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Post by gabby on Apr 8, 2024 19:41:11 GMT -8
Austin: it got dark, then light again.
Wife and kid sat in the back yard, from whence location I heard muffled shouts of glee at one point. From my perspective in front of the TV, the screen seemed momentarily brighter, then dull again. “Gilligan’s Island” isn’t all that hidef anyway, so I barely noticed.
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Apr 8, 2024 20:07:21 GMT -8
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Post by GaliWalker on Apr 8, 2024 20:07:21 GMT -8
Totality is an incredible experience (waaaaay more so than partial IMO). The exact moment the sun is blocked, and you take off your eclipse glasses is, well ... totally breathtaking! I agree…but if the idea is to feel awestruck by the motion of celestial bodies, then a partial eclipse works just fine. When I saw that first chunk being bitten out of the sun, I immediately felt how small and insignificant humankind is. (Obviously, totality has that wow factor, although ours was spoilt a little bit for me by people setting off firecrackers. Totally unnecessary.)
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Apr 8, 2024 20:15:00 GMT -8
When I saw that first chunk being bitten out of the sun, I immediately felt how small and insignificant humankind is. Well......some people think that total eclipses are proof of Simulation Theory......a solution to the Fermi Paradox & an explanation for the Rare Earth Hypothesis. In which case, we would be quite significant - the entire point of it all. Well...except, of course, for not being real.
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Post by bluefish on Apr 8, 2024 20:33:53 GMT -8
The traffic up the main arteries into Vermont was insane. I took back roads and shunpikes to wind my way north and east across Vermont, over the Connecticut to Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, NH to get my weekly drugs. I was confined to the transplant infusion center for the duration, but one of the nurses had glasses, and climbing on a windowsill and staring straight up the side of the building produced a cool view of the eclipse. The photovoltaic switched landscape lights all came on in the gardens. It was a harbinger for me. Not really, just something to do while I ain't dead yet......lol Other patients sat in their chairs and talked about seeing past ones. I've seen one before, at least 50 years ago. Perhaps this means I still have interest in acquiring new experience and cataloguing memories. I sure as howling Hades ain't ready to sit back in a recliner and remember what was way back when and gone before the sickness drug me into all this. NEVER STOP EXPERIENCING LIFE. You never know when you'll need it.
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Post by driftwoody on Apr 9, 2024 2:47:09 GMT -8
Totality is an incredible experience (waaaaay more so than partial IMO). The exact moment the sun is blocked, and you take off your eclipse glasses is, well ... totally breathtaking Yes it was!!! Drove to Franklin Indiana, south of Indy. Found a church parking lot that had free parking (we donated $20) with port-a-potties and concessions. It was one mile from centerline and the sky was clear, other than some high thin spread out contrails. Warm beautiful day mid-70's, took off shoes & socks and wiggled toes in the grass (weather in Chicago has been cold & wet). Watched thru eclipse glasses most of the slow progress of the dark moon across the yellow-orange disc of the sun, especially as it approached totality. When the last sliver of the crescent sun disappeared and the glasses could be removed, it was a truly awesome specatale to behold with the brilliant aura around the dark circle of the moon. The bright day became dark, temperature dropped what felt like 15 degrees, and the wind picked up. Totality lasted only a few minutes, and the parting gift was several beads of a diamond necklace before the crescent sun re-emerged. Didn't hang around long after that, as the hour long march of the moon across the other side of the sun was a mirror image of what we had already seen. Wanted to beat traffic and avoided the interstate, but still took more than twice as long getting home. Well worth the time and effort.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 9, 2024 3:30:40 GMT -8
Totality is an incredible experience (waaaaay more so than partial IMO). The exact moment the sun is blocked, and you take off your eclipse glasses is, well ... totally breathtaking! Bring on 2044 and 2045. I will second that! Totality lasted only a few minutes, and the parting gift was several beads of a diamond necklace before the crescent sun re-emerged. Well worth the time and effort. On saturday evening I drove to a relative's place in the path of totality in OH. Then sunday morning I drove 30 minutes to Cuyahoga Valley National Park by doing this totality would go from 57seconds to 3m17. I talked with the park rangers and asked what their expectations were and procedures (when would gates be open? etc) and scoped out a couple of good places in case I needed a choice. I got there early yesterday and planted myself for the next several hours. What an experience!!! As someone who saw the 2017 eclipse and now this one I understand how easy it would be to become an eclipse chaser. Totally worth every minute of being lazy in the lawn chair I brought.
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ErnieW
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Post by ErnieW on Apr 9, 2024 4:24:34 GMT -8
The eclipse glasses were great. I did a bit of work to make sure I was getting real ISO certified ones. I even tested them some at home to double check. I also made a pinhole viewer for old time sake. I had made one for the 1970 eclipse, jeez, over 50 years ago. It was fun but didn't compare to the view and impact of looking at the sun with the glasses.
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Post by bluefish on Apr 9, 2024 6:34:17 GMT -8
I think we saw the same one, Ernie , with the pinhole box 50 years ago. Glasses preferred on my end, too.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 9, 2024 6:35:49 GMT -8
And just for fun... what does an eclipse look like from space?
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Post by GaliWalker on Apr 9, 2024 7:01:42 GMT -8
Eclipse 2024
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 9, 2024 7:08:11 GMT -8
GaliWalker, does the chronology of your picture start in the upper left? I ask because I thought I remember the moon crossing starting at the 5 o'clock position on the sun.
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Post by GaliWalker on Apr 9, 2024 7:36:20 GMT -8
Yup, to be 'read' from upper-left to bottom-right. Remember, it began at 1:59pm (near Cleveland) and finished at 4:32pm, so the sun was dropping lower on the horizon. Note: The 'photo' above is a collage, and not an actual track of the path. It moved (relatively speaking of course!) much more than what you can see in the sequence.
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Post by ErnieW on Apr 9, 2024 8:23:56 GMT -8
Note: The 'photo' above is a collage, and not an actual track of the path. It moved much more than what you can see in the sequence. Are those your photos. They are very cool.
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Apr 9, 2024 8:26:12 GMT -8
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Post by GaliWalker on Apr 9, 2024 8:26:12 GMT -8
Yes, these are all my photos.
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Post by davesenesac on Apr 15, 2024 9:11:12 GMT -8
Agree with bcpete about experiencing a full total solar eclipse being vastly better than even a slightly partial eclipse. Something I enjoyed immensely at Salem Oregon in August 2017 amid a huge crowd at their riverside city park. At least 3 members herein posted they made the 2024 effort to do so. Well done real astronomy fans!
Few of us older Earth monkeys in the USA will be around for the next one 2+ decades from now so they will never know. Consider how after 4 billion years, the Moon that has been slowly moving away from the Earth since the original collision, is now at just the perfect distance to at times perfectly occlude the Sun allowing a visible corona. Mere happenstance, or as this person expects is the result of planetary engineering by an advanced race of non-organic ancient intelligent entities within the incredibly vast Universe.
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