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  • blackwidowblackwidow Posts: 389 ✭✭✭

    I'll have about 95% totality where I'm at but I think it's going to be cloudy

  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll have about 92-93% here, and it is sunny right now at 8:10am, but supposed to turn partly cloudy. I hope the forecast is wrong, my grandkids are here and we are going to a park for a watch picnic.

  • genareddoggenareddog Posts: 4,232 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We are at 100% but supposed to cloud up. Our town has gone nuts!

  • blackwidowblackwidow Posts: 389 ✭✭✭

    @genareddog said:
    We are at 100% but supposed to cloud up. Our town has gone nuts!

    Oh I'm sure! Lol

  • d_bladesd_blades Posts: 3,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Supposed to be about 97%, partly cloudy. If the wife was babysitting we'd head down into Arkansas a little for 100%.

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  • IndustMechIndustMech Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭✭✭

    92-93% not a cloud in the sky.
    Seems like twilight.

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  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There’s an eclipse today?

  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sure are a lot of Luna Ticks.

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The view from my home office didn't change.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ordered a 6pk of plastic-framed eclipse glasses from Amazon. They were supposed to arrive Sunday. Yesterday around 4pm I got an email saying they wouldn't arrive until Tuesday. This morning I got an email saying Wednesday. I get home from work today and receive an email saying "good news! your package will arrive later today." SMH. They better not bïtch about giving me a refund.

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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 21,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used my reading glasses to project the sun onto a sheet of black paper, worked great, just a fingernail clipping of sun at its maximum coverage, 91%.

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Eclipse glasses for sale, 50% off! Hurry, while they last!

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  • genareddoggenareddog Posts: 4,232 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As much as I thought this was being overplayed it was freaking awesome!

  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 9

    We had a very similar view, @blackwidow , but we must have been on the other side of the totality line. The sliver was oriented downward, 180deg. opposite your pics.

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  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,592 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh that was today?

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A bit more info on eclipses. You can skip the first minute or so.

    https://youtu.be/oNH3akWXaV8?feature=shared

    Also this,

    During a solar eclipse, the Moon's shadow on Earth’s surface is only about 300 miles (480 km) wide. The shadow consists of two parts, the umbra, where the Sun is completely blocked, and the penumbra, where the Sun is partially obscured. People in the umbra will see a total eclipse, while people in the penumbra will see a partial eclipse. Though the shadow is narrow and the total eclipse lasts for only minutes, our planet rotates fast enough to bring the shadow a third of the way around Earth's surface before the Moon moves out of alignment with the Sun.

    https://science.nasa.gov/moon/eclipses/

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  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And still doesn’t answer my question lol

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Geometry of a total eclipse.

    https://youtu.be/GgYHz1DkJyg?feature=shared

    Eclipse watching using the Concorde.

    https://youtu.be/mzwwofB5_Nc?feature=shared

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