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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 2:54 pm
Dissapointed here. Even though I was aware that there would be only a 77% coverage for my area, I didn't see anything. No I didn't have eclipse glasses, but you didn't even see the "partial". The sky certainly didn't get dimmed here as I was expecting.
Oh well... totality coming to my state in April 2024. Maybe I'll be alive for that lol
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 2:59 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 1:50 pm)Aroura Wrote: Post pics or something, please CD!
I watched it on the Nasa live cam. Didn't get anything worth posting, I was too busy watching it.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 3:00 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 2:54 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: Dissapointed here. Even though I was aware that there would be only a 77% coverage for my area, I didn't see anything. No I didn't have eclipse glasses, but you didn't even see the "partial". The sky certainly didn't get dimmed here as I was expecting.
Oh well... totality coming to my state in April 2024. Maybe I'll be alive for that lol
Where do you live because I live on the NC/SC boarder. It seemed to be 98-99% even though not in the direct path. It is starting to get bright again. It did get darker here. Charleston SC was in the 100%. NYC is supposed to be 70%.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 3:09 pm
I'm near the MD/PA border, in York County. I was outside well before coverage started and then well after. I didn't notice a difference in the sun at all and while there were clouds in the sky, none were near the sun from where I was sitting, so there was a damn good clear shot. I didn't even feel the temperature change that areas in the totality felt.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 3:21 pm
We had thunderstorms through the heart of the time frame. With the clouds and rain it got stupid dark, but too much cover to see a thing.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 3:54 pm
Got pretty dim here in VA at 88%.
I checked it out for roughly five seconds wearing a pair of welding goggles.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 4:53 pm
We had a hide-and-seek sun due to clouds over downtown Carbondale, but at totality the horizons were clear enough to see the twilight glow and we did get a few brief glimpses of corona during totality. Spent sufficient time jumping up and down and going *Squee* that I think I got my money's worth. We also saw some very interesting shadows moving across the sky in the seconds leading up to totality.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 4:58 pm
NASA put up some fascinating photos taken by one of their photographers... it was of the sun while the ISS was passing by it. Very cool.
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 5:05 pm
Didn't get to see much here.
Just want to strangle someone every time I hear they say "IT'S A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE!" or "IT SHOWS YOU GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!"
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RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 21, 2017 at 5:09 pm
(August 21, 2017 at 5:05 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Didn't get to see much here.
Just want to strangle someone every time I hear they say "IT'S A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE!" or "IT SHOWS YOU GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!"
Exactly. This is science. Not some imaginary sky daddy bullshit.
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