I am in the path with a perfect view from my backyard but predicted cloudy weather. I will go out and look but most likely just see the dark and not much else. Yesterday was clear blue sky today so far is grey.
@kuoh@speediedelivery So how do you determine if Schroedinger’s eclipse occurred, and most importantly, is your cat or cats still OK?
On that topic I was outside at the time (85% cloudy) and the neighbor’s cat which is normally very fast and aloof looked very confused and seemed to be very timid, hiding near a fire hydrant and then some steps near my house, and came up to rub against my leg, which she never has done before.
@kuoh@pmarin@speediedelivery It sounds like, due to the Schrödinger eclipse, that cat was simultaneously both your neighbor’s cat and not your neighbor’s cat. A very special time in a cat’s lives, where they branch out and experiment with other hoomans.
@Lynnerizer I didn’t have good filters and there was still a small sliver of sunlight on one edge of the moon. Still too much light to see the corona well. This was at about 99% totality:
@Lynnerizer@rockblossom If it was left on auto, then the camera was trying to boost the ISO or shutter for low light. Might work better next time to use manual or a sports mode with high shutter speed.
In the path of totality and right now it’s a little cloudy - expected to be really cloudy at the time of the eclipse. I’ll go in my back yard and try to see it, but I doubt I’ll see much of anything except the blip of darkness.
I think around 90% by me, but I didn’t get official glasses so I will just experience the darkness. It’s overcast here anyway. I’m still recovering from the earthquake so I’m not really ready for another apocalyptic event. Waiting for locusts next.
@kuoh Only for a minute or two because they need to get in and out fast. Zombies will get you while you are wearing the eclipse glasses or looking around for vampires.
90-95% it’s happening right now and my cat is going absolutely bonkers! The guy I’m watching that’s broadcasting from Lake Placid, NY is WAY TOO emotional! In my opinion anyway…
@Lynnerizer What did your cat do? Mine got all meowy but I thought it was just because I was outside ignoring him instead of topping up his food bowl (visible space in between the bits at the bottom! )
@mossygreen I wasn’t having much luck with with the pretty holes. We were only up to 49%, and only got results from actual pin holes. The paper punch size never performed.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder what level of occlusion it takes to get results from what size holes.
91% and very cloudy, rain and thunderstorms were predicted. Sky was really cloudy but right when the eclipse was at its maximum there was just enough holes in the clouds that we saw it on and off as clouds blew over it. We were really lucky to see brief snippets of it.
I got lucky. I’ll have to edit out the useless parts before and after it, but I got a short piece of video during which the clouds were thin and you could see the corona through them. Neat.
In 1979 we made cameras out of paper plates, so I did that. Nostalgia.
But who needs a pinhole camera when the colander has been invented?
I also have eclipse binoculars, which were a ridiculous purchase in 2017 even though I’ve now been able to use them twice. They’re very cool, but such a silly expense.
Here’s my 2017 colander pic (I was in totality a few minutes later!) and today’s.
Only 49% here. We did nothing special except walk outside and use the glasses a few times, and try to get fun crescents from shadows.
An actual pinhole worked to show the shape, but the paper punch holes never fared very well. I’m not sure why. At or around the maximum I was able to get some odd-looking shadows with my hands, but the hole-punch papers still didn’t show much.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Someone somewhere has probably published papers on what percentage occlusion will be visible with what size pinholes. I won’t bother hunting for it, but I’d be interested to see it.
It was not terribly exciting to actually watch, but still very neat (for me), knowing what was going on. I don’t think my kids got much out of it. Oh well.
Most of all, I wish I could’ve experienced the totality. I blame the goat for not having any viable travel plans in place.
I guess there’s always whenever the next one comes around “nearby” — I’ll probably still be alive then.
@Kyeh i was in cincinatti, driving back to detroit anyway. typically 5ish hours. but drive home after totality should have been 3ish hours, but took 7+ hours. i made the mistake of trying to get off the highway and take the backroads, which 10,000 other people also thought was a good idea apparently.
