@heartny I’m going to be in Midtown with access to a rooftop deck, on a slow work day. I’ve got note cards for pinhole projection. I’m glad the weather is going to cooperate!
I’ll be at work. Probably stuck actually working while my coworkers all goof off to gawk (Call center, so when one person slacks off, someone else has to pick up their slack. And if we all actually worked at full capacity, and our callers weren’t so prone to talking our ears off with unrelated nonsense, we could probably have half the staff we do!) But I also go to lunch about 15 minutes past my local maximum,so whatever.
We’re projecting clouds and storms all day. Sucks to be in ill-annoy again, just a little more than usual. Most likely all we’ll see is (much) darker than normal cloud cover.
If there’s a break, and we don’t get too many broken POS windows PC calls, then I’ve got shade 13 welding goggles and a pinhole viewer ready to go.
I traveled to see it, but then, I got to fly down for free (airline employee), I have family in the zone of totality who let me crash on their couch, and I had a four day weekend starting Sunday, so not much effort needed. Not bothering with photos, since there are/will be countless online. Just a good excuse to take a quick trip and lord it over friends and coworkers.
We had cloud cover for the middle 20 minutes of the eclipse but had good viewing on both sides. We shared our glasses with the neighbors and had a nice time!
It was super cool! I traveled across state lines to see the full eclipse at my Dad’s house in Dallas, OR. Eerie and exhilarating, I will make it a point to see another total eclipse someday.
We made some totally lame pinhole boxes at work, lucked out & the Snowball Lady came by in her truck so that made it better. Then a guy next door from an auto shop (I think) came out with his welding mask. SCORE!!!
We passed it around like kids & took turns gawking at our 80% coverage. Still, the snowballs were the clear winner.
Pinhole viewers were a hit at work during the first half. Some people had eclipse glasses that showed up right before maximum… Then the clouds came. I got a look through the glasses briefly when the sun peeked through the clouds. Kinda neat… Wish I would of had a filter for the telescope. If I’m ever in a area for a total, I’ll definitely look into it.
I was at work. About 10-20 minutes before the max here (95.2%) a customer came in and asked if I had gotten to see the eclipse yet. I hadn’t so he offered to let me borrow his eclipse glasses so I could look. It was pretty cool but I didn’t have the time to watch… just a quick glimpse and then back to work.
Just got back home, been on the road since early this AM - started out thinking we’d be good to go north of KC then ended up hauling ass across Missouri to catch clear skies.
Arrived outside Boonville, MO (yep, it’s a real town - actually a very nice little town) with 14 minutes to go before totality.
Enjoyed 2 plus minutes of totality with clear skies and hauled ass back.
I may have a new hobby chasing these down - THIS WAS COMPLETELY JUST THAT FUCKING AMAZING!!
Met some REALLY nice people and a real asshole at Tony’s Diesel Inc. (https://www.yelp.com/biz/tonys-diesel-inc-boonville). If you’re ever in the area, do try to piss on the tires of Tony’s “wrecker”. I did. Right in front of him. Then I shook my dick in his general direction, piddled on his shoes and fucked off. That was the second best part of my day, right after the eclipse. The crowd at the gas station next door cheered when I did it - he’d run kids off his lot and ask the parents for a $50 trespassing fine and was just rude as all hell. What a fucking asshat.
There was video. I’m pretty sure it’ll be posted somewhere. If you find it, enjoy!
We woke up, broke camp, and grabbed a fast food breakfast while rapid fire checking weather predictions and drive times for various towns along the path as predictions changed so much over the weekend.
We went to bed last night thinking we were headed to Illinois in the morning, but we decided to go with our original plan of Olympian Village with an iffy chance of overcast skies.
On the way my wife picked out a restaurant on the edge of town she wanted to have lunch at before the eclipse. Granny Franny’s wound up being closed to let their employees off for the eclipse. Instead they were selling bbq and burgers in the back parking lot and having a viewing party. They invited us to stay and so we did.
We couldn’t have chosen a nicer group of people to view the eclipse with if we tried. They had a large lot and were letting everyone hang out, handing out free glasses to anyone who didn’t have them, and everyone was super cool. Now we have to make an 8 hour trip again to check out their actual restaurant since it was closed.
