Big event for some.
Lodging along the total eclipse area all but sold out
in this state.
We are about a 20 min. ride south of the total eclipse zone so close enough for us. About 2 min black out about 2 pm here.
Cuts a big swath across the country.
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We are right in the path also and supposedly going to be overcrowded. They say power could be an issue with all the solar going down in the middle of the day. :sunny:
We are right in the middle of the total eclipse and thankfully I'll be working out of town at the time. My goal is to stay as far away as possible.
Going to be pretty much ground zero here. Not a big deal to me, saw one in 1984 wasn't a big deal then either, but was an annular one. :sunny: Chances are it will be raining or snowing here anyway. ffcheesy All on hydro power here, won't miss a beat.
April is a low electrical demand season, heating demand is low and cooling is non existent. Its not that hard to deal with predictable events like an eclipse, a lot harder when something like a big transmission line goes down by surprise. Something like an EMP from a solar event is a lot harder to deal with, that is what took a big chunk of Quebec province in 1989. March 1989 geomagnetic storm - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm)
I live just south of the path of totality in northern NH, at best the weather forecast is 50/50 for clouds, at worst 70/30. The hassle is that if the forecast is good a bunch of people will head north out of southern New England and I 95, I 93, I91 and I 80 can only handle a certain amount of traffic. In general its going to be combination of Memorial Day plus Labor Day traffic. It late on a Monday so folks may head up early but few if any campgrounds are open yet. Snowmachine season will be over but ATV season will not have started yet. Folks usually find a dirt road into the local national forest and set up a tent but those roads are gated. On the other hand, Monday night everyone is going to be wanting to get home. I 91 in Fairlee VT is down to one lane southbound so that is going to be a parking lot. Some towns are setting up with big events but they were booked out months ago. Reportedly there is not a porta potty available in the region. Just make sure your gas tanks are full as all those cars are going to need to fill up when they get here or heading home.
We're in the direct path. I guess I'll start locking the gate beginning on the 6th or so. It's also Lindy's birthday so we'll celebrate that too.
Here's some news. ffcheesy ffcheesy
Niagara Falls in state of emergency over eclipse tourism. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/solar-eclipse-niagara-falls-1.7159987)
Pretty rare for northern NH but its looking like a sunny forecast for eclipse day and the weekend before it. My guess are lots of folks are going to be heading north. Forecast for late week is big rain/snow event so it will be interesting to see where everyone parks.
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Long range here shows sun from Saturday through to Wednesday up here. Of course that can all change in 2 days. :D Rain/Snow event coming here again for 3rd week in a row on Thursday-Friday this week. Not as long this time. :uhoh:
We are only supposed to get 3 minutes of total eclipse ffcheesy. Right in the middle of my nap time. They have closed schools and have big shindigs scheduled for 3 minutes O0 of darkness. Now they say bring your pets inside so they don't stare at it and go blind 😲.
I think the eclipse of 1970 was the one that made the greatest impression on me. Schools were out. We went to my Mom's folks house where Granddad had made several viewing shadowboxes we could pass amongst the cousins. The chickens started roosting, the cows were befuddled. The moon shot had not been even a year. We had lots of rockets back then, Wallops Island sent up a couple of dozen to check out everything in the atmosphere. There have been more but that is the one that made a real impression. Like most kids of that time, I was ready to go see some space ffsmiley.
The partial eclipse a few years ago messed up the chickens big time, going to be interesting to see how they all act this go round.
The first one I remembered was the annular one in 1984. Was not quite all covered by the moon, but wasn't much fringe light left. Was still in school and of course we got the 'don't look at it without protection' speeches. I don't know how humanity could have survived so long without 'experts' telling us not to look. What I do remember being told was that it was similar to a welder's flash. You won't feel the burning itch in your eyes until the next day. Of course my brother tried welding without a welder's helmet and found out the next day. ffcheesy ffcheesy
Its been 60 years since the last total solar eclipse here in this area. July 20, 1963.
