How I spent my afternoon.....

[BigSteve22]

For anyone who missed the show, the view from my house:

Appx. 71% coverage in New York.

 

[AirCap]

Here in Wichita we were 93%.... the light got very thin, and the temps dropped. I didn't use glasses, but under the trees I watched on the ground as the crescent thinned out and then grew as the wind blew the leaves. It was neat.

 

[BigSteve22]

Here in Wichita we were 93%.... the light got very thin, and the temps dropped. I didn't use glasses, but under the trees I watched on the ground as the crescent thinned out and then grew as the wind blew the leaves. It was neat.

Here it was like the sun went behind a big cloud. The breeze picked up a might, but not much else. My wife's down in Myrtle Beach with her sister, she said it was about as you described. BTW, I'm originally from Kansas. Born in Shawnee county. Dad was stationed at Forbes AFB (SAC back then).

 

[Axkoa]

That's pretty neat looking. I haven't seen an eclipse in years here in Queensland.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Great pictures! I'm way up at 70deg North latitude, so it didn't give us much of a show. I'm certainly enjoying everyone elses pictures though!

 

[Cagey]

We supposedly got about 80% coverage in the Detroit area, but even at that it was basically a non-event. Shadows softened a little bit, but if you didn't know it was happening, you probably wouldn't have even noticed.

 

[stratamania]

For a moment I thought you had been fitting glow in the dark dots to a fretboard. Then I remembered about the eclipse, those are good photos.

I'm not in the US so saw nothing of it.

 

[BigSteve22]

We supposedly got about 80% coverage in the Detroit area, but even at that it was basically a non-event. Shadows softened a little bit, but if you didn't know it was happening, you probably wouldn't have even noticed.

I know exactly what you mean. Without all the media hype, I probably wouldn't even have looked up. Here's two shots of the "BigSteve Solar Observatory":

The left side was taken just before the eclipse started, the right is at the height of the event. Not all that much difference.

 

[Cagey]

Yup. That could have been my porch, although I didn't set up a camera or pinhole viewer. Didn't really see much value in recording an event that has taken place every 24 hours for the last X billion years, the only difference being this time the shadow fell within a few hundred miles of where I live.

Message to flat-Earthers: Yes, the moon orbits the ROUND Earth  :laughing7:

What I did see that I thought was unusual is about a dozen airliners go over and throw a shadow in essentially the same place every time. Looks like we're in one of the flight paths for Detroit Metro, which is a pretty substantial airport (~380K operations/year). Fortunately, the planes are still at a pretty high altitude going over us as it's still another 20 miles or so to the airport, so it's no bother. But, apparently ATC lines 'em up pretty exactly. If they wanted to drop ordnance, they could have pinpointed individual cars  :laughing7:

 

[Sovereign_13]

:kewlpics:

It's not as dramatic as everyone always seems to think it's going to be (unless you get a total eclipse - there are some neat videos on YouTube).  Here in central Ohio we got about 85% coverage.  A little bit of cognitive dissonance from having "overcast/winter" levels of light with a clear sky, but just goes to show that the sun is pretty G**d*** bright.

Where I work has a machine shop, so some of our techs were passing around their welding helmets for people to look through.

Here's a good one from Salt Lake City
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7FP_lyg1uE[/youtube]

 

[BigSteve22]

.......A little bit of cognitive dissonance from having "overcast/winter" levels of light with a clear sky, but just goes to show that the sun is pretty G**d*** bright.

I actually had some high, thin cloud cover at just about the time of greatest effect. But as you noted, the sun's pretty bright!

......some of our techs were passing around their welding helmets for people to look through.

That's actually an S-10 welding lens attached to the front of the camera in the photo. (Tried to get a "real" solar viewing filter, but they were sold out for weeks.) NASA said the minimum safe welding lens was an S-14, but by using a circular polarizer along with it, it was dark enough to not damage the sensor. Of course using that filter necessitated a little post production color correction, somehow a green sun just didn't seem right.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[timezon3]

I had seen a partial when I was a kid, and wife and I made the trek from Dur'm NC to Columbia, SC to attempt totality.  As Sovereign says, totality is a whole different thing - it was really wild!  I don't think I'd ever used these words non-ironically before, but it was mind-blowing!  Also as Sovereign says, as totality approached, we were impressed by how little of the sun was showing, but it was still really bright.

Here's my sequence.

TZ

 

[rgand]

Those are some mighty cool photos you guys are posting. Here (Central CA coast) we were in the fog so it just got darker for a while. The roosters got going good in the neighborhood, though.

 

[Zhaezzy]

Nice I starred at it too here for a few minutes. I used double layer welding googles worked fine single layer not quite there good for a quick glance. Made for soem odd shadows we had about 80% here.