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swest wrote: No one said anything about it. it was so large due to the time it came up. I could see the outline of the moon and a crescent on the right, red also.

I think I learned about it earlier in the week while I was clicking away at Yahoo news links....I know I miss a LOT of these events so when on the off chance I snag a astronomy story that's photoworthy I try to make a point to shoot it. Astronomy phenomenon isn't exactly eye-catching to viewers, so the newspeople bury those stories. I have a friend on Facebook who is really good at finding out when and where really weird astronomy stuff happens that nobody hears about, I gotta find out what his source is.

SmokyOwl wrote:

swest wrote: No one said anything about it. it was so large due to the time it came up. I could see the outline of the moon and a crescent on the right, red also.

I think I learned about it earlier in the week while I was clicking away at Yahoo news links....I know I miss a LOT of these events so when on the off chance I snag a astronomy story that's photoworthy I try to make a point to shoot it. Astronomy phenomenon isn't exactly eye-catching to viewers, so the newspeople bury those stories. I have a friend on Facebook who is really good at finding out when and where really weird astronomy stuff happens that nobody hears about, I gotta find out what his source is.

I heard about it on WGN news, Tom Skilling, the weather man mentioned it, & mentioned that it would be too cloudy for us to see in my area, & it was, but the clouds had a pinkish shade to them & the sky looked brighter than usual even though it was so cloudy, He also mentioned that this phenom wont happen again until 2033
Pete

I knew I should have gotten a pic. Lousy media is more interested in helping the Lib's than reporting real news.
Steve

swest wrote: I knew I should have gotten a pic. Lousy media is more interested in helping the Lib's than reporting real news.
Steve

Steve, a good hack for a getting closer photos with a smaller camera lens is to put binocular lens in front of the lens, I used to use a pair of 10x32 binoculars. I can't do that now as my lenses are too big for that in my DSLR, but for phone cameras and smaller point & shoots it's a pretty clever hack. The camera should still focus properly and function normally when doing this.

I'll have to try that.
Steve

So changing the car oil yesterday. Right after I was all done cleaning up and stuff, dragged the oil pan out, picking up the filter and paper towels.....and tripped....but caught myself before falling....at the expense of putting my shoe right in the oil pan. Cappin' off another awesome weekend.

Don't feel bad, I changed my oil in the Euro, put in three quarts before I realized I didn't put the drain plug on.
SHT happens.
Steve

Hey Im in Madison. You have a cool looking stock bike.

DobbinsCMA wrote: Hey Im in Madison. You have a cool looking stock bike.

Thanks! Keep in touch.

So I achieved my goal of 1,000 miles this year. Still have a day or two to go to work the next couple days.



After I shot the pic I went around the block to finally turn it over. The previous owner turned it to 0 to show me that it worked, and I never touched it since. Pretty proud of myself, I thought in my timeframe (4 months) and as often as I rode it 1,000 would be a good goal. I almost called my insurance guy to swap the insurance over for the winter this weekend; I think I got one more week left.

After it cools off for this weekend, I heard it's supposed to warm up again next week for a few more days
Pete

pete greek1 wrote: After it cools off for this weekend, I heard it's supposed to warm up again next week for a few more days
Pete

Well I'm not seeing that in my forcast. After a couple days of 70 high it drops like a rock to 50 the rest of the week and next week. We'll see what happens at the end of this week.