I will say the lightning about 5 minute and up to total was very strange, very different that anything else I have experienced.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Nice view of the partial eclipse from here. I measured the LUX during what > we got: > Normal full sun is 111,000 LUX - which is more than my meter can handle. > 1252 CDT 13,000 LUX > 1302 CDT 8,000 LUX > 1313 CDT 10,080 LUX > 1327 CDT 21,550 LUX > 1343 CDT 34,500 LUX > 1404 CDT - >40,000 LUX (no reading) > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:11:08 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> I think we are at 85% - will walk out to the runway for absolutely clear >>> viewing. In what I thought was going to be a clever experiment, is cut >>> up the lens of a viewing filter and stuck it onto the rear filter >>> element in my 500mm reflect lens, then pointed it at the sun, thinking >>> I could take cool digital photos. Nope - in about 5 seconds, a hole >>> melted in the center of said filter. The nodal point of that lens must >>> be at the filter plane. >> >> Use your telescope to project an image onto some card stock. I watched a >> partial eclipse at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA, in 1968 that way >> with a setup someone had outside. >> >> >> Craig >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com