much it dropped here but before it started i was sitting on my balcony only in short and now i need some gloves

>>7141995
All in your head

>>7141991
Very dangerous, as we all know, when cheese gets too warm it melts.

Last thing we want is a ring of melted cheese around our planet.

>>7141992
actually one single dog went mad in my neighborhood and barked for 10 minutes straight

>>7141984
that's some good lens flare my son

>>7140527

Please don't listen to this idiot

>>7141995

it has now dropped another 0.6c and it's at peak here in 2 minutes.

All joking aside I did just look at it the whole time, but it was through a window so surely I'm fine

Meh, I suck.

>>7141996
maybe, but before the event there were no clouds on the sky, sun was shining and now there's only 30% of sun shining

>>7142003
Surely.

>>7141992
Dogs in my neighborhood are barking like crazy too. Neighbour's one actually escaped from the house when the family opened the door to come outside

You know they deds

>>7141992
>Why the fuck would dogs bark
I wouldn't know because this is not /an/, but I live in a skyscraper and I can see the park right behind me, a couple of dogs were definitely barking at the sky for 5 minutes

Amazing how cool it suddenly gets, and the birds stop tweeting.

Managed a cheeky pic through the clouds

i fucked up /sci/

i kept glancing at it with no protection and my eyes feel funny now

>not making diy glasses out ofd old C64 Floppys
I'll probably still be blind tomorrow.

Took two pairs of polarized sunglasses, popped the lenses off one and put them 90 degrees from each other, then put that in front of the sun and i can look at it just fine through my intact pair.

Is it at least safe to look at through sunglasses when the clouds are like in >>7142012 pic?

Because that's what I've been doing for about an hour now.

>>7142007
Yeah it's in your head. There are tens of dogs around me that all bark all the time and now none of them are. Maybe the eclipse has killed them!! Idiots

>>7141960
>The Saros 120 cycle
you know that there are several concurrent cycles, right?

Anyway, the next partial eclipse visible in yurop will be this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_10,_2021

Shitty pic

This whole looking at the sun reminds me that I've been using sunbeds for two years without ever using eye protection. Am I fucked?

>>7141965
>>7141969
that mostly happens during total eclipses, not partial ones

>>7142023
Zoomed

>>7142009
Incorrect. They were just barking. Did you ask them what they were barking at? LOL

Heyho guys, never been to /sci/ before, but I figured you might be able to answer me.
I made this photo earlier today from Hungary. In spite of all the warnings that said to avoid looking our facing your camera in the direction of the Sun, I did capture it because why not. I also did the thing when I poked a small hole into one sheet of paper, and I projected the shadow onto another sheet. Whatever, in this photo I made you can see the part that isn't converted to grayscale. Exactly what I should see with those special glasses or whatever. How did this happen? How can this appear on the photo?

>>7142032
Lens flare

>implying that wan't total

I like the moon.

>>7142036
10/10

>>7142036

>>7142036
for science!

I used an old welding mask my granps had in his shed and it was pretty cool. Didn't look at the sun for more than a couple seconds since I have no idea of the protection rating on that thing.

>>7142047
same here
>>7142015
I bent floppies have a protection of fuck all, but I could clearly see the shape when looking through it. I only looked only for like a second every couple of minutes, I still need my eyes.

For all those nuclear energy shills who tried to scare tactic Germany with possible blackouts: we're back after the dip and production will soon peak. Live stats here: https://my.discovergy.com/sonnenfinsternis
No blackout happened. What's more, we've collected valuable data that helps with future eclipses when PV will have an even bigger share of electricity production.

>>7142013
Same, but the fuzzyness is already fading. My eyesight is still as good as usual.

I don't think a few glances will do much damage.

>not just wearing 5 pairs of sunglasses
Get on my level

behold, muh appparatus

>>7142059
pic

>>7142060
comrade/10

>>7142024
you are fucked anyway if you see the need to use sunbeds

>>7142056
this is really cool

>>7142067
I like looking healthy, which not being a newt does for me. It also gives the the vitamin D I'm otherwise not getting and clears up my skin

>>7142036
Those photons have travelled 7 minutes in a once in 26-year phenomenon.

And they landed on your hairy ass.

