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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse

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NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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The free SunSketcher app will use your phone’s camera to record the event and help study the sun’s ‘oblateness.’
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    Going right through my town and I’m looking forward to it… so of course there will be total cloud cover.

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      Same experience here. Meteor shower… cloudy, lunar eclipse… cloudy, Aurora… cloudy, comet that’s visible for a couple of weeks… you better believe it’ll be cloudy every day.

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        Yep. Every single time.

        Okay, not every time… the times it isn’t, I would have to get up at like 4 am to see whatever it is.

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      Some types of clouds dissipate right before an eclipse then come back shortly thereafter

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        Really? I never heard that before. Do they know why?

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          I do not actually know, nor do I know if that is true, but if it is, I suspect it would have to do with temperature differentials due to the sun temporarily shutting off.

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            Exactly!

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