@Yoda_Daenerys no we’re dopes too. Figured we weren’t going anywhere near I-75 or 23. Saved us on the trip down, that’s for sure. We went the middle, through Maybee.
I saw an arial pic of traffic at 8:30p and both were still backed up. I think we made the best choice.
It was just Alexis that was a disaster. Got stuck between the train tracks with a train coming.
I surprised my wife with a pre-anniversary weekend getaway to the Finger Lakes. (Keuka) I was planning to watch the eclipse on the Northern end of Lake Canadaigua but the clouds had a different plan.
We got up Monday morning and drove 4 hours (300 miles) southeast to Mentor, Ohio. (about 25 miles NE of Cleveland) There were high, thin clouds but they didn’t cause an issue. We got to see about 3 minutes and 49 seconds of totality. It was AWESOME!
When it was over I drove 400 miles, 7 1/2 hours, back home to Baltimore. It should have been 6 hours home but the beginning of the trip was miserable due to the outflux of everyone leaving the “Zone of Totality”. All told, I drove 700 miles in 11 1/2 hours. And it was worth it.
@f00l Just watched the video - that’s the best coverage of it I’ve seen, so thanks for that. Is it how you saw it? I can understand how people in the past would have been terrified by it!
@f00l That “pro” photo with the bluebonnets in the foreground was pretty obviously assembled. The position of the eclipse above the horizon was completely impossible, for one thing.
I’m in the full path. I enjoyed the view. Outside my office building. Then I enjoyed hearing the reactions of people on my floor when the network dropped ,
I sat on my deck in 75° weather, and had 3 1/2 minutes of totality. Temp dropped 3°. The shadow was moving @ 4000 mph, but it stayed long enough to bring some confused bats out to flitter around.
Was mostly cloudy but still saw this (it was much more detailed in person). I didn’t understand why someone would spend thousands to get into the path of totality… but now I get it.
live on the path of totality. local EMA was predicting an additional 100k people ( doubling the county’s population) to come in for the eclipse. they opened up the fairgrounds for camping… ended up getting about 100 campers according to the news. I drove past there twice, only saw a handfull of vehicles.
My Gf lives 20 mi away, closer to the center of the path,(like an extra 20 sec of darkness! wow!), so i drove out there and we watched together.
on both the way there, and back, didn’t run into any abnormal amounts of traffic…and the clouds cleared about an hour before the eclipse.
oh… and the store where we both work, the glasses (regularly $1.99) were marked down to 99cents on Eclipse day.
@speediedelivery I’m expecting the same Schrodinger’s eclipse experience here.
KuoH
@kuoh @speediedelivery So how do you determine if Schroedinger’s eclipse occurred, and most importantly, is your cat or cats still OK?
On that topic I was outside at the time (85% cloudy) and the neighbor’s cat which is normally very fast and aloof looked very confused and seemed to be very timid, hiding near a fire hydrant and then some steps near my house, and came up to rub against my leg, which she never has done before.
@kuoh @pmarin @speediedelivery It sounds like, due to the Schrödinger eclipse, that cat was simultaneously both your neighbor’s cat and not your neighbor’s cat. A very special time in a cat’s lives, where they branch out and experiment with other hoomans.
Path of totality, completely cloudy. We’re at a party at a distillery. It’s unlikely that the eclipse will be visible. Dark, yes.
90.6% occlusion. I’ll probably go for a walk outside around two.
98-99% here, and I plan to stay in my own yard. Clear skies, a few wisps of cloud. Have Glasses, Will (Not) Travel.
@rockblossom Did you get any pictures?
@Lynnerizer I didn’t have good filters and there was still a small sliver of sunlight on one edge of the moon. Still too much light to see the corona well. This was at about 99% totality:
@Lynnerizer @rockblossom If it was left on auto, then the camera was trying to boost the ISO or shutter for low light. Might work better next time to use manual or a sports mode with high shutter speed.
