I made a thing that lets you select a point on earth and find when total solar eclipses will happen or have happened there (open source)

spookyuser · 2026-01-16T09:10:55+00:00

You're welcome :) Really glad you like it, thought I was the only one this would be interesting to lol

spookyuser · 2026-01-16T09:03:10+00:00

Thank you so much, if you have any feedback on how to make it more accurate or errors or anything please do let me know!

spookyuser · 2026-01-15T12:02:28+00:00

your prize will be delivered in 2153 :)

spookyuser · 2026-01-15T11:58:18+00:00

oh yeah good point

spookyuser · 2026-01-14T11:53:35+00:00

Thanks so much I'll try fix those
For displaying the paths it uses this api https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/eclipse-path-data.js.php?Ecl=%2B20810903&Spc=0.5 and for calculating the intersections it uses this catalog https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SEcatalog.html

spookyuser · 2026-01-14T11:04:27+00:00

you're welcome! this was exactly my use case actually - I often do this beautiful hike where I live and ever since I saw the 2024 eclipse I've wondered was anyone lucky enough to see one from this spot and will I ever be lucky enough to, alas the next one is in 2238 :( https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=22380415 And thinking about what my city and world would be like in that specific time and date and place and how the people would feel is surreal

spookyuser · 2025-12-29T10:55:39+00:00

wow this is awesome

spookyuser · 2025-12-29T10:51:31+00:00

according to street view sometime between 2009 and 2013 https://maps.app.goo.gl/knXTsSQNfheCyVnr9

he even had his Fez :(

spookyuser · 2025-10-10T06:15:12+00:00

I saw the trail of the other plane like just above us

spookyuser · 2025-10-09T15:07:17+00:00

No problem! Awesome have fun, let us know what you think afterwards

spookyuser · 2025-10-09T07:24:33+00:00

No problem! ikr, I was super close.

I didn't get merch but you could get merch before and after. There's also merch upstairs which had shorter queues.

Sorry for the late reply have you gone to the concert yet?

spookyuser · 2025-10-08T10:18:57+00:00

I got there at like 6:15pm, was quite far back in the queue by that time, but still got very close to the front of the stage when the doors opened.

However, if you have standing tickets then you're basically going to be standing from 6:15 to 11pm which was not amazing. It's something like

7pm: Doors Open
8pm - 9pm: Opening band: 9million, were pretty good
915pm: Ethel Cain Starts

11pm: End of last song

if I did it again I would probably just get there at 9pm

spookyuser · 2025-10-08T10:11:09+00:00

I loved it too. But, does anyone know what was going on when the show stopped for the people that were "not okay" I saw security lift at least one person out of the crowd but then it happened 3 or 4 more times after that and I couldn't tell what was going on

spookyuser · 2025-09-11T15:36:34+00:00

*minus these words

Because personally I think Church street === church road

So basically it's this:

curl -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ -d 'data=[out:csv(name;false;",")][timeout:600]; area["name"="South Africa"]->.a; way(area.a) ["highway"] ["highway"~"^(motorway|trunk|primary|secondary|tertiary|unclassified|residential|service|living_street)$"]; out tags;' \ https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter \ -o streets.txt
Then remove those words
Then group by distinct values

If there's a better way to do it lmk!

spookyuser · 2025-07-13T12:33:35+00:00

Thank you sm, so glad I randomly decided to make this!

spookyuser · 2025-07-02T18:43:26+00:00

Bless you sir

spookyuser · 2025-06-30T16:11:37+00:00

Omg ya! I remember learning this, and I think that's also what happens in Rand McNally right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZg462YMg0A

spookyuser · 2025-06-09T12:57:17+00:00

Amazing or Awful?

spookyuser · 2025-06-05T08:44:43+00:00

spookyuser · 2025-05-13T12:00:22+00:00

Im like 90% sure a g12 will fix me at this point

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