Eclipse - what will it look like where you are?

[Calamity Kris]

Here in Central Florida, it rained this morning and has been cloudy off and on all day.  We're supposed to have a 90% occlusion here.  We'll see what happens when the time arrives.

[Calamity Kris]

Fox national has a good live broadcast if you can't see it in person.

[Warden Callaway]

I just looked at local traffic cams and traffic is light and moving.  We're about half way into total.  Probably after it's over,  there will be a mad dash to go home.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Overcast here.  Looked like a basic cloudy dsy.

[J-BAR #18287]

Well we are a few minutes past totality, a bit disappointed.  Perfect weather for viewing, noticeable drop in temperature, but the sky remained blue, not gonna see any stars in my time-lapse video. Just did not get as dark as I expected.  But it was really cool to see that narrow sliver of the Sun for a few minutes.  Watching the NASA Channel on TV, neat seeing the corona.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

That was pretty cool, thought it might get darker. That less-than-one-percent sliver still put out a lot of light. Got to see maybe a minute of it before clouds rolled in. Now it's just a normal cloudy day. I wonder how the folks up north of here in St. Joe did?

[Pulp, SASS#28319]

Maximum for SE OK.

[Warden Callaway]

Well,  I'm glad I didn't spend more than $2 for a pair of glasses.  The moon did totally block out the sun but it didn't get dark.  There was still a lot of light coming in on the horizon.   

 

 

Here is looking south from our front yard at full eclipse.  Neighbor down the valley set off fireworks.   The camera didn't pick up the colors.   It didn't cool off noticeably. 

[Calico Mary]

we just had a one hour team meeting.....outside   the last 5 minutes of it we did discuss w#$k.....

[Blackwater 53393]

Total blockage for about a minute and a half.

 

The picture I took looks like a comet or something. The sun was passing through a huge contrail.  There is a planet visible low and to the right.

[Rye Miles #13621]

Clouds rolled in just before and you could see the sun veiled behind the clouds, not much to get excited about.

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

I remember in high school we looked at the sun thru exposed film in a science class, so I got out some exposed 35mm film strips. Doubled them up and WOW it was pretty spectacular. Got maybe 80/85% here in SW Colorado. Definitely got darker and cooler.

[Warden Callaway]

I did get a couple of neat pictures because of the eclipse. 

 

Here are shadows from the sun coming through the leaves on the concrete porch a few minutes before the total eclipse. 

 

 

Here are the shadows a few minutes after the total eclipse.  Notice the crescent shapes go in opposite directions.

[Too Tall Bob]

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Just another overcast day.  That's okay, though.  I've seen three other partial eclipses and one total eclipse.  One of the partials was in Wyoming, but the rest were overseas.

[Festus G Lonetree]

On 8/21/2017 at 5:15 PM, Too Tall Bob said:

 

That is EXACTLY what I saw here in Anchorage, Alaska.