CHAT Are you going to try to see the total eclipse tomorrow?

Are you going to try to see Monday’s total eclipse?

  • Yes

    Votes: 117 53.7%

  • No

    Votes: 101 46.3%
  • Total voters
    218
  • Poll closed .
phloydius

phloydius

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stormie said:
There was one October 14, 2023. It started in the Pacific Northwest and was seen all the way to southern mostTexas
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RememberGoliad said:
Didn't get too too dark, about like right after sunset on a clear day, but the chorography was off in that the moon was too far away or the sun was too close or something at that particular time, and so that wasn't a total blockage even at 100%.
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That one was an annular solar eclipse, not a total solar eclipse.

I watched that one too in 2023. I also watched the total in 2017. A annular & total are as different as night & day as far as an experience goes.
 
ginnie6

ginnie6

Veteran Member
supposed to be right at 80% here and I'm staying home. DD in MA is like 93% I sent her and the kids glasses to watch it.
 
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Profit of Doom

Dismember
Dreamer said:
Same here!

We made paper plate masks to add to the glasses to keep roving eyes from peeling out around the glasses. The entire family will look like dorks and I’m ok with that.

Plan to bring some cardboard boxes and make pinhole cameras too.
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Pizza boxes. Eat pizza first.
 
Elza

Elza

Veteran Member
We are dead center for the total eclipse. I have purchased #12 welding lenses. Now, the damn weather forecast is calling for cloud cover and storms.

DAMN IT!

It will be the one time that the weather forecast is correct.
 
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WalknTrot

Veteran Member
It's supposed to be around 70% here in N MN, but it's going to be rainy and cloudy.
Still should be a little darker around "go" time, and I will take notice.
 
Tex88

Tex88

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Dash said:
There are signs like this all over here. There are also signs encouraging people to take mass transit instead of driving. When I first saw them I thought they were stupid. Then I remembered how stupid most people are and accepted that the signs are, in fact, necessary.
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New Year’s Eve 2023 people got out of their cars to take pictures and walked along the highway on 635 when the ball dropped. Craziest shit I’d ever seen. Just leaving their cars to walk around on the highway.
 
ambereyes

ambereyes

Veteran Member
We'll be watching here, probably sit near the barn to watch the animals reactions too. Around 98% totality.
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
About 98 percent in Michigan. I'll likely take a minute or two since it's supposed to be mostly sunny out here.

Weird thing, though; a LOT of the US will be in cloud cover once that happens. Considering how many times I've heard that this is basically supposed to be the death knell for the US--being "X'ed out" and all, referring to the path of the previous eclipse--what does it mean that large portions of the US will never actually see it?
 
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Publius

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Some how they have made a big deal out of this eclipse and we have a few saying all these bad things are going to happen like bad omens and such, then we have the people that equate everything into a very complicated numbers game and mathematical equation's.
 
Twisted

Twisted

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Came up and hiding in the Arkansas mountains since we have a birthday today also, just so I can eat cake in the dark lol! I will say I have never seen this many people here in all my years of coming. There are people camped all up and down the rock road to Tall Peak and im not sure how a few of these little cars made it up this road. Stay safe all.
 
RB Martin

RB Martin

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Today during the eclipse, if you are near a deciduous tree with leaves, look on the ground underneath the tree. The pores in the leaves act like lenses and will project the eclipse onto the ground or nearby objects! These pictures are from the eclipse in 2017. This was just a few minutes before totality. Today we expect 83% coverage.

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Delta

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I'm too far away. Saw a total in 1979. Saw an annular some time since. An annular or partial isn't that big a deal. But a total makes all the difference: coyotes start howling just about when it goes total, and then with total everything goes silent. Even the traffic stopped. I stood in amazement watching the moon's shadow racing across the desert at us, then as it engulfed us, we could turn and look right at this black hole in the sky surrounded by the corona, and see all the stars, like it was night. In 1979 we were a bit south of the center line of totality, and to the south we could see where the atmosphere was still getting light, and the hills there were a bit illuminated. Then we saw Bailey's Beads (as the sun began poking through canyons on the moon), and at the first shot of crescent sun coming above the moon horizon, we had to put the glasses back on. The coyotes started in again, the traffic started. And the really weird/interesting part: all the strangers who had stood nearby began acting like the best of old friends, exchanging phone numbers and addresses and "if your ever in Montana ... ". That shared experience bonded us.

I wanted to see the one in 2017 but thought I was dying (turned out to be blood thinners), so didn't travel. Had I been a day closer I would have driven to Texas. Clouds are an issue. People spend hundreds getting somewhere only to get skunked. But, if you are anywhere near the path of totality, do whatever you can to SEE IT!
 
drafter

drafter

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Since it’ll be going over our head, we’ll probably step out on the porch for a couple minutes.
 
Vegas321

Vegas321

Live free and survive
I live and work in Southern New Hampshire. So, we are supposed to get ~95%. With is fine with me.
Clear blue sky's till late afternoon.
I think NH and Maine, will be the best overall viewing spots in the US.
 
amazon

amazon

Veteran Member
I bought glasses but it's super cloudy. Not looking good here. I watched the 2017 one. I was hoping to see this one too.
 
psychgirl

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Delta said:
I'm too far away. Saw a total in 1979. Saw an annular some time since. An annular or partial isn't that big a deal. But a total makes all the difference: coyotes start howling just about when it goes total, and then with total everything goes silent. Even the traffic stopped. I stood in amazement watching the moon's shadow racing across the desert at us, then as it engulfed us, we could turn and look right at this black hole in the sky surrounded by the corona, and see all the stars, like it was night. In 1979 we were a bit south of the center line of totality, and to the south we could see where the atmosphere was still getting light, and the hills there were a bit illuminated. Then we saw Bailey's Beads (as the sun began poking through canyons on the moon), and at the first shot of crescent sun coming above the moon horizon, we had to put the glasses back on. The coyotes started in again, the traffic started. And the really weird/interesting part: all the strangers who had stood nearby began acting like the best of old friends, exchanging phone numbers and addresses and "if your ever in Montana ... ". That shared experience bonded us.

I wanted to see the one in 2017 but thought I was dying (turned out to be blood thinners), so didn't travel. Had I been a day closer I would have driven to Texas. Clouds are an issue. People spend hundreds getting somewhere only to get skunked. But, if you are anywhere near the path of totality, do whatever you can to SEE IT!
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You saw the beads?!

I’m so excited!!
Indiana here and it’s a beautiful day!

Sunny with temp up to about 70 deg
 
Pebbles

Pebbles

Veteran Member
We are at 60% here in Arizona and we have high, thin clouds. We have my DH dad's welders hood but probably a nothing burger here. We watched the one last year, forgot what the % coverage was at that time, it was neat to watch. I love how the shadows through the leaves form crescent shapes.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
NASA's broadcast that starts in 70 minutes

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJY_ptQW1o

LIVE STREAM - NASA

2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA (Official Broadcast)​


Watch live with us as a total solar eclipse moves across North America on April 8, 2024, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Maine, and out across Canada’s Atlantic coast.

A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. The sky will darken as if it were dawn or dusk.

From 1 to 4 p.m. EDT (1700 to 2000 UTC) on April 8, we’ll share conversations with experts and provide telescope views of the eclipse from several sites along the eclipse path. Throughout the broadcast, send us your questions in the chat using #askNASA for a chance to have them answered live.

WARNING: Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, it is not safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection for solar viewing. Indirect viewing methods, such as pinhole projectors, can also be used to experience an eclipse. For more on how to safely view this eclipse:
 
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