#eclipsed sun

[arlochessbury]

a life to love 🌘

[sunbeambaby]

I wish "me being squishy" did not seem to be so mutually exclusive with "people around me experiencing normal emotions and struggles" even when they try to protect me from it

[kiingsly]

OPENING UP AN AMA FOR ECLIPSED SUN

This is an old AU of mine that's still beloved to this day - known as Eclipsed Sun!

Eclipsed Sun is an AU of Mikey from a doomed future being revived and sent back to the past - or rather, he was supposed to, and instead was sent to four years post-failed Invasion.

There he settles into a mundane life and hides, becoming someone new and unrecognizable:

That is, until he meets the turtles of this world.

[without-ado]

composite image of the eclipsed sun by Nicolas Lefaudeux

[nasa]

June 10 Solar Eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere!

On June 10, people in parts of the northern hemisphere will have the chance to witness a solar eclipse.

Watch the full visualization of the eclipse.

The June 10 eclipse is an annular solar eclipse, meaning that the Sun will never be completely covered by the Moon. The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle, so throughout each month, the Moon’s distance from Earth varies. During an annular eclipse, the Moon is far enough away from Earth that the Moon appears smaller than the Sun in the sky. Since the Moon does not block the entire view of the Sun, it will look like a dark disk on top of a larger, bright disk. This creates what looks like a ring of fire around the Moon.

People in the narrow path of annularity — which, for this eclipse, cuts through Canada, Greenland, and northern Russia — will see the ring of fire effect as the Moon passes across the Sun.

Credit: Dale Cruikshank

Outside this path of annularity, many people in the northern hemisphere have a chance to see a partial solar eclipse. The partial eclipse will fall on parts of the eastern United States, as well as northern Alaska. Some locations will only see a very small piece of the Sun covered, while locations closer to the path of annularity can see the Moon cover most of the Sun.

To learn which times the eclipse may be visible in certain areas, you can click anywhere on the map here. (Note that the maximum obscuration and maximum eclipse timing noted on this map may occur before sunrise in many locations.)

This solar eclipse is a pair with the total lunar eclipse that happened on May 26.

Both solar and lunar eclipses happen when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up in the same plane — a lunar eclipse happens when Earth is in the middle and casts its shadow on the Moon, and a solar eclipse happens when the Moon is in the middle and casts its shadow on Earth. The Moon’s orbit is tilted, so it’s usually too high or too low for this alignment to work out.

The May 26 lunar eclipse was a supermoon lunar eclipse, meaning that the full moon happened while the Moon was near its closest point to Earth, making the Moon appear larger in the sky. The solar eclipse happens at the opposite point of the Moon’s orbit, during the new moon — and in this case, the new moon happens near the Moon’s farthest point from Earth, making the Moon appear smaller and resulting in an annular (rather than total) solar eclipse.

How to watch the eclipse

From anywhere: Watch the eclipse online with us! Weather permitting, we’ll be sharing live telescope views of the partial eclipse courtesy of Luc Boulard of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Sudbury Centre. Tune in starting at 5 a.m. EDT on June 10 at nasa.gov/live.

From the path of the annular or partial eclipse: Be sure to take safety precuations if you plan to watch in person!

It is never safe to look directly at the Sun's rays, even if the Sun is partly or mostly obscured, like during a partial or annular eclipse — doing so can severely harm your eyes. If you’re planning to watch the eclipse on June 10, you should use solar viewing glasses or an indirect viewing method at all points during the eclipse if you want to face the Sun. Solar viewing glasses, sometimes called eclipse glasses, are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses are not safe for viewing the Sun.

If you don’t have solar viewing or eclipse glasses, you can use an alternate indirect method like a pinhole projector. Pinhole projectors shouldn’t be used to look at the Sun; instead, they’re an easy way to project an image of the Sun onto a surface. Read more about how to create a pinhole projector.

This is a sunrise eclipse in the contiguous U.S. At locations in the lower 48 states that can see the partial eclipse, the show starts before sunrise, when the Sun is still below the horizon. That means the best chance to see the eclipse in these locations will be during and shortly after sunrise, when the Sun is very low in the sky. In northern Alaska, the eclipse happens in the very early hours of June 10 when the Sun is low on the horizon.

Bottom line: If you’re trying to watch the eclipse in the contiguous U.S., look for a location with a clear view of the horizon to the northeast, and plan to watch starting at sunrise with your solar filter or indirect viewer.

