HDSLR: Video of the eclipse, shot with a GH6

BobKo

BobKo

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I shot the eclipse at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. The sky got clear just as the eclipse started, and more clouds rolled in shortly after totality ended. Thus, I was able to get some good video. The highlight was the last 45 seconds or so of totality, which I shot in 4K using a Panasonic GH6 and Panasonic 100-300mm lens (zoomed all the way to 300mm). The only filter on the lens for this bit of shooting is a B&W UV/haze filter:

 
very cool. we were actually able to see the eclipse pretty clearly despite cloud cover. we weren't in the path of totality though, we only had 93% coverage
 
NorBro said:
Awesome, man - how dark did it get there?
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It was like a dim twilight... not quite night, but you would need headlights to drive. Strangely, there was a orange-ish sky at the horizon to the west, as if the sun had set in that direction. However, it was around 3:15pm where I was, and the sun was still well in the sky.
 
I predict a future feature film where something happens because of consequences from conditions in, say, the year 3092 when the moon stops in front of the sun and it's a race against time for an advanced human-led AI science and military team to find out what exactly is going on and get it back on course while parts of the earth start to freeze and, in general, all hell breaks loose.
 
NorBro said:
I predict a future feature film where something happens because of consequences from conditions in, say, the year 3092 when the moon stops in front of the sun and it's a race against time for an advanced human-led AI science and military team to find out what exactly is going on and get it back on course while parts of the earth start to freeze and, in general, all hell breaks loose.
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The moon....stops in front of the sun.....lol

Well, it would require someone to physically position it there and counteract all the other forces. At least a Type II civilization i would imagine
 
NorBro said:
blocks, and continues to block, lol
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No I mean, I understood that. It's just a funny idea that the moon would hold position between the earth and the sun. A mind-boggling improbability, really. The earth is in constant motion around the sun, so the moon's path would have to be very deliberate and a complete departure from its orbit, which by itself would cause all sorts of issues.

Also, I don't think that a permanent solar eclipse would negatively impact earth much because it only shades a small part of the surface which is constantly shifting.

But then I thought -- lots of sci-fi plots start with mind-boggling improbabilities. There would have to be a powerful intelligence behind the anomaly but the story concept is not beyond the pale of sci-fi.
 
Actually, it's funny because yesterday before I wrote that I Googled how cold it would get without the sun and apparently it would be -100°F within a year or something like that...so then I started thinking about longer eclipses and the effects they would have (longest one was ~7 minutes). Likely still habitable and maybe only a really cold disruption in some areas, and then so I'd rewrite the script to have the sun taken out by rogue AI composed of advanced tantalum hafnium carbide which would have a melting point of 11K°F and be the only known material to survive on the sun's 10.5K°F surface.

It's a movie.
 
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