Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024 Monday.

[JJ_Tex]

Good luck. I was on a zoom with my team in NYC ~30 mins ago and they were all complaining that the clouds were rolling in. Hope they hold out for you.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

@Newdude The eclipse passed but my wife snagged a similar shot -



We had around 80% totality here … it was dim, like a dying Pentair IntelliBrite …

 

[Newdude]

We were supposed to get almost dark but it appears the line was off by a little. They did say many times that a few blocks difference could be night and day anywhere along the path.


So.

Have some eclipse sparkles instead

 

[JamesW]

I got everyone some of these as souvenirs of the eclipse.

 

[Newdude]

I can't make this spit up.

The blue is back.

 

[zea3]

We had 94% in Houston. Very overcast today but we managed a few peeks at the eclipse through the clouds. Didn’t seem to darken much at all, but that could have been the clouds.

 

[woodyp]

I did the totality thing. Actually drove 15 miles! Street lights came on....stars were out...folks turned headlights on. Not as dark as I expected though. Eerie watching the sky darkening in one direction snd then the line of it passing over you.

 

[dfwnoob]

I've noticed there is an enormous difference between 98-99% totality and 100% totality. Back in 2017, we saw it at 98%. We thought that was good enough. It was not. The 100% totality was awesome. I'd love to see that again one day. It was literally like nighttime. At 98% totality it was just eerily dim, but that's all.

 

[Newdude]

At 98% totality it was just eerily dim, but that's all.

I saw somewhere we were expecting 98.4% and that may have missed the mark a little too.

It was like putting on medium sunglasses, not even Ray Bans.

 

[JamesW]

We had 110% totality.

 

[ajw22]

I saw somewhere we were expecting 98.4% and that may have missed the mark a little too.

I closed my eyes for 1.6% to achieve the 100% goal.

 

[mgtfp]

We had 110% totality.

Totally...

 

[Saturn94]

We saw a bunch of eclipses!

 

[setsailsoon]

The view from Terrell Tx. Clouds opened up for all 4 minutes of the eclipse. My brother captured a bunch of great images with his Celestron. This is the best one, it shows a LOT of very large solar flares.

Enjoy!

Chris

 

[Newdude]

@setsailsoon you're a bit rusty and easily forgiven with all that time sans pool. You can't let the sample sit or it might go a little pink again. That one doesn't count. Just dump the sample and move onto another test.

I hope this helps.

 

[Saturn94]

The view from Terrell Tx. Clouds opened up for all 4 minutes of the eclipse. My brother captured a bunch of great images with his Celestron. This is the best one, it shows a LOT of very large solar flares.

Enjoy!

Chris

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It’s the CYA test gods mocking us!

 

[kimkats]

I am not sure which was the biggest hit at work--------------seeing the eclipse or the Moon Pies I passed out LOL

 

[Wolfepack88]

I just walked in from driving roundtrip from Jersey this morning up to Plattsburgh, NY. Trip up not bad, trip back we left about 3:45 and I just walked in to the house at 10:20pm. Honestly, it was worth it to see it. It was very very cool. To go from light to darkness and seeing stars and the temperature drop was amazing. Then the milisecond the sun wasn't completely covered daylight was back. That was crazy.

 

[AUSpool]

My alarm didn’t go off. I slept in.

 

[mgtfp]

And I wasted all that money on that eclipse redirection service. Didn't work, who would have guessed.