• @reddig33@lemmy.world
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    129 months ago

    Is it really such a great idea to point your smartphone camera at the sun? Won’t this damage the ccd?

  • @Bubs
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    119 months ago

    Here’s the map of the April eclipse across the US. It will go from Dallas Texas and curve off through Buffalo New York and maine:

    • Flying Squid
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      99 months ago

      Going right through my town and I’m looking forward to it… so of course there will be total cloud cover.

      • @spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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        49 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid
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          19 months ago

          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.

  • @Birdie@thelemmy.club
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    89 months ago

    Oh I’m going to do this. I’ll have 97% at my little cabin, and my husband is going to drive a little bit east to film the totality. We were planning to film anyway, so we might as well share it with NASA.

  • BiscuitCollection
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    79 months ago

    Is there any risk of damaging your phone/camera by pointing it directly at the sun? Or is it dim enough during the eclipse to not matter? The article doesn’t say how long you would need to point it at the sun, maybe a few minutes to an hour.

    • Joelk111
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      -29 months ago

      A camera isn’t your eyes, you could point it at the sun all day.

      • @PainInTheAES@lemmy.world
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        49 months ago

        Nearly every photographer that comments on this issue says it is OK if you do it very briefly such as when you are taking a scenery photo and the sun is in the picture. The argument for it not being safe is that some of the more recent smartphones use larger and faster lenses (f/1.7 to f/2.0) to get better resolution, and that can be a problem. Most digital cameras have an Auto mode in which they will automatically reduce the exposure speed and increase the f/stop to take the photo, and this will not harm the camera

        Source: NASA(PDF warning)

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      9 months ago

      You won’t be able to see the eclipse from everywhere so it seems pointless for anyone anywhere it can’t record anything useful 🤷🏻‍♂️

      I’d love to do this; but I’m in California and it looks like it’s only gonna be visible near the east coast.

      • athos77
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        29 months ago

        It’s going on a curve from Texas through the middle of the country and then out through Maine, it’s just that more of the population lives on the coasts. I’ve just given it a review, though, to hopefully bring some visibility!

  • @CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world
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    29 months ago

    Yeah I had this all set up and ready to go. As it instructed, I started it about 5 minutes before totality. It began counting down until it took the first picture. Then instead of taking pictures the app just closed/crashed.

  • @n2burns@lemmy.ca
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    19 months ago

    “This item is not available in your country”. Too bad, I thought they could use data from Canada but I guess not!

        • Kumatomic
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          19 months ago

          That’s why I bought it. Didn’t do me much good when the model I got has terrible hardware. I’ve had more responsive screens on $170 Motorola phones.

      • Kumatomic
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        19 months ago

        It is. It sucks as much as the iPhone except the phone has semi -reliable hardware.

  • ivanafterall
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    9 months ago

    Do they pinky promise not to look through my history? Or photos? Or apps? Or bookmarks? Or messages?