It worked out well we got there and setup right at the beginning of the eclipse. Right at totality a cloud came over and it was ok as it wasn’t very dense and sortta helped things. We maded Turkey and pepperjack with spinach and mater sammiches and guzzled soda water. It was hot as hell but the market umbrella made it bearable. Many thanks to Oconee County for mowing the swales on Hwy 11 Sat. Where the hell all the people came from on the ride home I have no idea but the ride home turned into a total goat rope.
@cranky1950 We traveled through Oconee Co Saturday on our way to Brevard, NC. Family lives there so we’re staying with them and had an eclipse party on the lawn. Love the Carolinas so much!
I’m in NY and only had a partial eclipse, about 76%, IIRC. I saw no reason to spend money on special glasses so I did what I’ve done since I was 8 and made a variable focal length pinhole projector from some cardboard and a used envelope from my paper recycling bin:
(The tape I used to stick the torn envelope to the cardboard was new, since used tape doesn’t stick all that well but the rest of it was used crap, including the AAA Defensive Driving class folder that held the two projectors and doubled as a screen for one of them.)
In case this isn’t clear, you use it like this:
I was also able to borrow a pair of safety goggles and did get to look directly at the eclipse for a few seconds shortly after it reached maximum. Debateable which method was better. The kids around us thought the paper thing was much cooler. (I also pointed out how one can use a tree to safely view the eclipse and some of them thought it was even cooler than the cardboard.)
@medz kids in nyc don’t talk like that. One kid turned to his friend and said something like “your fuckin’ cereal box sucked! his thing works much better!”
I’ve been sharing this story -
I really thought traffic would prevent me from going. I set my alarm for 5 and checked traffic reports. Sounded good enough, so was on the road by 5:30.
I started the drive thinking I would turn around as soon as the traffic became too much. There was a lot of stop-and-go for several miles at a time, but I kept extending the cut-off. I can’t tell you how happy I was when I finally realized I was going to make it. Had a huge stupid grin on my face all morning after that.
It was amazingly awesome - in the last 10 mins or so before totality, it was twilight, the temperature dropped 10-15 degrees, birds looked confused, shadows undulated.
Totality was so beautiful, but not what I imagined from all the poetic adulation I was reading. I think it was my poor eyesight, but I didn’t see the corona. Instead it looked like a priceless jewel set in a golden gordian knot-type setting.
Incredible, but I would not chase to the ends of the Earth to see it again.
Unless I get the right glasses prescription.
If I hadn’t gone, I always would have wondered, so very very glad I went – Completely worth it.
And in Oct 2023 we get an annular eclipse (moon further away from earth, cannot completely block the sun, so we get a ring of fire) which will also he incredible.
So I didn’t think that I captured the eclipse as I tried to take a photo with my phone out of my car window in order to avoid looking at the sun. Upon closer inspection, it appears the big bright spot in my photos was not the sun, but lens flare. I did capture the eclipse in action, albeit very, very tiny.
@heartny more likely the big bright spot is actually the sun. The arrow is pointing to what would be referred to as flare as it is an artifact of the window or the lens of the camera.
@Pavlov That’s what I thought at first, but when I checked several photos that I took at different times and angles, the shape of the little spot by the red arrow seemed in-line with the 70% obscuration in New York at 2:43 PM. In the ones taken earlier there was more of the white area.
I’m back home.
My pics & movie turned out OK, I thought…
We were just South of Woodburn, OR. The sky was perfectly clear & a slight breeze from the West to keep any smoke out of the way. The corona was the whitest white & just shot out in every direction. I was so amazed, I almost for to take a few damn pics.
& one I popped on youtube. I’m obviously not a professional… lol
@KDemo Thanks. If you don’t see it happening, it would seem like not a big deal. That was such a cool thing to see actually happen, I just had no idea the corona would jump out like that! And it was so pure white! I hope you enjoyed it also.
@djslack I only took one with my phone, since the real camera was clicking away. I just yanked the exposure slider all the way down (which I think is two stops in the phone app) then darkened it more in Lightroom after I got home. I also cropped off the left side for aesthetic reasons.
I was on a farm in western Kentucky, about 2000 feet west southwest of the center line and about halfway between Carbondale and Hopkinsville.
There were a few clouds early and many more toward the end, but totality was clear and totally awesome!
I scrapped by shooting script Friday and was up until Saturday morning at around 4:00 rewriting and testing it because I had an idea. And it worked. Then my tripod head broke Saturday, but, thanks to Amazon and next day shipping, I had a replacement Sunday afternoon.
I had a devil of a time keeping the camera pointed at the sun, which I will blame on unfamiliarity with the new head. I shot just short of 1200 pictures and got a few I liked.
Totality or bust!
It’s at or around noon, right? Soo, prolly still asleep.
Eclipse info for New Yawkers, with start and end times:
@heartny I’m going to be in Midtown with access to a rooftop deck, on a slow work day. I’ve got note cards for pinhole projection. I’m glad the weather is going to cooperate!
Here it will be 98% blocked… so I will go out and see if I can get a picture (via a pinhole projection).
If it’s cloudy I will do it the old-fashioned way and see what’s happening online.
@awk
At that distance it would be worth travelling to see at leastva few seconds of totality.
@awk Too bad there wasn’t a “pinhole projector” option in the poll!
I’ll be at work. Probably stuck actually working while my coworkers all goof off to gawk (Call center, so when one person slacks off, someone else has to pick up their slack. And if we all actually worked at full capacity, and our callers weren’t so prone to talking our ears off with unrelated nonsense, we could probably have half the staff we do!) But I also go to lunch about 15 minutes past my local maximum,so whatever.
We’re projecting clouds and storms all day. Sucks to be in ill-annoy again, just a little more than usual. Most likely all we’ll see is (much) darker than normal cloud cover.
If there’s a break, and we don’t get too many broken POS windows PC calls, then I’ve got shade 13 welding goggles and a pinhole viewer ready to go.
@duodec Good luck, and hope you catch some of it. -Your neighbor to the east (Indiana)
PS - Please keep the storms to yourself.
I traveled to see it, but then, I got to fly down for free (airline employee), I have family in the zone of totality who let me crash on their couch, and I had a four day weekend starting Sunday, so not much effort needed. Not bothering with photos, since there are/will be countless online. Just a good excuse to take a quick trip and lord it over friends and coworkers.
I working it is supposed to be cloudy with hail and thunder
I’ll be cranking this up in my headphones at work.
Though I live outside the path of totality.
Just gotta say, Best. Meh-face. Ever.
Oh man, I think I missed it - I can’t see the sun! … Wait, there it is behind a tree. Does a treeclipse count?
So we MAY have cloud cover obstructing out total eclipse…so I thought it was appropriate to use this today…
Damn…sideways again
@tinamarie1974 It’s OK- I have a neck for photos like that.
@sammydog01 I think I actually have to take the photo sideways on my phone for it to work…totally meh
@tinamarie1974 It’s fine as is. Not caring that it’s sideways goes with the meh theme.
@tinamarie1974 OMG, totality was A-MEH-ZING. One of thr most beautiful things I have ever seen.
Spent a couple minutes seeing the start. I’ll head back outside when it reaches peak here in SoCal (about 10:21 am PDT).
Shirt of the day:
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/pen-haxico-2
(I had it already. If I want a 2017 eclipse shirt, I’ll buy it from a thrift store in 2018.)
Made a couple of pin hole projectors. It’s only 80 something percent here, so not a huge deal, I guess.
@RiotDemon 62% here. I still made a few trips to look outside.
We have an observatory here at work, so I made my way over there and checked it out with the telescope.
a reasonably current view from Olympian Village, MO
eclipse shadows
We had cloud cover for the middle 20 minutes of the eclipse but had good viewing on both sides. We shared our glasses with the neighbors and had a nice time!
Non-totality kind of sucked. Lesson learned. Looking forward to 4/08/2024
@MrMark I wish Cedar Point was open early april.
@MrMark
Only for you perhaps.
I liked it.
Two for Tuesday: Eclipse glasses??
It was super cool! I traveled across state lines to see the full eclipse at my Dad’s house in Dallas, OR. Eerie and exhilarating, I will make it a point to see another total eclipse someday.
Here’s a fun little project I did while waiting for totality.
http://imgur.com/K725yq8
We made some totally lame pinhole boxes at work, lucked out & the Snowball Lady came by in her truck so that made it better. Then a guy next door from an auto shop (I think) came out with his welding mask. SCORE!!!
We passed it around like kids & took turns gawking at our 80% coverage. Still, the snowballs were the clear winner.
@MrHappypants thats what i used as well the goggles lol 🕶
Welding glasses used ✔
Pinhole viewers were a hit at work during the first half. Some people had eclipse glasses that showed up right before maximum… Then the clouds came. I got a look through the glasses briefly when the sun peeked through the clouds. Kinda neat… Wish I would of had a filter for the telescope. If I’m ever in a area for a total, I’ll definitely look into it.
I was at work. About 10-20 minutes before the max here (95.2%) a customer came in and asked if I had gotten to see the eclipse yet. I hadn’t so he offered to let me borrow his eclipse glasses so I could look. It was pretty cool but I didn’t have the time to watch… just a quick glimpse and then back to work.
Just got back home, been on the road since early this AM - started out thinking we’d be good to go north of KC then ended up hauling ass across Missouri to catch clear skies.
Arrived outside Boonville, MO (yep, it’s a real town - actually a very nice little town) with 14 minutes to go before totality.
Enjoyed 2 plus minutes of totality with clear skies and hauled ass back.
I may have a new hobby chasing these down - THIS WAS COMPLETELY JUST THAT FUCKING AMAZING!!
Met some REALLY nice people and a real asshole at Tony’s Diesel Inc. (https://www.yelp.com/biz/tonys-diesel-inc-boonville). If you’re ever in the area, do try to piss on the tires of Tony’s “wrecker”. I did. Right in front of him. Then I shook my dick in his general direction, piddled on his shoes and fucked off. That was the second best part of my day, right after the eclipse. The crowd at the gas station next door cheered when I did it - he’d run kids off his lot and ask the parents for a $50 trespassing fine and was just rude as all hell. What a fucking asshat.
There was video. I’m pretty sure it’ll be posted somewhere. If you find it, enjoy!
@Pavlov - So the pee tapes are real??
@Pavlov - There’s a Boonville in CA, too. In the Anderson Valley. They have their own language - Boontling.
We woke up, broke camp, and grabbed a fast food breakfast while rapid fire checking weather predictions and drive times for various towns along the path as predictions changed so much over the weekend.
We went to bed last night thinking we were headed to Illinois in the morning, but we decided to go with our original plan of Olympian Village with an iffy chance of overcast skies.
On the way my wife picked out a restaurant on the edge of town she wanted to have lunch at before the eclipse. Granny Franny’s wound up being closed to let their employees off for the eclipse. Instead they were selling bbq and burgers in the back parking lot and having a viewing party. They invited us to stay and so we did.
We couldn’t have chosen a nicer group of people to view the eclipse with if we tried. They had a large lot and were letting everyone hang out, handing out free glasses to anyone who didn’t have them, and everyone was super cool. Now we have to make an 8 hour trip again to check out their actual restaurant since it was closed.
@djslack This sounds like a great time indeed. So nice when you discover a place that’s still just so genuine and community based.
It worked out well we got there and setup right at the beginning of the eclipse. Right at totality a cloud came over and it was ok as it wasn’t very dense and sortta helped things. We maded Turkey and pepperjack with spinach and mater sammiches and guzzled soda water. It was hot as hell but the market umbrella made it bearable. Many thanks to Oconee County for mowing the swales on Hwy 11 Sat. Where the hell all the people came from on the ride home I have no idea but the ride home turned into a total goat rope.
@cranky1950 We traveled through Oconee Co Saturday on our way to Brevard, NC. Family lives there so we’re staying with them and had an eclipse party on the lawn. Love the Carolinas so much!
I’m in NY and only had a partial eclipse, about 76%, IIRC. I saw no reason to spend money on special glasses so I did what I’ve done since I was 8 and made a variable focal length pinhole projector from some cardboard and a used envelope from my paper recycling bin:
(The tape I used to stick the torn envelope to the cardboard was new, since used tape doesn’t stick all that well but the rest of it was used crap, including the AAA Defensive Driving class folder that held the two projectors and doubled as a screen for one of them.)
In case this isn’t clear, you use it like this:
I was also able to borrow a pair of safety goggles and did get to look directly at the eclipse for a few seconds shortly after it reached maximum. Debateable which method was better. The kids around us thought the paper thing was much cooler. (I also pointed out how one can use a tree to safely view the eclipse and some of them thought it was even cooler than the cardboard.)
@baqui63 “Golly gee, mister! Your paper trick is totally rad to the max!” - nearby kids
@medz kids in nyc don’t talk like that. One kid turned to his friend and said something like “your fuckin’ cereal box sucked! his thing works much better!”
@baqui63
/youtube New York kids talk funny
@medz I love this line:
Q: "What do people in LA complain about?"
A: “That there is too much gluten in the world!”
/image fucking clouds, man
I’ve been sharing this story -
I really thought traffic would prevent me from going. I set my alarm for 5 and checked traffic reports. Sounded good enough, so was on the road by 5:30.
I started the drive thinking I would turn around as soon as the traffic became too much. There was a lot of stop-and-go for several miles at a time, but I kept extending the cut-off. I can’t tell you how happy I was when I finally realized I was going to make it. Had a huge stupid grin on my face all morning after that.
It was amazingly awesome - in the last 10 mins or so before totality, it was twilight, the temperature dropped 10-15 degrees, birds looked confused, shadows undulated.
Totality was so beautiful, but not what I imagined from all the poetic adulation I was reading. I think it was my poor eyesight, but I didn’t see the corona. Instead it looked like a priceless jewel set in a golden gordian knot-type setting.
Incredible, but I would not chase to the ends of the Earth to see it again.
Unless I get the right glasses prescription.
If I hadn’t gone, I always would have wondered, so very very glad I went – Completely worth it.
@KDemo - This is how my totality photo came out (showing that the stars were visible). The sky was much darker than it looks here -
@KDemo
Really glad you managed to see it.
Here 80% warranty so bad. Worth looking at.
Now we wait for April 2024 and totality.
And in Oct 2023 we get an annular eclipse (moon further away from earth, cannot completely block the sun, so we get a ring of fire) which will also he incredible.
@f00l - Thanks! I have a better chance of seeing that 2023 one, although October weather is more iffy.
It’s also a relief to know you’re not underwater.
@KDemo
Yeah. So far lucky locally. Thx
Also like several others - photos of eclipse shadows through the trees in the parkinglot
So I didn’t think that I captured the eclipse as I tried to take a photo with my phone out of my car window in order to avoid looking at the sun. Upon closer inspection, it appears the big bright spot in my photos was not the sun, but lens flare. I did capture the eclipse in action, albeit very, very tiny.
@heartny more likely the big bright spot is actually the sun. The arrow is pointing to what would be referred to as flare as it is an artifact of the window or the lens of the camera.
@heartny It’s cool whatever it is.
@Pavlov That’s what I thought at first, but when I checked several photos that I took at different times and angles, the shape of the little spot by the red arrow seemed in-line with the 70% obscuration in New York at 2:43 PM. In the ones taken earlier there was more of the white area.
@heartny As @sammydog01 says,
. . . and it is cool, whichever way it is!!
I love the photo!
I’m back home.
My pics & movie turned out OK, I thought…
We were just South of Woodburn, OR. The sky was perfectly clear & a slight breeze from the West to keep any smoke out of the way. The corona was the whitest white & just shot out in every direction. I was so amazed, I almost for to take a few damn pics.
& one I popped on youtube. I’m obviously not a professional… lol
@daveinwarsh - I was in Woodburn too! Your images are amazing, great job!
@KDemo Thanks. If you don’t see it happening, it would seem like not a big deal. That was such a cool thing to see actually happen, I just had no idea the corona would jump out like that! And it was so pure white! I hope you enjoyed it also.
@daveinwarsh Wow! Good stuff! I couldn’t get pictures to come out during totality (but I was just using my phone).
@djslack - Same here. I even tried holding the glasses over the camera lens.
Amateur.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@djslack I only took one with my phone, since the real camera was clicking away. I just yanked the exposure slider all the way down (which I think is two stops in the phone app) then darkened it more in Lightroom after I got home. I also cropped off the left side for aesthetic reasons.
I was on a farm in western Kentucky, about 2000 feet west southwest of the center line and about halfway between Carbondale and Hopkinsville.
There were a few clouds early and many more toward the end, but totality was clear and totally awesome!
I scrapped by shooting script Friday and was up until Saturday morning at around 4:00 rewriting and testing it because I had an idea. And it worked. Then my tripod head broke Saturday, but, thanks to Amazon and next day shipping, I had a replacement Sunday afternoon.
I had a devil of a time keeping the camera pointed at the sun, which I will blame on unfamiliarity with the new head. I shot just short of 1200 pictures and got a few I liked.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm3aasdh
@craigthom those are great!
@RiotDemon Thanks. But being there was the best part.
@craigthom - Your preparation really paid off. Just brilliant!
For those who get to see the next eclipse, try viewing with a kitchen colander:
Hey, it’s only 7 years from now, you’ll remember this, right?.
(My apologies if this was already mentioned. I didn’t read all of the threads.)
@Barney It’s not the same, you’re not sweating like a pig and getting chigger bit and sunburned.