Where Is Your Sunset? (thread)

[KG4CGC]

Here's the latest one I did but don't worry, I got lots! Where is your sunset? Post yours now!

Greenville South Carolina. Home to things and stuff.

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[KG4CGC]

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[KG4CGC]

Someplace east of Cherokee NC on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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[WZ7U]

Aww, now I gotta go do one too.

Give me a few days though; between Cali's fires and natural cloud cover, it might be a few days before something cool comes along. Supposed to be having a series of dry days this week into next.

Stay tuned!

[KG4CGC]

I meant to keep this thread up since its inception to the Island. Sorry.

[KG4CGC]

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[koØm]

My sunset is in the west!

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[koØm]

Which happened shortly after this double Rainbow.

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[NM5TF]

typical New Mexico Sunset....

[KG4CGC]

Ahhhhhhh!!! Thank you! Muy bonita!

[W5BRM]

At the TX/OK state line on US287

https://www.imgur.com/I7itYyM.jpg

[KG4CGC]

I think it's borked. Try a different code for message boards.

[W5BRM]

I think it's borked. Try a different code for message boards.

Got it fixed sorta. Pitfa trying to do it on mobile. Cant figure out how to get higher rez image from imgur using mobile FF

Edit: got it. Had to modify the url a bit.

[KG4CGC]

Got it fixed sorta. Pitfa trying to do it on mobile. Cant figure out how to get higher rez image from imgur using mobile FF

Edit: got it. Had to modify the url a bit.

:clap::clap::clap:

[kb2vxa]

My sunset is on my home planet, Mars.

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[W5BRM]

https://i.imgur.com/IqAXGcE.jpg

Stanfield OR i84 mm 183

[KG4CGC]

Forgot about this one. Mid August 2018. Caesars Head State Park Marietta SC.
The rain had finally cleared and that was the last of it.

https://i.imgur.com/6dXK5pb.png

[WZ7U]

https://i.imgur.com/IqAXGcE.jpg

Stanfield OR i84 mm 183
West bound and down. In PDX yet?

[suddenseer]

Taken from hotel room in Fort Myers, Fla. 16013

[W5BRM]

West bound and down. In PDX yet?

Sadly, no. Dropped a load in Grandview WA. Heading back east. Might be detoured to SLC though.

[WZ7U]

Gotcha. Isn't there a WalMart DC in Grandview? Or am I confusing that with the one in Hermiston?

Regardless, have a safe trip and enjoy the ride.

[W5BRM]

Gotcha. Isn't there a WalMart DC in Grandview? Or am I confusing that with the one in Hermiston?

Regardless, have a safe trip and enjoy the ride.

Yup Big WM DC there. One of my regular winter stops

It's not a sunset but seeing this is one of the things I really like about my job


https://i.redd.it/zp97bqcdu2521.jpg

[KG4CGC]

Thank you for sharing. Doesn't matter if sunset, sunrise, refraction of light in atmospheric water droplets or sneu.

[WZ7U]

Yup Big WM DC there. One of my regular winter stops

It's not a sunset but seeing this is one of the things I really like about my job


https://i.redd.it/zp97bqcdu2521.jpg

I loved that job. But alas, can't get past the physical anymore.

I also enjoyed waking up in a new place every day.

[WZ7U]

Sun decided to tease a bit towards sunset
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[KG4CGC]

Nice. Silhouette of antenna against sunset. Only a few will understand.

[kb2vxa]

Oh I understand alright, I understand I'm kicking myself for not scanning a color print before I lost it. It was better than that one contrast wise, not that there's anything wrong with it, a classic Antenna Specialists Super Magnum chicken band antenna all shiny and new sparkling in the sunlight. Sounds kinda ordinary until the background is mentioned, the black cloud sky from a storm having just passed.

Second prize goes to a friend from Jersey City who recently passed. He went to the Armstrong Tower in Alpine and waited for just the right moment, and jumped......
up and took this photo of a rare blood moon.

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[N8YX]

Mine's somewhat obscured by trees.