KuoH
65-70% covered here. completely overcast. at least i saw totality back in 2017
In the path of totality and right now it’s a little cloudy - expected to be really cloudy at the time of the eclipse. I’ll go in my back yard and try to see it, but I doubt I’ll see much of anything except the blip of darkness.
I think around 90% by me, but I didn’t get official glasses so I will just experience the darkness. It’s overcast here anyway. I’m still recovering from the earthquake so I’m not really ready for another apocalyptic event. Waiting for locusts next.
@heartny As long as there are no zombie attacks, you’re good.
@heartny @rockblossom It’s the vampires you have to worry about in an eclipse.
KuoH
@kuoh Only for a minute or two because they need to get in and out fast. Zombies will get you while you are wearing the eclipse glasses or looking around for vampires.
@heartny The rain of frogs is worse.
@heartny @werehatrack Somebody give me an Irk and I’ll tell the sky dragon to stop swallowing the sun.
KuoH
@kuoh @rockblossom
Nut uh… No zombies!
Guess I should count myself lucky that I didn’t have to travel hundreds of miles and fight last minute hotel cancelations to witness this.
KuoH
@kuoh same here. Path of totality and clouds were 100% so for us it just got dark for 3 1/2 min
Someone said it was a rare double eclipse - the moon completely blocks the sun and the clouds completely block the moon
20% and raining. no one making much of a fuss around here.
90-95% it’s happening right now and my cat is going absolutely bonkers!
The guy I’m watching that’s broadcasting from Lake Placid, NY is WAY TOO emotional! In my opinion anyway… 
@Lynnerizer What did your cat do? Mine got all meowy but I thought it was just because I was outside ignoring him instead of topping up his food bowl (visible space in between the bits at the bottom!
)
I guess we were at 92.6% based on the NASA site.
@mossygreen Cool!
@mossygreen I wasn’t having much luck with with the pretty holes. We were only up to 49%, and only got results from actual pin holes. The paper punch size never performed.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder what level of occlusion it takes to get results from what size holes.
We got about 65%. Nice and sunny and I saw it with the eclipse glasses. My sister sent me this:
@Kyeh Colander for the win!
@Kyeh @mossygreen By next year Meh will be selling colanders with little eclipse moon shapes instead of circular holes!
I’d buy one so I could pretend I’m seeing an eclipse whenever I want!
~98%, but very overcast, with clouds coming and going. Saw a partial eclipse through a momentary hole in the clouds.
@phendrick Alexa, please end the eclipse now. I’ve got more work to do outside and don’t want to wear a headlamp.
OK. That’s good. Thank you.
@phendrick Based on your Alexa request Amazon will send you a dozen headlamps and bill it to your credit card.
@pmarin i was hoping for some in my net irk.
100% and the clouds dispersed by the time it was going on in NE Ohio.
My friend who traveled to Dallas to see it said the clouds cleared and they saw the totality!
80‰
Sunlight through double shade from the trees
@chienfou Very artistic shot!
@chienfou
dappled shade
@chienfou
And less we forget… There’s always the
colender trick
91% and very cloudy, rain and thunderstorms were predicted. Sky was really cloudy but right when the eclipse was at its maximum there was just enough holes in the clouds that we saw it on and off as clouds blew over it. We were really lucky to see brief snippets of it.
I’m in Sutton, Canada where it was in totality. Got some skiing in and watched from the top of the mountain.
@cinoclav Fabulous - did you take that photo?
@Kyeh I did!
@cinoclav Beautiful!
@Kyeh Thank you! Such a memorable moment for sure.
@cinoclav @Kyeh Yeah it seems you definitely win this round.
90%. I went outside and looked.
Tomorrow I plan on buying 100 discounted pairs of eclipse glasses off this site for $5!
