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   Trilobyter (trilobyter@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:01:45 JST Trilobyter

   Yesterday’s annular eclipse as viewed from a city park on the outskirts of Hondo, #Texas. There was a broad layer of high clouds when we arrived but luckily they broke up & blew away just in time for the main event. Had to get up in the wee hours and drive 225 miles (362 km) west to get right in the center of the path but it was well worth it.

   #Eclipse #Eclipse2023 #EclipseSolar #Sun #Moon #photography #astrophotography

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:05:45 JST clacke

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     • Kent Borg

     @Trilobyter @kentborg The text just says it's bigger. =)

     Awesome picture! Especially love the halo behind the middle sun shining behind its neighbors! Lovely artistic choice.

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     Trilobyter (trilobyter@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:05:47 JST Trilobyter

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     • Kent Borg

     @kentborg fully described in the Alt Text btw…

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     Trilobyter (trilobyter@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:05:48 JST Trilobyter

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     • Kent Borg

     @kentborg yes, artistic license in assembling a composite image to show the eclipse progression.

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     Kent Borg (kentborg@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 09:05:49 JST Kent Borg

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     @Trilobyter Why is it bigger in the middle? Artistic license, or something else I don't understand?

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     Trilobyter (trilobyter@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 22:06:13 JST Trilobyter

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     • OddOpinions5

     @failedLyndonLaRouchite well I drove an electric car and I live in a state that gets 40% of its electric power from non-fossil sources, does that help? And should I care what an uninformed, judgy person thinks?

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     OddOpinions5 (failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 22:06:14 JST OddOpinions5

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     @Trilobyter

     are we in a #ClimateCrisis or aren't we ?

     If we are, are we (including me) allowed to drive 225 miles to take a photo of something that everyone else on earth is also photographing ?

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     Trilobyter (trilobyter@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 22:06:16 JST Trilobyter

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     @failedLyndonLaRouchite I mean, I guess I should have passed up a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness an amazing celestial event in person and instead just stayed home and scrolled the photos that “everyone else on earth” was taking of the event, with an occasional break to shame-post strangers, but I guess it’s just an insurmountable character flaw of mine that I selfishly and unthinkingly went out and did a terrible thing to the planet. Someone should stop me before I do it again.

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