I remember it pretty well. Was 6 years old , folks loaded up the kids in the family car
and we went to a large open area a few miles away, viewed it through a homemade
viewing device my dad made.
Gonna be like a football game or NASCAR race for me, better to see it on TV...
I still have the shoebox viewer I made for the 2017 eclipse here.
The current forecast for Northern NH is sunny Sunday and Monday with 18 to 24" of snow just south of the band of totality a few days before. Possibly 12" in the path. Mud season means the frost is coming out of the roads, so the towns try to underplow the road so they dont take up the gravel or pavement. My guess is lots of money to be made with tow strap pulling cars out of ditches.
Maybe I should post this in the Wake Up Call for Green Energy...
My son and I took the 10-12 hour ride up to Oregon/Idaho area to see the 2017 eclipse that gave us a little over 2 minutes of totality. Awesome.
Then started planning for this one. Four and a half minutes of totality! Leaving for Texas tomorrow in my son's new Tesla model 3. Taking my sister and will be staying at her youngest daughter's house just NW of Dallas. Looks like scattered showers on the long range forecast smiley_thumbsdown but we'll make the best of it.
First night we'll stay in another sister's place in Kingman, AZ. From there, we're going to hit the Grand Canyon on the way out and stop in Winslow, AZ and a few more places along the way. Three, maybe four days driving each way.
Not many trees in AZ and NM, so don't imagine too many FF members to visit along that route.
There's plenty of trees in both of those states, depending on location.
I'm in the path of totality at my house and I'm pretty excited. It looks like, as of now, we'll be getting most of the rain and clouds out of the way this week. I think they are calling for partly cloudy on Monday.
I've invited a bunch of people over to watch but nary a single rsvp... We'll see if that continues, and oh well if it does.
My son was over for supper with us yesterday. He works on the maintenance crew of a large state park near here. He told me the park managers are in a panic over how many visitors the park is expecting as it is in the path of totality. Which I suppose must be a cool way of saying you can see it from there.
The maintenance guys are only worried over parking. With all the rain the ground is wicked soft and folks will be getting stuck.
Probably be raining Monday and nobody will see a thing. As for myself I'd trade away a ring side seat in the "path of totality" for a few days of dry weather with out a second thought so I could get some logs on the landing.
There are cloud maps being updated daily for the eclipse path. This is one from the NYTimes saying it will be updated.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/science/solar-eclipse-cloud-cover-forecast-map.html
Should all go visit Swampdonkey, looks like.
Yeah, according to the long range Sunday through Wednesday that week is wide open skies here. And the path is right over head of the house. We are going to get another rain/snow storm for 2-1/2 days before though. Been one of them storms every week for a month now. In the middle of building the shop here, so maybe we can celebrate that to. ffcheesy
Wallops Island will be launching 3 rockets during the eclipse to research the effects on the ionosphere and communications. One each, 45 minutes before, mid eclipse, and 45 minutes after. We still got da rockets ffcheesy
Mission: Apophis 2 (APEP 2)
Vehicle: 3 Black Brant IX sounding rockets
Date: April 8, 2024
Time: 2:40 p.m.- 4:05 p.m. EDT. Rockets are scheduled to launch approximately 45 minutes apart.
Location: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
Might as well lite'm if you got'm. ffcheesy ffcheesy
Great - so the sun is going to go out and then missiles will start to fly - someone will think it's the end of the world. ffcheesy
Turns out my party is a party. I invited folks over on a meetup site and expected the site to email directly, I didn't receive any so I thought it was going to be a boring party. Turns out there are several rsvp's on the site that I didn't realize. Woop!
PatD will be having some oral (dental) surgery so I will be sitting in the waiting room. We have rain forecast so it will only be darker rainy. :uhoh:
They just declared our town a state of emergency for the day :huh?. All law enforcement will be handing out tickets to those parking illegally on public roads. Hopefully it will help NYs budget problems ffcool
I think the population of Vermont may double for the day. I'm dead center of the eclipse path. Forecast is for clear skies. I plan to enjoy from my perch on my little hill.
