Newsmax has gone off the deep end with this. Pastors and Rabbis crying and praying, and I think a weathergirl they interviewed in Arkansas had an orgasm. "I'm so excited I'm just tingling all over".

The good news is that we don't have to hear the word "totality" for another twenty years.

Super let down in Central TX. Complete cloud cover. Got dark sure, but only a couple of peeks of the eclipse while being obscured. 1/10. Waste of time.

Cloudy here all day but it thinned right at totality so it was visible. Got dark as night but the chickens didn't go to bed.

I was riding my motorcycle shortly before, during, and after the total eclipse.

It got dark, the streetlights came on, the streetlights went off, I made it back to my office.

The end

Had a pretty decent view of it here in Delaware Bay. Our auto-darkening welding helmet worked perfectly. About 90% of totality.

Got a pretty good view here in Pittsburgh as the cloud cover disappeared at the right time. Only downside was I got a stiff neck from watching while sitting on the deck!

Oooooooh......Ahhhhhhhhh...

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I subbed at my youngest’s school today. When we walked out, he commented that it was dark out. Since we’re not anywhere near the total eclipse area, I completely forgot/ignored that it was today. I checked the internet and sure enough we happened to walk out at the peak in our area. It wasn’t much and I wouldn’t have noticed it if my son hadn’t said anything. The thing I really notice was the glare off cars and such was weird looking.

That was one awesome event! The power of the Sun and Moon is incredible!

Totality in Indianapolis viewed from my driveway. Pretty cool. Not sure how bad the roads are afterwards. The Motor Speedway had 50,000 people. Bloomington had William Shatner speaking to the crowd.

After watching it, the whole worry about kids getting their eyes burned out by watching, and closing schools "out of an abundance of caution" is just absurd. Any day of the year, people can look at the sun and burn their eyes. They don't because it hurts and you can't look for more than an instant. The partial eclipse is still too bright to look at directly even with only 10% of the sun unblocked.

Every school that shut down should dock all administrators and faculty a day's pay. They just whined to get an extra 3-day weekend.

Eclipse! What eclipse??

Here in SoDak we were on the fringes anyway and we had cloud cover to boot, so if there was an eclipse we didn't notice. Yawn...

We had perfect viewing here in the Pacific Ocean south of Cabo. Over 4 minutes of totality which seemed to go by really fast. We had two great "diamond rings", and could clearly see a solar flare towards the bottom. Yeah, totality is completely different than partial. Planets, a comet, the corona.

We were likely the first to see totality today, being at the beginning of the path. Well worth the trouble to get here.

I thought about driving down to Ohio but had a prior engagement in the morning.
I think 93% here and took what I could get.
I do wish I had bought that solar filter for my 4.5" dob that I put off buying. Had to go w/ just the glasses.

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This is the best shot I took from south of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was underwhelming how bright the sky was when over 95% of the sun was obscured, but also showed just how powerful that fireball in the sky really is!!

Pretty cool. We are just outside the path of totality, but I saw the 'diamond necklace' effect. I've got 20 years to get the right filter for my camera so I can get pics next time.

Pretty cool here in Massachusetts. About 93%. Still bright out but an eerie sort of atmosphere to the light.

Now this is surely coincidence but this morning on my way to work (5:30 am) I almost hit 6 animals. 5 were birds. 3 in the middle of the street and 2 almost flew into my car. Then a bunny was running down the middle of the street. It’s a 50 minute drive and I’m sure just strange coincidence. But I was saying to myself “why the fuck are these animals trying to commit suicide. I wasn’t thinking about the eclipse at the time. Birds were particularly loud during the eclipse too.

Some pics from the eastern panhandle of WV.

The best I could do with the iPhone and a filter over the camera


A shot of the sun through a colander with round holes- kind of like a paper plate pin hole image


Really neat effect- check out all the crescent shapes in the image.
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