The next two eclipses in the continental U.S. are in 2023 and 2024. The annular solar eclipse of Oct. 14, 2023, will cut from Oregon to Texas, and the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, will pass from Texas to Maine. Keep up with the latest on eclipses and eclipse science at nasa.gov/eclipse.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

More New OCs

bad news first, here’s another list of finally completed ocs lmao

good news is that these were the last ones on my “i know everything except their name” list, which means it’ll probably be a while til I get to my more vague concept list (in theory, at least)

1. Dove Flemming in Familiar Faces— Legacies OC; Petrova doppelganger; Isobel Flemming’s niece, Hope ship, orphan

2. Wyatt Garcia in Untitled — Vampire Diaries OC; Elena ship, a werewolf from one of the founding families of Mystic Falls

3. Haven Mikaelson in Counterfeit Of Death — Legacies OC; Hope’s twin sister, also a tribrid, possibly a Lizzie ship because I’m gay and predictable

4. Lucille Forbes in Untitled — Vampire Diaries OC; Caroline’s twin sister; Elena or Bonnie ship bc y’all know I only care about three TVD characters and one is her sister

5. Tara Young in Untitled — Jurassic World OC; her mom is Karen Mitchell’s best friend though she hasn’t seen the boys since Gray was a toddler; had a crush on Zach that apparently isn’t as faded as she thought

6. Ingrid Shealy in Untitled — Jurassic World OC; Zara’s niece who spends every school break with her aunt; gets put in charge of the Mitchell boys

7. Ceridwen “Ceri” Lewis in Forevermore — (pronounced ker-i-dwen/keri not ser-i-dwen) Doctor Who/Torchwood OC, working for the government when the Slitheen take over, joins the squad, dies on the space station with Jack and gets brought back to life, long backstory after that lmao; poly ship with Jack and The Doctor

8. Elia Patel in Eclipsed Sun — Marvel OC, scientist who worked with Jane & Co, gets recruited by Fury to help find Loki and the tesseract, hits it off with Tony and ends up working at Stark Industries; eventually ends up on Sakaar where she's basically been adopted as the grandmaster's heir which is totally symbolic since he's immortal but it means that bitch is on top of the world and she and loki (who used to hate each other) now like to sit and drink and judge people together; Tony ship

(also update, changing Olivia Smoak-Kent’s title to Until The End Of Time so that I can use Forevermore for Ceri lmao)

[orbofsight]

Adagio

@calystegiaidol

     A few months ago, something fairly ridiculous happened.  My friends and I, we had to have a dance off to beat yet another Shadow taking on the guise of a piece of folklore.  It used a mock up of the Midnight Channel to kidnap an idol group that sold themselves as different kinds of meat.  Kouzeon transformed into a magical dance floor using the combined spiritual power Rise and the other idols.  It was all quite ridiculous.

     What wasn’t was that all of this was started by a young girl witnessing her idol commit suicide.  The psychological trauma of that was enough to cause her to repress her memory of it entirely, which is exactly what that thing posing as her Shadow latched onto.  If this one girl’s grief can power a god, it’s not safe to just leave her be.

     That girl is Kanami Mashita, better known by her stage name, Kanamin.  The first time I ever heard of her was when Rise made some less than flattering remarks about her.  Granted, that was when Rise was set on giving up being an idol altogether and still quite bitter with the industry as a whole.  Thankfully, meeting Mashita in person showed me she was quite different from the impression I’d been given.

     The security guard behind the front desk gives me a stern glare as I walk in through studio’s front door.  Pulling up my guest pass from the clip on the edge of my pocket, I shake it slightly with a smile and stroll past him into the building’s depths.  Guess it’s his job to stop anyone who doesn’t look like they’ve walked out of a 90′s music video.  Remembering the alterations that were made to my beloved old school uniform, I’m that much more thankful I don’t have to resort to a disguise to get in here.

     Up a flight of stairs is the studio, out of which I can hear a familiar tune playing.  Walking in the door, I’m greeted by my reflection in the mirror lining the wall, as well as a certain idol in the middle of a dance routine.  Apparently she’s focused enough on practice she doesn’t even notice my entrance.  As the music fades out and she sticks her landing, I applaud softly while leaning against the wall.

     “Nicely done, Kanami-san.  You’ve gotten even better since last time.”

     Memories of Rise’s comeback concert still haunt me.  Even with my Heroic Courage, getting out on that stage was mortifying.  I doubt I’ll ever be so thoroughly embarrassed in front of so many people again in my life.  At least, I have to hope I won’t.

    But my mind is straying.  I came here with a goal in mind and to see it accomplished.  Mikuratana-no-Kami needs to be dealt with.

     “Sorry to interrupt, but do you think you could spare me a minute?  There’s something I’ve been meaning to talk to you about.”

[sunbeambaby]

And no matter how many times I am offered a way out of this skin, nobody can take from my shoulders the realization of exactly how much power the people I loved had over me, and nobody can return the trust I had that I would not need to defend myself from it.