Same here. We are in a fairly rural area and have been told to fill the cars with gas a couple days before because too many vehicles can cause shortages plus we have no EV recharging stations locally that will be an issue should visitors use EVs. I'm just going to set the camera up outside and watch it on my big screen TV :sunny:.
Lots of media hype to frighten as many people as possible. It's what they do. Spread fear at every chance the media can grab.
For 3-4 minutes of darkness during the daytime, could just step into a dark closet and accomplish the same thing. ffcool ffcheesy ffcheesy
Quote from: 21incher on April 03, 2024, 08:40:05 AMThey just declared our town a state of emergency for the day :huh?. All law enforcement will be handing out tickets to those parking illegally on public roads.
Somebody needs to lighten up and get a grip. Folks will not all of a sudden become criminals for that time period. Pause, take a deep breath and breath easy, it could be a slight inconvenience but will soon pass and everything will be back to normal. ffwave
Up in Northern NH, I am not too worried about law enforcement writing tickets, they are going to be tied up with all the normal crap that happens when lots of clueless folks head north in mud season. The forecast is for sunny and warm for April. I hope everyone has a good time but expect it is going to be a slow ride south.
There is even fear mongering about the New Madrid Fault being set off as a result... Folks it's a shadow, and it gets dark each evening around here without any onset of earthquakes happening.
That kind of mongering went on in the 80's to, was all debunked back then. We had an eclipse and one year a so called lining of the planets was going to cause weather events and geophysical catastrophes and on and on. The media will say anything if you pay them enough. They'll find any darn fool to gibber jabber, gobbley gook at a mic. Pretty much what James Randi concluded about them years ago. You don't want to know what his term was for them. Well I can't type it on here. What I get a kick out of is "America's Solar Eclipse Event" across the tv screen. What did you guys do now? ffcheesy
I couldn't care less, I'll be working. ffcheesy
That's pretty much what the carpenter working on the garage said, just another day. ffsmiley :sunny:
There are some that travel the world to see this event.
Not a big deal to me, but some think I am crazy for digging rayrock out of the field so the wife does not have to mow around them. Dig out 50 rocks that is a big time saver. :wacky:
As long as you don't harm little kids or old people. I don't care what you do. :thumbsup:
I find the hype beyond humorous, almost pitiful. Out (NYS) governor has joined in the hysteria. She has banned all roadwork throughout the entire state from Saturday to Tuesday in order to minimize traffic delays. Now how many folks do you think are driving through Long Island to see the eclipse? Traffic down there is always a mess anyway, who's gonna notice the difference? She's an idiot with idiot advisors.
Quote from: 21incher on April 03, 2024, 09:29:29 AMI'm just going to set the camera up outside and watch it on my big screen TV :sunny:.
West of us there are skydivers coming in from around the world to jump during the eclipse. Our county is expecting 50,000 visitors on Monday :uhoh: . The whole county is in a state of emergency now. All 2 lane roads and no place to park with all the mud. Can't wait to watch the news the next day ffcheesy.
A lot of hype here in VT, banks are closing early, daycares are shut down ,state police and emergency staff warning of traffic grid lock, it a big todo for 2 1/2 minutes I guess I'm just not that into it, followed by some reporters blaming global warming for the cloudy or unclear view as we had 18+ inches of snow dump today I'm sure it will be neet but I've seen a lot of awesome scenery in my few years here on earth,so for one to be all jazzed up for a view thats blacked out I just soon pull one out of the memory bank and over ride the one that's coming
Totality is scheduled for around 4:33 pm local time here on Monday. Will start to see the effects around 3:30 as the moon starts passing by. Nobody I know of thinks it's anything to get excited about. I have some young neighbors here that have probably never seen an eclipse, I've not asked them what they think. I bet they are curious, but I bet it stops there. Everyone is a little curious, be honest. But most of us are sane to. ffcheesy ffcheesy
I have a pretty thick tinfoil hat I wear most of the time, and this whole thing has just been a depressingly sad story.
