Eclipse (2024) (1 Viewer)

[jayembee]

My wife and I brought our front porch rocking chairs down onto our front walkway near where it hits the street. Sat their rocking with our eclipse glasses on watching as the Cheshire Cat gave his bright smile (we were at about 96% totality). There were several other people in the neighborhood watching as well. There were a couple of boys shooting hoops through most of it, but they eventually stopped to watch for a bit around the peak moments.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Well, I think we only got to about 93% here, so with glasses on you could see how much it was covered but the best part was my carpenter stopped by when he saw me out front and said a group of women were going to go streaking down Main Street when the eclipse hit its peak. I think they thought it was going to reach total darkness. So we drove over to where the women were waiting to run nude down the street, my carpenter was giving them positive encouragement but when it never got dark, they chickened out. We did our best to try to get them to do it anyway, saying things like "How many chances are you going to get in life to go streaking during an eclipse!" but no go. Oh well.

 

[BobO'Link]

Even if you'd had totality they'd have backed out. The darkest it got was roughly late twilight levels. Could still easily see details in things.

 

[Alex...]

Downtown Dallas

 

[Mark McSherry]

This essay by physicist and SF writer Gregory Benford was included in the Supplements section of Criterion's CAV LaserDisc Box Set of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In the first seven pages, Benford writes that a total eclipse is "...one of the natural world's most fascinating coincidences."

 

[Jeffrey D]

A couple of thoughts- while I’m glad I did see
a total eclipse, and I did get to use sunglasses that I have in the truck (never use them otherwise) to see one of those beads
(forget what they’re called), I’m glad today is done, and I won’t have to worry about the next one for a long time, if ever. Weird day- I was fooled into thinking I was going to have a pretty easy time with traffic, but it was horrible for 42 miles going north on 75
(thousands of Michiganders were trying to get back to their home state at the same time).

 

[Malcolm R]

Southbound interstates in Vermont are still clogged in some places. Been that way for nearly 6 hours now. Two lanes only, moving at about 15 miles per hour.

 

[DaveF]

We could see the red solar flare unaided as well during totality. A friend with a telescope got a great photo of the eclipse and that flare and another one were really clear.

 

[DaveF]

And it’s completely accurate: the total eclipse is on a different level, of a different kind, from the partial eclipse preceding and following.

Watching with the glasses, that last nibble of sun vanishes and everything goes black: The filters are too much.

I take off the glasses and gasp at this wholly novel sight of a black disk, where the sun should be, wreathed in a brilliant halo.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

We ended up at a state park along the New York side of Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh. Didn't have a solar filter for my camera phone, so the only halfway decent photo I got was this blurry one of the halo at totality:

Southbound interstates in Vermont are still clogged in some places. Been that way for nearly 6 hours now. Two lanes only, moving at about 15 miles per hour.

I literally just got home. A drive that would usually be around 2 hours, 40 minutes took over seven hours. Both the Northway (I-87) and Route 9 were bumper to bumper. I thought about taking the Crown Point bridge over to the Vermont side and heading south there, but Vermont Public Radio made it clear that wasn't any better.

All of that being said, I don't regret it because it was a once in a lifetime experience I got to share with my elderly father.

 

[Sam Posten]

Before:

 

[Sam Posten]

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Full set:

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Explore this photo album by Sam Posten III on Flickr!

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[Kevin Hewell]

Thanks for the pictures!!

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Nice, @Sam Posten !