I did in 1999. August 11 to be exact. And I was in Salzburg for the occasion, It's a place so romantic, sugar seems to trickle down every baroque wall. It was also one of the few places in Austria that wasn't overcast at the time. Blue skies over the town while clouds were building up all around it - what an impressing panorama. I guarantee you'll never forget the spectacle. So if you can - go. Now. But don't forget your protective glasses. They're not only for sissies and no, regular sunglasses won't do the job. Oh and because this is the Red Room: Trump voters in action.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.sand...d-me-eclipse-forecast-20170819-story,amp.html I am probably screwed. They are saying it will be overcast here on the coast and you will need to be at least 10 miles inland to see it. I will be at work which is in Sorrento Valley which is only about a mile inland.
I guarantee it'll be just as overcast here tomorrow as it is today. It's never overcast in SoCal this time of year...except when there's something anomalous to see up there.
I would like to but I'll probably be content with the partial eclipse here. At any rate another total eclipse will come right over my house in 2024. Not only should I have a chance to see it then, but I might have a chance to make some money like people in towns along the path of totality are doing now. A total eclipse is indeed something everyone should experience in their lives. Of course, so is Halley's Comet and see how well that worked out.
Yeah, it is. June gloom often extends into August. Also coastal haze is a regular thing though it tends to burn off by the early afternoon. You are familiar with what a marine layer is, right?
They gave us the day off from work, so I'm going to be watching it. Most of the idiots I work with don't see what the big deal is.
@garamet How can you live here and not know what the seasonal weather patterns are like? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Gloom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_layer
As long as I still have a lens that will take an 82mm filter in 2024 I'll be able to use that filter again during the next eclipse when the totality zone includes our area. At the time of purchase I figured it was an expensive one-time use item. I see on social media that the fundies are trying to connect the seven years between US eclipses as being connected to Revelation.
I planned the trip out back in January. Reserved hotel rooms, bought solar glasses and viewers as well. Got into Anderson SC about an hour and a half ago. Grabbed some lunch, now just exploring the area. The asshole in me is going to see some dumbasses go blind.
it figures! The people who wrote Revelation thought the earth was the center of the universe (stars and shit were an afterthought, created about mid-week of creation) but they knew what the fuck an eclipse was all about? BTW riddle me this bible experts: god took six days to create the universe, then took a well deserved day of rest on day seven. So what did he do on the eighth day? He didn't get back to "creating" since that project was finished on day six. What the hell are we paying him for, his continued management/maintenance of the universe? Guarantee the union is involved with this!
It really sucks this falls on the first day of school where I live. Kids still have to go to school. It may have been worth it just to drive up north to see the total as down here in South Florida we will only get a partial eclipse.
Oh I'm anticipating at least a few - so who will they blame or sue? I told my son he should get on social media and initiate the "eclipse challenge" like they had the "ice bucket challenge" a while back. Get someone to sponsor you for staring at the eclipse in visual bareback mode! Matter of fact the real brave ones will use binoculars! The mega-brave will flip the binoculars backwards to focus a pinpoint of intense heat/light on their eyeballs!
I briefly saw Halley's comet as a kid. My father took my sister and I up to the mountains to see it but it was pretty heavily overcast. For a brief five minute period we got a hole in the clouds and dad zeroed in with the telescope and we got a good view.
You're lucky. Most people didn't see it at all. It was considered the worst positioned for viewing in Halley's 2,200 year recorded history. I'm wondering how close it is supposed to be in mid 2061 when it returns? Assuming terrorists don't blow it up by then. I'm serious. That should be well within the technological abilities of a relatively modest terrorist organization within the next 40 years.
And since the eclipse will end at 11:44 -? Anyway, I saw the one in '79. Like a Yankee game, it looked better on TV.
One of my goals in life: wait out that old fucker and finally see it when I'm 85. Didn't when it last visited. Just read Gregory Benford's THE HEART OF THE COMET about a dozen times since then. Good book. Always dreamed about making it into a blockbuster movie. Alas, life...
Does the path of the solar eclipse highlight white privilage? Or is this author a fucking hack he cannot resist injecting his pet obsession into everything no matter how unrelated? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/
Hopefully I can sneak out from the cubicle at 2:43 PM. I'm not going to try to photograph the eclipse, rather take picture of the atmosphere and coworkers looking on. I only managed to score welders' goggles, which I keep getting told aren't strong enough, so I'll just take a couple of quick looks and get back to work.
My father texted me today and said he travelled to Marion, IL so he could be in the path of the total solar eclipse.
Nashville's in the path of totality, so I don't even have to travel. We'll get just under 2 minutes of totality from my office. I only have my cell phones, so I'm not going to try to get more than a few snaps of the sun itself, but I do plan to place my old one in my 8th floor office window and record a timelapse of it passing over the city.