People are really stupid, and it shows, the government sucks, and a working man can't catch a break in this world...
Watch they pull some psy-op to shut the internet down and tell everyone the Russian's did it with nuclear bombs stationed on the moon to cause tsunami's across all the flat parts of the earth. ffsmiley
Stop the world, I want to get off!!!!
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For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ (theconversation.com) (https://theconversation.com/for-some-christians-a-solar-eclipse-signals-the-second-coming-of-christ-227093#:~:text=Some%20Christians%20have%20taken%20this,logical%20basis%20for%20this%20theory.)
We have rain forecast so maybe they will postpone the eclipse for a week so that we can at least watch it get a bit darker. ffcheesy
It's a good thing there are no volcanoes in the path or some fool might try a sacrifice at this rate.
Sounds like Y2K hype all over again. Computers gonna stop working, aliens will invade, food will become scarce. ffsmiley
The stock market will tumble, survivalist will take to their bunkers........... :veryangry:
Me, I'm gonna have my coffee and start my trip to Jake's! See you there ffcheesy ffcool
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For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ (theconversation.com) (https://theconversation.com/for-some-christians-a-solar-eclipse-signals-the-second-coming-of-christ-227093#:~:text=Some%20Christians%20have%20taken%20this,logical%20basis%20for%20this%20theory.)
That's true, & I'm amazed that the media has left out the fact that this month a Comet, will be able to be seen without a telescope/binoculars, & that several planets are also lining up in a row.
Oh My GOSH - New York City just had an earthquake ahead of the eclipse - see it's all coming to an end, it's already happening!!! Dogs and cats living together, complete pandemonium!!! Call the Ghostbusters.
The earthquakes started ffcheesy. You beat me Southside
And so it begins.................. :wink_2:
Personally - I like to read a Flat Earth Society explanation for the eclipse.
Sick fun, I know, I know.
I'll see myself out now . . . .
Actually the earth is flat but the Weather Bureau is in charge of all of this celestial stuff which includes stars, planets, earth, sun, and the moon. They make rainbows, wind, rain, sunshine, clouds, and even tornadoes. They made daylight saving time just to screw up our clocks so that we would have to contact them to determine the time. They invented and sell windmills and solar panels so that we would be forced to use their stuff. This eclipse thing is all of that guy Musk's idea because he is actually their front man. We are puppets on a string. :wacky:
The eclipse of 1919 was used to verify Einsteins theory of relativity. With just the corona they could determine that indeed the mass of the sun bends the light of stars as it passes by.
Another cool one I heard on Science Friday on the radio in the shop, it is just a happy coincidence that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun and is 400 times further from the sun than earth so we just happen to get a total eclipse of the sun by that diameter of the moon. The moon is slipping away from us at a couple of cm per year so at some point in the distant future there will still be eclipses, but they will be annular rather than total.
.. ,more is coming back. The Babylonians were the first to figure out the eclipse cycle although China and the Aztecs kept good records of events. The inhabitants of Chaco canyon drew what some people have figured was art related to an eclipse on their cliff walls. Scientists have tracked back and there was a total eclipse during that period that coincided with a solar maximum. Some of what they are seeing in the drawings may be details they were seeing of the lunar surface/edge lit by the corona.
My sweetwife came home with glasses and the schoolkids will be off for the event so she won't have to garden in the dark with preoccupied younguns. I had set the pair from 2017 on the shelf here knowing I would hopefully need them again for this one, but must have cleaned up at some point.
Make lots of noise, we need to make the toad eating the sun throw it up
We are 'in the path of totality' and will catch it from one of the high up beaver ponds in the back 40 :sunny: Lots of speculating locally about tourist influx, I do see it as speculating but on the other hand the hotels and airbnbs and such are actually full up. No worries, we won't even know they are here from way in the back. I am definitely not getting raptured so might as well have a good view!
