Who's excited to see the solar eclipse today? :D
I don't really care :P I'm not in a place where it gets all dark so I don't know if I have much to look forward to. :P
It is an amazing phenomenon though.
Yeah, we aren't getting a total eclipse either, but the sun is still largely obscured, so I'm pretty excited. ;D
It gon' be good.
There's a total eclipse really near me, but we're getting a 97% or something like that so I'm fine with staying home. They're expecting people from Tennessee and past Atlanta. The highways are pretty stuck. :P
I am very excited^^ 96% coverage where I'm at.
I would like to see it, but I don't have the appropriate eyewear, so I'm just gonna stay inside mostly and hopefully see the darkness without actually looking at the eclipse itself. Definitely gonna try to see and experience what I can!
We're getting about 70% coverage here. Should be interesting.
Looking forward to it!
93% for us! Luckily I have a welding mask so my eyes can be protected. It is getting darker and cooler out. My shadow is hazy, really weird. And you can stand in the *direct* light and it feels like nothing
Cooool! We're around 75% but I'm still super excited! When you grow up in a science family I guess you have to be.
Just saw the eclipse myself. We didn't quite get totality here, but there was a cool feeling in the air and briefly we were able to look at it with the naked eye. I actually snapped a few photos, but they don't really do it justice, and you couldn't tell that it was dark through the lens.
We got totality here.
For 31 seconds.
Niiiice.
I traveled to the zone of totality today for it.
There is nothing so amazing as a 360 degree sunset coupled with the moon's shadow cooling your skin.
It'll be 1 am by the time I get home, but who cares?
Ooh, that's awesome!!
It was actually really disappointing here. :P If I hadn't known it was an eclipse, I... wouldn't have known it was an eclipse. :P
Next one is in 7 years. I'm on track for complete totality then. Looking forward to that.
Saw it where I live at 91% totality. It was like wearing sunglasses as it got darker. really weird stuff.
Quote from: Andy on August 21, 2017, 07:40:12 PM
Just saw the eclipse myself. We didn't quite get totality here, but there was a cool feeling in the air and briefly we were able to look at it with the naked eye. I actually snapped a few photos, but they don't really do it justice, and you couldn't tell that it was dark through the lens.
Oh, same! It was cool.
Quote from: Ashleg on August 21, 2017, 07:45:38 PM
We got totality here.
For 31 seconds.
Awesome!
We only got about 80% but despite it being an overcast day I could look at it through the lens of my brother's welding helmet and see it clearly. It was pretty cool to watch.
I looked it the window with no (sun)glasses and was just fine.
. . . Ehhhh. . . your eyes might still have been damaged. :P
Too bad. I already have glasses.
My school got everyone glasses and let us out for 2 periods to see it since we were in the 90% margin. It was cool and all, but the teachers hyped it up waaayy too much. I still thought it was a pretty great experience though.
Here in Music City it was 100% totality, so cool. O0 O0 Can't wait for the next one. I took the drone into the air to record the effect of the eclipse on the ground. I will post the video here soon.
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I'm planning on going to Dallas to see the next one in '24 with V :)
I live where it's more than 99%, but it was like a ten minute drive to where it was 100% so my family and I drove out to see the whole thing, we got the special glasses and stuff but I would say the more amazing part was how the air got colder like it was nighttime and the lighting was like dawn and dusk but unnaturally fast.
I also looked around for license plates and I saw two British Colombia, one Alberta, one Minnesota, one Massachusetts, one Arizona, one Wyoming, and countless Washington and California plates, the only place I've seen that many different license plates in such a small area was Yellowstone.
The drive there took no time at all, but we were stuck in traffic for awhile on the way back when everyone was leaving at the same time even though we were taking the back roads.
Was that in Oregon?
yep
Must've been packed.
Al that must have been really fun to watch it with such a crowd and to actually *feel* it happening
Quote from: Søren on August 22, 2017, 05:09:34 AM
Here in Music City it was 100% totality, so cool. O0 O0 Can't wait for the next one. I took the drone into the air to record the effect of the eclipse on the ground. I will post the video here soon.
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I'm planning on going to Dallas to see the next one in '24 with V :)
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The eclipse was awesome!
I traveled down to Hopkinsville for it...needless to say the traffic was awful. We left the venue at 3:00 or so, with the prediction of the GPS for us to arrive at seven, but we reached our house at 12:16. ;D
Oouuuch.