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Solar Eclipse 2017

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We live just outside the area of 100% totality but it was still awesome at only 98%!

Anyone else here have an opportunity to get outside and watch the eclipse?
 
The eclipse shadows were the coolest thing imo.
 
94%, I found it oddly disappointing, which reaffirms my previous opinion that this is something that needs to be done only once.

I found myself fantasizing about what and American Indian would have been thinking seeing this sort of thing many hundreds of years ago, the spiritual aspect.
 
We live just outside the area of 100% totality but it was still awesome at only 98%!

Anyone else here have an opportunity to get outside and watch the eclipse?

Yeah, I have seen a total eclipse, this one, at 99%, was a bit underwhelming.
 
I agree. The crescent shaped shadows were so cool. I took a couple of pics and I'll post them as soon as they arrive in my inbox.
 
We live just outside the area of 100% totality but it was still awesome at only 98%!

Anyone else here have an opportunity to get outside and watch the eclipse?

definitely! they let me work from home today so i could see it. my wife is a teacher, and she got me a spare pair of eclipse shades. that's lucky because we have been sold out here for about a week. i told her yesterday that we should have ordered four crates of them in January and then sold them this weekend so that we could have retired 25 years early. either way, it was pretty amazing. i haven't seen an eclipse similar to this since 1994.
 
We live just outside the area of 100% totality but it was still awesome at only 98%!

Anyone else here have an opportunity to get outside and watch the eclipse?

I was at 98% too and I thought it was very cool. My dog seemed a little out of sorts, just stood on the deck and barely moved. I also reflected on the spiritual aspect and the reaction of people who had never heard of an eclipse.
 
We live just outside the area of 100% totality but it was still awesome at only 98%!

Anyone else here have an opportunity to get outside and watch the eclipse?

Yes. Someone at work had the special glasses. Without them it would have just seemed overcast in my area.
 
We had 30 seconds of total eclipse. It was pretty cool.
 
Yeah, I have seen a total eclipse, this one, at 99%, was a bit underwhelming.

We were in the total eclipse May 30, 1984 and that was a once in a lifetime chance for sure. But today's eclipse was awesome too. The insects and birds fell silent save for one mourning dove cooing in a tree in our front yard. The dogs thought it was supper time and came looking for their dinner. The silence of the moment was special. The crescent shaped shadows were special and eerie in a way. We all looked kind of dumbfounded during those 3+/- minutes standing in the street looking upward through our eclipse lenses with our mouths agape.

It was fun and surreal in a way.

Life is what you make of it. For me today was special.
 
We were in the total eclipse May 30, 1984 and that was a once in a lifetime chance for sure. But today's eclipse was awesome too. The insects and birds fell silent save for one mourning dove cooing in a tree in our front yard. The dogs thought it was supper time and came looking for their dinner. The silence of the moment was special. The crescent shaped shadows were special and eerie in a way. We all looked kind of dumbfounded during those 3+/- minutes standing in the street looking upward through our eclipse lenses with our mouths agape.

It was fun and surreal in a way.

Life is what you make of it. For me today was special.

Yeah, I have metal rods in my neck and I can't look up, so I had to watch on a pinhole projector. The total eclipse I observed was done through multiple welding lenses (back when I could move my head) - the guy said they were safe, what did I know? But I can still see. Maybe you have to see it to get the full impact.
 
here's what it looked like at this 20 :

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i had the only pair of eclipse glasses on the block, thanks to my wife, who got me a spare pair from her school. i passed them around and made some friends.
 
94%, I found it oddly disappointing, which reaffirms my previous opinion that this is something that needs to be done only once.
I found myself fantasizing about what and American Indian would have been thinking seeing this sort of thing many hundreds of years ago, the spiritual aspect.
Not traveling to see totality was a big mistake. The partial is nothing compared to the totality.
 
Yeah, I have seen a total eclipse, this one, at 99%, was a bit underwhelming.
Let me get this straight. You've seen a total before, you were close enough to this path of totality that you were at 99%, and you didn't travel the short distance to see this one at 100% too?!?

I can't comprehend that. :shock:
 
Let me get this straight. You've seen a total before, you were close enough to this path of totality that you were at 99%, and you didn't travel the short distance to see this one at 100% too?!?

I can't comprehend that. :shock:

It appears that your priorities are different from mine.
 
It appears that your priorities are different from mine.
I guess so. Usually people who have seen a total solar eclipse want nothing more than to see more total solar eclipses.

I'm one of those people. Now that I've seen my first one, I want to see as many more as I possibly can.
 
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