Please don't forget that tonight the Moon will be visible from Earth. The last time this happened was last night. :wacky:
Meh.
It's been a thing for a very long time...
Anybody remember the Heavens Gate mass suicide in 1997? Supposedly it was caused by the Hale Bopp Comet?
Any excuse to be weird - an eclipse is good enough for some.
Anybody going to see if an egg will stand on end during the eclipse?
You just had to bring up the egg thing eh? Now I have a mission. ffcheesy Of course that's in the middle of 2,000 chickens going totally bonkers.
OH yeah, btu I am sure you know about the different rules with the eclipse? Apparently only one out of 500 eggs will stna don end, you have to find the right egg.
Do let us know how that works out, will ya? ffcheesy
Thanks for the support buddy. :thumbsup: ffcheesy
During the equinox, this was the only egg I tried. You reckon the first one I tried was the 1 out of 500? What are the odds? Please, some mathematician calculate the odds ! ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy Or don't. ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy
Well, this is the eclipse rules which are different than the equinox rules. More specifically there are for the ascending node ellipse and if I remember my witchcraft Science, for the descending node it is only one out of a thousand egges, or something like that. Of course, YMMV. :wink_2:
Only eclipse prediction I'll make is Bonnie Tyler's big 80's hit will get a whole lotta airplay Monday. (Turn around bright eyes...) ffcheesy
We are on the path here. We have 2 tent platforms that we rent out on hipcamp.
They have been booked for this weekend for quite awhile. Its pretty early in the season for us to get bookings, usuually may-late october is normal. And.... Ironically we got a foot of snow for the campers to enjoy :sunny:
The first campers showed up last night. Since they couldn't drive to the site (it's down in one of the pastures) they took all their gear in via toboggan. ffwave their car is still here this morning, figured the overnight snow and low temps would have made tent camping pretty crummy? Guess we shall see if they make it til Monday. I don't think the snow is going anywhere haha.
Ah, yeah but snow, wind, and a cold tent will test true love. ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy
Or not. ffcheesy
True love is sleeping with the wine bottle in your bag to keep it from freezing ffcheesy .
Apparently just before totality a series of shadow bands cross the surface of the Earth. Nobody knows why. Some students in TX are sending up balloons to different levels in the atmosphere, up to 90,000 ft. They are looking to see if it is caused by our atmosphere or if the shadow bands are coming in through space. Perhaps light bending around the edge of the moon as the sun is down to a sliver over the edge of it. I've not noticed them before, I think we are too far off to the side to see something like that this time.
Well at least some F-35 pilots can become Aces again when the things show up on radar suddenly. ffcheesy
These guys will probably have about the best view from your armchair on Monday at this link. Using 8K 120 fps cameras and telescopes, southern Texas. Starts to stream at 1:10 PM EDT on Monday. These guys do a lot of filming for NASA and SpaceX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B2E3E9c9qg
I am getting ready...
Checked my welding helmets for shade 12 or higher. Looks like I am ready to lollygag around from 2 to 4 tomorrow.
I have to work tomorrow for the eclipse. We are in the about 99% of totality area. I hope there is no nonsense going on. My wife and one son are going to drive south about 40 miles and get into totality for about 3 minutes.
For all the 8-bit computer users. ffcheesy ffcheesy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipFvhEMB0I&t=965s
The youtuber there is from Thunder Bay, Ontario area. What he describes about the 80's eclipse never happened here at all. Sounded weird to me. Kinda reminds me of 'duck and cover', which was before my time, thankfully. ffcheesy ffcheesy
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8 second timelapse of the view from my house. Zero visibility because of heavy clouds but the birds all freaked out after it got dark. A group of geese landed across the street for the night.
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Not 8K video, but there it is. :D
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We were cloudy here so nothing happened and now both the clouds and the eclipse have moved on leaving no evidence behind. ffwave
As good as it got here, 95%ish.
