= Сообщение: 5091 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 31 Jul 17 22:26:42 Кому : David Rance 31 Jul 17 22:26:42 Тема : Eclipse FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+597f9507 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+597e596a = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello David,
On Monday July 31 2017 00:10, you wrote to me:
MvdV>> With "just" 98% you will not see the stars, you will not see MvdV>> the corona, you will not see any protuberans.
DR> Absolutely!
MvdV>> It will not be totally dark.
DR> Well, I don't know what you saw but when I definitely saw a total DR> eclipse (yes, I saw the corona and took a photo of it to prove it, and DR> I had a telescope from which I projected the image on to a sheet of DR> white paper) it wasn't totally dark.
The human memory is notoriously unreliable. But you are right, it was not totally dark. It was much darker than a few minutes before or a few minutes after totality, but it was not so dark that I could not see the people standing next to me. In fact I remember handing over my "unfilterded" binoculars to my Belgian neighboury, so that he couls also see the corona and the protuberans, That would not have been possible in total darkness. DR> It couldn't be because the light from the corona gives an eerie DR> twilight.
The sky was not free of clouds. The vieuw to the sun was clear, but there were clouds and the clouds a bit further away were not in the moon's core shadow. Giving some more light by scattering.
DR> Take the experience of someone who has also seen it with his own eyes! DR> ;-)
I am happy that I am not alone in my urge to Ward to not settle for 98%.
