In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Note From The Road
If all goes as planned, by the time you see this, I should be around the gleaming, concrete and glass sphincter of the Southeast - Atlanta - when this posts.
We have our spotting scope filmed and are ready for Monday, if I had thought a bit faster I could have put film on the camera and ran an HD cable to the big screen tv. I really want to see this through the scope though. I kinda remember my father making a cardboard box viewer to see an eclipse in Philly.
Report from Santee, S. C. Clear for the whoe thing. Spectacular. Son was in Nashville and reported clear. Wirecutter posted a good video. Language but that is kind of redundant since it was WC. I failed at video and photography. I did see a flare with the binoculars. Now I wish I had brought the 8" Meade.
We were in the Great Smoky Mountains NP at a picnic area with 58 sec of totality. No traffic, no crowds, bathrooms, shade, open spot for viewing, river to cool ones feet, great and knowledgeable company, and of course, Smoky Mountain scenery. This is trite but I am not a wordsmith so bear with me. The difference between a partial eclipse and a total eclipse is literally that of night and day. The sight of a black disc surrounded by glory plucks primal nerves. If you have the chance to see one do so. Our experience was wonderful.
We have our spotting scope filmed and are ready for Monday, if I had thought a bit faster I could have put film on the camera and ran an HD cable to the big screen tv.
ReplyDeleteI really want to see this through the scope though. I kinda remember my father making a cardboard box viewer to see an eclipse in Philly.
After XKCD came out as a supporter of Her Marxist Filthiness, I stopped reading it altogether.
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Whitehall, NY
Report from Santee, S. C. Clear for the whoe thing. Spectacular. Son was in Nashville and reported clear. Wirecutter posted a good video. Language but that is kind of redundant since it was WC. I failed at video and photography. I did see a flare with the binoculars. Now I wish I had brought the 8" Meade.
ReplyDeleteWe were in the Great Smoky Mountains NP at a picnic area with 58 sec of totality. No traffic, no crowds, bathrooms, shade, open spot for viewing, river to cool ones feet, great and knowledgeable company, and of course, Smoky Mountain scenery. This is trite but I am not a wordsmith so bear with me. The difference between a partial eclipse and a total eclipse is literally that of night and day. The sight of a black disc surrounded by glory plucks primal nerves. If you have the chance to see one do so. Our experience was wonderful.
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