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Picture my Daughter took in Montpelier Vt
From my yard in Londonderry NH through the eclipse glasses:
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Watched it using my welding helmet with my daughter and wife. As I had messed around with telescopes and sidereal time, I was able to draw my daughter a diagram of what was happening and why the crescent of the sun was to the side and then moved to the bottom.
Another thing I noticed was that all the birds stopped chirping for about 10 minutes thru the peak time of the eclipse. We also had clouds passing through and sometimes you could view the eclipse through the clouds without dark eye protection.
Those are some great pics SD, we had the same view here, but no pics.
Nice to see, mostly because an eclipse is rare, interesting but not exciting.
I can't help but wonder, why is the sun so much brighter during the cycle of the eclipse than it is after it's all over with?
Nice pictures swampdonkey
Local radio station played a medley of songs...Bonnie Rait "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone"
And of course ZZ Tops "Cheap Sunglasses"
Somehow we survived... ffcool
Scott B.
85-90% here but so cloudy it wouldn't be visible so I went inside and watched it on TV. It was so exciting I almost stayed awake and missed my nap, almost.
Just another workday today. I cut and loaded logs in the morning until 1pm, came home and dumped them off. Had a quick lunch and headed to town on errands. When I crossed over the reservoir as the eclipse was beginning I noticed (could not miss them) a mess of people parked up in all the reservoir parking areas sitting in lawn chairs with paper sunglasses on watching the eclipse. I could not help but laugh out loud. Maybe it was the way they were dressed, or the place they chose, which was rather poor, but it just looked stupid to me. I did notice a LOT less traffic on the road and it was creepy. Did my shopping (paint, 2 cycle oil, cheap paintbrush, etc.) and headed home. I started working on putting a new and much larger battery in mu Mule. I did take a few quick peeks thru my welding helmet and yeah, it looked cool, but I got back to work. It was just not that big of a deal at 95% totality.
BUT what I DID notice was just after we passed the peak point, a bunch of owls started sounding off. That was weird. It didn't last long, but it was still weird.
Tomorrow will be another day, in spite of the rumors.
Don't forget Cat Stevens! Moon shadow
It was partly cloudy here.
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QuoteLocal radio station played a medley of songs...Bonnie Rait "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Bonnie Tyler did that song (her big 80's hit). Don't know that Bonnie Raitt ever did a version of it, she did however do "Have a Heart". :smitten:
Thanks to all those guys posting pics of the eclipse! :thumbsup:
Was just kind of cloudy and little dimmer light here. :sunny:
Nice pixs from all. ffcool All sunny here and I looked at it some. I was doing an oil change on the mill when it happened.
But for 2 days I had 2 lanes on I93 going north bumper to bumper. I can't imagine the ride south will be much fun. ffcheesy
A news article said that accidents go up 31% in areas where the eclipse is viewed.
Well I'm Southbound, Lord I'm comin' home to you
Well I'm Southbound, baby, Lord I'm comin' home to you
I watched it from the parking lot at work. I was not able to watch it steady, but every few minutes I went out for a peek.
We are kinda slow at work, so I had time to watch it. Saw a light come on that was on a building.
I enjoyed it!!!
I had a commitment to unload a load of logs today. Got them unloaded with just enough time that I could drive about 60 miles to the eclipse totality zone and the sky looked clear. I have seen two eclipses already and they were just ho-hum but I was not in the totality zone. With that background I wasn't really excited, but the viewing spot I was targeting was in the headwaters of the Buffalo National River and I never miss a excuse to get in that area.
I threw the camera in the truck but didn't have any real intentions to take pictures so left all the rest of the gear at home.
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I was absolutely amazed. The sky slowly darkened like on a cloudy day but when we hit totality it went completely dark in a few seconds. I could see Venus and a couple of stars. Next I saw Baily's Beads than the diamond ring. I ran back to the truck to get the camera and snapped a couple of poor pictures. I really wished I had setup with the tripod and my gear. At the beginning there was a pretty good cool breeze but it stopped right before totality.
