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I understand it's Off-Topic, but who/where is seeing the ECLIPSE??

keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

It is really a big deal to me and I wondered if others will witness this spectacle which has infatuated the Human Race for untold centuries??

On a side-note, I did some internet searching --- my present location will be in the path of totality for approximately 3:49 during a similar eclipse on April 8th, 2024!!

Al H.

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hope you get to see both!

  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We will get about 95%. We are watching the moon moving across now. This will be my second, we had a total eclipse in 1979.

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 21, 2017 9:56AM

    I prefer the large, long tail, naked-eye visible comets! They last for days!

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,463 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I read in a text that two people I know (family) are going to Tecumseh, Ne. to view this event.
    I like to think of it as the day we are able to see the dark side of the moon... and a full moon, at that. Apparently Nebraska is the place to be, but I'm not yet convinced. It's the skeptic in me. Maybe I will sit in the shade and listen to Pink Floyd.

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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Travelled to my in-laws house in Columbia, SC to see totality.
    Partial starts within the hour. Can't wait!!

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    I prefer the large, long tail, naked-eye visible comets! They last for days!

    I remember seeing that too.

    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We'll be at about 70% here, but still worth the pin-hole watch!

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here in Pinehurst, NC the sky is almost cloud free. Expecting 96% coverage.
    Eclipse starts here at 1:15 pm, max coverage at 2:43 pm, and ends at 4:05 pm.

    It's a big deal to me. The last solar eclipse I witnessed was in southern Wisconsin on July 20,1963. About 80% coverage. No eclipse goggles back then, but we did make one of these "sun scopes" to view an inverted image. Sun scopes work by standing with your back to the sun, put your head in a box and aim the pinhole (punched in the back of the box) at the sun. An inverse image is projected on the opposite side of the box. Worked great.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thunder and clouds here in Las Vegas.......but if you've seen one (I've seen several) you've seen them all.

    bob:)

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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Clouded over and calling for a few inches of rain today. I'm not going to see much.

  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The engineers I work with are ready with various contraptions for viewing and photographing. Will get 92% here in the PNW. Gotta head outside now.

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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Will be at about 98% here. 150 miles North East of Madras, Oregon on the Oregon/Washington border.

    Ken

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Forgot a photo of the sun scope

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember the boxes from the early 60s!

    All glory is fleeting.
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    N.E. OH, coverage around 90%, in the Path Of Totality for the next one.
    My wife took my grandson and nieces down south to view it, then they're going to visit the Smithsonian for a few days, then hit VA beach for a few days.

  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    edited August 21, 2017 10:18AM

    @Batman23 said:
    Clouded over and calling for a few inches of rain today. I'm not going to see much.

    Me too. cloudy, rain, can I stare at the sun? Media event now. The world needs more cameras. Just wait 'til everything is camera mapped for self driving cars.

    People are cheering for the eclipse. WTF.

    "Anytime I get to stand in the shadow of the moon and get to share it on social media is a feeling of satisfaction."

  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭

    Davis, CA. Eclipse peeks in about 4 minutes. Maxes ay 79% here.

    image Respectfully, Mark
  • Newburgh, NY. 70% totality here.

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,463 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @291fifth said:
    I remember the boxes from the early 60s!

    That's when I first wore a dunce cap while most were wearing tin foil hats. LOL

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,509 ✭✭✭✭✭

    99% here! I'm looking forward to this.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    about 70% eclipse hear at 14:47 :smile:

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just went outside, clouds but thinning and can actually see the sun with the naked eye through the clouds. Obvious that we have about 50% coverage....pretty cool and no glasses needed (but not sharp or distinct either).
    bob

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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never did get totally dark here. Temperature dropped 8 to 10 degrees.

    Ken

  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We'll get to 95% in Iowa, I'm about 2 hours north of totality. 95% is good enough for me.

  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it's cloudy (like it is here, story of my life):

    nasa: NASA TV Public Channel

  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've got a set of welder's goggles and plan to go outside in about an hour here, where we should have about a 70-80% totality.

    Tom

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just now through the clouds.
    bob:)

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  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Totality in Idaho Falls right now.

  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Partial in Texas, about a 15% clip. My kids are very excited and using my welding shield to view it. I am excited about it also...it is a pretty neat thing!

    K

    ANA LM
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not a big deal to me. I saw the one in 79...meh.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

    will be getting about 70% here in the north east.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The latest, clouds thinned a bit more:
    bob:)

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm in LA. Everyone is in yoga

    mark

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  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NASA's servers can't keep up. Here's the same feed on YouTube...

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vf0rJoVWkNM

  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭✭✭


    91 percent here in utah...

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    a bit less than half covered here in NE Ohio and the "sunlight" outside is noticeably faint.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Our view was pretty cool looking through welders glass 10 + 8 sandwiched together...and it was green!

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BackroadJunkie said:
    NASA's servers can't keep up. Here's the same feed on YouTube...

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vf0rJoVWkNM

    Is it the same U.S. Mint computer server?

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  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, it's darkest here (90%), but it's cloudy dark.

    My cat thinks it's time for his treats, which he get in the evening. Stupid cat...

  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @oih82w8 said:

    @BackroadJunkie said:
    NASA's servers can't keep up. Here's the same feed on YouTube...

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vf0rJoVWkNM

    Is it the same U.S. Mint computer server?

    lol. They mentioned that over 4.4 million were watching, and using 80% of all the government network traffic.

  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭

    95% here. Clouded over. Sat on my back porch and watched a squirrel plant another acorn during max.

  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,932 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just watched it peak here in Austin, TX about 15 minutes ago. We got 65%.

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It would have pretty neat to say that my TrueViews were posted during the eclipse...there is still time.

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  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    edited August 21, 2017 11:48AM

    dear Media,

    I get it. There is / was an eclipse. It happens, periodically. Media / science frenzy, Science guy says, "It brings me to tears, watching with my ISO glasses on."

    The best coin I've ever seen didn't bring me to tears.

    F***ing crazy.

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the Moon is on the way out, about 2/3 left. I have witnessed quite a variety of celestial events and these are about the best. imagine primitive man and his confusion, sheer terror, when these took place!!

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @epcjimi1 said:
    dear Media,

    I get it. There is / was an eclipse. It happens, periodically. Media / science frenzy, Science guy says, "It brings me to tears, watching with my ISO glasses on."

    The best coin I've ever seen didn't bring me to tears.

    F***ing crazy.

    Some of the reactions of people on T.V. are beyond STUPID! I mean come on......the moon gets in the way of the sun every once in a while......BIG DEAL! Let's move on shall we!!!!!


  • Best I could get in NY.

  • dbtunrdbtunr Posts: 614 ✭✭✭

    @epcjimi1 said:
    dear Media,

    I get it. There is / was an eclipse. It happens, periodically. Media / science frenzy, Science guy says, "It brings me to tears, watching with my ISO glasses on."

    The best coin I've ever seen didn't bring me to tears.

    F***ing crazy.

    Why? You like coins. Most (like 99.5%) think that's crazy. Yet the thing that 99.5% find fascinating you find crazy.

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