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Post by lakeportfarms on Aug 21, 2017 12:36:28 GMT
We won't be seeing much of it here, the path is too far south of us. However, it looks like Kirk is in the direct path. I'm curious...we hear how it's damaging to the eye to look at the sun during the eclipse, so what happens if the cows look up toward the sun when it is partially covered? Kirk, are you putting your animals in the barn during the eclipse? Maybe you bought them all those dark glasses? Or since the path of the eclipse has been known for so long have you planned in advance and selected for naturally UV resistant eyes on your Dexters?
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Post by cascade on Aug 21, 2017 13:54:16 GMT
During complete totality, you can safely look in the sun's direction with no damage. Sorta like looking in the sun's direction during a very very deep dark cloudy day.
It's only damaging to the eye if you stare directly at the sun before or after totality, while a bit of the sun is still shining brightly. But even that tiny amount of sun is a little uncomfortable to focus on for long enough to do damage.
Animals don't really have enough reason to stare at the sun, like we people do. To the animals, it's going to be as if some very dark storm clouds have moved in, no need to stare in the sun's direction.
We people know that it's something special, so our curiosity can make us stare at it to try to understand it and experience it, even though it's uncomfortable to look at a sliver of sun.
PS. In a sense, I am selecting toward naturally eclipse resistant livestock, because any that become blind will be culled. That's what nature has done for eons.
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Post by cascade on Aug 21, 2017 14:08:30 GMT
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Post by cascade on Aug 21, 2017 18:21:02 GMT
It was very, very weird and dark. We saw a star. We found that the environment was so weird that it captured all our attention and we weren't even tempted to look at the sun. We were up on a hill with the cow herd.
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Post by jamshundred on Aug 28, 2017 15:39:52 GMT
I didn't "see" the eclipse in person. I did watch the NASA feed from Oregon, and then I waited for it to get here. I kept waiting for the sun to darken outside so I could go and "see" the eclipse. Never happened.
Yesterday I was cleaning weeds from the small kitchen garden area and there is a hummingbird feeder hanging by the fence. I noticed the syrup was clear and stopped momentarily to wonder why it wasn't red? No answer came to mind so I moved on thinking about something else.
This morning I saw a friend mention in a post that four hummingbird feeders at her place turned from red to clear during the eclipse period. That was interesting.
Now, someone tell me why the eclipse bleached the red from the hummingbird feeders.
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Post by cascade on Aug 30, 2017 3:22:21 GMT
Normal sunlight looks white, but it's really a blend of all the colors in the rainbow.
Whenever you see an object that looks green, it's because that object is absorbing lots of red light, and reflecting lots blue and yellow and green..
When you see an object that looks red, it's because it's absorbing lots of blue and yellow, and reflecting lots of red.
The eclipse obviously messed with the normal spectrum of sunlight, and likely blocked a bunch of the red part of the spectrum, and prevented your hummingbird feeder from receiving enough red light to reflect the color red.
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Post by jamshundred on Sept 4, 2017 14:40:46 GMT
NO. You don't get it. . . . (again)
The water did not "fade to clear" during the eclipse, the color changed permanently. It is still clear as a bell. And the hummingbirds are feeding on the flowers in close proximity. .. .but they are NOT touching the syrup in the feeder.
Something occurred that changed the mixture permanently. Bleached I suppose.
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Post by cascade on Sept 4, 2017 19:46:45 GMT
You said
"This morning I saw a friend mention in a post that four hummingbird feeders at her place turned from red to clear during the eclipse period"
That implies that that it only lost its red color DURING the eclipse, and my explanation is likely correct.
It sounds like you simply noticed your own red-dyed feed had simply faded due to lengthy sun exposure, nothing to do with the eclipse.
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