{"id":13443,"date":"2017-04-30T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:45:44","slug":"2021-anyone-else-get-up-at-5am-today-to-see-the-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=13443","title":{"rendered":"2021 – Anyone else get up at 5am today to see the eclipse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m pretty groggy when I get up at 7:30, so 5am? Oy!<\/span><\/p>\n

I was almost hoping that it would be real cloudy so I could go back to bed. On top of that, I\u2019m still without my apartment\u2019s roof access, so I have to hope that I can see the sunrise from two possible windows – one of which isn\u2019t openable because of a window A\/C.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I saw where first light was, I realized that I\u2019d have to shoot through glass with both<\/span> windows.<\/span><\/p>\n

I set up a tripod on a radiator below the north window and took the first 7 shots – a sequence that turned out rather nice, thanks to some thin clouds:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the sun rose diagonally, a chimney started to get in the way:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had to move to the other window. From THAT angle, the sun had to clear the tower of the old Sears building in Hackensack:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had already been shooting at the fastest shutter speed and the smallest aperture available to me, but the sun was now way<\/em> too strong to shoot. Of course, I never think about buying any densely-colored eclipse glass to shoot through beforehand, so I started scouring my apartment for ANYTHING that might work.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remembered my old darkroom print scale and contrast filters. Maybe if I use the 3 darkest filters, that might help:<\/span><\/p>\n

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AND, maybe if I tried to shoot through the darkest black pizza slice on the print scale – a pretty small slice – THAT might work (as the clouds rolled in):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The cloud situation was getting insurmountable, so I tried the 3 filters one last time (the moon was about to exit the sun):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, I combined the 3 filters AND the black slice to get my final shot of the event:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I write this, it\u2019s 3 hours later and the sky is completely overcast, so I\u2019m fortunate that the conditions at sunrise were photo-friendly. <\/span><\/p>\n

Arising before sunrise was worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All photos are \u00a9Bob Leafe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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