Solar Eclipses for the US in 2023 and 2024

Here's a map.

Speaking as someone who was at almost the best spot in the country for the 2017 eclipse, all I have to say is fucking go. The people who had the better spot than I did got like six extra seconds of totality, so you know, not much difference. You'll want to spend the whole day watching it (with protective eyewear, of course) and you cannot go wrong with having the soundtrack from Interstellar on repeat from the moment the Moon touches the sun.

Also, in addition to making sure that you have protective filters for your cameras, you'll want to ensure that you can get the RAW image file format of the pics. The newest (as in the past year or so) smartphones all have this option if you know how to find it. You'll want it because the phone will try to color-correct the images and won't realize that the reason everything looks weird is because of the eclipse. At some point during the eclipse, the light around you will look the color of piss and if you don't have the RAW images, your phone will have made it look like a normal day.

I was in a great spot for 2017 too. So freaking cool. I can’t wait for April 2024!

Already planned the trip for 2024 in the middle of last year, looking forward to it.

I won’t have a choice.

closest point still 3 hours away, just like last time

I even read the thread. Fuck. Update the title.

What didn't stand out is it's a TOTAL fucking eclipse!!!

This isn't just special, it's a once or twice in a lifetime opportunity.

3 hours distance is nothing. I will personally pick you up in the SHaDO van, Nova, with Ed as my copilot. Gender reassignment miracles might happen.

Here's the video from last time. Yes I was more interested in the MILF in front of me, but pay no attention to her.



Notice the cicadas quiesceing.

I'm going to preemptively demand pix of you with Ed, Nova and Nova's family in the Blue Room

Here's the thread we had from the last one over the US.

Yeah, fucking go. And make sure you've got a fairly recent smartphone that captures pics in the RAW format. Because that's the only hope you have of capturing what things really look like. The image processing software on your phone will otherwise ruin your images by trying to make them look normal.

The feet hangers are having one now.

https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1648876667857960960?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Here's a mind-blowing pic for you:



That black blotch? That's the shadow of the eclipse!

here's a mind blowing scenario:
I'm going to Arkansas!!!

hipcamp is hip.

This is talking about the 2017 eclipse, but still good advice.

Anybody get any good pics?

Video stills from a music piece I put together for the web.





Between now and April I need to look into buying a different eclipse filter. The one I have is almost too dark.

The thing I discovered about the 2017 eclipse was that the software for my phones', etc, tried to make everything around me look "normal," not realizing that, yes, the sky most definitely did look piss yellow and not blue.

A Delta Flight Will Give Passengers a Wild View of the Solar Eclipse

Here you'll find some of the best eclipse-related apps and software available, as judged by members of the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force.

Just over a month away, staying at a place in Arkansas that will be in the path of the eclipse.

Went on a trip to Arkansas October of 21, staying in the same town for the eclipse. Found a great brewery last time. I emailed the brewery asking if they were planning on doing anything for the eclipse. They're normally not open on Mondays, but they will open for the eclipse. Where we're staying is directly in the path of the eclipse, the totality will be 2 minutes 15 seconds there. If we travel another 30 minutes, the totality will be 3 minutes and 48 seconds.

So yeah, that thirty minutes is worth the drive. Will look into where we can go and sit to watch the extra 90+ seconds. Already ordered viewers and solar binoculars for it.

Here's an interactive map that guides you the totality or locations along the path.

Just ordered my glasses. I got some plastic frame ones.

I live just outside the totality zone. If I can manage it, I'm going to make a trip into Ohio or Ontario to get a better view. I'm thinking maybe Point Pelee National Park, but I haven't decided yet. If I can't manage a short road trip, I can still see 98% of a total eclipse from my back yard, which should still be pretty cool.

Back in '94, I was right in the middle of the path of an annular eclipse. My forth grade class had glasses and everything, as did the rest of the school. The morning of, the principal gets on the intercom and says he feels allowing us to view the eclipse is too risky, and no one's allowed outside until the end of the school day. During lunch, the principal came in after watching the eclipse, described it to everyone, and explained how cool it was. After lunch, I called a class mate of mine an asshole where the teacher could hear, so I'd get sent to the principal's office so I could call him an asshole as well.

30 years later, I still have not seen an eclipse other than the stupid lunar ones. Now I get to, and asshole principal does not because he died ten years ago.

So, my glasses arrived and I tested them on the regular, unobstructed sun. That thing is definitely a spotlight of some sort.

The admin of my instance of the simulation screwed up by letting me have those glasses before the eclipse update went live.

98 percent is not the same as seeing the total eclipse. I'm guessing 98 percent puts you about an hour or so away from totality. If you drive and just park in a Walmart parking lot it will still be worth the drive, you'd see about a minute of totality. Thirty minutes can give you an extra two minutes of totality.

You mean we get to experience the world IN THE DARK?!?!?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

None of us ever get to see the world in the dark What an event! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity!

There's a drastic difference between 98% and totality. At full sunlight you get 32k to 100k lux depending on location. At 98% you get 640 to 2000 lux. A full moon is about .25 to 1 lux. So nowhere near dark.

98% doesn't let you see the corona, and since the sun is near its 11 year peak activity, there's a chance you can see solar flares and a possible CME.



Are you channeling your inner Dayton?

Also, you'll be able to see several planets, and possibly the Devil Comet. These will only be visible during totality.

Whatever. I'm just excited to see things in the dark! So amazing and unprecedented.

I'm planning on going to the totality zone, but it's possible I won't be able to. Watching the 98% eclipse is like Plan L or Plan M.

I'm in Detroit. Driving to Toledo will get me in the totality zone. If I keep going on I-75 until I hit Findlay I should be good.

Plan A: Point Pelee National Park, if I'm feeling up to crossing the border into Ontario and doing a bunch of walking.

Plan B: Driving to Toledo, and then south or east from there.

Plan C-J: Going somewhere else with totality due to crappy weather nearby.

Plan K: Steal a boat and head out onto Lake Erie (would require committing to a life as the Dread Pirate of the Great Lakes.)

Plan L: Just drive to Toledo.

Plan M: Just sit in my back yard and watch an inferior eclipse.

Plan N: Fail to view eclipse entirely.

1: Reminder: This isn't the Red Room.

2: Will you be so dismissive about the darkness when the Void comes to consume us all? The Void is inevitable.

3: I'm pretty sure viewing an eclipse gives you super powers. Heroes was a documentary, right?

Take 14 minutes and watch the video I shot from my roof of the 2017 eclipse.



If you don't like it, you've got the name of the city where the longest period of totality happened so you can find other videos. It ain't simply that things "go dark" when you don't expect them to, there's a whole lot more to it.

Thread we had about the 2017 eclipse.

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