>>7142032
>Whatever, in this photo I made you can see the part that isn't converted to grayscale. Exactly what I should see with those special glasses or whatever. How did this happen? How can this appear on the photo?
Ayy lmaos are up to get you, anon.

I worse 2 pairs of sunglasses and looked at a slit of light between my fingers.
I could see the sun perfectly and there was minimal glare because the light was diffracting through my skin between my fingers.

Come at me

>>7142072
Just get out into the sun faggot

>>7142082
There isnt enough sun in my country, especially over these months

>5 pairs of sunglasses
ATHERMAL 11A1 DIN GS 0196 CE welding glass
clear sky, nice view

I had a telescope, a binoculars, but the shitty compact camera of my parents made the best photos (pic related). But it was rather cloudy, so at times I could watch the eclipse directly with the binoculars. It was beautiful, really.

>>7142061
Roger that.

>>7142091
Is there a name for that kind of spic mustache/ slight neckbeard? Because I can't seem to grow an actual beard and that's all I have.

>>7142091
Amazing

>>7142096
It's called pubic hair

just watched it from croatia.. was pretty fuckin awesome about 45-55% was covered too bad it wasnt more, some predicted about 60% haha

>>7142096

I've personally named it the "The low test NEET stache" and it goes really well with a pajamas, mind you.

Eh, its just a partial eclipse

during the past 15 years i missed all the solar/lunar eclipses, comets and meteors because the weather was shit
This one i missed because i was lying in bed and reading

>>7142072
>looking healthy
>tanned skin
choose one

>>7142083
there is enough, do you think scientists in the arctic are using sunbeds, no they do their jobs without feeling the need for such faggotry

>>7142091
>>7142059

Glassesbro reporting in
I only had 3 pairs though

>>7142091
>I come from a world you may not understand

It was reasonably cloudy in Cork, Ireland, but managed to snap this while it was *just cloudy enough* for my phone camera.

A fella gave me a look through his mylar-covered binoculars during the peak and it looked great!
But not total, as you can see from OP's map anyway.

From northern Italy with a Meade etx 90

>>7142116
>he thinks scientists in the arctic dont take vitamin supplements

unlike yourself, scientis aren't retarded

So we don't have any Svalbard/Spitsbergen residents?

>>7142142
>implying sunbeds are vitamin supplements
how about some propositional logic?

>>7142144

>implying actual scientists browse /sci/

>>7142158
I was hoping for whalers, fresh from /b/

>>7142144
Spitsfag here. This is how the eclipse looked from my garden.

>>7142155

i never implied that, how about some strawman

i was merely saying that sunbeds are a viable alternative of vitamin D

also, i don't really find the possibility of sunbeds in the recreational room of an arctic outpost all that outlandish either

>>7142164
*on NRK
:^)

Watched the partial eclipse from Siilinjärvi, Finland (Northern Savonia), while visiting my parents. Luckily my step-dad is a car nut and has welder's goggles for his acetylene torch. Also luckily my parents' living room points to the south and has very large windows. I could sit on my lazy ass and watch the whole thing sitting on a couch. What's most lucky is that there weren't any clouds interfering. I usually miss everything astronomical (like meteor showers), because the weather is usually so poor around here. But not today! I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life, even if it was only 84 percent.

Pic is the only one I found in my folder pertaining to the (Rising) Sun.

>>7142162

That's Faroe. The only people on Svalbard are Russian researchers.

>>7142165
I was talking about no sunbeds you implied I was talking about no vitamin supplements

>>7142172
and btards trolling the whales tho

This is the view from my garden.

>>7142173

whatever, if he wants to use sunbeds, let him (im not the sunbed guy btw, i think its faggy, and a hasse)

also, take your vitamin D IU 2000, your average first worlder has a deficency

>>7142181
I absolutely let him do it, I don't even think it's faggy or something, I just like to play with different views and prejudices and make people question themselves.

And about the vitamin d stuff, I don't really care. I just eat and do whatever I want regardless of that stuff.

Why was I able to see the shadow of radio-waves during the apocalypse?

from my swiss garden

also, go to /p/ for great anon photos.

