I'm planning on taking a trip to the Highlands, NC area (pending weather) to view this eclipse.
Anyone else have plans? If so, what part of the country will you be viewing?
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I'm planning on taking a trip to the Highlands, NC area (pending weather) to view this eclipse.
Anyone else have plans? If so, what part of the country will you be viewing?
We are traveling from Ohio to Helen,Georgia to visit family and to view the "total" eclipse.
We will be on vacation in south eastern MA during the eclipse. I read somewhere that we should get ~60% coverage. So we are going to stay right there. That is a 100% cost savings for ~60% of the eclipse. Sounds like a good value to me...
My wife insisted on getting goggles even though we are going to be in PA that weekend and get a 75% eclipse, so I ordered welding goggles w/ shade 14 green glass plates in the holders so we could wear our eyeglasses to actually see it and look like total idiots simultaneously. She pronounced us "eclipsters" as a result.
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I hope there are sandwiches.
edit: Spell check actually changed "goggles" to "googles" - world domination officially completed I guess.
People are going crazy for the eclipse around here in the PNW where I live. A neighbor told me this morning she was out on a ride on Saturday and saw some of the last campsites still available that will have a good view - there's very few left - for $1K! Blows my mind anyone would pay that.
Personally I dont find eclipses even marginally interesting, though I know I'm in a tiny minority. But as timing would have it, my wife and I are moving the east coast from the 16th to approx the 21st, so we'll be on the road anyway. :)
Welding gogles/hood! Something else to bring on vacation. Thanks Jorn! I think...
Right on Jorn! I'll be picking up a couple pair at the local Harbor Freight, so I'll right there with you.
Yes, I've found lodging to be priced out of this world - no pun intended.
Doesn't the whole thing seem kind of suspicious? How can we know what the sun and the moon are going to do - in the future?
...I'll probably poke a pinhole in a shoebox, and look at the spot change shapes. 60% isn't all that impressive. Which is all we'll get here in NE. If, that is, this actually happens.
Me & the missus are traveling to Bryson City, NC -- directly in the Path Of Totality® -- for that weekend. Bringing bikes, hoping to do some riding in the Great Smokey Mountains before and after the event [sic]
I've been horrifically disappointed by nearly every other eclipse I've witnessed during my lifetime, so my expectations are tempered...but I have an inexplicably all-consuming passion for cosmology and celestial events, so I can't not do something special on the 21st.
Already got our glasses:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...33&oe=5A25C300
We're in the path of totality here in Lincoln, NE, and are going to get 90 seconds of complete eclipse. We've got all kinds of events planned on campus (see 2 17 Solar Eclipse | Welcome to Nebraska if you care), and I'll just hop out of my office when it's time and be part of the crowd.
Have family from Europe in town , but would love to shake your hand, since the eclipse is coming right over the house, if I did my math right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Ross
We got a cabin down by Carbondale, IL, site of the longest duration of the Totality. Even many months ago when I booked it, it was pretty big $ (compared to usual rates) and hard to find. There are only like 2 roads and 3 restaurants down in that area, so I am hoping the biggest predictions of crowd sizes are maybe off base . . . .
If you guys think this thing is dark, I have it on good authority that in 4 months to the day it will be much darker...
Something eerie about the similarities here....
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I think the one I saw was in 1972? I haven't checked dates so I could be totally off on that. I was in second grade? Anyway, this was in Norfolk VA, and Old Dominion University where my dad taught opened up their sports stadium to the public. Everybody brought their telescopes, mirrors, shadow boxes, etc. and set them up in the football field. Total nerd fest. For a kid who thought science was the best thing ever, this was heaven. So many telescopes, and everyone not only let me look through them, they wanted to show me all kinds of calculations, lenses, film attachments and filters, all these contraptions that really, except for the use of film, were about 5 feet from Copernicus and like the Inquisition was yesterday. I had just seen "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and had read all about reactions to eclipses over history, so I had at least a classic comic sense of history & eclipses. Anyway, when it started getting darker, everyone on the field got quiet. Stuff got set up and double checked. Cameras started clicking. Then it went dark. I had some glass filters my dad gave me from his laser at work, and I watched the whole thing. Afterwards there was applause. Handshakes all around among the scientists. Later my dad brought home a handful of photos from NASA where he did some consulting work. Real photos! Same as we used to get during the Apollo missions. They were pretty amazing. Not sure where they went. Anyway, cool experience. I hope lots of kids get to see it this time around also.
I should be working in Bend/Redmond OR (only 20-30 min drive from totality during normal days)!
However, since many of my customers will be closed, crowds expected to severely delay traffic, and my usual Hampton Inn work-residence is about 4x usual rates - I will have to suffer seeing 90+% from around home.
My wife got glasses too!
Sigh... I have to be in Montreal for a work related conference at that time.
I'll be walking up the street to view with my neighbors here in Brevard, NC. Enjoy highlands! It's a great little town that I drive through every Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ras72
It's coming right through Greenville. I'll be getting my daughter out of school so we can go watch it together. Been looking forward to this for a while.
As a joke I have seriously considered making up a Facebook page of a fake law firm who specializes in suing mother nature to help reimburse travel costs if it's cloudy that day. I feel like watching people take that seriously would be funny to see.
Probably sitting in traffic, "they" say to expect one million visitors in Oregon. I'm going to have to settle for the 99.4% version.
