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Post by tabby on Apr 8, 2024 15:56:54 GMT -4
We only had 75% totality, and we have thick cloud cover. It did get darker at the point where we had max coverage, but not more than a strong thunderstorm would be. I live-streamed the NASA raw feed so I saw it hit totality in several cities across the country.
It looked like there may have been a solar flare at the lower right edge of the sun, I'll be interested to hear from the astrophysicists once they've studied the video.
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Post by ladyboy on Apr 8, 2024 16:58:58 GMT -4
We could see it patchily - clouds went back and forth. It was something like 90% totality here. But with the glasses there were points when we could see it very well. It was cool. Got the kids out of school early and had a little party with moon/sun themed snacks.
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ennazus
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Post by ennazus on Apr 8, 2024 17:17:02 GMT -4
Saw it. It was amazing. We were lucky that the intermittent cloud cover didn’t obscure our view of it. It was wild seeing the darkness and the streetlights coming on. So glad that I was able to witness it.
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luckylexie
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Post by luckylexie on Apr 8, 2024 18:36:00 GMT -4
I was in the path of totality. It was freaking awesome! We watched as the moon took bigger and bigger bites out of the sun — it felt almost alien-like, very other-worldly. We watched using our solar viewers until the sun’s glow disappeared. When we took off our solar glasses during totality, it was dark all around and there was a black dot in the sky with a bright white glow around it. It was so incredible!
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Post by Malle Babbe on Apr 8, 2024 19:52:07 GMT -4
My sister's fam lives on the totality path. Was overcast this morning, but the clouds broke up at 2pm, and got to watch it with Spotify's eclipse playlist in the background.
It's weird watching the sunlight get dimmer and dimmer, and then totality hits.
Anyone else see birds acting weird before the eclipse. Flocks of what had to be larger birds cruising around in the sky.
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tazmin
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Post by tazmin on Apr 9, 2024 2:40:11 GMT -4
We’re on the west coast here so we watched it on television. At least I kinda got to see it.
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believeland
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Jul 3, 2016 15:45:10 GMT -4
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Post by believeland on Apr 9, 2024 7:41:21 GMT -4
Anyone else see birds acting weird before the eclipse. Flocks of what had to be larger birds cruising around in the sky. A pair of mallard ducks that visits us most spring nights cruised in a few minutes before totality (and returned again at dusk). In the ten minutes or so easing up to it, the songbirds were going beserk. They all seemed to make it back to their nests; there was *so much* noise coming from the trees! I assume they were all tweeting “wtf” to each other. There were no sounds or sights of nocturnal animals. We were able to see a few stars. I can now see the draw of being at a National Park or more open space for totality, to take in more of that nighttime experience. It was really incredible to feel just how quickly things went dark at totality (our family stayed out for the whole of the Moon’s passing) and then like a spotlight turned on and the end.
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millie7
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Post by millie7 on Apr 9, 2024 9:51:11 GMT -4
I was also in the path of totality and we only had a few high, wispy clouds, so perfect weather. It really was amazing. Leading up to it, it just looked strange outside — sunny but not. And the shadows/light patches on the ground turned into odd crescents. The temperature dropped, the street lights came on. It got very quiet (except for the distant whooping of humans). The birds stopped chirping. We left our dogs inside, which seemed to distress them more than the actual eclipse.
Truly amazing. We’re actually in the path of totality for another one in 2045, which is unusual to have two so close together.
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phillipa
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Post by phillipa on Apr 9, 2024 10:20:12 GMT -4
My husband and I traveled to the path of totality. We flew to Dallas, then drove two hours northeast to some random field in the middle of nowhere close to the Oklahoma border to avoid clouds.
It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. What was amazing to me was how daylight seemed almost normal up until totality. Like, even with 95% of the sun covered, daylight only appeared slightly dimmed.
It was a long drive to get there and then a long drive back, but it was worth it.
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Post by ratscabies on Apr 9, 2024 13:05:32 GMT -4
Now THAT was the way to listen to Pink Floyd! Some helpful pot taker on Reddit posted the time to start Dark Side of the Moon so that Totality coincided with “And everything under the sun is in tune, but the Sun is eclipsed by the moon”, so I had the boombox all queued up. The stoner (or Apple) was 2 seconds late (perhaps the difference between Akron and Cleveland?), so Totality landed on “And all that’s to come,” but it was still very cool. Here’s a couple shots from out front of Chez Scabies: A shot of totality using my iPhone 13 Mini. Even the corona blew out the camera, but I like the shot as it shows the chemtrails of the Delta Totality Flight, which even as a Million Miler, I didn’t hear about until Friday. And a crop of a shot, again with my phone, looking through the glasses I got at a service plaza on I-90 coming home from Albany on Sunday.
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