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user-inactivated  ·  3537 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I chased the solar eclipse, got these pics

I'm so annoyed. I'm so annoyed. Hang on a moment, I'll be back -- SAVE DRAFT!

So here's the thing. I was about 200km out of Reykjavik. I was promised 98% coverage. I specifically drove here (no sacrifice really) for a wonderful cloudless experience.

I took this picture about a minute before the moon was supposed to eclipse sun in fullest. I intended to make a triumphant, snotty, bitchy post about how none of you happened to be in the closest major population center in the world to totality, and I did.

Then something happened: namely, my eclipse was missing in action. That's about as dark as it got. In Iceland. A few hundred km from the totality path. What the fuck? I have a couple of other pictures in which you can see a big bright ball, then a ring of orange, and then light spreading out from the big bright ball. This is at :45.

Someone please explain this to me.