My wife and I are already talking about the August 2, 2027 eclipse. Six and a half minutes of totality in the center of the path. But where to go? Tangiers? Gibraltar? Luxor? Certainly not Benghazi...
Total eclipse coming, 8 April 2024!
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Ours was definitely a family experience. My aunt and uncle in Dallas were originally planning on staying inside. They did not trust the information or the dinky eclipse glasses. They felt better with me showing up with equipment and “coaching” them I guess. I really wanted them and my mom to see it, since their house was right in the path!
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Viewing was pretty good in Ft Worth but frightening with intermittent clouds. Anne put some of our photos up at https://sites.google.com/view/eclipse2024wtm/
Great job! The clouds obviously detracted, but made an interesting effect in places!
I like it!
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It was very interesting to contrast this total eclipse (low altitude, clouds) to the 2017 eclipse which we viewed from high altitude, low humidity, and no clouds in Wyoming. Very different!
We only had an 80% so I am glad people shared.
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I traveled to Indianapolis to see totality, joining some 50,000 people at the Indy 500 speedway. We all watched the celestial festivities en masse right on the track, which, according to an employee I spoke with, the general public almost never gets allowed to walk on. Skies remained pretty clear and totality definitely delivered. It looked like a large, fiery black hole piercing the sky. Having experienced a 97% eclipse for the previous "once in a lifetime experience," I now know the difference that totality makes. I will never forget it. Not having decent cameras along, I attempted a photo with my (newly acquired) mobile. This was the best image I could get, which actually turned out better than I expected. After totality, many people walked over to kneel down and kiss the bricks on the finish line of the track. One mother yelled to her teenage son "just pretend to! just pretend to!" That place was immense.
The speedway grounds also included a number of interesting things, such as rocket engines and other rocket-related items.
NASA also had booths and a lot of Artemis swag.
The speedway grounds also included a number of interesting things, such as rocket engines and other rocket-related items.
NASA also had booths and a lot of Artemis swag.
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They had a small event at BTV, was a really good time. Still can’t get over the 360* “sunset”, it’s a totally surreal feeling.
You all had such eclipse fun. Except for the Rapture. That was a bit rough.
THIS!
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When will you all have one?
We no longer have the manufacturing facilities to make our own eclipse, so we’ll either buy a cheap Chinese one or wait until England has finished with theirs and hope King Charles gifts it to the colonies.
It may then do a tour of Canada before its eventual installation here.
I’m not even sure if we make enough electricity to run a modern eclipse.
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I went to Laughlin AFB just outside of Del Rio, TX. We had a fair bit of clouds but did get to see enough of the eclipse and totality that it was worth the travel. Here is my "best of" composition. The wide field is from a GoPro just at the end of totality. The eight partial phases were with my Canon T3i, 600 mm lens, and a Baader film solar filter.
Here's Scott Manley's eclipse experience.
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