Posted on 08/22/2017 7:11:29 AM PDT by NOBO2012
thats what i noticed as well... and it wasnt even total here... about 95% or so... but it made a BIG difference.
One should be open to that possibility, as well.
Yep. My wife and I started watching pretty close to first contact, come back every ten minutes to see more of the sun covered. Sat down and watched continuously for the last 15 minutes until totality. Even with the sun half covered, it was still bright and hot. But the last 30 seconds, it was like someone was turning down the lights and then, it went from day to night. Two minutes later it was day again and neither one of us was interested in seeing the sun half covered any more.
Never had a long distance relationship?
For people in southern Illinois and parts of Missouri and Kentucky it will be twice in 7 years because the 2024 totality path crosses the 2017 path there.
http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/graphics/http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/overlap.htm
….but do not come. Stay off our lawns.
I've got my own lawn to watch the 2014 eclipse from, thank you very much. :-)
The guy who parked next to me was begging some relatives to drive 10 miles to come see the eclipse. They were in the 99% region so they figured it was 99% as good. No where close. I've seen 95% coverage in 1994 and yesterday was completely different.
“Never had a long distance relationship?”
You know they’ve got cream for that, right?
I suspect that if they knew Who they were applauding, they'd have sat on their hands.
lol...but the side effects!
LOL
I flew my Learjet up to Nova Scotia but there was no eclipse.
Southern Oregon, Rogue river valley, 95% and 14 degree temp drop.
I was in Southern West Virginia, we were at ~90%. Honestly I was expecting to see more. It was a clear, brightly sunny day, even at totality it seemed only marginally dimmer, like perhaps there was some atmospheric haze or a wispy cloud passed in front of the sun. I guess the sun doesn’t dim exponentially, because I was thinking 90% less sunlight, it would look like twilight right before the sun dips below the horizon, but the difference seemed to be barely noticeable.
They should have them more often.
It was AMAZING. I have been in many partials--it is ABSOLUTELY not the same. It is not what you see looking at the sun, or the moon over the sun, even though that in itself is awesome; rather it is the sheer weirdness of the dark yet no sunset-sunrise dusk/dawn feel of it all.
We were on the north bank of the Cumberland river at a boat ramp and the temperature went from 91 to 84 degrees, the streetlights came on, the birds went silent, and the stars came out.
Truly amazing.
If you weren't in the totality, get yerself there in 2024. You'll then know why.
Took me four hours to drive from near Auburn, Alabama to Nashville, but 9 hours to drive back. GLAD that is over.
I was over the mountains from you in Cherokee, NC. What amazed me was how vivid the blackness of the moon was against the corona, and how varied the corona was, all the wispy shapes coming off of it, two large ones that looked like wings. Then there was the bright red spot on the top right, I was told they were solar flares, two of them, visible with the right equipment, and that all the wispy stuff was due to the solar wind. It was very striking. We got stuck in endless traffic trying to come back east, gave up and got a hotel room. It was a parking lot from Cherokee through Asheville with no end in sight, threw in the towel after four hours of that and not even being out of the mountains yet, when the entire return trip should have taken about that much time.
I was getting angry yesterday at all the traffic, especially when it just STOPPED (for dozens and dozens of times) on the Interstate for no apparent reason. Saw several semi’s get their brakes a-smokin!
Still, it was worth it. Seriously. The next one in 2024, if God wills me to be alive and kicking, I’m going to book a camping spot at the highest totality point, and just stay for a couple of days.
Part of the delay on my attempted return home was due to a semi apparently losing it’s brakes on Black Mountain headed down on I-40. We saw the massive tow truck coming back west toward Asheville in the opposite lane. Very battered, frame was torn out from under the cab, trailer was crushed, no wheels on the truck at all. Had to have bailed into one of the runaway truck ramps. Hope the driver’s OK but from the looks of that truck, he or she is in bad shape if lucky enough to be alive.
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