OT Total Eclipse day
FirstBastion
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as the day turns into night...
Should be an interesting event.
There is the possibility of clouds unfortunately.
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But there's a possibility of blue too. (*Think happy thoughts & positive waves.*)
Supposed to be at least partly sunny here in Arkansas. Totality 4+ minutes. Can't wait.
Lucky people. I wish I was in the path of totality. I saw one a long time ago and it was really spectacular.
We are about 100 miles from totality (Niagara Falls) so we're suppose to get 99% for four minutes, and the shadow supposedly triggers a drop in temperature too. Going to be an fairly unique kind of day.
I'm doing a couple of the eclipse related Citizen Science projects NASA offers. https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/citizen-science/
Sunsketcher and Eclipse Soundscapes. Still time to get in on these in some areas. No science degrees needed and Sunsketcher only requires a phone app.
I am going to participate in the data analysis portion of Soundscapes as well as observing.
I'm on the path of the eclipse, in Newfoundland, we have a mix of sun and clouds so here's hoping it's clear at the time it happens.
Helpful tips for a safe eclipse viewing experience:
Animals may behave strangely. If your dog speaks like a man heed it's dire warning.
Don't trust the squirrel with the child's face. It speaks only lies.
When your double arrives, resist the inclination to fight it. It may be stronger than you. Chances are it will disappear after the eclipse. Be careful it doesn't switch places, it will be a few decades before you get the chance to come back.
If you stare into the void, and it blinks first, you win. But the prize is insanity.
Werewolves are not only impossible to kill during an eclipse, they become SUPER WEREWOLVES.
Whatever you do don't buy any weird plants, we don't want a repeat of last time.
Apophis, the Moon Serpent, may try to eat you. Let him.
If once upon a time you were falling in love, but now your only falling apart, there's nothing you can do. This a different type of eclipse.
I'm in the path of totality, here in upstate New York. So far it's cloudy, I'm praying for a break in the clouds.
About 22 minutes before totality here in north central Arkansas. Sun is 3/4 eclipsed and light is noticeably paler, in an odd way.
Fun fact - I confirmed during the 2017 partial eclipse - shadows of leaves & things will have a crescent shape, just like the sun! If I get a good picture, I will post it.
B as go to safely watching the eclipse.
It was over cast most the day, yet we had a short break in the clouds and the city street lights kicked on because of the darkness. Dark purple sky to the south. Got a quick phone pic of the moon covering 96% of the sun. Pretty cool.
Jamestown, NY here, in the totality band. Unfortunately, it was also total clouds,
but when darkness came it was goosebumpy as you watched the light noticeably fade over a couple minutes from twilighty to night, for about 2-3 minutes then lighten again. Waited 75 years for that. Missed seeing the corona, but the light change was cool. 
It was 99.3% totality here in my corner of Michigan. It peaked here around 3:17pm, but was very brief. My solar yard lights came on momentarily and birds at the hanging feeder, who were once in my line of site, disappeared completely and went quiet. When the sun peeked through again, they all began to sing in the trees, just like it was daybreak.
Loved all of those but especially these 2^
No eclipse for me this time. Saw one years ago back in UK.
I saw the eclipse, was total for Newfoundland. I did take a pic with my phone and zoomed in a much as I could, not the best phone for this, but got the pic.
My photo is not what I saw, so found an image posted by CNN news channel and that pic shows what I saw with my own eyes.
The smaller one looks exactly like a picture my son took outside Little Rock, Arkansas.
It was mostly clear there as well as my location about 1.5 hours north. My husband took a lot of pictures but he said they didn't come out very well. The quality of the light during the partial phases was so different, softer and paler than midday sunlight is the best description I can come up with.
Our 2 dogs didn't seem to care much. During totality the birds were silent and it was over 10 minutes later before they started calling again. Didn't hear or see any night birds. I expected to at least hear this noisy whip-poor-will that has hung around here for the 3 years we've lived here but for once he was silent.
Am so envious of you guys. No totality here in California. Nada. When my career in insurance relocated me to Ontario, I first lived in Scarborough, 158 miles from Niagra Falls. The last time I saw Niagara Falls was before my hubby got injured/disabled, at my brother, Walter's house, who lived 82 miles away. I miss his crazy sense of humor and his infectious laugh which rumbled almost as loud as the falls.
best thing I saw on bluesky was a photo of a lot of little eclipses showing through the shadow of a colander, every little hole making a camera obscura affect
being on the [nether] end of the globe I obviously missed your mooning of the sun
however I remember the little crescent shapped shadows back in the day when we had some and using a card with a hole in it to do the pinhole camera eclipse viewing thing
interestingly my bedroom at my childhood house had a small hole in my fully blockout blind so during the day I had a faint upsidedown full wall projection of our garden on the opposite wall
so I learnt the principle of what a camera lucida or obscura was very early on in life
Denver just had soft shadows. I enjoyed the images on MSNBC from Mexico and across the U.S.A. especially the kids reacting to event. My local news station has a great article with a forcast of the upcoming ones around the world so you all can mark your calanders.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/world/solar-eclipse/total-solar-eclipse-2045-path-map/73-f2af2226-ac01-44e2-b4fc-4b63b291dbba
And my add blocker worked to get rid of the aggravating adds. Just click the small print.
First time I've seen a full eclipse. Those moments of totality really are a whole 'nother experience. Definitely very spooky. Was in a spot with good long sightlines so it was amazing to be in darkness but with brighter colored sky at the horizon all around us. Definitely worth the travel time.
It was mostly cloud cover for a large part of the day, then it got dark, and it got colder, and then a small patch of blue managed to break through.
Technically, this is after the event, while it was still darkened. Almost totality, being at the fringe edge of the solar path swath. Two more pics in my "Day" thread.
saw this today in my Toronto feeds
According to the internet Scarborough is actually 3476 miles from Niagra falls.
It's a small world, my wife grew up in Scarborough.
In this case, it's Scarborough, suburb of Toronto, now amalgamated in Toronto proper. Situated in the province of Ontario Canada
Different from the Texas location immortalized in the song Scarborough Faire.
Well, speaking about the pinhole camera phenomenon, I learned about that effect when I was about 6 or 7. My father owned a gas station. Outside on the side of the buiding was an old, white, metal, display cabinet with doors on the front lower half. It was empty and I would shut myself into the cabinet, close the door, and see my special magic on the white back wall. Because in the center of the door, a vacant screw hole for the missing company logo acted like a pinhole camera, and on sunny days projected an upside down image of the steepled church next door.
I got interested in cameras and photography soon afterwards.