There's a state park about 15mi to my southeast. Its primary feature is a large lake, formed by damming the Nimisila Creek. One of the beaches on the southeast side of the lake gives a perfect vantage point of the western skies and sunsets. Mid-summer is a great time to put a couple of chairs on the beach and using a surf-casting rod, lob a big chunk of catfish bait waaayyyy out yonder then wait for nighttime...when the really big ones come out of the old creek bed and into the shallows to feed. (I've personally seen 4+ ft blue cats in the lake.)

Where do sunsets come into this? Many of the best memories I have are of those hazy sunsets, where a huge fireball slowly dips below the horizon. Other times...red skies at night forebode severe weather, due to light diffraction through cirrus blow-off from approaching thunderstorms. Sometimes you didn't have long to retrieve your gear and get out of the area. I lived through the "Ohio Fireworks Derecho" (7/4/69) and remember those skies hours before the line hit my area around 9PM that evening. The event put me very wise to spring and summer sunsets and what they convey, particularly if conditions for nasty weather are present.

[kb2vxa]

You may try diverting your attention away from cats and watch through your camera's viewfinder at the moment the big glowing ball dips below the horizon. Better still have it on a tripod with a remote trigger cord while you watch through a rifle scope on another tripod. Nothing would spoil this effect worse than having it dance out of frame at the wrong moment.

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[NM5TF]

VXA....nice capture of the "green flash".....hard to get it right as it is very transient.....

[kb2crk]

Oh I understand alright, I understand I'm kicking myself for not scanning a color print before I lost it. It was better than that one contrast wise, not that there's anything wrong with it, a classic Antenna Specialists Super Magnum chicken band antenna all shiny and new sparkling in the sunlight. Sounds kinda ordinary until the background is mentioned, the black cloud sky from a storm having just passed.

Second prize goes to a friend from Jersey City who recently passed. He went to the Armstrong Tower in Alpine and waited for just the right moment, and jumped......
up and took this photo of a rare blood moon.

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Armstrong tower would have the empire state building in the foreground. That looks more like the view from Jersey city

[WZ7U]

I had a new version from the back yard minus antenna before the rain came back but for whatever reason the system won't upload any phone photos. I haven't tried putting the pics into the PC and going in that way yet.

[ad4mg]

Probably the file size is too big, or the dimensions of the photo. Try editing it to be smaller (1280 x ??? depending on ratio). I'll look at the upload file size limitations later. Very large photos will "blow up" the formatting in an entire page of a thread!

[N8YX]

Probably the file size is too big, or the dimensions of the photo. Try editing it to be smaller (1280 x ??? depending on ratio). I'll look at the upload file size limitations later. Very large photos will "blow up" the formatting in an entire page of a thread!
100Kb seems to ring a bell, though that may be wrong.

[ad4mg]

Current attachment settings from the control panel. May need adjusting, will ponder this.

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I recall adjusting the .jpeg and .jpg file sizes and dimensions upwards some time ago. Cell phone camera photos are usually much larger than 800 x 600, which is probably causing the issue. 250,000 bytes is a pretty high resolution for a jpg sized at 800 x 600.

BTW - the above image is a .png (portable network graphics) file, 21,283 bytes, 640 x 297. The 800 pixel width limitation seems to make sense.

[kb2vxa]

"Armstrong tower would have the empire state building in the foreground. That looks more like the view from Jersey city"
Could be, the tower was the plan, but a blood moon like a harvest moon rises quickly and turns into an ordinary white moon. Maybe he figured he'd miss the opportunity by the time he got there. Anyway, I used to go submarine race watching atop the Palisades, but I lost my bearings when they took the big red RCA sign off 30 Roc.

[WZ7U]

That must be it, although it's from the same phone, in the same yard...

Oh well, nothing to see. Moving along...

[N2SR]

Probably the file size is too big, or the dimensions of the photo. Try editing it to be smaller (1280 x ??? depending on ratio). I'll look at the upload file size limitations later. Very large photos will "blow up" the formatting in an entire page of a thread!

Not knowing anything about web pages/message boards, is it possible to have some "software" in the background of the board to automatically resize photos that are deemed too big?

[HUGH]

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[KG4CGC]

From 2017


https://i.imgur.com/BvfK9md.jpg