Solar Eclipse 2017 - Share Your Viewing Plans & Memories

[MarkFL]

Hello MHB Community! :D

As I'm sure most of you who live in the U.S. are aware, we will be witness to a solar eclipse on the 21st of August and the path of totality will cut across the continental U.S.:

I live in NE Florida, and will experience almost 90% obscurity, but I have family in TN that are within a 30 minute drive of totality, and family in KY that live within the path of totality. I'm still trying to decide if I want to travel to visit them for this event. This is a pretty rare event, and I've got nerdy goosebumps about it. (Sun)

I was just curious if anyone here lives in the path of totality, and if not, if you have any plans to travel.

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My earliest memory of a solar eclipse was on March 7, 1970...and ironically the path of totality was very close to where I live now, while the path of totality for the eclipse next month is very close to where I lived then. :(

Anyway, my father constructed a pinhole projector and invited all the neighborhood children to come check it out. He was the dad in the neighborhood that all the kids liked. :D

 

[Jameson]

I'm very excited for this as well! I currently live in Atlanta, GA which is very close to that path although not directly on it. I've read that cabins and homes for rent along the line are going for thousands of dollars on August 21st unfortunately. :( So it's great that you have family you could stay with!

 

[skeeter]

I had plans of traveling to Nashville, but my bride had surgery recently and is unable to travel until September. There is another total solar eclipse in 2024 that will pass over the Dallas/Ft Worth area ... I'll just have to wait.

 

[MarkFL]

My family in KY., in the area where my mother grew up, will have 1 min. 33 sec. of totality. The point of greatest eclipse is in KY. :D

I'm very excited for this as well! I currently live in Atlanta, GA which is very close to that path although not directly on it. I've read that cabins and homes for rent along the line are going for thousands of dollars on August 21st unfortunately. :( So it's great that you have family you could stay with!

You should experience approximately 97% obscurity, and Adrian should see about 93% obscurity.

I had plans of traveling to Nashville, but my bride had surgery recently and is unable to travel until September. There is another total solar eclipse in 2024 that will pass over the Dallas/Ft Worth area ... I'll just have to wait.

You should see about 76% obscurity. :)

 

[MarkFL]

I was just reading about how tree leaves can form "pinhole cameras" and the eclipse can be seen in their shadows:

 

[I like Serena]

Where are the pictures and the videos for us poor people that were nowhere near the total solar eclipse?

 

[skeeter]

Where are the pictures and the videos for us poor people that were nowhere near the total solar eclipse?

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/2017-total-solar-eclipse

 

[MarkFL]

Where are the pictures and the videos for us poor people that were nowhere near the total solar eclipse?

Yesterday during the big event, we had pervasive heavy cloud cover and intermittent rain. Today, sunny and clear all day. Story of my life...(Giggle)

 

[Ackbach]

It was a very fun event to witness. I took the afternoon off from work. While we did get, as Mark mentioned, about 92% coverage, it was quite enough to notice a difference in lighting (though still reasonably bright) and in temperature. Got to hear mourning doves make their sounds in the middle of the day, which is not all that usual.

 

[I like Serena]

Yesterday during the big event, we had pervasive heavy cloud cover and intermittent rain. Today, sunny and clear all day. Story of my life...(Giggle)

I went to see the total solar eclipse in Paris in 1999, which was on the brink of the millennium.
Some people predicted that the world would end.
Fortunately there was a cloud in front of the sun - only during the totality.
So the sun didn't become (visibly) black like a sackcloth of goat hair.
A world disaster was averted. (Whew)
And I didn't get to see the once-in-a-lifetime diamond ring nor the corona of the sun. (Swearing)