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[–] teft@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This happens twice a year anywhere between the tropics of cancer and capricorn. It’s called Lahaina Noon in Hawaii.

P.S. If you happen to live between the tropics you can look for subsolar calculators to figure out which days this will happen for you. For me this happens in early april and september since i’m fairly close to the equator. If you’re close to the tropics the subsolar days will be closer to the solstice.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New bucket list goal: See this.

Will add it to seeing a total eclipse and seeing the Northern Lights with cool sky phenomenon I want to see.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I’ve been fortunate enough to see a Lahaina moon and a total solar eclipse and both were very cool. Total Solar Eclipse was 1000x better though.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Add Diamond Dust, and take me please. I got boned in the eclipse. Need to see that.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

New goal: see a total solar eclipse during lahaina noon during a period of peak sunspot activity to get some equatorial aurora and just after a water-rich meteorites disintegrated in the upper atmosphere, creating a blanked of ice crystals.

Is that so much to ask? No clouds, ideally.

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy cake day, twin. I guess June 12th is like the baby boom for lemmy

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus, it's been a year? Wow

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

One year of beans and jeans. Here’s to many more!

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sure that occurs like, at least once every other year right? Should be easy.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, count me in, but I don't think I'll be alive long enough =/

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Woo! Group trip!

Also, for anyone else like me who's dumb and didn't know what Diamond Dust is. I guess it's like ice crystals glittering in the air at ground level. There's a cool video in the Wikipedia article. Image searches just kept bringing up literal diamond dust lol.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saw both a total eclipse and Northern lights this year. Lived up to the hype. Totally worth it.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago

Those posts were installed perfectly parallel. Nice

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally, I can use my shadow to judge where I'll land in real life!

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw the Google Maps Streetview car earlier today. I can't wait for my picture to be published so if I get lost I'll be able to find myself on the map.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I saw one once, but was never able to find any images taken that day. Maybe the driver was taking a break.

[–] SpaceCadet 31 points 1 year ago

You need to turn on ambient occlusion. That should fix it.

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

So the graphics were photorealistic all along.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

There’s a ton of evidence, thousands of years known, for a sphere-ish Earth. These missing shadows aren’t Team Globe though.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that's some high dynamic range eye assault a la late 00's–early 10's PC gaming, alright

Well that's just prime.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

GTA IV my old friend when have you been?