The Grand Drawing In

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Posting the length of the Grand Auld Sthretch in the evening in Dublin at sunset every day. Operated by @eibhear.gibiris.org. See https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/tags/theauldsthretch.html.

How to project the sun safely through a binoculars
Some examples of simple pinhole projections of eclipses.
A screenshot of @theauldsthretch.bsky.social's profile page showing that the account name is now "The Grand Drawing In".
A sunset over the Mediterranean Sea. There's a rock in the mid-distance, and the sun is just to the right of it.
The setting sun in Dublin. Taken from the North Bull Wall, we see the sea (the Tolka Estuary) in the foreground, and far in the distance is the North Dublin skyline. Behind the tallest building we can see is the sun, 1/5 or so obscured by the sun. Up in the sky above the building is a pair of clouds, shaded yellow and orange by the low-lying sun. The whole scene has a rusty hue.
Tommy Bowe on the studio couch exclaiming "10 MINUTES?!?!?!"
The sunrise from the Clontarf promenade on the 10th December 2025 at 08:33. The sun has just completed it's breach from the horizon, but is obscured slightly by some cloud. The sky is a little orange from the refracted light of the sun. I attempted to place the sun directly in between the two lighthouses in Dublin Bay (one at the end of the North Bull Wall and the other at the end of the South Wall, mostly succeeding.
The sunset from near to Sthretch Towers today.
Tommy Bowe declaiming "10 Minutes?!?!?!"
A screenshot of Beth;s Bluesky profile, with the words "grand stretch hater" highlighted.
A view of the Dublin skyline looking south along Dollymount Strand. Taken at about 7pm local time on the 14th October, the sun is set about half-an-hour, and the sky is a deep orange. There is a small amount of cloud cover over the view (probably further south than the city). We can see the pair of chimneys from the old Ringsend power station that is nearly 20 years non-operational. We can also see the exhaust from the Dublin Bay incinerator. It's not the most attractive skyline, really.
A pic out another window of the same hotel looking west, capturing the red clouds at the time of the sunset.
A pic out the window of a hotel in Rosslare, looking south east towards the Irish Sea. Rosslare ferryport is in the distance at the extreme right of the view.
A poor, hand-held 'phone, photo of tonight's near-quarter moon with Jupiter just below it, making it look a little like a question mark.
A 2-dimensional graph showing the growth of the grand auld sthretch in the evenings since it started on the 15th December 2023, at 4 seconds. The Y-axis is the number of seconds and the X-Axis is the date, starting on the 14th December, when there was a zero-length stretch. On the 16th it was 12 seconds long, 23 seconds on the 17th, 39 seconds on the 18th and 57 seconds today, the 19th. Each node is joined to the nodes of the previous and the next days by a straight line.