Posted on 08/22/2017 7:11:29 AM PDT by NOBO2012
The centreline of totality will pass just south of Dallas at 18:42 UT, with the total eclipse still over 4 minutes 20 seconds on the centreline.
So, I'll be spring camping south of Dallas in April 2024!
Why not New Madrid, Missouri?
Four of us drove 750 miles into western Oregon to see totality.
We had radio nerds with us who were part of a nationwide effort to study the ionospheres interaction with radio waves during eclipses. The boys had some serious geek toys and an array of telescopes. I had never seen sunspots in real time.
By the time the eclipse started that little piece of wilderness had become like a crowded circus.
Everyone was friendly & civilized, even the county sheriff.
The 2024 eclipse will have nearly twice as long totality.
The other upcoming total eclipses, for those with the time and money to travel, will be July 2, 2019, crossing Chile and Argentina (just south of Buenos Aires)--in the southern hemisphere winter. Then December 14, 2020, also crossing Chile and Argentina but further south. Then August 12, 2026, hitting the tip of Iceland and crossing Spain. Then August 2, 2027, hitting the southern tip of Spain. Then July 22, 2028, crossing Australia (including Sydney) and the South Island of New Zealand (including Dunedin).
This was not a “once in a lifetime experience,” as the media nitwits proclaimed this eclipse. Texas, April 8, 2024, totality….but do not come. Stay off our lawns.
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This is the first eclipse near me in my life time of 7 decades. Perhaps there will be another before I croak but it was something to behold in totality. There really was’t much to see except for totality and that is spectacular. It goes from light to dark very quickly and two and half minutes later exactly the opposite occurs. The shadows moves incredibly fast. I had a drone fly up to 1500 feet and look straight down. You can see the movement but just barely, it is almost like flicking a switch. That experience and seeing the Suns corona for for the first time were worth all the extra effort I put into driving 4 hours to see it. If I ever do it again I will stay an extra night. The drive on the way home was horrendous. It took nearly 7 hours.
Uh-huh!!!
The last time something big happened there, the Mississippi ran backwards.
I’d LOVE to see that, but not at the risk of my own demise!
95% of scientwists agree that temperature drop was due to the man made farts of all those watching the eclipse. Ooops, increase.
“...the bright red spot on the top right”
We saw that too!
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