When will we see the eclipse?

[Texas Star]

Would some of you who know when the eclipse will appear in your area please post that?

I specifically want to know about the Dallas-Ft . Worth zone, but am sure others will be curious, too.

I found one Online site but it didn't mention my area. Extrapolating from what they had,I'm guessing about 1:00 PM to maybe 1:30. I guess if it gets dark, we'll know, but want to be watching.

I presume that YouTube and the evening news will have good images tonight.

 

[snowman]

A strictly local internet news outlet is reporting that it will occur here at 2:28pm EDT. Just happened to catch that while looking for other news this morning.

Andy

 

[Tom K]

Maximum eclipse in the DFW area will be around 1:10 and about 80%. If you didn't know it was happening you wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary. The sky will not get dark and if you have solar glasses or a pinhole viewer of some kind, you will just see a crescent sun.

If you are not in the path of totality it is only mildly interesting. Totality is a completely different experience.

Watching it on TV versus being there, is like watching sex on TV versus doing it.

 

[Texas Star]

Maximum eclipse in the DFW area will be around 1:10 and about 80%. If you didn't know it was happening you wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary. The sky will not get dark and if you have solar glasses or a pinhole viewer of some kind, you will just see a crescent sun.

If you are not in the path of totality it is only mildly interesting. Totality is a completely different experience.

Watching it on TV versus being there, is like watching sex on TV versus doing it.

If the Sun is 80% eclipsed here and there's no darkness, that's powerful testimony to just how potent the Sun is... Wow!

 

[soFlaNative]

This may help. TimeandDate.com.
Navigate the site and get your local info.
Site may be a bit busy.


https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2017-august-21

 

[Rule3]

If you are in the path of totality then you will not see it, it will be dark. So in Dallas you only get partial as will those in Florida, maybe it will cool off for 2 minutes??

 

[LVSteve]

Huh! What eclipse?

 

[pawngal]

Won't be seeing anything here, it has been dark and raining for almost an hour. If I remember this would be about a 90% area but it won't matter now.

 

[ladder13]

I've seen it ten times already.

Right now it's in/around Jackson Hole.

 

[STCM(SW)]

Where I am it is at the max right now, not that dark at all.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

The thingie says

Local Type: Partial Solar Eclipse, in Chattanooga
Begins: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 1:02 pm
Maximum: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 2:32 pm 0.99 Magnitude
Ends: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:58 pm
Duration: 2 hours, 56 minutes

So far me and Coondog are surviving... hold on...

 

[arjay]

93% here,clear skies.Pretty impressive!
Dog has come out back thinking it is dinner time ;-)
and the cat has gone hunting lol

 

[Absalom]

If you are in the path of totality then you will not see it, it will be dark....

Well, sorta .....

Here is a photo I took less than an hour ago during the moment of totality. It looked WAY cooler than this, but there was still so much radiation escaping around the edges that a regular highly light-sensitive cell phone lens can't differentiate and still produces a blob that looks like, well, the sun.

 

[vytoland]

did i miss something.....

 

[labworm]

Getting ready for a partial eclipse in Boston.

1447 hrs.

 

[NYlakesider]

Getting ready for a partial eclipse in Boston.

1447 hrs.

I just came back in we now have about a 3/8 cover going, north of Albany

I'm using a heavy tint welders lens!

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[gregintenn]

I'm not easily amused, but that was pretty cool!

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

The 'maximum' only lasted for just a bit. The retired neighbors were out so we had something to talk about. Street had these moving/cascading evenly spaced shadow lines kinda weird. The katydids started chirping big time... fooled em!

 

[johngalt]

Here was only about 92%

The maximum eclipse was at 2:21. It was cloudy and rainy for about 30 minutes before. The sun peeked out a little after 2:21, then clouded over again. About 10 minutes later it started clearing off for good.

I made one of those pinhole things out of a cereal box so I could see the crescent. Overall, it was rather underwhelming. Even with 92% coverage it just got a little dimmer than normal. Not really worth the bother unless you are in the 100% totality area.