Eclipse hat-trick!
June 5, 2012 13 Comments
Our solar system is SO busy at the moment! Three ‘eclipses’ in just a few days, starting with the annular eclipse of the Sun, then a partial eclipse of the Moon, and right this minute the transit of Venus. This is for my soggy, cloud-covered British chums!
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Then stop complaining and fly back to England where a very large fan of your work is waiting!
There are no eclipses here!
Woke up in post jubilee fog 5:30 am and found your post (thanks for putting it there, brilliant pics). Thought “Oh sh*t, its transit time, now!?”. 10 minutes later, after rifling through old photo packets to find a dark negative, I ran out to the Great British summer dawn. The heavens smiled and granted me a brief inter-cloud window to take some shots (4000th @ 40f, 250 lens) with the negative held/wobbled in front of the lens, and some more after I woke up enough to turn the autofocus off… deep joy, I managed to capture some crummy shots of our sister making a slight dent on the circumference at about 40 degrees, before the clouds swallowed it all again…. Sic transit gloria Veni…
Glad you saw it! It still feels weird to me that I was watching it as the Sun was setting, and there were you at the same time watching it rise. Next they’ll tell me the Earth isn’t flat…
I got about 10 mins of cloud cover, followed by 3 mins of turning my head in every direction and seeing more cloud cover. Went back to bed a very unhappy bunny …..
Guess you will have to keep working hard Steve if im to last until 2127 to see the next one
It’s ok, it’s in 2117. That ten years will make all the difference!
Indeed, Curse my quick typing and not looking what I just typed
I think I’ll still be a good 20 years past my “Best Before End” date though Steve …..
Hi! you won’t remember me, since we first communicated over 10 years ago by email. But..I played Creatures. lol. So… DUDE… what’s up with Grandroids??? I have not heard much on that front forever… and I am very thirsty for something! Please!
Hi Ibad, Funnily enough I do remember, just about! I keep promising to update the world in general about Grandroids and then things get in the way. I’m away at the moment, but I’ll do it once I get back home and settled again. It’s going great, btw!
Thanks for asking.
BTW, I mentioned you and Dr. De Garis in an article I wrote for Neurdon a long time ago! Hope you like:
http://www.neurdon.com/2011/04/03/of-tinkerers-and-men-of-science-2/
Thanks for the mention! Did you tell Hugo? You’ll like what I’m doing with Grandroids – it’s VASTLY more brain-like. But I’ll tell you about it when I get a chance to take some time out from coding.
Thanks!! Looking forward to Grandroids! I will try and share the article with Dr Hugo too.
Hey Steve Grand, Creatures is getting another episode! The makers are called Fishingcactus and I’m sure they’ll be glad to hear from you!
Yeah, so I hear! Well, they know where I am, I guess, although I’m working on something much more exciting myself, as it happens