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z50com · ‎08-21-2017

Fox 11 news from Big Bear Observatory.

fern*wood · ‎08-21-2017

Pretty neat...the best part for me was the temperature drop. The evening birds in our woods started singing but the darkness was a bit underwhelming.

tamaralea · ‎08-21-2017

I drove all over my city looking for glasses this afternoon. Everyone was sold out. Shortly after the peak (2:30 here), we asked a 10 yr. old kid, at an eclipse gathering, if we could buy his glasses for $20. He accepted, so we caught the tail end. It didn't get very dark here in northern OH. It looked like 5:30 when it was 2:30.

emerald40 · ‎08-21-2017

Seems to have affected USPS tracking as it is down.

sockmonkeydave · ‎08-21-2017

@z50com

Dude... it was cool... total dark in S. ILL

we saw the NASA jets in the air.

When it went dark...

Dogs and dingos and rednecks all got their howl on.

Wife threw me down in the drive,

and said "this is for good luck"

It was good for 2 min and 29 seconds.

It was a sight to see, moon in the air

blocking the sun.

2024 there will be another in the us (I think)

southern*sweet*tea · ‎08-21-2017

92% coverage here. Took full advantage of it, too as I had outside work to do. The temperature dropped from 94 to 86, and the light was dim, like late evening only without the mosquitoes. Nice while it lasted lol

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retrose1 · ‎08-21-2017

In the 70s we were told that we could get some protection if we stacked up film negatives and looked through a dark area for a short time, still works.

The space station pass was a wash, they passed over Canada and the shadow was over the outer edge and hard to see.

(*Bleep*)

a_c_green · ‎08-21-2017

@a_c_green wrote:
I'm watching not only the eclipse but also an auction that's scheduled to end right bang in the middle of totality here in the Central time zone. I'm wondering whether the seller planned it that way. I'm not expecting much competition from snipers on this one.

I won the auction.

Now everyone in our office is busy sending grainy smartphone eclipse photos to their relatives...

auctionpet · ‎08-21-2017

There is no eclipse here, it's always Sunny and Hot in Florida! Even an eclipse can't hide the sun here! Experienced NADA.

mg152 · ‎08-21-2017

Yeah! I've seen several partial eclipses. When I was 4 or 5 my grandma told me not to look at it. Of course, I looked at it. No harm done. I had good eyes until a few years ago. I've looked at at least 3-4 eclipses. Nothing happened here, it was pouring rain.
My daughter was freaking out, I told her the kids will be fine. She sent me all these links about going blind. I gave up!

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sharingtheland · ‎08-21-2017

100% totality here. Yes, we traveled to a spot to see it, but have to admit renting a house on Lake Hartwell in Georgia and lounging in water chairs for a couple hours while watching was not a bad idea.

Temperature dropped; it didn't get completely dark - you could see the horizon to the east that looked like sunset - but it was a weird dark. The black sun with the corona was pretty darn cool.

If I hadn't seen it, I'd be okay. Seeing it, that was okay, too.

If anyone traveled afar for 92% or even 98%, there was no comparison to 100%. Anything less than 100% is just a partial eclipse, which we've all seen before in our lifetimes.

(We the offspring had glasses; this has been planned by them for a long time.)

Sherry

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retrose1 · ‎08-21-2017

I have a friend that planned for months to see totality. Drove 6 hours and made arrangements to volunteer at a college in Carbondale to see it. On the NASA feed, they had a group set up there with some amazing filters, you could see things on the sun that none of the others showed, and you could tell there was cloud cover crossing and then it disappeared with about 5 minutes to go. At that point, they transferred to Kentucky and never went back. I have a feeling that my friend was disappointed.

I sat and watched totality on tv for almost 4 solid hours. There were some jets out tracking it before it made landfall in Oregon.

(*Bleep*)

sockmonkeydave · ‎08-21-2017

@retrose1

@retrose1 wrote:
I have a friend that planned for months to see totality. Drove 6 hours and made arrangements to volunteer at a college in Carbondale to see it. On the NASA feed, they had a group set up there with some amazing filters, you could see things on the sun that none of the others showed, and you could tell there was cloud cover crossing and then it disappeared with about 5 minutes to go. At that point, they transferred to Kentucky and never went back. I have a feeling that my friend was disappointed.

I sat and watched totality on tv for almost 4 solid hours. There were some jets out tracking it before it made landfall in Oregon.

The College in Carbondale Is "Southern Illinois University"

Show some respect... snort (go dogs...Saluki dogs )

Sky was clear, just a few nimbus, but they made the show better.

It was so cool.... the clouds passing by the sun.

But in the morning... we all go back to work.

a_c_green · ‎08-21-2017

@retrose1 wrote:
At that point, they transferred to Kentucky and never went back. I have a feeling that my friend was disappointed.

It was pretty overwhelming if you were in the right place. If you can find it on the CNN website, check out the 96-second clip of the CNN reporter (I don't know her name) in St. Joseph or Blackwell, Missouri. She's in more-or-less Official TV Reporter mode until totality hits, at which point she pretty much loses it, along with the rest of the crowd. (In a different clip on WGNTV.com, weatherman Tom Skilling in Carbondale, IL, starts crying...)

Great fun.

Anonymous · ‎08-21-2017

It's weird cuz

richard1rst · ‎08-21-2017

Reminds me of an old joke:

A man is driving across the desert. Pulls into a gas station in the middle of nowhere.
There is an old guy sitting there in a rocking chair. The driver, in an effort to make conversation, says “Looks like rain”.
The old guy says “I hope so - not for me you understand - I’ve seen rain - but for the boy here”.

I feel the same way about the eclipse.

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