Unfortunately, today, most of those people are under cloudy skies. So that's a real. That's a real bummer for them. But it'll still get dark and this is not, this is not a cloudy day. Let's just say that. No, you know what? All things considered, we have one of the best views right here because we have perfectly clear, beautiful skies here in Los Angeles. That's amazing. So between now and what time are we going to start expecting?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:38
So this is the focus knob down here. Leanne is looking through now. I brought it out recently, last few months. Do you ever go to the meteorite shower? It's actually amazing because it's bright yellow still in the center, but the outside has got, like, this orangey. This orangey hue with these two little sunspots. It's unbelievable, man. Three. I see a third sunspot, but, wow, this is. I'm so excited to be here
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:44
Can you describe what you're seeing? That's great. I'm seeing the. It's a moon, right? Like, coming in front of the sun from the right hand side. And it's getting bigger and bigger, that moon. Yeah. Beautiful. It's a perfect circle with a perfect cutout. Yeah. So gorgeous. I'm recording you. Okay. Do you think I can take a picture of this? I don't know
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:18
Enough that I can just keep finetuning it. Can you talk about the tracking technology on this and how it works? No, I can't tell you how it works, but I can tell you that it works. So when I set up the telescope, I align it. I chose to align it with the solar system today. There's various ways you can align a telescope. This one, this is a brand new scope. So I just got it. So I aligned it to the sun
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:37
I just linked the playlist for anybody who has apple music. He did a whole playlist for us to listen to, like sky related songs. So it's really cool. And I took a picture of the Hollywood sign because it's to the sort of behind us, and then in front of us is Dodger Stadium. And then to the right of us is downtown LA. We're in a place called Elysian park. It's an incredible access point to see the whole of Los Angeles
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:04
Okay, not to get too corny, but it is an amazing thing that people all over the world in this very moment are doing this. And here in this little group, we are just bonded by this awesome little movement. And it's just, you know, it's just a moon, just a sun, but it's doing something kind of spectacular. This picture is a shot from the binoculars, so it's getting closer and closer, and it's just unbelievable
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:11
Now I'm like early twenties. I'm like 23. And so I was just like, I want to experience something new. Come outside. Even if we're like an hour of my day before I go back to work, just to come back out and, like, experience the solar eclipse, see what it looks like. It's really cool. I'm having a great time. It's really nice wearing the uv glasses or the solar glasses. Have you seen it right now?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:37
I've been doing this for a while, so I just know that this is about a. For those of, you know, it's a 16.6 stop nd filter, basically, for a solar filter, okay? So it decreases the amount of light tremendously. So otherwise it could burn your sensor on your camera and. Or just like, it will burn your eyes. So did you order it months ago or had it like, I probably had this for three years for this camera. Wow
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:18
And I was trying that today with this, like, really interesting, like, colored paper. If I could try to find the reflection again but give it some interesting color and try to make something on my own. But I'm having, like, a hard time, honestly. Someone just sent me something they sent through a colander. They had that light coming through. I think it was something like that. I'm not sure how it was working. So what is this?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:14
We're not in the full path, so we're going to be ending in about 15 minutes and we're only going to see half the eclipse, but it's just still enough to make that temperature cool
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:20
Oh, it's just another day it's just another day 1 minute 1 minute to peek oh, baby oh, it's just another day it's just another day of your life one day we will put it all behind you that was just another time one day we would put it all behind we would say that was just another day just sitting there looking through my glasses I wish I can capture this, but it's not possible. Yeah
John Dardis
@cosmic_ape · 2:35
But even though not every day has an eclipse, every day is just as remarkable a cosmic day as every other, never to have or never happened before and will never happen again. Nothing will ever happen again as is happening this very moment right here within each of us, wherever we are. So, you know, conceptually, just put on those eclipse glasses every day
