Eclipse 2024!

[mudwhale]

Monday the big day of the Eclipse of 2024! They have predicted that over 5 million people have made plans to be in the locations of Totality across the USA to get the best view.

I checked the weather forecast along the entire viewing path. It runs from Partly sunny in Dallas and gets progressively worse up to Buffalo NY. The only place with clear skies will be Burlington VT!

 

[hoser]

We are only going to see a 85-90% up here. Supposed to be nice out but it is Michigan so we will see.

 

[tnsharpshooter]

Here’s what I saw where I live. Cloudy. We were in the 91-92 percent of the eclipse.
Took with digital camera via video.
Snapshot done.

 

[tnsharpshooter]

Gee whiz.

What is the longest a solar eclipse has ever lasted?​

The longest known totality was 7 minutes and 28 seconds in 743 B.C. However, NASA says this record will be broken in 2186 with a 7 minute, 29 second total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse visible from parts of the U.S. won't happen until Aug. 23, 2044.

Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Notice what it says. 7 minutes 32 seconds about the longest possible total eclipse. Hmm

 

[Cherry Picker]

I made a homemade viewer with a shoebox. I took pictures with my cell. Not much to look at, but I saw the eclipse LOL.

From Dodge City Kansas.

 

[PAdogman]

I'm up in PA's chinmey, so we had totality. And cloud cover that was breaking.
I was surprised to find that the glasses had a filtering effect on the clouds and I could watch the moon covering the sun. Even though when the glasses were off it looked like any other day with clouds covering the sun. I would only lose sight of it for maybe 10-15 seconds every once in a while when the cloud cover got too thick.

By the time totality hit, we had our patch of blue. Glasses came off, people cheering from I don't know where, as I live in the country, but I heard several groups cheering. A few fireworks being set off.
But the totality in itself was pretty cool. The bottom of the moon appeared to have these pink/magenta colored lines running from the bottom (where the sun would eventually appear again) upward about a third of the way. Like rivers. And some sort of pink flare or protrusion. Pretty cool sight.

Then the clouds moved in again, so I called it a day. I imagine it left the same way it came, so nothing new to see there.

I was glad I saw it.

 

[TorqueMaster]

Gee whiz.

What is the longest a solar eclipse has ever lasted?​

The longest known totality was 7 minutes and 28 seconds in 743 B.C. However, NASA says this record will be broken in 2186 with a 7 minute, 29 second total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse visible from parts of the U.S. won't happen until Aug. 23, 2044.

Unless Russia decides on a second war front, Alaska, part of the US, will have a total eclipse in 2033.

"The next total solar eclipse in the United States will occur in northwest Alaska on March 30, 2033."

 

[achaios]

I used the 4" refractor (with solar filter, of course) and a 40mm Plossl eyepiece to watch the eclipse. I discovered I needed a taller tripod. My neighbors got to see it in my telescope, too. It got to about 85% eclipsed here. Some clouds, but thin and they didn't impair the view.

--Tom

 

[KingTotsalot]

At the Royal Castle we had a few seconds less than 2 minutes, 30 seconds of totality. KT set out in a Royal Recliner next to the front gate and watched it start and stayed with it until totality arrived about an hour and 40 minutes later, once it passed KT watched until the sun was exposed again around 10%, then He folded up shop and returned to the Castle for a cold beer and a sandwich! Haha. We had high thin clouds which had no effect on viewing. It was a sight to behold! And yes, during totality, His Majesty heard some fireworks going off locally! The birds did not go to roost here and KT heard one crow that cawed through the entire event, obviously upset! LOL

 

[KingTotsalot]

Monday the big day of the Eclipse of 2024! They have predicted that over 5 million people have made plans to be in the locations of Totality across the USA to get the best view.

I checked the weather forecast along the entire viewing path. It runs from Partly sunny in Dallas and gets progressively worse up to Buffalo NY. The only place with clear skies will be Burlington VT!

Sorry, but you were wrong about where good viewing was along the path of totality, it was fine in central and western Arkansas and up into southern Missouri!