Solar Eclipse chasers

Took me a second to realize that ambient new age jam was coming from the NASA video in the background.

It started here, btw.

actually the pasta colander works better than the cracker box camera

I got my glasses. I guess I have to remember to go outside and look.

For a minute I thought the NASA cam was playing Tangerine Dream's "Risky Business" score.

I was around for the one in NYC in 2017 and it was pretty cool!

I went out of my office and walked around during that one. I didn't have proper gear so I just tried to glance at it quickly. It still caused a twinge of pain in my eyes, so probably shouldn't have done that. A lot of people were holding up their phone cameras and watching it on the phone screen. Not sure if that's good for the phone but I guess it's safe for your eyes.

Atlas Obscura is hosting a big 3 day festival in Arkansas, I'll bet they're all tripping balls right now

looking pretty neat up there now

so it's not the end of the world after all? god dammit.

to tell the truth, I was just thinking that standing outside with all the neighbors, everybody staring into the sky, is exactly how I imagine our final moments to be before the asteroid hits.

definitely hard to capture, I bet we will get much more impressive images later this summer when the trillions of cicadas hatch.

Yep the biblical plagues are piling up.

Apparently the street lights popped on downtown.

It was pretty cool here in Wisconsin. Beautiful clear day, it felt like I was wearing sunglasses and when I actually looked at it through the proper glasses it was pretty crazy. 10/10 natural phenomenon, especially because I didn't think we'd get much of an effect here.

This was pretty cool! We had glasses and special screens for our phone cameras. We just went outside our house, expecting tons of people would be out in the street - but there was no one. I’ve never seen any kind of eclipse so this was a bucket list event for me.

https://i.imgur.com/pJP9IQc.png

Glad to have had a clear view of it today, was pretty cool.

On an overcast day, it didn't look so different from an imminent rain or snow storm.

God, that was so cool :)

I watched it from Morrisburg, Ontario on the St. Lawrence waterfront, in the path of totality. The full eclipse was incredible. The folks next to us got some amazing photos with visible solar flares.

Besides a dramatic drop in our solar power, it was pretty incredible to feel the temperature drop, too.

Oops I did it again 🤭 #TotalSolarEclipse pic.twitter.com/JXPe26qq3Q

— NASA Moon (@NASAMoon) April 8, 2024

those cheeky astronomers

we saw about 85% or 90% coverage at the holy rapture point around 3:28 PM. just a tiny sliver of sun left. it was cool but i really wanted it to be pitch black and vampires falling on us from the trees.

it was totally clear too. no clouds.

Great view at Chicago O'Hare airport. Big temperature drop.

we sat in the front of the bookstore next door to our house with a few people/neighbors but for most people walking by on the sidewalk it was totally not a thing. we did give glasses to the mailman when he came up with mail.

Total bust here in Boston. They screwed up with that snowstorm forecast earlier this year as well.

This was really cool. Sky was perfectly clear, got gradually darker, saw a couple of stars. A fun couple of minutes spent right on our front lawn.

You know what really impressed me? They outright nailed the timing here, down to the minute.

Total bust here in Boston. They screwed up with that snowstorm forecast earlier this year as well.

ok so here in ne Knoxville the eclipse lacked luster. we were 89% totality here. I guess that 11% matters

the sublime majesty of the totality was slightly tainted by everyone in our neighborhood blasting off fireworks for the entire time but still a good show overall. absentmindedly glanced at it unprotected for a moment like a moron but dont appear to have gone blind yet as far as i can tell

it was already overcast and then at peak time -3:08 - it was p indistinguishable ( i never know how to spell that wd) from moments prior.
the 2017 eclipse was something to behold

I feel like it was only in the couple of minutes leading up to the totality that I really noticed any difference really (other than by looking at the sun with my glasses), so I guess you really need >95% to really start having noticeable changes to darkness and temperature.

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^^^^ Yes, here as well; peaked just over an hour ago, as foretold. Sky was full of grim cloud cover since morning, but cleared to blue skies after noon.

(86% here, no perceptual darkness)

It was definitely a lot darker here. As if someone attached a dimmer switch to the sun

97% eclipse in Washington I think, it got pretty dim. I saw a sliver of sunlight hit a power line, and for that moment, the powerline was just...so...beautiful (tearing up because I gave myself cataracts looking at the sun).

it definitely got dim and shadowy here. like me.

Will the real dim shady please stand up ..

95% in Boston, apparently, but really the darkness was barely noticeable (I didn't use special glasses, was just sitting in the yard waiting for the gloom to envelope me.) If you hadn't known about the eclipse you'd have just assumed some random cloud cover passed over.

you guys, it looked really cool. 90% or whatever. and i hate everything.

Clear skies but only 50% coverage in SoCal, though I still noticed a change in the light (not so much darker, but oddly "different," like approaching dusk but without any of the golden-ness of dusk). I work next to an animal shelter and the dogs were barking more than usual.

i think i got too much sun though. i should know better than to go outside. i feel woozy.

It's very cloudy in Austin, and the clouds peaked right for me right at the point of total eclipse. Still, I was able to catch a few seconds of it, and quite a lot of partial eclipse before and after. Got a whole bunch of cool videos on my phone.

the dimness did have an ominous feel to it. but maybe i was imagining that.

It felt sort of like how you feel before you faint or pass out.

91% occlusion here. It was too cloudy to see the disc, but it got dark enough for the streetlights to come on. My wife and daughter were at a park in Conway AR with mostly clear skies and said it was amazing.

The peak here (NYC) was 90%, which was enough to give the light outside a kind of eerie quality. I think it's because the light was dimmer than usual, but the spectrum of light was whiter, like when the sun is directly overhead, rather than the redder light typical of sunsets and sunrises (when its light passes through more of the earth's atmosphere).

Yeah that's a good point, it was stilly fully and recognizably daylight out but it wasn't any yellower. But yeah that 10% that we weren't occluded made it almost unnoticeable. It's remarkable that we normally get 90% more sun exposure than that and it feels almost the same (to a person) but makes a huge difference to the natural world and the available energy.

Even with the cloud cover, it was pretty cool in Rochester. From the George Eastman House: https://www.facebook.com/reel/410729598372567

ok so here in ne Knoxville the eclipse lacked luster. we were 89% totality here. I guess that 11% matters

It definitely does - I found this video from 2017 just to get an idea what totality would be like and at the end the guy mentions how even the smallest sliver of sun makes a huge difference (and you see it by how fast everything darkens and lights up - it’s not very gradual, it's surprisingly fast).