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1 posted on 05/20/2012 5:07:07 PM PDT by Yosemitest
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To: Yosemitest
That's not what it is going to look like. This is not at total eclipse of the sun anywhere on earth. Anyone who stares directly at the sun without a solar filter even at the time of maximum eclipse risks permanently damaging his vision.

ML/NJ

2 posted on 05/20/2012 5:14:45 PM PDT by ml/nj
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Look at it through a welding shield smoked glass.


3 posted on 05/20/2012 5:16:55 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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Just make a little viewing box, fun project and you can see the whole event.


4 posted on 05/20/2012 5:18:58 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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I’ll use my welding helmut, but I’ll also try some digital pics. Local news story has every outlet in town sold out of welding goggles.


6 posted on 05/20/2012 5:25:28 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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Here is the live video from N California

http://www.kcra.com/video/31089865/detail.html


7 posted on 05/20/2012 5:25:40 PM PDT by Selene
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You can watch it live here with running commentary.
http://events.slooh.com/


9 posted on 05/20/2012 5:28:22 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Yosemitest

In the movie, “Big Trouble in Little China”, Jack Burton looked.


11 posted on 05/20/2012 5:35:46 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Yosemitest

Wear eye protection if you watch this.


16 posted on 05/20/2012 6:03:28 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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I remember watching my first annular eclipse at about age 9. I remember worrying...what if it just stops, and it stays like this forever when the sun disappeared.


17 posted on 05/20/2012 6:08:48 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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San Jose here and it’s real dark at 620 PM.


18 posted on 05/20/2012 6:25:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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It's definitely darker outside, just south of Sack a Tomatoes. We look through a silver CD. It filters out enough to see the eclipse.

But why am I seeing spots?...

19 posted on 05/20/2012 6:30:46 PM PDT by bubbacluck (I'll pay more for tomatoes, thank you.)
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Ring of Fire over NM right now. Cool.


22 posted on 05/20/2012 6:37:58 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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In August of 2017 there will be a total eclipse for the United States running from the Pacific NW to the Atlantic SE.


25 posted on 05/20/2012 6:45:35 PM PDT by jesseam
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Yes indeed. All of us neighbors ended up together looking. Did it
The old fashioned way poke a hole in paper look at reflected on another. The wonder of God’s power on full display. Here in southern Arizona.


27 posted on 05/20/2012 6:52:14 PM PDT by waxer1 ("The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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Observed it from Albuquerque. Simple projection on a white piece of cardboard behind a building free of obstructions. The onset was fast but the actual occlusion seemed slow. The annular ring was perfect. At one point all shadowed edges became knife edge centers of diffraction giving peculiar outlines to objects, perhaps inspiring ancient cultures and iconography.


30 posted on 05/20/2012 7:02:21 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Western Kansas. Folks were turning on their headlights 30 minutes before the sun went down.

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31 posted on 05/20/2012 7:06:56 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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Used a piece of exposed 35mm film to see it from here.


35 posted on 05/20/2012 7:42:11 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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Took the kids out and tried to have some fun getting pics of the eclipse. We only had a small one here in SW Missouri
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37 posted on 05/20/2012 7:57:50 PM PDT by Can i say that here?
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This is from Wheat Ridge, Colorado with my iPhone.
Couldn't get the actual eclipse, but I was able to capture the lens effect to the right of the glare.
39 posted on 05/20/2012 8:08:29 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Look for the union label, then buy elsewhere.)
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24 photo slide-show from Western USA to Japan and other Asian locales ...

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/rare-eclipse-crosses-asia-slideshow/

41 posted on 05/21/2012 4:34:46 AM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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