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That was the coolest thing I've ever seen the moon do. Partial eclipses are nothing to me now.  Had I known it would get so dark, I would've gotten my real camera out.
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Friend posted:Partial eclipses are nothing to me now.
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Cool!! I can't wait to find what my HEROES power is. I didn't see any bats flying but the birds got all quiet
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Apr 8, 2024 20:02
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drat poo poo do get dark
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through all of this, I have learned that there is a town in Arkansas called "Arkadelphia" and that just doesn't sit right with me for some odd reason.
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I don't have any glasses and I'm not dumb enough to look at the great nuclear fusion reaction in the sky. But as it gets darker, I get why this would have freaked people out who didn't know what was up.
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Lol I'm like ten minutes from the totality, and it's so overcast that I can't tell where the sun is. It's also only gotten as dark as a moderately rainy day so far.
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So weird that for the hour from start to max it was really only in the finally minutes that it started getting appreciably darker. The sun is loving bright
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Okay, even 99.5% is kind of creepy. All the street lights came on for a few minutes and it got cold.
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its looking pretty weird outside! 10 min to 96% where i am
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Cthulu Carl posted:So weird that for the hour from start to max it was really only in the finally minutes that it started getting appreciably darker. The temperature here around the time it started getting dark was an unseasonably warm 76°F. It dropped over 10 degrees during the eclipse.
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Apr 8, 2024 20:19
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Yeah, it cooled off a lot too I was at 99.98% and it was weird as hell seeing it get dark, but also still be casting a shadow Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 20:21
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Here to confirm that the eclipse happened and the only thing bad that happened was the bathrooms backed up at the state park I’m in lol
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That was amazing. The darkness fell and then lifted so fast, no wonder people have thought it was the end of the world. The cloud coverage actually made it possible to see the eclipse without the glasses., which I know is dumb
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Same
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My shithole town was in the path of totality and I got pics.     And of course the clouds broke up right after totality ended. gently caress you clouds. 
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EorayMel posted:
same  clouds almost ruined it though
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Its really cool to hear everyone describe it. Minnesota was very overcast and rainy, so I didn't get any indication it was happening. Thanks for posting photos and the NASA video too!
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I. M. Gei posted:My shithole town was in the path of totality and I got pics. Last one looks like a wedding ring
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Saw it in a random place north of Austin TX. Narrowly avoided clouds, which swept in about 5 min after totality. It was cool as heck. 2nd one I've seen, absolutely worth the trip, amazing view of the corona, got 4 mins of totality, 
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I didn't know what to do during the totality so I jerked off
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That was nuts, it looked amazing and I honestly wasn't expecting it to get that dark~
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smoobles posted:I didn't know what to do during the totality so I jerked off The gods were so mad this guy jerked off that they turned off the sun!
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EorayMel posted:Last one looks like a wedding ring I got about 7 pics of the diamond ring and I don't think that's even the best one.
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97% got pretty cold, after my last partial eclipse I didn't expect that much difference in temperature. Ended up watching the entire thing through a camera obscura made in an amazon box
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CNN.com being like “touch grass, loser” Edit: best pic I got here in 93% land 
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Mysterious Jim posted:through all of this, I have learned that there is a town in Arkansas called "Arkadelphia" and that just doesn't sit right with me for some odd reason. Definitely weird. I lived there for 18 years, only just recently moved. Trying to sell a house there if you know anyone interested!
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that was a lot more interesting than I was expecting, I'll be honest. We had total visibility, and it was the absolutely stereotypical image of a black sun with a fiery corona, which pretty quickly developed a blindingly bright spot in one corner and then whoosh glasses back on per the NASA Eclipse Safety sheet. Also I am reminded that in Prisoners of the Sun, Tintin rescues everyone from sacrifice by a sun-worship tribe b/c he knows about an eclipse and they don't and, like, talk about the height of pompous colonialist nonsense. Yea yea the fuckin tribe that's been worshipping the sun for thousands of years totally has never seen an eclipse bro, that's just great writing 
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drat that was cool as hell. The two craziest moments were: -watching the final sliver disappear through the glasses and then taking them off to reveal the otherworldly ring in the sky -the last few seconds of totality as the edge exploded into brightness Everything else was also amazing but those bits made me feel true awe.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:Also I am reminded that in Prisoners of the Sun, Tintin rescues everyone from sacrifice by a sun-worship tribe b/c he knows about an eclipse and they don't and, like, talk about the height of pompous colonialist nonsense. Yea yea the fuckin tribe that's been worshipping the sun for thousands of years totally has never seen an eclipse bro, that's just great writing Mark Twain used the same plot device in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". An American pwning the British with astronomy knowledge feels less rear end in a top hat-y.
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Decent visibility here in dallas despite spotty clouds. The totality was genuinely a pretty cool event
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Yeah, that was pretty awesome. Tried to get pics, but eh. This is the best that I could manage: 
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only 98% here, glad I didn't do anything special. was sunny at the start but 1/2 hour later it was blocked by fuckin' clouds. otoh there were a lot of clear patches on the other side of the sky from the sun, they went an interesting shade of blue.
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GBS Hates Clouds
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Vastarien posted:Yeah, that was pretty awesome. Tried to get pics, but eh. This is the best that I could manage: this is really cool and also for all the problems modern technology has created the fact that you can capture this without specific training and very specialized industry grade devices is pretty incredible. When I was a kid we thought solar glasses and pinhole boxes were neat, no handheld things that could look at this. I tried to burn out the sensor in an old motorola phone filming the totality coming back into light but several minutes of light didn't actually do the sensor in, so they are a lot more durable than the human eye.
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