A little disappointed the solar eclipse didn't cause civilization to go into total chaos and anarchy like in the book Skyfall by Issac Asimov.

No, it's just some dork shielding his eyes.
The eclipse is not a shadow, shadows are the result of the eclipse. If you want to see the eclipse, look at the moon's silhouette in front of the sun. If you want to look at a shadow, look behind you and see the result of the moon blocking the sun.

I traveled to Portland to visit my aunt and we drove south into the patch of totality. IMO totally is the difference making it completely worthwhile. Sure, it got dark and cold at 80% and above, but in totality it was spectacular. You could look directly at the sun and see a black disc in its place with a bright and large corona surrounding it. An amazing celestial event, not even comparable to a darkening with a partial eclipse.

We went down into SC to Lake Greenwood State Park. It never got completely dark, but we had couple of cool effects, like being surrounded by a low sunset colored sky, and all the insects commenced chirping like mad when it got to about 90% and stopped abruptly at about 10% past full exclipse, just like they do at regular twilight. The little crescent points of light in the shadows under the trees were very cool. We all agreed it was worth the hassle of getting there and back to see the total eclipse.

I happened to be at Cleveland Clinic today. Not much interest in the eclipse, but the people watching was great. For some reason, I found it totally comical to watch all these doctors in their white lab coats staring at the sky :cool:

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So cool. I wish I had experienced that. The eclipse and clouds made it a little darker here. No bugs chirping, but one of our chickens went totally nuts, squawking and carrying on so bad neighbors came to if she was all right. I have no idea why the sun would have set her off, since the other four birds were totally nonplussed. I think she's just emotionally unstable.

I was stopped at a railroad crossing in the boonies and the railroad crossing sign started flashing and flopping back and forth like crazy!

Went to Alliance, NE.

Total eclipse for 2-1/2 minutes.

Amazing, nothing like it.

Got to see the 'diamond ring'

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Out in my front yard at 2:32:

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Then at 2:33:

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Then at 2:35:

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That video of the umbra is fake! All the networks showed a very distinct and clearly defined path of totality that was exactly 7 miles wide.

Fake! Photoshop, prolly.

Well worth a trip to South Carolina to see it. There's absolutely no comparison between partial (even 99.99% coverage) and totality. You ONLY get the corona effect with totality. It was possible to see bright RED solar flares shooting out into space from the lunar disk unaided with a whiteish backdrop of the solar corona against the midnight blue-black of the sky (my iPhone photos do it no justice at all). Simply awesome. "Diamond ring" effect, Bailey's Beads, etc. all visible.

Planning to do 2024 from Matzalan! :)

Partial (E-20 minutes or so, iPhone 6S+ through ISO filter):

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Totality (picture only barely captures the grandeur of the actual view, iPhone 6S+ unaided):

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I was able to take a few photos between the clouds. The clouds rolled in just as the eclipse started and were thick at the time of 90% coverage. It was a very cool experience in spite of the disappointing weather.

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At 1:17, a break in the clouds but enough wispy clouds to blur the view.


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1:59, the big show is over, so the clouds part.

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2:30, almost over

Cell phone/telescope shot showing partial and sun spots from Oregon.

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Some shots from Fujifilm X-pro 1 and manual Canon lens.
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International Space Station

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Watched it from eastern Oregon (Mitchell). Very slight haze but really pretty close to absolutely clear sky.

Phenomenal. Simply the coolest thing I have ever seen (and I've been alot of places and seen alot of cool things). There is no real way to capture to strange silver light or to experience that abrupt "flight of a switch" change from almost-there to totality and then the strobe sensation when the moon first moves off totality.

If you think you are getting most of the effect at anything less than totality - you are kidding yourself. Outside of totality is the equivalent of going to the Alps with the best equipment and a ski pass, then staying in your hotel and watching TV.

