Eclipses are cool!

[goose]

It was pretty awesome! We have had a lot of song birds and cicadas this summer and everything went quiet. We had about 80% coverage. Like Lorraine said, I might not have noticed if I didn't know it was an eclipse day, but the animals noticed!

 

Here is a photo I took- Eclipse shadows on our driveway! Lovely crescents that are the exact shape of the sun above. Tiny openings in the tree leaves acted like pinhole cameras.

http://i.imgur.com/WdA1z3lm.jpg

That's cool!

[blueschica]

That's awesome! I should have aimed for a better project than a free pair of eclipse glasses from the neighbors. :P

 

It took about 30 minutes to make....and I did have to run down to the Walmart to get the whiteboard. I fully expected the clouds to screw me over, but they smiled on me.... :banana:

 

We have a mere seven years to prepare for the next total eclipse, which will arrive in April, 2024. It will travel from Texas to Maine.

 

http://www.astronomy.com/-/media/Images/Magazine%20Articles/2016/10/ASYSK1016_03.jpg

My husband already saw this map today! He's already hoping to go to Erie (far NW corner of Pa) to see the total blackout.

[Fordgalaxy]

That's awesome! I should have aimed for a better project than a free pair of eclipse glasses from the neighbors. :P

 

It took about 30 minutes to make....and I did have to run down to the Walmart to get the whiteboard. I fully expected the clouds to screw me over, but they smiled on me.... :banana:

 

We have a mere seven years to prepare for the next total eclipse, which will arrive in April, 2024. It will travel from Texas to Maine.

 

http://www.astronomy.com/-/media/Images/Magazine%20Articles/2016/10/ASYSK1016_03.jpg

When's the next one after 2024?

 

I'm wondering if this one is the last one I will see in my lifetime. The next one won't even be near us.

 

2044: Montana and North Dakota

2045: California to Florida

2052: Gulf Coast states

 

Shall I keep going? We're gonna live forever, so...... ;)

 

Those are just the ones in the US ('MURICA!). There are quite a few if you're willing to travel. As soon as 2019 in South America.

[Lucas]

It just passed the most we will get. It's amazing how much light 8% of the sun can produce.

 

I thought the same thing - we had about 94% coverage here and it was still pretty bright. It was odd and eerie though... At 1:30 PM CST - sun is not obscured by clouds at all... yet its darker ... Very weird. It was like I had filters on my eyes.

 

I took a picture through a welding mask here at work though..

 

 

I watched with the same type of mask

 

It looked exactly like this !!

 

Very cool, and great pic

[goose]

That's awesome! I should have aimed for a better project than a free pair of eclipse glasses from the neighbors. :P

 

It took about 30 minutes to make....and I did have to run down to the Walmart to get the whiteboard. I fully expected the clouds to screw me over, but they smiled on me.... :banana:

 

We have a mere seven years to prepare for the next total eclipse, which will arrive in April, 2024. It will travel from Texas to Maine.

 

http://www.astronomy.com/-/media/Images/Magazine%20Articles/2016/10/ASYSK1016_03.jpg

When's the next one after 2024?

 

I'm wondering if this one is the last one I will see in my lifetime. The next one won't even be near us.

 

2044: Montana and North Dakota

2045: California to Florida

2052: Gulf Coast states

 

Shall I keep going? We're gonna live forever, so...... ;)

 

Those are just the ones in the US ('MURICA!). There are quite a few if you're willing to travel. As soon as 2019 in South America.

Yep. They happen all the time, just not where we happen to live.

 

Map of Next 7 Total Solar Eclipses

 

How Many Eclipses in a Year?

Most calendar years have 2 solar eclipses [not necessarily total]. The maximum number of solar eclipses that can take place in the same year is 5, but this is rare. According to NASA calculations, only about 25 years in the past 5,000 years have had 5 solar eclipses. The last time this happened was in 1935, and the next time will be in 2206.

 

A total solar eclipse can last for several hours. Totality can range from a few seconds to 7.5 minutes. The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century took place on July 22, 2009 when the totality lasted 6 minutes and 39 seconds.

Total solar eclipses typically happen a little less than once a year.

 

https://www.timeandd...ar-eclipse.html

Edited August 22, 2017 by goose

[Tick]

[JohnnyBlaze]

That's awesome! I should have aimed for a better project than a free pair of eclipse glasses from the neighbors. :P

 

It took about 30 minutes to make....and I did have to run down to the Walmart to get the whiteboard. I fully expected the clouds to screw me over, but they smiled on me.... :banana:

 

We have a mere seven years to prepare for the next total eclipse, which will arrive in April, 2024. It will travel from Texas to Maine.

