2024 East Coast Pugski/Renoun Gathering for the Eclipse. Dates: TBD

[James]

Garfunkel!

Lol. Right!
Gizmo!

 

[Erik Timmerman]

The traffic leaving was almost as amazing as the eclipse. My daughter left right after and didn’t make CT until 2 am via St Johnsbury. Nephew tried the same it too him 2 hrs from Morrisville to Wolcott then he gave up and came back. That’s about ten miles. A friend decided to wait a bit to let the traffic lighten. He left Colchester at 8 and needed 4 hrs to reach Lebanon!

 

[James]

Wow, feel lucky! Leaving Waterbury within 10 minutes post totality was key. I would’ve gone 100 to 17, past Mad River Glen over the mountains and into the valley for Rte 7 south. But that would’ve been 4 3/4 hrs of “Why did we go this way??” questions. Instead, it was 6 hrs of “I can’t believe this traffic.”

91 South would’ve been ok except it’s down to one lane between ex 6 and 5 for bridge construction. Traffic was 0-10mph for quite a long ways. Then in Mass, people picked the exact point it goes to one lane near Greenfield to have an accident. So ambulance and cops and one lane. More huge backups.

 

[pete]

The US state where you could ski under the eclipse

On 8 April, the total eclipse was only visible from a handful of ski resorts across the world – including two in Maine

www.bbc.com

 

[James]

The US state where you could ski under the eclipse

On 8 April, the total eclipse was only visible from a handful of ski resorts across the world – including two in Maine

www.bbc.com

Ummm… Vermont??
Jay Peak, Stowe, Bolton, Sugarbush, MRG, Burke, all in totality. Burke stayed open till 5 and only closed the lifts for 40min. Same for MRG, but 45min hiatus.

 

[skiace84]

That's a cool pic, but it is definitely photoshopped.

MadPatSki's pic shows the actual wide angle view of the eclipse from Sugarloaf:


Sugaloaf was not far from the southern edge. Therefore the horizon below the eclipsed Sun was quite quite bright.

 

[dbostedo]

Ummm… Vermont??

It doesn't say "only" and repeatedly says there were others in the NE. Maine's just where the author was.

 

[Erik Timmerman]

First of all everything is photoshopped some, but that could certainly be “legit”. Different lens and perspective way faster shutter, etc. the whole image is darker.

 

[Lauren]

That's a cool pic, but it is definitely photoshopped.

MadPatSki's pic shows the actual wide angle view of the eclipse from Sugarloaf:
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Sugaloaf was not far from the southern edge. Therefore the horizon below the eclipsed Sun was quite quite bright.

Very different angles and very different exposures...I don't think you can compare the two to justify the claim that one is real and the other isn't. One is taken with [probably] thousands of dollars of camera equipment, the other appears to be a cell phone camera (judging by the amount of noise reduction utilized). The top one would have been taken looking up the mountain, towards the summit (not across the horizon). It probably was taken with a longer lens...not a wide angle... in order to get the moon to appear larger, and more definition. It most likely was taken with a much faster shutter speed to show the sun's corona like it does, without washing it out. The skier is only shown because of the lighting set up behind them (otherwise the whole photo except the sun's corona would have been black).

There was A LOT of planning that went into the first photo...

 

[MissySki]

Very different angles and very different exposures...I don't think you can compare the two to justify the claim that one is real and the other isn't. One is taken with [probably] thousands of dollars of camera equipment, the other appears to be a cell phone camera (judging by the amount of noise reduction utilized). The top one would have been taken looking up the mountain, towards the summit (not across the horizon). It probably was taken with a longer lens...not a wide angle... in order to get the moon to appear larger, and more definition. It most likely was taken with a much faster shutter speed to show the sun's corona like it does, without washing it out. The skier is only shown because of the lighting set up behind them (otherwise the whole photo except the sun's corona would have been black).

There was A LOT of planning that went into the first photo...

Someone posted.. not sure if it was on the Unofficial Sugarloaf page or even the official one, a behind the scenes video short of the planning that went into the shot and showed getting setup on the trail with camera on a tripod etc. I think they said the imagining/planning for this shot was a year plus in the making. Very cool and I agree hard to compare with such different perspectives and equipment.

I just wouldn’t necessarily have wanted to be skiing during totality instead of experiencing it first hand the whole time! Lol. But the skier apparently didn’t care about that.

 

[James]

It’s such a distortion of reality, it might as well be photoshopped together. Though the same thing could’ve been done on film.
We may see it on a ski topsheet though.

 

[MissySki]

Someone posted.. not sure if it was on the Unofficial Sugarloaf page or even the official one, a behind the scenes video short of the planning that went into the shot and showed getting setup on the trail with camera on a tripod etc. I think they said the imagining/planning for this shot was a year plus in the making. Very cool and I agree hard to compare with such different perspectives and equipment.

I just wouldn’t necessarily have wanted to be skiing during totality instead of experiencing it first hand the whole time! Lol. But the skier apparently didn’t care about that.

Here is the Facebook link I was talking about, if anyone is interested for the behind the scenes.

Unofficial Sugarloaf | Facebook

www.facebook.com

 

[skiace84]

It’s such a distortion of reality, it might as well be photoshopped together.

Yes. The sky background was not remotely that dark, especially in the direction of the sun. Yet the corona has a relatively long exposure, as does the skier. So at a minimum shots with long and short exposures were combined. That's not necessarily a critique. The corona itself has such a wide range of brightness that realistic pictures have to be composites of several exposures, like this one from Mont Megantic:

 

[Dean]

Eclipse shot from the moon by LRO (which I worked on).



(Ref https://www.nasa.gov/missions/lro/nasas-lro-observes-2024-solar-eclipse-shadow/)

 

[Tony S]

Eclipse shot from the moon by LRO (which I worked on).

We're just glad you got off it in time!

 

[Dean]

from Zimbabwe who was over here for a couple months. One of the things he wanted to do was drive on the NJ turnpike. Because of Simon and Garf

Guess he had enough of walking under African skies.

 

[DebbieSue]

Is this this Funnies thread?