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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2017 13:34:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 14:24:14 GMT
Yes, I am very excited about this. I will be up in the mountains in North Carolina "off the grid" at that time, actually, for the whole month of August so star gazing will also be dazzling.
No phones, tv, wifi etc..just peace and quiet and COOL.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 26, 2017 16:07:21 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Jul 26, 2017 19:25:00 GMT
I'm within a (long) day's drive, so if the forecast is good I'll probably drive down the night before to minimize what could be the Mother of All Traffic Jams. If it's forecast to be cloudy down in Oregon, I'll just stay home. If the forecast is cloudy on the Willamette side and clear on the desert side, things then become more complicated. We'll see.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 30, 2017 21:49:56 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jul 30, 2017 21:58:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2017 21:59:01 GMT
GRAZIE! you starry eyed wonder!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2017 14:09:45 GMT
The eclipse of 1999 across Europe and Asia was the last noticeable one that I saw. It was reputedly the eclipse seen by the most people in history due to the dense populations zones covered. It was total 30km north of Paris, but I was stuck at work so we "only" got about 98% coverage, which was still pretty impressive. You still realise though that even just 2% of the sun is still brighter than the brightest moonlight you have ever seen.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2017 14:35:09 GMT
There was an eclipse on May 30, 1984. It was a sunny day and I'd forgotten that the eclipse was occurring on that date. I was walking down the street in St. Francisville, Louisiana, which is overhung by oak trees. I noticed that everything seemed odd. The light was different -- still sunny, but somehow different -- and it had gotten very quiet with no birds singing. I stopped, still not remembering about the eclipse and looking up at the sky to see if some kind of strange cloud cover had caused the change in the light. Then, glancing down at the sidewalk, I saw that all the leaf shadows were as individual and crisp as if cut out from paper. Each little leaf shadow had a crescent shape piece missing from it. |
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Post by Kimby on Jul 31, 2017 15:00:37 GMT
No need to ruin your eyes, when any aperture can serve as a pinhole projector! Wait till the crescent disappears (and it gets very dark, if you are in the totality zone) to look at the sun with bare eyes and camera.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 16:26:25 GMT
Bixa, T. related an almost exact description as you as he remembered it from our back yard on S. Prieur.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2017 16:54:54 GMT
Totally flashed on that back yard! So cool to know that T. experienced the same thing.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 31, 2017 23:14:52 GMT
Me, too. In 1979 I was captivated by the dappled sun-crescents on the tile below a potted ficus tree on a sunny stair landing in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, where it was only a partial eclipse. Going for totality this time!
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Post by questa on Jul 31, 2017 23:28:57 GMT
I had the same eerie vision during a partial eclipse. The tree outside my clinic cast hundreds of individual leaf shadows with no semi shadows. Crisp and clear each leaf had a crescent bitten out of it. I've never forgotten the sight and stillness of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2017 14:33:33 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Aug 3, 2017 3:02:30 GMT
Got my solar eclipse viewing glasses yesterday! our public library gave out 1000 pairs in less than an hour. I arrived an hour early to wait in line and was first in the door. All set to go now. Just hope it isn't cloudy - or too smoky - where we are headed in Idaho. Missoula is only 90%. - not enough for the eerie darkness and daytime starry sky and silenced birds.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 3, 2017 14:20:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2017 15:25:56 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Aug 6, 2017 0:16:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 18:19:36 GMT
We will be watching the event from the top of Yellow Mountain, very, very nearby where I am but it's a hike.
I also glad that I have been doing so much hiking up and down hillsides and mountains and inclines since being here because I have conditioned some leg and calf muscles that I do not use much in NOLA as it so flat there.
The birch of it for me is going down, going up is not much trouble and I have had so no problems with altitude or vertigo, respitory etc. save one traversing on a Burma bridge over a large large gorge. F me, I nearly froze in mortal fear and panic when I made the mistake of looking down while right in the middle. I say nearly, but, I DID freeze and had to be coaxed by my companions.
Anyway, I got my glasses at the nature center here for free, then saw that they were being sold at some places for five dollars apiece in other places.
We also heard that in Clayton, GA. At the state line some greedy bastards are renting PARKING places for a thousand USD for four days!!!!'!!!!
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Post by Kimby on Aug 16, 2017 22:26:12 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 20, 2017 14:24:10 GMT
I am so jealous. Last got to see a total eclipse here in 1999. I couldn't get the day off work so I was allowed to rush down to the car park to watch. Staff poured out of pathology with their trusty solar viewers leaving a skeleton crew to run the labs whilst we watched...it was wonderful.
In Blood Bank there were a couple of people who didn't want to witness the eclipse for religious reasons altho they didn't go into details.
Anyway...if you CAN see Monday's eclipse make sure that you take the appropriate safety precautions but don't miss it !
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2017 18:54:54 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2017 19:05:03 GMT
Cool. CNN has been going crazy. Fake news?
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Post by lagatta on Aug 21, 2017 19:11:10 GMT
Yes, it is very strange. I didn't even try to look at the sun, and it is a sunny day here, but something ... off. A strange light, as if in a dream. It was about 60% here.
I'm sure casimira has been enjoying her mountain retreat, but we'll here from her just later...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 21, 2017 19:11:58 GMT
Wow...  |
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Post by BJ on Aug 21, 2017 19:14:36 GMT
Thank you
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2017 19:27:57 GMT
Wow... Right? RIGHT??!   You are welcome, BJ |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 21, 2017 19:39:00 GMT
It's a phenomenon that not everybody gets to witness. There was a partial eclipse (about 60% sun covered) when I was 9 years old and my Daddy gave me a piece of special dark glass to take to school. My teacher let me take a chair into the playground on my own and watch the eclipse. He nipped out a few times to look too but for the most part I was on my own in the quiet playground whilst all my classmates were working indoors. Odd memory.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 23, 2017 4:19:11 GMT
That is a remarkable memory, Cheery! From your description, I can almost see it like a scene in a movie.
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