When I was a kid I used to look directly at the sun for minutes for fun. It was always very bright at first, but then I began to see weird shapes inside the Sun, like a very bright blue ring, a very dark ring and funny colours coming in from all sides. The blue ring bounced around inside the sun.
Today 26 Years later, my eyes work perfectly normal, I have a very healthy eyesight and I can see extremely sharp, actually sometimes I even get headaches due to that.

Pic related, this is kind of what I saw when looking directly at the sun for minutes.

>>7142215
The blue ring is just an inverted image due to overstrained retinal cells that is combined with the actual image of the sun. It's blue because that's the compliment color to yellow.

>>7142218
I actually never thought of that, but it makes sense

>>7142205
I love the uneven curvature of the Moon's surface. Wonder what's the scale here and how high are those bumps.

>>7142205
are you in lausanne ?

>>7142215
Exactly, I watched the eclipse this morning just with my eyeballs.

The eyeballs didnt melt, didnt burn, my rods didnt fuse to my cones and my retinal nerves werent nervous.

So sick of the fuckin bs propaganda on tv every time it scares me they want to scare us so much.

>>7142251
next to Fribourg!

>>7142241
Using this you can estimate the bumps to have a max height of 5-10 km. It's nothing accurate, but the moon is actually quite bumpy.

>>7142186
>>7142181

I'm >>7142169 This far north I have to take D- and other vitamins during the winter just to keep my energy level ups. I don't know about sunbeds, but sunlamps can really help people cope with having SAD feelings.

(SAD = Sunlight Affective Disorder aka Winter depression)

>it was shit
I was told it was going to be dark.
All that happened was that I got a little bit colder

Anticlimax as fuck.

Couldn't see shit because of clouds, and it didn't get dark either.

>>7142442
>literally let down of the century

>>7142442
>>7142445

We should sue somebody!

>>7142453
Brian Cox will answer to this disappointment

I saw it from the inside of a small airplane. We followed the shadow of the moon for a while so it lasted a bit longer for us than it would have on the earth.
I was fully aware of how the events were going to unfold but I still think it was quite an experience to see the shadow moving across the clouds beneath me. Pic is the shadow catching up with us a few seconds before the sun was completely covered. Unfortunately the quality is shit, but I guess someone might want it anyway.

>>7142383
>I was told it was going to be dark.

>>7142169 here. At least where I was, the eclipse was only 84 percent of the Sun's normal radiation. Sixteen percent is still a sunny afternoon for me and you can't still look at the Sun without damaging your eyes.

This is what it looked like for me (pic is from Hyvinkää), although my goggles were green-tinted and for a change the local commercial/military airport didn't have planes in the air. (Although prior to the eclipse the Finnish AF Hornets flew so low that our windows shook.) My mother saw the (practically) full solar eclipse in 1990, when I was two years old. I'm so jelly I could put myself on toast.

Norway was really cloudy, but managed to get a good glimpse of that 86% eclipse. Majestic

>>7142461
Thanks for that. Cool pic. Were you able to take any when you were actually in the shadow?

>>7142516
I have this one, but that's it. I wanted to take a photo of the corona, but it seems my camera was unable to get a decent shot of it. You can vaguely see the shadow at the bottom of the picture along with the illuminated parts of the clouds in the distance. The three round circles around the sun are some drops that were on the windows.

>>7142602
Were you on the plane for the purpose of seeing the eclipse from above or just a very timely trip?

>>7142602
>On a plane during a solar eclipse
>doesn't bring a proper camera
Come, on, guys. This is once-in-a-lifetime stuff.

>>7142606
The former. I was invited by a family member that had won some tickets through some kind of competition.

>>7142616
Yeah, I probably didn't think that part through. I guess actually seeing it was my primary intention, didn't think even of taking pictures of it before my family member asked if I was going to take one with my phone when it was about to take place.

>>7142623
Actually, I forgot to add this to my post.
http://illvid.dk/universet/solen/solformoerkelse-2015-se-fantastiske-billeder
Some of these pictures were taken by people on the same plane I was on, others are from the Faroe Islands. I had a nice talk with some of the people on the plane. I believe the images were taken for a /sci/ related magazine they were publishing.

>>7142629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i1cJIwE7M

>>7141452

under that circumstance, wouldn't that mean that wearing sunglasses would be acceptable during the eclipse?