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im a 100% or bust nerd because I saw the "real" 2017 one in totality, but even this partial one was cool.
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i did the binocular thing in 2017, it was tempting to use the binoculars to look right at the sun this time there was around 40% coverage here and i looked at the sun for a split second and could barely notice, maybe the top left half was a little darker, overall pretty boring
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Apr 8, 2024 21:15
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I now feel silly for being cynical about the number of cars and expense and difficulty of travel for to see this, and instead feel glad I got to experience it from my porch, but, also glad for those who did make the hassle of coming here, that they had real good visibility and nice weather for it. Having only experienced partial eclipses before, this was a completely different vibe. My ski spot was open and I bet someone had a backflip lined up to do during the totality, I hope they landed it.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:16
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Totality was surreal. Hadn't see a 100% eclipse before. I wasn't expecting the temperature to drop that much.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:20
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iirc 2017 the coolest effect was when it was like 95ish+% and it seemed like the whole world was under a giant polarized sunglass
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Apr 8, 2024 21:25
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that was freaking epic
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Apr 8, 2024 21:26
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My parents absolutely underestimated the number of people that would be traveling south on I-75 to Ohio and after 1.5hrs in traffic made it to Monroe MI, maybe halfway of what is normally an hour-ish drive. Got them from 99.5 to 99.8% totality. PhazonLink posted:iirc 2017 the coolest effect was when it was like 95ish+% and it seemed like the whole world was under a giant polarized sunglass Here in Detroit I tried to capture just how dim and strange everything got with my phone which is hard because all phones now want to turn night into day and overexpose shadows because HDR. This is the closest I could get with adjusting the exposure to match real life. 
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Apr 8, 2024 21:30
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for all the sad cloud people, just be glad you didnt get declared dead. iirc some 18th century astronomer went to try to measure the transit of Venus across the sun, traveled to india, missed twiced due to clouds. 2nd time was in several years so he decided to just stay and wait. and then he went back home and his wife remarried, his family got all his stuff, he lost his uni job.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:37
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My dearest Clarabelle, I know it has been some time since my last letter. Please do not declare me dead. Yours, Tycho
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Apr 8, 2024 21:40
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My eyes feel like I'm sitting in front of a campfire and I have dark spots in the center of my vision, but the 90% coverage was rad as hell. Amazing how freaking bright just 10% of the sun is.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:41
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Geez it really casts in a whole new light the quantity of letters constantly being exchanged when people were apart. Like, Tycho had better write all his friends and neighbors too, so somebody can go to the courthouse and contest the death declaration with evidence.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:42
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I got to see it in the Akron area, I also saw the 2017 one. They are awesome experiences, sorry to those who got lovely weather.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:51
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So close yet so far for me. Still neat at 97%. 
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Apr 8, 2024 22:10
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Pac and Cheese posted:i did the binocular thing in 2017, it was tempting to use the binoculars to look right at the sun Someone at my watch party had lens covers for their binoculars, so you could look straight at it with them. Something like these. Another guy had a telescope with a sun lens, but he couldn’t get it off easily enough to switch over to a normal lens for the totality.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:17
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I only saw the partial during 2017, but this year I made the effort to go up to see the total. Took about twice as long as it would normally be for that trip because of the traffic, but it was worth every bit. Probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. The sudden darkness and drop in temperature were what I expected (but still really cool), and slowly watching the sun being swallowed was really neat just like in the partial, but the part I didn't expect, that pictures just can't prepare you for, is looking up when totality hits and seeing this goddamn hole in the sky surrounded by ethereal light where the sun should be. I totally get why eclipses have caused religious experiences. It looks like nothing else in the world, absolutely incredible. Lord Hydronium fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 22:18
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Saw the totality, that was really cool. There was a distinctly red flare or something on the bottom, was not expecting that.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:23
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Haystack posted:Saw the totality, that was really cool. There was a distinctly red flare or something on the bottom, was not expecting that. Yeah that was unexpected and neat
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Apr 8, 2024 22:26
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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: That is a drat good shot!!
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Apr 8, 2024 22:34
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily%27s_beads Here's the name for them. Oh and here's my pic: 
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Apr 8, 2024 22:35
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a dude on a bike stopped as he rode by to chat me up and complain about how the sky had been cloudless and perfect before "they" got their planes in the air and just went all out with the chemtrails to ruin the view for everyone
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Apr 8, 2024 22:35
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Here in rural Southern Missouri. Got an Airbnb inside the totality path with 2m 45s. The weather is absolutely perfect, not a cloud in the sky and warm. It was the craziest poo poo I've ever seen. Heard an owl in the middle of the afternoon, fuzzy shadows, rapid temperature drop, all wind stopped like the calm before the storm. I can't even describe what totality looks like other than a godly halo around a hole in the sky. 100% worth the hundreds of miles to get here. Next one in the continental US isn't for 20 years.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:35
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I was driving home during the height of it here which was probably like 80% and it was spooky seeing everyone's cars lights and parking lot lights pop on at the sameish time. Like when a ridiculous storm rolls in out of nowhere and it just feels like some poo poo's about to go down. It was pretty cloudy all day so I got some peeks at it through the glasses but didn't have too great of a view. Still neat though!
