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I saw on my local news website where they were calling it 'The Great Eclipse". C'mon now, please? Just gotta add drama with giving it a name. If this one was great they all are. I didn't have my welding helmet or glasses with me, so I didn't look at it. The dimmed light wasn't as intense as the one in '17 or when I was really young. what I remembered from way back then, and again in '17 was the cool shadows, so I just looked for those. I can look at pictures of the sun taken by others. My favorite thing is the shadows
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This was pretty much me yesterday only with snow. We were visiting the South Dakota Black Hills.
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Anyway, it was in Maryland and we were on Sligo Creek Parkway, near Washington, DC, and I saw those crescents dancing on the trunk of the mid-50s Buick ahead of us. That vision was deeply planted as I can still see it today
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We used my welding helmet, trust it more than some China glasses.
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This was my first experience. No heat from our star struck me. Right at the very brink of Totality there's a few second stretch of time where it is as if a dimmer is being turned toward off as the light level reduces into Totality. Looking with my bare eyes at our star's Corona was something! During our 3 1/2 minutes, I was surprised that it wasn't totally dark. The sky was still a shade of blue and all around was the sight of what appeared to be sunset or sunrise. Frogs started croaking, roosters roostering and crickets making their noise. Strange indeed. -klb
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I think it is pretty cool only 70% here in CO just got a little darker almost like a brownish hue. It is a primal thing, humans have been looking up at the stars for thousands of years. It is amazing that so many cultures around the world had the whereabouts to track celestial events and made so many dedicated monuments.
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You may have been closer to the center than we were. I figure the edge of the shadow (when we were 1/2 way through our totality event) was maybe 80 miles away at its closest and as far away as 150 miles at the furthest point. We were not in the center. -klb
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We had 100%. It was pretty cool when it suddenly got dark. Then when just a sliver of the sun started showing again, it was like a big spot light from the sky came on. The lighting was just weird until more of the sun reappeared.
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Did anyone else notice the so called 'shadow bands' just before and just after total eclipse? We did and they manifested as strange undulating light/dark bands that in our case were perpendicular to the direction of the shadow across the surface of earth. These phenomenon were visible on the patio we were all sitting on which was light in color and had direct exposure to the moon/sun interaction. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/n...lipse/3382949/ -Kevin
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I was outside cutting up trees that blew down this winter. It was a balmy 60F here. Very brief. I enjoyed it myself. I wouldn't have driven across the US. There were people here in Maine from all over the country. I looked with the welding helmet myself.
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We were fortunate to have perfect viewing weather here ... not a cloud in the sky. And I'm glad I didn't have to travel to be in the path of totality ... from what I've heard, traffic (especially on the interstate) was insane.
I remember years ago as a kid in elementary school watching a partial eclipse but seeing a total one was considerably more impressive ... being able to see the sun's corona and what I believe were a couple planets was pretty cool. Seemed pretty strange going from a clear sunny day to twilight-like darkness and then right back to sun within such a short time though. |
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When it was 100%, we could look at it with the naked eye- pretty cool
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My buddy took his wife and little girl to the shore of Lake Erie from down here. Basically, across PA south to north. I'd say it would have been worth it. We were in the 90% area and it wasn't all that much to experience.
I mentioned those crescent shadows. But another shadow phenomenon is shadows going two different angles at the same time. While people were looking up, I was looking down
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what's the big deal anyway? I don't see an eclipse every day but I see them fairly often
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My daughter and I drove about an hour west into Indiana to get into totality. I'm glad we did, it was neat to see. Here are some time lapse pics as it slowly got dark. We watched it in a random county church parking lot, which of course had a cemetery. I was told later it was bad luck to watch it in a cemetery but so far so good.
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It was strange to be in full bright sunshine then darkness a couple minutes later. I sat out there and noticed light sensing porch lights come on. All shadows were gone. 3 minutes later sun glasses were back on.
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