Worth every bit of travel, dry camping, traffic jams, you name it. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Sorry about the crappy eclipse shot, I had no filter and couldn't shoot until totality - at which point I was flapping about and whooping it up like some crazy goony bird - LOL! Pics are ranch location where I watched, the money shot, and a few of the Painted HIlls (nearby to Mitchell).

angela

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Close is not good like it is in dancing, horseshoes, or hand grenades.

Wow! Look what it did to those nice grassy fields! :eek:

In between Sumter and Columbia SC:

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and the difference between a 99% eclipse and totality is (not meant as a pun) night and day.

The last tiniest sliver of sun still packs a wallop, and when you hit totality...well, it's hard to explain. The change is almost overwhelming.

Do yourself a favor and try to catch the next one...fastest 2 min and 14 sec ever.

This was the last sliver I caught before totality and it was still bright:

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Not much coverage here in AZ. This was about it.

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If we had been in an area of totality, I would have bought one of these!

Gear 360 - 360 degree camera. It can capture 4K video (360 degrees) or 15MP pictures!

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That would have been great to have...one of the things I wished I'd have done was have a camera to take pis of the panorama during totality, folks watching, etc.

I think I'll mosey over to Austin in April, 2024 and visit a cousin there. And check out the music scene...

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Thanks for all the great photos, gents!!!

Here's what I saw in Atlanta.

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Ft Laramie WY.

As someone there described it

99% coverage is like foreplay
100% coverage is like sex
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Shameless plug for my partners in my Eclipse adventure
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Some hottie said it was the best 2 minutes of her life. She hasn't met me yet! lol For me, it was about 7am, so I was still in bed. I did see the last one in '91 from my office.

My best effort - just at the end.
Somewhere NW of Scottsbluff, NE

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just got back after 2000 miles on the road over 4 days in a new mustang convert rental car
got a low rate on line but the rental location was out of normal cars so I got the mustang
for 30 a day, that DI v6 really has some power avg 85 and got 25+mpg hit 120
nice fast drive thru the MTs

saw the totality in western NC it was spectacular and worth the time and effort
a bucket list item checked off

good luck on the roads until we got back near I95 on I26 in SC late monday
I95 was jam full and stop and go SLOW took 4 hours 8 to midnite to get to Savannah
one cop scare in Ga but he pull out but drove passed after we slowed
cops were most pulling trucks or just showing the flag [lites on] by the road sides
got good deals on hotel rooms on the net but stayed outside the eclipse zone of gougers

Great pic! It's nice that you caught a couple of stars too.

I generally enjoy these sorts of things. I find the mind of nutty, idiots fascinating, but good grief, I've been watching for nearly 5 mins and they haven't gotten to anything interesting. And the worst part is that the nutter isn't in the video so we don't get a full picture of how crazy they are. Sadly, I don't think I'll be able to watch all 24ish mins.

Ahhh, my good man... the umbra was 7 miles wide, but the penumbra was much wider. Folks as far away as Ohio got to see a partial eclipse and were impressed.

No doubt if that video could've shown the contrast between the umbra and penumbra more clearly, it would've been much better and would've been a more accurate representation.

"From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow crossing over North America on Aug. 21, 2017. EPIC is aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), where it photographs the full sunlit side of Earth every day, giving it a unique view of total solar eclipses. EPIC normally takes about 20 to 22 images of Earth per day, so this animation appears to speed up the progression of the eclipse.": https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/nasas-epic-view-of-2017-eclipse-across-america

Also...

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Four pages of good stuff here:

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I actually bought this one from Ted Hesser. Not a composite shot. It is the result of a team and 4 days of work to line a climber up with perfect timing/location to the totality.

Shot at Smith Rock State Park in Oregon.

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Money well spent! SmileWavy

I coulda' done that.

+1. I was talked out of going 90 minutes south of Charlotte. I saw the 98.3% version.

DeGrass Tyson says sub-totality vs totality is like kissing your lover vs having sex with your lover.

This vid shows a time lapse and also the scene on the ground near where the camera was positioned. Best overall vid I have seen. Pretty short and very sweet. Go in about 1:30 if pressed for time.

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I didn't know he even knew her! Boy is she in trouble.