Before I headed out to the eclipse I found a online topographic map that showed the totality zone. Click on the spot your at and it gave a time of totality. I sat my phone alarm and sure enough the alarm went off right when the sun got covered. Smart guys, I'm impressed.......
I'm surprised neither "Night of the Comet" nor "Apocalypto" were being shown on TV the last couple days. Well we didn't get vaporized from the Eclipse, but maybe anyone watching was radiated, and once we go to sleep, we won't wake up, and in the morning we'll look like Lieutenant Stewart who died in her sleep pod from the beginning of Planet of the Apes?
I worked right through it sawing pine logs for a customer. It was real cloudy and I was at least expecting it to get dark but I never noticed any difference.
Yeah, it was pretty cool when it was dark and you could see a couple brighter stars or planet in the sky. We have a lot of crows around here and they never acted strange at all. Kept on like normal, the usual crowing and flitting about the yard. My brother said if it is too bright to look at then why don't deer have shades on? I said looking directly into the sun is a human curiosity thing. A deer is looking for something to eat, or an escape from a predator. Not looking and walking with it's head cocked up almost vertical. I said I remember someone thought that he didn't need welding glasses/helmet one time and he burnt his eyes. End of conversation. ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy
We didn't get the total darkness experience but all but a sliver of sun
was showing. 99 % , Dim light , a bit eerie . There was one bright star showing to the west , not sure
what it was.
Some local roads to the west and north
got choked up with eclipse tourists backed up an hour in places .
Reports of people honking and swearing at each other. Didn't need any of that so glad we stayed put ffcheesy
Local businesses cashed in of course.
I can imagine the mess there was after it was over!!!
There is only 2-3 ways out and in, to them small towns.
Kinda like Fryeburg Fair on a weekend. ffcheesy
We were basically right on the centerline through Ohio, in the area of the longest darkness. Bright, sunny skies and beautiful weather. All the hype was WWAAYYYY overdone. The highway looked like a normal Monday afternoon and I didn't see and hordes of people like they warned us about. We had a nice cookout with some friends that came over for the event.
My One neighbor ordered a porta pot and had a sign up for parking at $20 each. Ended up just being him and his wife ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcheesy
I saw a zombie, a turtle flying and my dog Lucie turned into a cat.
Other than that it was pretty normal.
An estimated 10,000 people swarmed the sleepy town of Jackman Maine population 730 in the NW
part of the state. This from a local newspaper:
"License plates from 26 states could be seen Monday morning in Jackman, including from Alaska, California, Colorado, Tennessee, Texas and Washington."
I watched it from a mountain 3 miles in the woods with a great view west. Despite a 3 mile snowshoe to get to the summit there were plenty of folks who had the same idea coming from two directions. The weather as perfect which is very rare in Northern NH in April. Definitely an experience for a lifetime.
We had a calf born during the eclipse.
Theatre on a galactic scale. My vote for the Tony Award. ffcool
Lee, did you check it to see if it had wings, 3 heads, or anything else a bit unusual? ffsmiley It might be possessed. :uhoh:
Got a bunch of pictures, some pretty good. Wasn't able to capture the solar flare that was shooting out down around the 4 o'clock position on film.
We did, or should I say my son did.
Quote from: LeeB on April 09, 2024, 10:27:17 AMWe had a calf born during the eclipse.
So do you name the calf Luna? ;)
I survived the eclipse, I am sure you all were worried. Of course my area of northern ky was only 99%. I did find out later since I used the glasses from 2017, I will go blind. Does anyone know where I can get a seeing eye dog? O0
This picture (supposedly) taken in New Hampshire has to be one of the prettiest that I have seen.
EDIT: It was probably photoshopped, but still pretty.
Up here it was way higher in the sky than that. If you wanted to get a landscape scene, the sun would be way tinier in the shot to capture it all.
APOD from yesterday was of the eclipse. I've only ever seen partials, but it seems NZ gets one in 2028, way down across the South Island. I mean it's cool to see, but there is a limit to how many miles I'd travel too see it. .
