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Thread: 2017 eclipse: Anyone going?
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2017-08-21, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: 2017 eclipse: Anyone going?
Which is why there is such a dramatic difference between being actually in the path of totality and merely being close by, even if you are very very close. It's also the reason why going outside on a sunny day can be painfully difficult to see, and take your eyes quite a while to adjust, even when the inside you just exited was very brightly lit.
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2017-08-21, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Saw clouds. I went back inside and watched the eclipse on CNN.
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2017-08-21, 11:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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It was cloudy where I was, but when it got dark, a group of birds attacked me.
I would be hard pressed to pick a better outcome for myself.
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2017-08-22, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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You don't have to believe in astrology to know that staring at the sun with the naked eye ain't good for anyone.
edit: somebody deleted their commentLast edited by Asmodean_; 2017-08-22 at 11:13 AM.
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2017-08-22, 10:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-08-22, 10:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Saw it from Philadelphia. Sky was clear up to 20 minutes before maximum of eclipse, then cloud covered the sky.
I managed to take some pictures, that I used to put together this time lapse. I'm sorry for the low quality, I have a very basic camera.
https://www.facebook.com/cicciograna...4528181260045/
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2017-08-22, 12:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Turned out I couldn't see much of anything. By the time the clouds stopped obscuring the sun, it was past the peak of the eclipse. Also, my eclipse glasses worked too well, so that even staring directly at the sun I couldn't really see any light.
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2017-08-22, 01:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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I just posted in the other Eclipse thread, so I guess I'll just repeat what I wrote there.
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The difference between 94% and 100% is the difference between ... well, not to put too fine a point on it, night and day.
It's not just a quantitative difference, it's a qualitative one. If you're at 94%, you'll get some small weird things, like crescent shadows under trees and maybe a noticeable dimming in light. But you really need eclipse glasses to see anything; there's no key part of the event that will take your breath away.
In the totality, though ... Well, it's an experience that basically needs to be had in person. You can get pictures and videos, but experiencing it is just sublime. There's no big changes until the last minutes before totality; that's when the world starts to get dim, the colors begin to look saturated, and animals all get confused - for us, the cicadas started singing around the 98% mark. In the instants before and after totality, strange shadows rush across the ground in waves - I've been told this is from the small variations on the moon's surface; its craters and hills casting long shadows. During the totality itself, you just take your glasses off and experience a world gone dark, something like sunset on every horizon, with the uncanny corona just there. It's like nothing else I've ever experienced; the annular eclipse in the early 90's didn't come close.
I was in Carbondale, IL, with my wife and kids. My wife grew up there, and still has family there; plus, it's only 4 hours away, and we figured we'd have family time if the sky didn't cooperate. Traffic down was easy; getting home was a headache, as expected for one of the largest mass migrations in human history.
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