Solar Eclipse 2017 - August 21

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Toonces

Meh.  It got a bit dim, but the old pizza box trick was a total fail.
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Gusington

Just came in from watching outside with special glasses. Creepy looking.


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Quote from: Toonces on August 21, 2017, 01:56:07 PM
Meh.  It got a bit dim, but the old pizza box trick was a total fail.

You're supposed to take the pizza out of the box ;)
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Gusington

If the Uggs wearing weatherman isn't impressed who will be?


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airboy

Cloud cover at a location with 98 percent. Fluke in my work schedule got me that close.

Sir Slash

I heard Jim Cantore cause a panic when he showed-up in Illinois. They thought a hurricane was about to hit.  :P   Kind of a Florida joke.
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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

MikeGER

i am kind of jealous  :(

saw the eclipse in Germany 1999, of course and had driven into the 100%-area  then
but the sky was not clear at my chosen spot, i saw the dark sun and witnessed how the environment reacts to a 3min- night, but i missed the corona, sigh

2024 is next one in USA ? ...you lucky bastards ^-^
 

JasonPratt

The totality passes even nearer to us that time. Amusingly, the US will experience a total eclipse in the first and the last years of Trump's presidency.








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The US will also have a full but annular eclipse across it, the year before. That's where the moon crosses the middle but is a little too far away from the Earth to obscure the sun's disc completely. It's naturally a little more common than totals.
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"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Greybriar

Despite being in a nearly perfect location to view the eclipse, it was too cloudy today to see it. However, it got very dark and the temperature dropped dramatically. Fox news aired a video stream of the eclipse from a cloud-free location. Kind of meh, but better than nothing.
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trailrunner

A bunch of us went outside the Pentagon and watched it.  I had not bought eclipse glasses, but people were passing some around so I got a couple of good looks at the eclipse.  It had been a pretty hot day, and I noticed when the temperature dropped.  The timing for us was pretty good, because the sky was clear during the eclipse, but shortly afterwards some typical late afternoon thunderstorms rolled in.

MetalDog

Just got back.  Watched it from some fair grounds east of Nashville.  I was able to see totality.  It looked like a giant iris with bright, white, light around it.  I contend it was the eye of God looking down on us.  That's what it felt like.  It looked like dusk all around, but, different.  Because the sky was still blue(ish).  We got the temperature drop.  It wasn't anything massive, but, you could tell.  And I will contend that if you didn't see the totality, you'll never know what you missed until you see one.
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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus