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25 facts you should know about the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse [Coast to Coast]
Astronomy Magazine ^ | Tuesday, August 5, 2014 | Michael Bakich

Posted on 03/26/2015 7:06:18 PM PDT by Star Traveler

As I write this blog, I realize that the event is more than three years away. But it’s going to be so huge that I thought I’d list some of the important details for our readership, the general public, and the media. Hey, it’s never too early for knowledge, right? Anyway, these are the facts.

1. This will be the first total solar eclipse in the continental U.S. in 38 years. The last one occurred February 26, 1979. Unfortunately, not many people saw it because it clipped just five states in the Northwest and the weather for the most part was bleak. Before that one, you have to go back to March 7, 1970.

(Excerpt) Read more at cs.astronomy.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 19700310; 19790226; 2017; 201708; 20170821; eclipse; solareclipse
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To: acapesket

Bella Lagose time!!


21 posted on 03/26/2015 7:24:35 PM PDT by iowacornman (Speak out with courage!!)
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To: piasa

I didn’t notice that, as I was in a farmer’s field with no trees close by. I’ll take notice this time around.


22 posted on 03/26/2015 7:25:38 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: iowacornman

Saw a solar eclipse on the west coast of Scotland in tbe late 90’s. Viewed through the shadow made with cardboard and a pinhole.


23 posted on 03/26/2015 7:25:48 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: piasa

These are pinhole images of the sun, formed from the openings between the leaves as they move around. This happens on any sunny day, but the images are circles and you don’t think anything of them because they seem like blurry spots, rather than circular images. When they become crescents, then that’s something!


24 posted on 03/26/2015 7:26:47 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Let’s hope he goes over to Europe then, and camps out in their backyard ... LOL ...


25 posted on 03/26/2015 7:27:12 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Ken H

You mean you don’t want to see it?


26 posted on 03/26/2015 7:28:31 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

A website about it ...

http://www.eclipse2017.org/eclipse2017_main.htm


27 posted on 03/26/2015 7:29:32 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Oh we had one in 2009. These things are a joke like global warming. You get a bunch of hysterics who want to make money from sheeple seeking info. It is a hoot to watch.


28 posted on 03/26/2015 7:29:47 PM PDT by iowacornman (Speak out with courage!!)
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To: Star Traveler

Another 2017 Total Eclipse website ...

http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com


29 posted on 03/26/2015 7:31:04 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

I was also at Goldendale to see that eclipse. I had driven east on I80N from Portland, intending to view it somewhere east of the Cascades, but it was overcast and raining during most of the drive. At dawn, about an hour before the eclipse, I saw a hole in the clouds 50 miles or so back to the west. Made it in time and watched the eclipse from near the freeway at the Goldendale exit. I never could figure why some people were applauding, since the sun could not hear them and wouldn’t have cared about their opinion anyway.

That’s the only total solar eclipse I’ve seen so far. There was an annular eclipse visible from here in Arizona a few years back, and we went up on the mesa with a welding mask to see it.


30 posted on 03/26/2015 7:31:14 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: iowacornman

Are you talking about a Total Eclipse in the USA in 2009? My understanding is that this would be the first total eclipse for the USA in 38 years.

THEN ... the next one after 2017 would be 2024!


31 posted on 03/26/2015 7:34:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Ken H

I was in university at the time in 1979 and flew up to Winnipeg in February 1979 to see this. I wasn’t sure of spending the money for such a short event but I highly recommend it. It is as awesome a sight you will witness on this planet until the second coming.


32 posted on 03/26/2015 7:34:13 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Star Traveler

I had the best time at Disneyland during an eclipse.. I made a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and projected the eclipsing sun onto a wall near Haunted Mansion. I’d like to imagine that I sparked a whole lot of curiosity in the dozens of children who kept running back and forth in the partially obscured sun showing, and it was more than a bit eerie how twilight the park became as the eclipse progressed.

So I’m considering missing totality (even though it’ll likely be my only chance to view it) and doing it again at one of the Disney parks. Just enjoyed the experience too much.


33 posted on 03/26/2015 7:34:48 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: iowacornman

“Oh we had one in 2009”

Where did you see it from?


34 posted on 03/26/2015 7:34:53 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Ken H

You probably think this song is about you...


35 posted on 03/26/2015 7:35:18 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

Do not be satisfied with 97%. Drive to the path of totality and as close to the centreline as you can. The difference is like night and day. Make no mistake this is as awesome as it gets.


36 posted on 03/26/2015 7:38:19 PM PDT by xp38
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Yep, I left out of Portland, too, and got to Biggs Junction and crossed the Columbia there. I had plenty of time. My worry was getting in the right spot for an appropriate hole in the clouds.

But, talking about that drive out from Portland, I started early, and of course it was dark and hardly any traffic was on the city streets at that time of the morning ... BUT ... the really amazing thing was how much traffic was on I-80 and it stayed PACKED, both of the two lanes of the freeway, going East, while the westbound lanes were empty.

AND THEN ... everyone was exiting off the freeway at Biggs Junction ... the only place to cross the Columbia for miles either way!


37 posted on 03/26/2015 7:40:33 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: iowacornman

I have stood the shadow of a total solar eclipse, and looked straight at the sun with no glasses of any kind. It was a stunning sight. I can completely understand why natives of hundreds or thousands of years ago thought the world was going to end. I don’t think you have experienced that.


38 posted on 03/26/2015 7:40:49 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: kingu

I don’t know if you really want to miss a total eclipse that you can easily get to in the USA. I mean the last one here (in the USA) was 38 years ago. Then the next is this one coming up in 2017, after that it’s 2024. I don’t think anyone who saw the one in 1979, will be alive to see the one AFTER 2024.

I’m hoping to make it THREE in my lifetime, within my own living area ... of the USA. I would have to really live a long time to make it to the one in 2045!


39 posted on 03/26/2015 7:47:32 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
I never thought I would make it to this one ... :-) ...

Assuming you're talking about the one in 2017...neither of us have made it yet! ;-)

40 posted on 03/26/2015 7:52:31 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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