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Got a couple of days behind here. These are from the sunset on the 13th.

Horizontal, for the traditionalists...

And vertical for the cellphone kids...

Pre-sunset looking east as I got out to the pond...

Looking west as the Sun snuck underneath the billboard...

6 hours ago, Snowless in Carrollton said:

It just amazes me that it can be this cold with a sun angle equivalent to the first week of September.

Check out the difference in soil temps for September, then for April. Might be an eye-opener.

As much as I hate all things winter and frozen precipitation, I do have to admit that after a four + inch of plaster snow, when the winds stay calm, things look very pretty.

I feels so dirty just saying that I need to take a shower now.

^ lol

My sunrise service this morning...

I like the contrail remnants in the upper right. That bright white really provides a nice counter balance.

The Gilbert Sebenste Sunset. Compared to the rest of the week, it was amazing. But it was more-or-less a rather blasé affair.

First contact with the 24-70 @70mm. and a single image...

Second contact with the 16-35 @21mm and a six image average...

Post sunset with the 16-35 @24mm and a single image...

2 hours ago, Jackstraw said:

Seriously?.....

 

Now this is a spring pattern. March showers bring April water rescues. No wait, I think I have got that wrong.

And now for something completely different. A sunrise!

I have to guess and hope that a sunrise might be decent but I got lucky this morning.

With everything backward, start off with the red flash...

A little more magnification as it heads towards orange...

The actual sunrise...

After a full day of the perfect amount and type of clouds overhead that would make a great sunset, well everything evaporated as the evening progressed. But I still went out to the pond to record the color on the horizon, just for posterity sake.

Looking north north east...

Looking north west...

On ‎3‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 3:57 PM, HurricaneJosh said:

Oh, hey. My latest YouTube channel ad. A lot of my recent chaseporn crammed into a minute. Enjoy!

 

 

Nice eye candy. Is that your footage before the head-banging started, or is it stock footage from someone else?

There is a storm a-brewing. As I was driving home from work the Sun/clouds were throwing out sun-dogs. So I headed out to the pond just in case.

When I got there, there was only this little tiny sun-dog on the left side of the Sun...

As the sunset cruised along, I was surprised at just how interesting the sky got...

It did not last long and all the color left really quick. So here is the last dregs...

Some faint and broad cloud shadows this evening.

Kind of figured the sunset would be iffy, but I was out there just in case.

Pre-sunset when I got out to the pond...

Best color of the evening...

Way past the best time but I like the color...

Made it out to the pond for the sunset this evening.

What I started with as the post sunset began...

As you can see, the breeze was up and I was not sure if the color would progress anymore.

Luckily, the color did at least try and with the coming darkness the breeze did calm down a bit. So I was able to try some reflection images.

Here was the best contrast...

And here was the best color. I can not figure out which of the two I like better...

Made it out to the pond for the sunset this evening. Got lucky that the retreating system hung on just long enough to give me some clouds to shoot. The bad news is that the breeze was up so no reflections stuff. The good news just running a straight lens without any filters allowed me to be spot on with the color.

Started off at sunset with the clouds still white overhead..

The start of the orange overhead...

The red was not quite as intense as I hoped. It was all kind of subtle...

A little bit of color in the sky during the sunset this evening. Probably should have made a trip out to the pond but I just took this from the front yard with all the buildings in the way. 

A lot of contrast in the early morning sky here in central Indiana this morning.

Thanks for all the views in the 2017 thread. And as usual will be deleteing the 2017 images to make room for the 2018 ones.

8 hours ago, Mdecoy said:

I have one that keeps popping up at the bottom of the screen.

One was for treatment of premature ejaculation. No joke.

Just FYI, I don't have a problem with that. Thanks/

I am so glad to hear this. But with the number of problems you do have, be patient, there will be an ad that pops up soonest that you do really need.

14 minutes ago, The_Doctor said:

A question I have is why on visible satellite loops areas far from the totality path appear to get very dark when on the ground there is not much (but still noticeable) dimming.

6 minutes ago, bowtie` said:

Check out the definitions for umbra and penumbra. 

THen remember dynamic range. The sensor on the satellite is reading between one third and one half of the world. Most of what it is looking at is not affected at all by the eclipse. Therefore, any dimming it sees gets shown as rather severe.

7 minutes ago, The_Doctor said:

A question I have is why on visible satellite loops areas far from the totality path appear to get very dark when on the ground there is not much (but still noticeable) dimming.

Check out the definitions for umbra and penumbra. 

3 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

There's a family with dogs next to me.  Interested to see how they react.

Pay more attention to birds.

9 hours ago, Torchageddon said:

Are you still going to that appointment on Monday before the eclipse?

Yes. Especially seeing how I have a tooth or some other problem that has erupted this past week. I'll take my 90% and be fine with it. After all, it is not the end of the world, yet.

http://www.predsci.com/corona/aug2017eclipse/home.php

Nuts, I rescheduled a teeth cleaning today due to conflict with vacation. Just realized that they picked the 21st. Well it is for 10a.m. so I should be done before the fireworks start.