I'll probably follow it mostly via the NASA site, but will step outside at home during the main event here. It would be great to see stars and sunrise/sunset all around the horizon in just the right spot. Next life.
New Yawk City baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bewheels
A while ago,I walked into a coffee shop over on 20th just as a guy was walking out. He and I had the same glasses, same shirt, same type of backpack, similar shoes and pants, goatee, lack of hair and overall build. What's more, we both stopped and pointed at each other and said "It's you!" Would have been spooky except that it was hilarious. There are certain other New Yorkers I'd rather not resemble, but so far my tribe seems to be good people.
When I was a kid my mom and four of my sibs went up to the Gaspe Peninsula to see the one. Six people in a Pontiac station wagon barreling down the road all six of us looking at the sky to find an opening in the clouds until "Now!" and we skidded to a stop and jumped out. The wall of dark coming down the St. Lawrence was one of the more amazing things I've ever seen. The birds all went quiet. I can't actually pull up a mental picture of the sun during it but that wall I remember vividly.
My dad and my brother went to the one in Virginia. My brother did some research on the shadow bands and that was his first published article, in Sky and Telescope, if I remember correctly. He was in his teens and still wanted to be an astronomer. Now he's just a world renowned developmental biologist.
100% totality in cookeville, tn!!! Expecting 30k people here. We are having beer on the rooftop, after a ride... my shop is in town, Specially brewed Red Silo eclipse IPA on tap. Snacks
3 stories up, you have to climb an extension ladder, rappel down, seriously nothing can go wrong here.
They are predicting absolute pandemonium in Central Oregon for the Eclipse, supposedly one of the best places in the country to see it. However the smoke from fires is likely going to ruin a good time. I'll be on another continent and will miss all of the chaos.
I apologize in advance. I'll be one of those million. Coming in from DC to Seattle & staying in Corvallis with friends of my GF. I'm hoping they have a backyard, balcony, rooftop - anything to keep us from venturing out in the throngs.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bridge Guy
The B&B where we'll be staying just sent out this email to all their guests:
"All these extra people will create a number of challenges in and around town. There may be traffic and parking issues in town, and you may experience waiting lists at various restaurants. It is suggested that you pre-purchase your favorite snacks and other food/beverage items and bring with you as there may be a possible shortage at our grocery stores. It is recommended as soon as you get here you fill your vehicle with gasoline."
Mayhem!
I saw the total in Toronto '93 or '94. I was working downtown and we all went outside to look. We were science people and we exposed and processed some X-ray film so we could safely view it. We didn't really have the internet back then to tell us what a dumb idea this was and most of us had sore eyes the next day. Like Jorn I remember how eerily quiet everything got and I remember it getting cold. It was quite the experience.
Here an interesting website. Solar Eclipse Map: See How the Eclipse Will Look Near You | Time.com
Simply type in your location or zip code and press play. It depicts the motion of the eclipse from that given location.
Apparently solar glasses are out of stock everywhere. Safe and cheap way to look indirectly at the eclipse:
http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/lifes...-5bs6v7t9v.pdf
Or a pinhole camera...
https://www.facebook.com/theboyscout...4268815655017/
I will be in Wyoming in Grand Teton to see it. Hope I can find a nice spot
I'll be in my classroom here in L.A. The kids will be on a 3 hour lockdown and not allowed outside from 9am to noon -- UNLESS they have a signed waiver and a pair of eclipse watching glasses -- And then they will be escorted by an adult to the football field for the spectacle. Any classes held in bungalows (trailers) will be relocated to a building that has restrooms. I'm not kidding.
Who is in charge of sacrificing a goat to avoid angering the gods so the sun comes back on?
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Even my thermostat is taking part in the festivities.
Its stupid here in Grants Pass, can;t go grocery shopping, can't drive into town, can't get gas, its all an hour wait or more. I was having issue installing my power meter and was going to run it to the shop, then tried, and turned around and came home to figure it out. its terrible out there, and the grocery store parking is filled with CA plates. i cannot wait until tuesday. people keep asking me:
"Are you gonna watch the eclipse?"
Im like what the fuck do you think, im a human being who will be awake and everyone else won't give me a choice, of course if my eyes are open and im conscious, ill be watching it. are you hiding in a corner for it? cmon. its just nature, nature offers up way more interesting things if you bother to spend some time there. this is nothing special at all, just a day, and we will all be the same after its done. i really do not understand at all, but then i don;t get why Bruno Mars is popular either.
Ready to rock in 20895. While not in the path of totality, it's going to be awesome. Personally, I'm hoping to ascend to the astral plane.
This is my binocular and shadow box setup. This will resolve a really crisp image. Neighbors and local kids are excited, me too.
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A little Sun Ra to go with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qjiQwD7VCI
Headed to Central Park for a picnic lunch with my wife, probably a bit of a sunburn and a 70% of the eclipse.
Amazon sent us a note that said our welding goggles were not "certified" for eclipse viewing, but every scientist I've spoken to personally AND NASA! says #14 welding glass is plenty safe. However, my wife was not convinced (am I the only person left who believes in science?) so I spent the last few days finding and buying the last certified paper glasses for eclipse viewing in America so my wife and Amazon would feel better about the whole thing.
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Fine tuning my "solar eclipse selfie stick with polarized lens attached via rubber bands" device...patents applied for. Jorn...your wife is attorney. Don't you know by now that there is no black and white to an attorney and that the two most common words in an attorney's vocabulary are "it depends"?