Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

I think you're on to something Joe. Those "zits" pop all the time spewing nasty stuff all over us. 😉😉

mikey12654 Loc: Vancouver, WA

Sorry bud but my b-day is 12/06/54 lol no worries Joe glad you liked the pic! 👍

mikey12654 Loc: Vancouver, WA

I have a hard time explaining things but it sounded ok in my head lol. I'd love to see those lander pics, I wonder how big they are? Every time I hear something about a CME I always think about the "Carrington Event" back in 1859 that fried all the telegraph lines and even caused fires in the stations! Can you imagine what would happen to our unprotected grid here and in other countries too? I think our military defense satellite's and key weapons systems are EMP hardened, I do know Air Force One is but for the rest of us it will suck! It's just a matter of time before it happens. I love this view of the sun from Mars!

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Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

You're right about just a matter of time. The sad thing is that it's a very doable thing to harden our electrical grid against EMPs. The expense would be pocket change vs some of our spending for climate change. That is a cool view of the sun, wasn't expecting blue, thinking red.....

mikey12654 Loc: Vancouver, WA

I agree! Yeah that shot of the sun from Mars is pretty cool, it sure stimulates thoughts of what it must have been like on Mars at one time when there was water and an atmosphere. I'm sure you know about the pic from Voyager that Sagan called "The Pale Blue Dot", I've read that Sagan asked for the onboard camera to turn back to Earth for the shot. I loved watching his COSMOS series years ago, he must have been an awesome professor.

Ed Commons

A solar eclipse can damage your eyes and your camera's electronics. bite the bullet. It may cost you $80 to $100 for a good filter, but it's worth it. (and I've had a couple of chances to use it again.) $80 is cheaper than damaging your camera, The same is true of solar eyeglasses. Don't buy cheap off the rack dark sunglasses or even cheap plastic solar glasses. These on the only eyes you have. Spend a $100 or even $200 on good solar glasses. ( i also bought some cheap plastic solar glasses for others who showed up without proper glasses. yes , there are idiots who show up with cheap plastic glasses. I saved their eyes by anticipating what they would do.

BTW, although I spent over $400 dollars on camera filters and solar sun glasses. I've actually have had three additional occassions to use them agaim

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Sam, you have at least five pages of responses but open replies from you ?
You have received responses that offer you everything you need.
I offer mine to help.
pmorin showed a simple slide on and off filter that I would have bought if I knew of it at that time.
What I presented in my home made one I bought from a credible astronomy store and the filter sheet is proven so I was able to make three filters, two being able to quickly slide on the lens and the other was attached to the lens shield so it was able to quickly remove and attack as the sun started it appearance.
Since we will only have 4+ minutes this counts.
Let us know where you are on this because it is a good chance will look back on.
Your neighbor in Grand Prairie. Bruce.

mikey12654 Loc: Vancouver, WA

You're right on the mark regarding eye damage, I have a great German friend who confessed to me that years ago she had looked at the sun with her camera and it really screwed up one of her eyes. She said it had happened when she was at an eclipse viewing event with friends, a lesson learned the hard way!