Morning between 8 AM and 9 AM
Evening between 6 PM and 7 PM
On September 5th, 2017 smoke from fires burning in the Cascade mountains drifted west over Seattle and all of the Puget Sound area. It was so dense the temperature never reached the 90 plus degrees Fahrenheit as was predicted. It barely made it above 80 degrees. The smoke stayed up high, so at ground level the visibility was quite good. Here are a couple of pictures of the sun, one looking east in the morning from my deck and the other looking west in the evening from my living room window.
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What kind of filter did you use to take that?
Are you also getting lots of ash?
This whole thing is conjuring up memories of Mt. St. Helens and all the ash.
No filter and no photoshop. Just set the camera to the fastest possible shutter speed (1/2000th), set the ISO at the least sensitive setting (80)and zoomed in with manual focus. I remember hearing comments around the time of the eclipse you could damage your camera aiming directly at the sun. The smoke was so thick it simply appeared to be a cloudy day. I’m quite sure the camera was not damaged. This Samsung WB350 camera which was Richard’s is called a “point and shoot superzoom” and can zoom 21x. It also has digital zoom over 100x with reduced image quality. I cheated a little bit and used a fair amount of digital zoom on the evening shot. That’s what makes it spooky.
There was a very light dusting of ash on my kitchen window sill in the morning.
The pictures really look fantastic, especially the evening one. Good wallpaper material for the computer!
Here are links to these photos in their original large size directly out of the camera:
Morning original size
Evening original size
Nice capture of the sunspots.
Whoa! So you guys got it up there too. Gorge fire smoke?
There were a good couple weeks here when visibility was maybe under 100 feet if that. Damn teenagers being irresponsible with fireworks. The same cause of one of our grade schools burning down in 2013.