The Eclipse Thread
 

I'm making this thread to find out if anyone has plans for the total solar eclipse on Monday, but this thread is also for other eclipses (solar, lunar, plumage, etc.) past or present. Photos are welcome.

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So how about them eclipses amiright

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No plans, I'm staying in NY and not even caring to look up at 70 something percentage that we are getting. Didn't bother buying those goggles. A friend of mines is driving down to Kentucky for it to be in the path of totality.

Iirc former regular Blarrobarg is in Kentucky for that very reason.

I've got 50-70% where I live. I'm still gonna check it out.

im gonna stare at it with my bare eyes cuz i can

I'm camping in Acadia next week. We're going to try to check it out but it really isn't a big deal to me. I'd rather spend the time enjoying the company of my friends.

I live a couple miles outside the path of totality. I don't have any plans to go north to see it, but I'll get something like a 98% solar eclipse just on my doorstep.

My small ass home town is directly in the path of totality and it's a real concern that they're not going to have enough food for everyone coming to the area for it. All the ranches and hotels have been booked for 5+ years. I tried to tell my fam to air bnb their house and make some bank off it but my aunt told me she's worried about "the rainbow people coming and peeing and pooping in our yard."

There won't be much to see here in north Texas. :c I'll probably forget it's happening anyway.

I'm less than an hour from totality (99%), but I'm pretty much home bound these days. I won't have proper eye protection so I'll watch the eclipse on TV in my room with a north facing window open, I've already lost half of my vision with my aneurysm, I wanna keep what's left TYVM.

My sister's family will be camping at Lake Billy Chinook near Madras, OR right in the field of totality, nice...

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This one was in 1970. We pretty much were at 100% in the greater Boston area. Got super dark at its peak.

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sooo we really cant look at it with our bare eyes ..??? whats the worst that can happen

didn't the people in the 70s look at it ..?????

Saw a video that auto-played in my e-mail today which stated that the eye damage from staring at the sun is permanent/not reversible. Burns into your retina or whatever. My work gave out those special glasses (cheapo store brand) but later had to issue a memo stating the glasses technically weren't approved to specifications by NASA for such an event. I will take the word of NASA on this one.

Well it's eclipse day, beautiful bright cloudless sunshine, it's about to get dark as night...

Ja it's too cloudy to see anything here as well.

i think this is the one that everybody here (nova scotia) creams their pants about. we (they) saw one in '70 and one in '72 and apparently none since. ive been reading a lot of articles about people who have suffered eye damage because of it.

It has begun

Clouds have cleared a bit and we're at about peak. Borrowed a coworker's glasses and it was pretty minimal tbh.

Looked good on the news. They are in Madras, Oregon.

Bay Area is cloudy as **** lol

I'm not really in the eclipse's path so the most it looks like is that the sun is behind some clouds, but there aren't any clouds around.

Given the amount of hype I've heard about this, I can't help but be a little disappointed.

The guys in Oregon seem to be enjoying themselves. I saw the eclipse in 2015 but it wasn't good here, the footage from the Faroe Islands was amazing though and this one looked just as good.

Well ja if you're in the path of totality I imagine it's amazing.

They were just talking about how in the 6th century BC a solar eclipse occurred during a war between two factions in the middle east. It freaked both sides out so bad that they immediately negotiated a peace treaty for fear that the Gods were unhappy about the fighting.

It's also the one that Carly Simon references in the song "Your so Vain".

Well I hear you went to Saratoga
And your horse, naturally, won
Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun

That eclipse saved Hank's life too.

i just looked at it, it was cool. i dunno if welding mask counts as proper eyewear but if it doesn't everyone at my work place is ****ed for the future.

I looked right at it when I took the glasses off and was fine tbh. Maybe I'm just already blind though.

It looks like someone's been messing with the brightness setting on my planet.

It mostly looked like any other day as in photo 1, but I got two fuzzy amateur shots with a point-and-shoot @ peak time.

damn, we only got like 65% of it here.

lol at the glasses

Ikr....Try taking him seriously...you cant.