April 8th Eclipse

[s&wchad]

I've been sitting it the garage with the door open. We're in the 90% zone, peak is about 5 minutes away and the sunlight is dimming.

I've read that people have driven hundreds of miles and spent thousands of dollars to experience this event. That gave me a great moneymaking idea!

Chads Virtual Eclipse
$100 per person. Limited seating...
I'll take them into my basement, slowly dim the lights and then slowly bring them back up.
Beer - $10
Hot dogs - $6
Soft drinks - $4
Tap water - $3

I'll be rich!

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[DWalt]

Even though I couldn't see the eclipse due to the overcast, I did experience the darkness. At least sort of. It wasn't as dark as I expected it to be, just sort of a late twilight. But it was at least dark enough for the neighbor's outside light to come on.

"I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won.
Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun"

 

[Rustyt1953]

Cellphone.

 

[jughed440]

the invasion will start after everyone goes blind. Sneaky little savages they are.

They really need to open their eyes and understand why they are not trusted

 

[swsig]

We've just survived the eclipse. We live about 2 miles from the zone of totality and had 99.9% coverage of the sun. Good enough for me. The photos below were taken during the 4 minute period of totality. I should have used a real camera instead of my iPhone camera because it was actually much darker than the photos show. The camera automatically adjusts for low light, providing artificial brightness. It was kind of disorienting walking around in the darkness at 1:40 pm. And the yellow half light just before and after was pretty weird, too. The next eclipse around here will not occur for over 300 years. I'll probably miss that one, so I'm glad I saw this one.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Yeah, this stuff is pretty cool. My loving wife gave me her binoculars.
Once in a lifetime. For right here, I think.

 

[oldbrownhat]

NASA apparently is following and photographing it from "far from the madding crowd" of us earthlings and will prob. get some spectacular images, although they'll miss Taylor Swift if she's there.

How are everyone's pets/animals reacting?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Lots of folks on our street were out to view it. Two families from across the street came over to partake with us as our house faces west.

PS: Travis Kelce announced that if he and TS have a son they will name him Conan after the barbarian.

I can now die happy.

 

[twodog max]

It is over here and while it was interesting to watch and probably the last time I will ever have a chance to see one IMO it is heavily overhyped. IMO

For me the most interesting part was watching the songbirds go to roost and quit their singing for a while and the strange appearance of the sky.
Certainly glad I did not travel and pay extortionist rates for food and lodging.

 

[sheepdawg]

At the peak moment here in NE Georgia we had the first hummingbird of the year on the feeders. Wonder if that's an omen?

 

[Chuck24]

Well, we survived. Went to the car wash just in case, so we could meet the apocalypse with a clean truck. We were 80%, loss of sunlight was barely noticeable.

 

[A10]

At the peak moment here in NE Georgia we had the first hummingbird of the year on the feeders. Wonder if that's an omen?

Definitely not an Omen, looks more like a female Ruby Throated....

 

[Protocall_Design]

Well, we survived. Went to the car wash just in case, so we could meet the apocalypse with a clean truck. We were 80%, loss of sunlight was barely noticeable.

We had 90% here, that was barely noticeable, too. I thought it would be a lot darker.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Not quite the same, but I couldn't help thinking of the aria, "Total eclipse" from Handel's oratorio Samson

Total eclipse! No sun, no moon!
All dark amidst the blaze of noon!
Oh, glorious light! No cheering ray
To glad my eyes with welcome day!
Why thus depriv'd Thy prime decree?
Sun, moon, and stars are dark to me!

Unfortunately, Samson didn't recover after 4 minutes, but he went on a structural bender that made headlines later.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFKNCoqWCs[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

It was a brief and wondrous glimpse inside the celestial clock works.

It was humbling in its scale.

 

[oldman10mm]

My contribution, Nikon D3300, 300mm lens, manual control of exposure.
unedited camera image.

 

[pharmer]

I musta missed it. Oh yeah, we're not in the path. Guess I'll have to wait 50 years for the next one. Joe

 

[Muss Muggins]

So, we pulled into the Hampton at Claremore, Oklahoma on Friday for Wanenmacher. Standing out front drinking beer and waiting for the hillbilly shuttle that passes for Uber in Claremore to head to the track and casino when a small SUV pulls up. Older couple, man starts unloading what looks to my investigator trained eye to be high end camera equipment.

Me: Y’all headed to the eclipse?

Him: We started in Texas, but it’s gonna be cloudy, so we’re going to Marion, Illinois.

Me: Well, just head east on this road. The numbers change, but you won’t have to exit until you hit Marion. You got about 8 more hours . . .

 

[Golddollar]

It was calm and clear when we watched the eclipse literally from the shores of Lake Erie. We had a wonderful view of the Ring of Fire.