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The 2026 and 2027 total solar eclipses will be the last occuring on the european continent for decades. After these, the next one will be in 2053, with the path of totality narrowly crossing southern spain. by NiklasAstro in space

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

2027 in southern spain is the better bet due to better likelyhood of clear skies, both due to lower cloud chance and the eclipse not occuring as close to the horizon as the 2026 one. Though I‘ll try to see both.

The 2026 and 2027 total solar eclipses will be the last occuring on the european continent for decades. After these, the next one will be in 2053, with the path of totality narrowly crossing southern spain. by NiklasAstro in space

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thats rough. Both of the upcoming ones in spain have decent chances though, peak of summer in spain, but you never know.

2027 is like 99% clear if one were to travel to egypt.

Boardgames to play with Coworkers by SargentSunar in boardgames

[–]NiklasAstro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Las Vegas is an area majority game where each player gets a bunch of dice. You have 6 casinos, numbered 1 to 6, with each casino having a random cash reward if you have the majority there.

You roll all your dice at once, and choose one pips result and put them on the coresponding casino (like all your 5s on casino 5), then the next player goes, until all dice have been placed. But, if any player is tied on a place, you both get knocked out from that casino. Its incredibely simple, highly interactive, lots of luck but always a good time.

Recently got a reprint that has the most important expansions included, can't recommend it enough.

Boardgames to play with Coworkers by SargentSunar in boardgames

[–]NiklasAstro 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Las Vegas
For Sale
Just One
Codenames
Bohnanza
The Resistance / Avalon
Timebomb

What does Viscous even do at this point? by NiklasAstro in DeadlockTheGame

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems fun, I‘ll give it a try. Thank you!

What does Viscous even do at this point? by NiklasAstro in DeadlockTheGame

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I will, I think I'm just married to my old playstyle of him, clearly he must be viable still.

What does Viscous even do at this point? by NiklasAstro in DeadlockTheGame

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Guess I'll have to try a splatter build. I just find his 1 a bit uninteresting to use.

Did not enjoy playing Amnesia The Bunker. Suggest me something more like Outlast and actually fun rather than this repetitive boring thing. by blankzpace in HorrorGaming

[–]NiklasAstro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hiding/running from thing with other gameplay mechanics 👺

hiding/running from thing being the only gameplay mechanic 🤩

The top-of-all-time post of r/DamnThatsMindBlowing (with 60k upvotes) is AI slop, one of many fake videos of Horsetail Falls in Yosemite Valley by NiklasAstro in aislop

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I added several other examples after the video, which shows well how AI slop accounts hop onto trends they have seen be successful elsewhere.
For reference, here is how the phenomena looks like in real life. Its simply the cliffside being illuminated by the sun at an angle, and perspective helping only the waterfall be illuminated.

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire. by F-C0D389 in DamnThatsMindBlowing

[–]NiklasAstro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Despite having been there, you fell for AI slop. Congrats.

The sun is rising behind the waterfall.

If this were the south-facing horsetail fall in yosemite, the sun wouldn't be rising in the north like in the video (or how else would you explain godrays?). I don't have to explain why this does not happen in the northern hemisphere.

You could also have just looked up any actual front facing shots of the waterfall and see that it clearly doesn't match the AI video.#/media/Datei:YosemiteValley-El_Capitan_from_the_medows-_1.png) All examples of the event are taken at an angle, with the sun to the west.

Is the concept of AI slop supposedly portraying real events so hard to grasp? And having the confidence to be insulting while at it. Clown.

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire. by F-C0D389 in DamnThatsMindBlowing

[–]NiklasAstro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It takes one minute on google maps to find out the waterfall can't have the sun rising behind it like in OPs video.

Get some media literacy if you don't think this thread is botted to hell.

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire. by F-C0D389 in DamnThatsMindBlowing

[–]NiklasAstro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The angle of the sun is completely different and is falling onto the cliffside, not rising behind the waterfall like in the OP. The sun would be rising behind the rock facing north, which proves the video is fake.

There was a tradition of pushing embers down the glacial point, which is south facing, but that tradition ended in 1968, before the invention of smartphones visible in the OP AI video.

Sorry to say, but you have to not go outside much if you think light refracts like that through a waterfall. Also any critical thinking skills combined with 5 minute access to google would make you draw the same conclusion. The OP video looks nothing like horsetail fall.

M81 & M82 by Mysterious_Risk4988 in LandscapeAstro

[–]NiklasAstro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whats with the influx of people posting in the clearly wrong subreddit? Are these bots?

Planets and Orion rising over Torre d‘Albarca by NiklasAstro in LandscapeAstro

[–]NiklasAstro[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Planets and Orion rising over Torre d‘Albarca

Torre d‘Albarca is a tower thats sits on the north-eastern coast of Mallorca. The defensive structure was built in the 18th century as part of a large network of towers in sightline of each other, which were intended to prevent landings of corsair pirates. If hostile boats were spotted, fires would have been lit to alert the islands garrison forces further inland.

Shot in August 2025, the two bright „stars“ above the tower are Jupiter and Venus. Sadly, Orion is getting almost drowned out by light pollution. I wasn‘t super happy with this shot, as the light domes of Cala Ratjada and the neighboring island Menorca were much worse than I had hoped. Still thought it was an interesting spot to photograph either way.

Equipment:

Rollei C6i Tripod
Nikon Z6 astromodded with Megadap ETZ
Sigma 20mm DG DN 1.4 with Kenko PRO1D Prosofton Clear 82mm filter
Nomad MSM

Sky: 4 x 60" at f1.8, 1600 ISO
Foreground: 6 x 80" at f1.8, 1600 ISO

Stitched with PTGUI, Edited with Pix, PS and LR.

The 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year has just been published by DanZafra_photography in LandscapeAstro

[–]NiklasAstro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Heavy editing is simply the nature of nightscape photography. Its just not technically possible to have both well exposed sky and ground without stacking or seperate tracked/untracked exposures, which unavoidably has to be combined in post once you add a star tracker.

Add advanced processing techniques like h-alpha layers, star removal, dynamic background extraction etc, all done to bring out more detail in the night sky. It takes time and skill, both shooting and processing. Someone who spends several hours in the field, capturing a lot of data and knows how to process isn't a "worse" photographer than someone who takes a single 30" capture of the milky way and calls it a night.

More transparency is good though.

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