Solar Eclipse

[RedBull]

Here near Yosemite we had a 77% view of the eclipse .

It got dark, well,
not so much dark
but more like severely overcast .

Still, at 10:19 a.m.

It was kinda strange .

Next one is in 2024 they say .

 

[skydivr]

If you weren't in the totality, there's not much special...but after being in one, I'd travel to see it again...spectacular...

 

[13013]

Meh..it was ok. I sure wouldn't travel to see it again.

 

[bigoltool]

It was like walking out into the sun with sunglasses on at my place. Pretty cool to see.

 

[gurrera]

This was taken by NASA.
The ISS passed right through Sun and Moon.
Gurrera

 

[Rojo]

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Here is a pic from 1am central time.....

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[WuzzaCBXRider]

Here, we were supposed to have a 39.9% partial eclipse but I didn’t perceive any decrease in the sun’s brilliance.

 

[michael parris heuberger]

Here, we were supposed to have a 39.9% partial eclipse but I didn’t perceive any decrease in the sun’s brilliance.

Hi. Where I am it 90%. I really did not noriece it at all and I was outside too.

 

[BigBSBusa]

We were at almost 90% here and the temps did drop, birds chirped and the sky definitely changed color. We had a bit of cloud cover, so missed the real 90% viewing.

 

[sixpack577]

I watched it through an auto darkening welding helmet for over an hour.
The sun looked like a crescent moon throughout, as it wasn't 100% covered here in Va.
We had light cloud cover and clear skies.
It was strange as even when the sun was almost completely covered, there was very little change in light.
Had you not known it was happening you would assume it's just an overcast day.
Still was interesting to see.

 

[Kiwi Rider]

I watched it through an auto darkening welding helmet for over an hour.
The sun looked like a crescent moon throughout, as it wasn't 100% covered here in Va.
We had light cloud cover and clear skies.
It was strange as even when the sun was almost completely covered, there was very little change in light.
Had you not known it was happening you would assume it's just an overcast day.
Still was interesting to see.

Welding helmet . . pffft.
Back in my day we watched the eclipse at night, when it was safest to do so.

 

[Bumblebee]

I watched it through an auto darkening welding helmet for over an hour.
The sun looked like a crescent moon throughout, as it wasn't 100% covered here in Va.
We had light cloud cover and clear skies.
It was strange as even when the sun was almost completely covered, there was very little change in light.
Had you not known it was happening you would assume it's just an overcast day.
Still was interesting to see.

Same here, it was very similar to an overcast day....my wife looked at it through the special glasses and said the same-a crescent moon.

I recall the last eclipse I went through was darker for some reason....

 

[sixpack577]

Same here, it was very similar to an overcast day....my wife looked at it through the special glasses and said the same-a crescent moon.

I recall the last eclipse I went through was darker for some reason....

There was a total eclipse here in 1982, it was night time dark, and the temperature noticeably dropped for almost 4 minutes, a very cool thing to experience.
But, you could've ran into another one randomly, at the ends of the earth along your travels.
Alot of remote places seem to have cool astronomical alignments.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Next one is in 2044. I’ll miss that one.

 

[Bumblebee]

There was a total eclipse here in 1982, it was night time dark, and the temperature noticeably dropped for almost 4 minutes, a very cool thing to experience.
But, you could've ran into another one randomly, at the ends of the earth along your travels.
Alot of remote places seem to have cool astronomical alignments.

The last one I recall was when I was in grade school....we had to bring cereal boxes in to make a viewer and my old man was cranky because we only had a 40lb bag of "Puffed Wheat" and no cereal boxes......so he go the crappiest kind he could find and basically made me eat it as a punishment for making him get it.....

 

[Bumblebee]

Next one is in 2044. I’ll miss that one.

You and me both brother......

 

[Rojo]

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Had one in 2017 *

 

[RacingJake]

Took the glass out of my welding helmet and taped it to my camera and took a few pic's.
Looks like Pac Man lol

 

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