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Total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 over Mexico, the USA, and Canada
Great American Eclipse ^ | 4-8-2023 | Michael Zeiler

Posted on 01/26/2024 2:17:01 PM PST by Texan4Life

In my Tim Allen voice:

The next total solar eclipse to visit North America will be April 8, 2024. The duration of totality will be up to 4 minutes and 27 seconds, almost double that of The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017. The 2017 total solar eclipse was witnessed by about 20 million people from Oregon to South Carolina, and the upcoming 2024 Great American Eclipse is sure to be witnessed by many millions more.

(Excerpt) Read more at greatamericaneclipse.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: eclpise; solar; solareclipse; total; totalsolareclipse
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1 posted on 01/26/2024 2:17:01 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

Last I saw, the Cleveland Guardians were trying to figure out exactly when to schedule their home opener... which normally would be in progress during the eclipse and Cleveland is almost dead-center on the track of totality. Lots of concerns about (a) whether everybody’s eyes would be protected, and (b) that the dramatically varying light levels would wreak havoc with the batters.


2 posted on 01/26/2024 2:20:40 PM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Texan4Life

We’ve already got our plans made and will be traveling to Cleveland. If the weather looks bad, we’ll head southwest till we hit sunshine.


3 posted on 01/26/2024 2:28:00 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: cyclotic

I’m planning to round up high school and college students and demand their money or I will make the Sun go dark forever.
They’ll give in.


4 posted on 01/26/2024 2:31:56 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: alancarp

One of the all time classic Peanuts strips

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1977/07/13


5 posted on 01/26/2024 2:36:18 PM PST by xp38
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To: Texan4Life

Does anyone know a map that shows the width of the partial path and percentage eclipsed?

I smoked glass absolutely black for the transit of Mercury. All you could see was a dim circle with a black dot moving across.

We didn’t look at it as long as you could look at an eclipse. But no harm done.

And the effects of the eclipse are more than just the sun. It’s the crescent glints in the tree shadows, the darkness, the birds

My friend told me that during an eclipse, her parents made all.ten children stay inside with the shades drawn.

That was probably the one I had no luck with cardboard and a pinhole.


6 posted on 01/26/2024 2:39:49 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Texan4Life

Partial Solar Eclipse - Trumpet Voluntary

https://youtu.be/FW0A6D8TBag

Luckily, my husband wasn’t there when I pointed the camera to the sun. Had a cameraman once who got a beatific look on his face and said, “Clouds! They’re God’s scrim.”


7 posted on 01/26/2024 2:48:07 PM PST by mairdie (Trump - Nessun Dorma, from Puccini's Turandot - Luciano Pavarotti https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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To: Texan4Life


8 posted on 01/26/2024 2:52:03 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: alancarp

Several minor league teams handled it in 2017. Lots of places near Knoxville TN were giving out or selling eclipse glasses then.

The women’s basketball final is the previous day.


9 posted on 01/26/2024 2:52:24 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: heartwood

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8

Coming in through Eagle Pass.


10 posted on 01/26/2024 2:53:58 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Texan4Life

Solar panels and EVs will suffer and a young lady in Sweden will weep.


11 posted on 01/26/2024 2:56:03 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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April 8 is my wife’s birthday…coincidence? I think not. Good thing it’s a Monday, a WFH day.


12 posted on 01/26/2024 2:59:57 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: heartwood

I did the cardboard box and pinhole one time for an annular eclipse and it worked out wonderfully well.


13 posted on 01/26/2024 3:08:03 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Mark

just have to step out in the yard here in FWD.


14 posted on 01/26/2024 3:08:09 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Texan4Life

This will be my third total eclipse. 1963 in Maine (clear skies until right after totality), 1979 in Winnepeg (clear skies) and now back to Maine again. I will have to travel a little bit north to get into the path but the unknown is our typically bad April weather. We’ll be gathering at a friend’s camp and, regardless of the weather, we’ll have a great time.


15 posted on 01/26/2024 3:14:05 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: Texan4Life

Intriguingly, this year the Annunciation of Christ is celebrated on the same day of the eclipse, April 8th.

It’s usually on March 25th but this year Holy Week bumps it to the first free day after Easter Week.

I choose not to see this as a coincidence. :)


16 posted on 01/26/2024 3:22:23 PM PST by Claud
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To: NewHampshireDuo

I saw the one in the Northwest in February 1979, and my wife and I traveled to Oregon to see the 2017 eclipse. We thought about going over to Arkansas for the one this April, but I don’t think that’ll be possible. Oh, well, there’ll be another total eclipse visible from parts of the continental U.S. in August of 2044, and I’ll only be 89 then.


17 posted on 01/26/2024 4:22:13 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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In 1979 the forecast for Winnipeg was overcast right up to the wee hours of the morning of the eclipse. As for 2044, I’ll be a few years older then you. I’m not counting on seeing it.


18 posted on 01/26/2024 4:44:02 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: NewHampshireDuo

I was in Portland at the time of the 1979 eclipse, and it was rainy as usual. I figured that the weather might be clear east of the Cascades, so I drove through the Columbia Gorge out to around Boardman, but it was still overcast. At first light, about an hour before the eclipse, I saw a hole in the clouds about 50 miles back to the west and just made it there in time. Lucky.


19 posted on 01/26/2024 5:08:45 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Texan4Life

I have no plans to travel although it would be cool to see. But I’m in NYC, and we’ll get a lot, so that’s nice.


20 posted on 01/26/2024 5:43:16 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either)
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