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Apr 8, 2024 22:39
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The 2017 one owned even though my area only got like 90% because my dad an I alternated between checking the sun and watching the Little League World Series on TV
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Apr 8, 2024 22:41
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Totality was like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. It was worth the hype holy poo poo.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:43
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Cabbages and Kings posted: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. This (and Twain’s) is inspired by Chris Columbus loving over some natives with his table of lunar eclipses.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:43
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Here's my totality shot 
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Apr 8, 2024 22:44
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I made a huge viewer box and a driver stopped her car to tell me I had the best one she’d ever seen. The eclipse was fine but that made my day
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Apr 8, 2024 22:47
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LaserPrinter69 posted:My eyes feel like I'm sitting in front of a campfire and I have dark spots in the center of my vision, but the 90% coverage was rad as hell. Amazing how freaking bright just 10% of the sun is. Did you do the thing that everyone except the crazy fundamentalists warned you not to do? Content: Got up to about 94% eclipse at my home, so me and the kids (suspiciously both out sick from school today) had a great time looking through pinhole cameras and our eclipse glasses, as well as at the moment of highest eclipse looking at the weird shadows, enjoying the odd nature of the light and the very noticeable temperature drop, etc. Good time. Maybe someday in my dotage I'll travel to a totality.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:48
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Y'all's totality pics are less grainy than my cell phone ones and I'm jealous. 
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Platystemon posted:This (and Twain’s) is inspired by Chris Columbus loving over some natives with his table of lunar eclipses. that's an interesting thing I didn't know; Twain turned it on its head. Herge sorta blundered by making it a literal sun worship cult which stretches the credibility a bit. In Herge's defense later in his career he expressed remorse for at least some of his racial depictions. It certainly seems like West supremacist silliness in places but I don't think it's irredeemable. I'm biased by having grown up with it, and thinking the art is great and detailed and interesting (when it's not detailed racist caricatures which definitely pop up). Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 22:51
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I. M. Gei posted:Y'all's totality pics are less grainy than my cell phone ones and I'm jealous. Yeah I tried briefly with my phone and it was awful so I just basked in the halo instead. And probably stared at the diamond rings unprotected too long I did send my drone up and recorded the horizon. I'll try to upload that footage later, no idea if it got anything interesting or not tho
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Apr 8, 2024 22:53
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We had brilliant weather up in the Adirondacks for it. The diamond ring/pink solar flare was amazing, but the 360 degree sunset/sunrise effect was otherworldly. It was crazy taking a moment to scan the horizon and seeing that in all directions.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:58
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but anyway screw you, Obama, your chemtrails didn't stop me 
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Apr 8, 2024 22:59
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Lord Hydronium posted:the part I didn't expect, that pictures just can't prepare you for, is looking up when totality hits and seeing this goddamn hole in the sky surrounded by ethereal light where the sun should be. I totally get why eclipses have caused religious experiences. It looks like nothing else in the world, absolutely incredible. This was my second total eclipse after driving to see the 2017 one and this is the truth. There's no describing it. Pictures and videos don't even come close. It's an intensely emotional experience even if you're not religious. There's nothing like seeing the sun's corona with your own eyeballs and darkness in the middle of the day.
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I made an album of photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkKYx Totality was really cool.  Eclipse-20240408-24 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr I also dug out a camcorder and made a terrible Dad video, enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kWa34w4aZI
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Apr 8, 2024 23:23
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Holy poo poo you can see coronal ejections in that photo
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TomR posted:I made an album of photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkKYx This is so neat because I noticed the little bump at the bottom in my photo and thought it was just a weird blur thing, and then saw that my wife's photo also looked like a comma, so looking at your photo where you can really see that it's actual sunfire poking out puts the sun's brightness into even more perspective. Thanks for sharing! Really wish I had known how dark it would be so I could've had my dslr ready on the tripod.
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Apr 8, 2024 23:51
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My obligatory shot Watching the traffic map as everyone drove two hours from the big city and then back has been very funny
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I’m mad jealous of people who were in the totality, thanks everyone for the descriptions! Where I am it was only around 55% but I did have the special glasses this time and I viewed a bunch of little crescents with my vegetable steamer basket. 
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