Animals and a Solar Eclipse (Page 2): Dogs howl for many reasons, every day. The eclipse doesn't cause it.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

bwana wrote:

During the August 2017 I noticed dogs started howling during the eclipse. Sorta eerie!

bwa

Dogs howl for many reasons, every day. The eclipse doesn't cause it.

druthven

Many people do not realize there are different types of solar eclipses, partial, where the sun looks like a crescent has been sliced away, an annular eclipse where a ring of the sun is visible around the sun and a total eclipse where the sun is completely obscured. During a total eclipse when none of the sun is visible the solar glasses are not needed. The change in the light between full sun and a small crescent of sun is hardly noticeable. It's when totality starts that the darkness arrives. Even though ecblackiii was directly under the sun's path he apparently saw an annular eclipse. The fact that he was underwhelmed is probably due to the fact that he missed the sun's beautiful corona which is only visible during the few minutes of totality. I witnessed the 2017 eclipse and any one claiming the animals behaviour does not change is perhaps just not paying attention.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

druthven wrote:

Many people do not realize there are different typ... (show quote)

If you look, and it's pretty easy to find some, there are mentions of some fellow in Europe in 1500, who reported birds in the sky dropped dead and they fell out of the sky down to the ground, when the totality of eclipse began.

If that doesn't happen nowadays, I guess maybe some birds went extinct due to solar eclipses.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

druthven wrote:

Many people do not realize there are different typ... (show quote)

Your assumption is not true. It was the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017, and I was in the zone of totality in Georgetown SC, along with tens of thousands of tourists drawn to the centerline of the eclipse. At the height of the eclipse the moon was centered on the sun's circle, but the corona of sunlight passing around the moon's disc was scattered by the earth's atmosphere. The result was that it remained daylight, but was slightly darker, similar to a cloud passing overhead. If one wore special glasses, one could see the dark circle of the moon superimposed directly over the sun's disc.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

cahale wrote:

Any studies on how humans behave?

They spend a lot of money and a lot of time getting to see an eclipse. When it occurs, they think it's okay to look at it bare-eyed because "it's just for a short time. What harm could it do?" I wouldn't rely on eclipse glasses. Even with the good ones, I wouldn't look. And then there are the counterfeits.

I prefer to see it on computer and TV.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

jerryc41 wrote:

They spend a lot of money and a lot of time getting to see an eclipse. When it occurs, they think it's okay to look at it bare-eyed because "it's just for a short time. What harm could it do?" I wouldn't rely on eclipse glasses. Even with the good ones, I wouldn't look. And then there are the counterfeits.

I prefer to see it on computer and TV.

Years ago, I used a welders helmet with the welding glass filter in place as recommended by the UT Science Department of UTSA. It worked great, the VP and Dean of Fine Arts used the same to view the eclipse (I was off do images of the eclipse images that day, but the administrative assistant for our Dean, she said they had a small party on the roof garden of the John Peace Library, said it was a blast!

By the way, Monday on I-35 as I was return home there was a notice on the electronic sigh announcing the Monday April 8 eclipse to the public.

W9OD Loc: Wisconsin

I am sure the government has done many studies on this subject.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

W9OD wrote:

I am sure the government has done many studies on this subject.

Probably be, then again, the Gov. sent a man into space and none of them though to give him a camera to take a photograph of what the earth looked like from space; that was Glenn's wife who gave him the family point and shoot! LOL!!!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Timmers wrote:

Probably be, then again, the Gov. sent a man into space and none of them though to give him a camera to take a photograph of what the earth looked like from space; that was Glenn's wife who gave him the family point and shoot! LOL!!!

Nikon has been providing cameras for space pictures for years. They tend to stay up there because of the added weight of returning old cameras to the earth.

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0301_mirrorless_01.html#:~:text=Nikon%20cameras%20have%20been%20used,by%20NASA%20for%20space%20exploration.

https://petapixel.com/2017/10/03/nikon-cameras-used-nasa/

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0207_mirrorless_03.html

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

jerryc41 wrote:

Nikon has been providing cameras for space pictures for years. They tend to stay up there because of the added weight of returning old cameras to the earth.

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0301_mirrorless_01.html#:~:text=Nikon%20cameras%20have%20been%20used,by%20NASA%20for%20space%20exploration.

https://petapixel.com/2017/10/03/nikon-cameras-used-nasa/

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0207_mirrorless_03.html

Hasselblad and Zeiss provided the first cameras and lenses and still do.

Fun story, Nikon was as usual full of themselves and their first camera went out for astronauts walk. It jammed immediately. You can find this on the internet, as it was a live transmission. He spins the quad Nikon out into space away from the capsule, gestures towards the capsule and is say, "So much for Japanese junk, hand me the Hasselblad."

druthven

ecblackiii wrote:

Your assumption is not true. It was the Total Sola... (show quote)

You certainly had an unusual eclipse. During totality the sky goes dark like it were dawn or dusk and one can actually see stars and planets. The temperature drops 10 degrees, sometimes more. It doesn't look like yours performed.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

druthven wrote:

You certainly had an unusual eclipse. During totality the sky goes dark like it were dawn or dusk and one can actually see stars and planets. The temperature drops 10 degrees, sometimes more. It doesn't look like yours performed.

Sorry, I did not understand this last part, "It doesn't look like yours performed."

An interesting thing about the sky, I'm told that if you are deep enough in the earth, like in a mine shaft and you look ip the sky appears dark during daylight.

All in all, it will be fascinating, again.

druthven

Timmers wrote:

Sorry, I did not understand this last part, "It doesn't look like yours performed."

An interesting thing about the sky, I'm told that if you are deep enough in the earth, like in a mine shaft and you look ip the sky appears dark during daylight.

All in all, it will be fascinating, again.

Sorry, I meant underperformed. Unfortunately Texas and most of the central US looks like it will have cloud cover.