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240409.html
I thought it was really neat. In Dayton my party turned out well with about 15 of us checking it out, including a baby. It's amazing when it hit 95%+ covered how much the light changed, the temperature dropped, and it got a bit windy. As it went to 100% things went quite calm and dark and weird! We were able to see the prominences (? solar flares?) and that was pretty cool too. All in all, time well spent watching space and nature in action.
MM, not so sure about that picture, eclipse was at 3:30pm, not like 6:30. From my viewing it would have been difficult to get any landscape in the photo, especially a lake.
JJ
Quote from: peakbagger on April 09, 2024, 08:30:25 PMQuote from: LeeB on April 09, 2024, 10:27:17 AMWe had a calf born during the eclipse.
So do you name the calf Luna? ;)
It was a bull calf so I named it Sol.
Quote from: JJ on April 10, 2024, 08:52:46 AMMM, not so sure about that picture, eclipse was at 3:30pm, not like 6:30. From my viewing it would have been difficult to get any landscape in the photo, especially a lake.
JJ
After thinking about it, I am not sure either. SD just said that it was much higher at his location, and this was supposedly in NH, so I am calling it photoshopped, but still pretty.
I copied and should have known better. Too good to be true.
Looking at it the reflection in the water makes me wonder, it should be eclipsed sunshine, not full sunshine. :sunny:
Yes, more evidence that it was photoshopped. :uhoh:
There's another one going around showing Texas blue bonnets in an eclipse shot. Same issue. Shows the eclipse as being just above the horizon and the flowers in full color.
I was lucky enough to see the eclipse with my naked eye... the only problem is that there was a THICK layer of clouds between me and it.
I saw it from online livestreams though, sad to miss such an event.
I had to rely on the internet for pictures, nothing happened here.
I ran this eclipse simulation (https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/@5082936?iso=20240408) in central New Hampshire as well as near the North and South boundaries of the state. At no point do you see the sun appearing (or disappearing) at the 2 o'clock position, anywhere in the state.
As folks learn how to use AI we are going to see lots of fake pictures. Favorite AI app, "make a picture of a eclipse low to the horizon over a lake". Few minutes later I have the picture with options to improve it.
Wanta see a picture of my 30 point buck? ffcheesy ffcheesy
Everything was a lot darker than that picture indicates at totality. The only light was the ring around the moon and on the horizon. A lot different sky than in the image.
I will not defend the possibility of the photoshopping but will comment that up on mountain in Northern NH, it really did not get that dark during totality. It definitely was dark overhead with Venus and Jupiter visible and dark in the direction the eclipse was traveling but looking off to the north or south it was still quite bright out. I think the difference was that the horizon from the top of the mountain to either side was as much as 100 miles.
At totality the most interesting thing I noticed was the "never seen before" difference in the appearance of the sky at the horizon, unable to describe, but beautiful.
Larry, I think it is pronounced "turdy". :snowball: ffsmiley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZOC1QXTQLk
The western horizon here looked like the sun that just set out of sight to me. A band of amber colored light. Was stars visible in the sky here. We never had a cloud of any sort.
Of course heavy cloud cover came and went through the whole thing here and when the sun was almost covered the clouds were so thick you couldn't see what was happening. It did get real dark for a few minutes. I almost quit splitting cause I could barley see. Whole lot of disappointment for the folks that put in a lot of effort and money to see it.
Clouds? In north west Pa? Who in the world would have thunk it. ffcheesy
Quote from: B.C.C. Lapp on April 12, 2024, 01:56:55 PMClouds? In north west Pa? Who in the world would have thunk it. ffcheesy
Sun in Northern NH in April , who it the world would have thunk it. ;)
And the moon on the night after. (April 9)
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@Chuck White I saw a 360 degree sunset/sunrise that was really incredible, is that what you are talking about? Seeing those colors in the north and south where they aren't, usually, is pretty strange.
Exactly! Hard to describe the difference in coloration, but then again, it was getting it's light from a changed source!