Amazing Eclipse
 

We went to Weiser, Idaho to see the full eclipse and it was amazing! One of the coolest experiences that I have ever had. If you ever get the opportunity, take it.

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I walked out my backdoor. :p Very neat experience the second full eclipse I have seen. Having the right glasses helped I could still see to drive my boxster home.

Looked forward to it for more than a year...and it was overcast and raining here today. So very disappointed. :(

Got a nice partial eclipse here in greater Seattle!

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(Notice the elliptically shaped stipple-dot pattern in the shadows...)

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We were in the 90% range here, it looked like dusk.

VERY OVER HYPED imo. Looking forward to 2024 when we are in the totality range.....Or Not LOL. 15 minutes of dark during the day......there are better things.....:cheers::cheers::cheers:

Viewing wasn't very good in Houston, this was the best I saw:

















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It was incredible!
 

We drove from our Louisiana home to Alliance, Nebraska and watched two minutes and twenty-nine seconds of totality at the extreme western edge of the Nebraska panhandle, just south of Agate Fossil National Monument.

Was amazing to be on campus right in the path of totality.

You have to see totality to get how incredible it is. I've heard lots of people say, "Big deal? It just got a little dark!", and that is true, unless you see totality.

I drove from Seattle to the tiny town of Fox, OR, and it was worth the trip.

Great post, Jamesp! :)

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All taken in Corvallis, OR, D800, Nikkor 200-500 at 500mm.

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There is no comparison between 90% and 100% (I've seen them both). The experience of totality is mind-blowing whereas 90% feels fairly ho-hum. Hope you are able ti experience 100% in 2024!

Hope you are right TH, looking forward to 2024. The news channels here (big surprise) had it made out to be the second coming, :cheers::cheers:

Jakeru, There is a lot of talk on the internet that the eclipse was not caused by the moon and your shadow pics seem to be their proof. I didn't know this fact myself but nobody has been able to get a pic of the moon just shortly before and after the eclipse. I am the biggest skeptic but then again starting to doubt the official narrative.

That's hilarious! :D :D :D

hmm ... depends if you want to believe the I skipped basic science but I sure have a lot of crazy opinions on it anyway nuts or the mystical indian wisdom nuts

Science has become a religion, we all learned in school that the moons diameter happens to be about 2100 mi. Light as we have been taught travel in parallel lines from 93 million miles. If that is a fact how is it that the shadow cast of totality during the eclipse is only 70 miles wide? Any basic science experiment shows that the shadow cast cannot be smaller than the object that is blocking the sun. Do the research. There are also many talented people out there who are challenging the so called eclipse pics by the use of photo forensics. I'm not trying to start a thread on Conspiracy theory here although I totally woke from Sandy Hook and 911. I find that if you have doubts about any one event, they all have to be questioned. I'm curious and just want to know the truth. Gulf of Tonkin anyone? Do you trust NASA? Moon landings? I'll end it here. Happy Roadstering! Love our Boxsters.

I have one word for you.

Refraction!

Wow!!!!!!!!

Holy crap! :eek:

PM me your address and I'll send you a 5th grade science textbook. ;)

Okay stop.... He may have something there! If the shadow of the moon is only 70 miles wide and not 2100, then the moon would only be like 250 miles away instead of the 238,000 miles that NASA said it was when they didn't really send astronuts up there! That explains a lot of things! :)

If you study deep enough into physics, you will realize that we do not actually exist. What you think of as reality is just the musings of a whirling bit of nothing. Past, present, Moon, coffee? None of it is really there. Nor is 'there' there.

Are you currently in a Lincoln with Matt Mcconaughey?

Watch this:

http://whatthebleep.com

We actually almost Don't. Most of us, and everything around us is nothing, swimming around in a probability field. Next time you look at anything, realize what you are looking at is nothing, with just enough of a very little bit of something to make it look solid. It's the electric fields around the miniscule bits that fill in the gaps to make nothing seem like something. Remember that next time you bump your head.

Here is mine.
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That last picture was crazy, you can see the flares on the sun

People are funny... :)

PS: The Total eclipse was awesome from Weiser ID. :cheers:

I was east of Weiser out in the hills. Fantastic view on the shadow center line.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1516596419.jpg

I was....
 

....west of CarHenge in Alliance, Nebraska. I was on the center line on top of a hill in the far western edge of the Sand Hills. Most amazing sight you could possibly imagine.

I’m already planning for 2024.

The photos are great! But I was unlucky to miss this event :c And also I missed it this year :c But no time to be sad. Hope I'll see more such eclipses in person. After all, I even decided to learn astronomy a bit. I read different articles about planets of the Solar system, about their satellites, about comets like Encke https://solarstory.net/comets/encke and so on. I do like all this stuff.