 

http://www.astronomy.com/-/media/Images/Magazine%20Articles/2016/10/ASYSK1016_03.jpg

When's the next one after 2024?

 

I'm wondering if this one is the last one I will see in my lifetime. The next one won't even be near us.

 

2044: Montana and North Dakota

2045: California to Florida

2052: Gulf Coast states

 

Shall I keep going? We're gonna live forever, so...... ;)

 

Those are just the ones in the US ('MURICA!). There are quite a few if you're willing to travel. As soon as 2019 in South America.

Yep. They happen all the time, just not where we happen to live.

 

Map of Next 7 Total Solar Eclipses

 

How Many Eclipses in a Year?

Most calendar years have 2 solar eclipses [not necessarily total]. The maximum number of solar eclipses that can take place in the same year is 5, but this is rare. According to NASA calculations, only about 25 years in the past 5,000 years have had 5 solar eclipses. The last time this happened was in 1935, and the next time will be in 2206.

 

A total solar eclipse can last for several hours. Totality can range from a few seconds to 7.5 minutes. The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century took place on July 22, 2009 when the totality lasted 6 minutes and 39 seconds.

Total solar eclipses typically happen a little less than once a year.

 

https://www.timeandd...ar-eclipse.html

 

The eclipse sure hooked up Jaguar Paw!

 

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aG8WqEyXIyc/maxresdefault.jpg

 

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5327/133/1600/254452/Apocalypto.gif

 

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9ULxjgF58dM/maxresdefault.jpg

 

http://filmitch.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/006apc_rudy_youngblood_068.jpg

[workingcinderellaman]

Here's a picture of a totaled eclipse for those who missed it:

 

http://cs.copart.com/v1/AUTH_svc.pdoc00001/PIX45/da711c8f-fb3c-4e3c-ba88-2af519f2e876.JPG

Edited August 22, 2017 by workingcinderellaman

[Wil1972]

It just passed the most we will get. It's amazing how much light 8% of the sun can produce.

 

I thought the same thing - we had about 94% coverage here and it was still pretty bright. It was odd and eerie though... At 1:30 PM CST - sun is not obscured by clouds at all... yet its darker ... Very weird. It was like I had filters on my eyes.

 

I took a picture through a welding mask here at work though..

 

 

I watched with the same type of mask

 

It looked exactly like this !!

 

Very cool, and great pic

 

Thanks!

[Dread Pirate Robert]

I was in the path of Totality. I live in it, so did not have to drive anywhere to get in it.

 

It just so happened that the sky over my area got cloudy that day, which was not supposed to happen according to official weather predictions, so I did not get to see the total eclipse.

 

That was very disappointing.

 

Nevertheless, I did find the period of darkness that set in to be fascinating. The day birds all stopped singing. Night sounds like katydids starting up their chorus were happening, exactly like in a normal nightfall. Except then in about 2 minutes it was morning again, except that it wasn't morning but 2:38 in the afternoon., which seemed f***ing weird. Mentally disorienting, actually. Scary, even.

Edited August 24, 2017 by Dread Pirate Robert

[Union 5-3992]

I took a trip down south to see it. A buddy and I decided to drive down to Kentucky to go camping. We were able to arrange a 4 hour hike in Mammoth Cave, getting out an hour before the eclipse. Since it was a National Park, they were handing out free glasses for all the visitors. Mammoth Cave was in the 99% coverage zone so we drove south to Tennessee border and stopped at a Waffle House parking lot to see it. It was really cool to see what looked like a 360 sunrise. I wasn't expecting the sky to darken as much as it did, allowing us to see Venus right next to the blacked out sun.

 

And some of you are absolutely right, the sun is still incredibly powerful even at a couple percent. Using the glasses, the sun was almost completely covered yet it was still rather bright outside.

[MMCXII]

Anyone else find it amazing that the sun and moon appear exactly the same size to us here on earth..?

[Wil1972]

Anyone else find it amazing that the sun and moon appear exactly the same size to us here on earth..?

 

It is unique and fascinating.

[Principled Man]

Anyone else find it amazing that the sun and moon appear exactly the same size to us here on earth..?

 

It's a really cool coincidence. We're very lucky to be alive while the moon is at this particular distance from the Earth.

 

The moon is receding from the Earth at 1.5 inches per year, so it will take over 42,000 years just to move a mile away from the Earth. In about a billion years, total eclipses will end.

[Boots]

I didn't even get to see the eclipse because I was cooped up all day in the office.