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Total Eclipse Anyone?

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This year the total eclipse is going to land pretty close to us so I am tempted to go and see if I can photograph it in Oregon, on August 27th.

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The only thing is heat! It is in Madras again!!! :D Maybe I find a place closer to the coast for some relief.

The next one is seven years from now in 2024 I think. So a long way into the future.

Not sure if it is going to hit land elsewhere in the world. Post if you know.
 

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This would be about my closest option:

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Best to find a place where good road follows the path in case you need to avoid a cloud...
 

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Saw this one while living in Kenya, quite an experience

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Goes right over my hometown in MO but I won't be there, alas. It will be a little north of where I live now.
 

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Traffic Map after the Eclipse.

The whole map was too big...

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I didn't go...

Watched it all on TV.

Then, out of the corner of my eye, I thought it had clouded over outside.

Looked at the time, and found we were at 82% totality.

It wasn't cloudy, the sky was clear, but dim, didn't feel the usual heat in the sunlight.

Good enough...
 

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We were at ~90% at the house. Friends drove north but what a mess -- a 1 hour drive into WY from northern CO was a 3 hour drive according to the radio this morning, and traffic was heavy Friday. For better or worse my wife and I have been sick so we stayed home and observed using a pinhole viewer (cardboard with pinhole projected onto white paper -- forgot to order glasses before our trip a couple of weeks ago so none to be had).

My PC was set to the NASA stream but it kept freezing, probably overloaded server and/or Internet providers...
 

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I'm here in Louisville so just walked out the front door. 96% percent coverage here (or was it 94%).
 

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Here in SoCal -- clouds and 56.9% eclipse.
 

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My son commented it was like wearing sunglasses (at ~90%). My response was to note just how much energy the sun generates when it is still so bright at 90% eclipsed! It did feel much cooler, however, like moving from the sun to the shade on a sunny day (natch).
 

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I only had 93% coverage today...it's amazing that with only 7% showing it's still subjectively daylight, albeit like twilight.
 

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I thought it would be darker; I saw nothing dark, everything was clear (blue sky) like usual.


You (and I) were rather distant from the totality.

I should have taken before/after pictures with a fixed aperture and shutter speed (82% here)

Your eyes adjust to accommodate changes in brightness, probably in a logarithmic fashion (like hearing).

The camera would have been prevented from adjusting, for comparison, and should show a more "accurate" impression of the dimming.

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From EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera), a 10-channel spectroradiometer (317 – 780 nm) onboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, located at the Earth-Sun Lagrange-1 (L-1) point

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From ISS:

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I saw that same picture (second one) from ISS website. I was @ the dentist; I looked trough the window and did not notice any shade of the sky (about 90% here), but my dentist said that she could see some shading of the sky. I wear glasses, she doesn't. And @ the time I wasn't wearing them, because I was under a drill with 30,000 rotations/vibrations per second! And that, was my own full eclipse, with dentist shade glasses to protect my eyes from teeth fragments flying around.

• Bonus (can you read French?) → https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=e4a7e126a3026821f074451b7f59655b&oe=5A2C61AB

* Cool animated one of the Earth Ray.
 

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