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Tom French
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

"There's an eclipse coming!" -- Science
"Ok. What time?" -- Us
"Here's a detailed map explaining when and where you'll be able to see it best. All the calculations were done years ago!" -- Science
"Wow! Thanks, Science!" -- Us, as we spend a lot of money on special glasses from Amazon
"Hey, while we have your attention, let's talk Global Climate Change..." -- Science
"That doesn't exist." -- Us, looking at the sky


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James Johnson
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Eclipse thoughts:

You can use a colander or a Ritz cracker for multiple views....

DC comics missed a great opportunity. They could have capitalized off he event with an Eclipso story line...


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John Young
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

we had about 98% here in southern Iowa.  It's overcast, but I did get to see it at about it's peek.  A thing of wonder!!!  I had glasses and a pinhole viewer.  The viewer worked ok, but the glasses are the memory maker.

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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Fairly clear skies here. We're getting 68%  . Glasses are the way to go. Wow!
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Michael Murphy
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

I just got back from watching it. The sun was about 83% covered in Columbus, OH and while the sky was cloudy (normal in Ohio) I was able to see the entire thing. I own a pair of Celestron binoculars designed for viewing the sun so I used those. Pretty amazing sight and worth the sore neck.
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I am in the Bay Area (southern part).
Had a fun time at Foothill College Observatory, where the Peninsula
Astronomical Society hosted an Eclipse Party. About 100 people showed up,
we had access to their smaller telescopes, 60mm and 80mm. Steady crowd to
view the Eclipse, the Observatory could only hold about a dozen at a time.

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Bryan Eacret
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply


I didn't have special glasses, so the first thing I did was go out and look straight at the sun, to see if it was happening. D'oh!
The sky by San Jose was a little overcast. This helped to act as a filter, so I was able to take a couple of pictures, that came out OK.
Pretty cool.

I would have liked to seen the full eclipse, so now I've added it to my Bucket List. I'm planning a trip for 2024. How's Maine in April?


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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Apparently, I have to live to 129 to be able to see totality from my terrace. Hmmm.
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

At lunch, a monitor was showing experts at NASA reporting on this, and I was sad that that was ALL that we look to NASA for anymore. It's not all they do... but this is the only time in the past couple years that I can recall that ANYONE spoke publicly with NASA.

I also reflected that if we had indulged in space travel instead of dropped it, a lot of people could have been watching this outside the atmosphere in one of the satellites that would have been at one of the Lagrange points - or so I surmised.

Instead, we had a two dollar pair of sunglasses that were useful for about four hours. Sorrowful unhappiness.
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

I took these from downtown Columbia, SC from the roof of my office building.


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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Jason wins the thread. 
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Bryan Eacret
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Posted: 21 August 2017 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Those are great!
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