@zachdecker They were only $3/pair at my local hardware store yesterday!
@Kyeh I’m counting on getting 100 for $5!
Then I’ll turn a nice profit in 2045…
@Kyeh @zachdecker By then we’ll all be using either Geordi or Borg visors.
KuoH
@zachdecker Oh, not $5/each, okay.
@Kyeh @zachdecker Where is Locutus of Borg when we need him?
I got lucky. I’ll have to edit out the useless parts before and after it, but I got a short piece of video during which the clouds were thin and you could see the corona through them. Neat.
We drove 3 hours to be in totality, so worth it!! It was really cool…and also really cool, as in it got chilly when the sun was hidden.
@cbilyak Great photo!
I was at about 88% today.
In 1979 we made cameras out of paper plates, so I did that. Nostalgia.
But who needs a pinhole camera when the colander has been invented?
I also have eclipse binoculars, which were a ridiculous purchase in 2017 even though I’ve now been able to use them twice. They’re very cool, but such a silly expense.
Here’s my 2017 colander pic (I was in totality a few minutes later!) and today’s.
Only 49% here. We did nothing special except walk outside and use the glasses a few times, and try to get fun crescents from shadows.
An actual pinhole worked to show the shape, but the paper punch holes never fared very well. I’m not sure why. At or around the maximum I was able to get some odd-looking shadows with my hands, but the hole-punch papers still didn’t show much.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Someone somewhere has probably published papers on what percentage occlusion will be visible with what size pinholes. I won’t bother hunting for it, but I’d be interested to see it.
It was not terribly exciting to actually watch, but still very neat (for me), knowing what was going on. I don’t think my kids got much out of it. Oh well.
Most of all, I wish I could’ve experienced the totality. I blame the goat
for not having any viable travel plans in place.
I guess there’s always whenever the next one comes around “nearby” — I’ll probably still be alive then.
@xobzoo depends where you live. i think detroit area will be 2099, or something like that for the next one.
@Yoda_Daenerys Well, I figured “within the country” counts as close enough… though it apparently wasn’t these last two times.
@xobzoo @Yoda_Daenerys
2044 in the far north, and a more central one in 2045!
@Kyeh @xobzoo not sure i’ll still be lucid by that time, or even breathing…
but if i’m still driving, lucid or not, i’ll make the trip.
It was cloudy where I was and the picture I got was crap but I did get a decent view when there was a gap in the clouds!
the drive home was horrendous (but it was still worth it)
@Yoda_Daenerys Wow! How far did you have to drive?
@Kyeh i was in cincinatti, driving back to detroit anyway. typically 5ish hours. but drive home after totality should have been 3ish hours, but took 7+ hours. i made the mistake of trying to get off the highway and take the backroads, which 10,000 other people also thought was a good idea apparently.
@Yoda_Daenerys Took us 5 hours to get from Kenton (south of Findlay) back to Detroit. Toledo was a disaster area.
@katbyter another Mehigander!
did you stay on I-75? if so, then i don’t feel like such a dope for trying the alternative route(s)…
@Yoda_Daenerys no we’re dopes too. Figured we weren’t going anywhere near I-75 or 23. Saved us on the trip down, that’s for sure. We went the middle, through Maybee.
I saw an arial pic of traffic at 8:30p and both were still backed up. I think we made the best choice.
It was just Alexis that was a disaster. Got stuck between the train tracks with a train coming.
I surprised my wife with a pre-anniversary weekend getaway to the Finger Lakes. (Keuka) I was planning to watch the eclipse on the Northern end of Lake Canadaigua but the clouds had a different plan.
We got up Monday morning and drove 4 hours (300 miles) southeast to Mentor, Ohio. (about 25 miles NE of Cleveland) There were high, thin clouds but they didn’t cause an issue. We got to see about 3 minutes and 49 seconds of totality. It was AWESOME!
When it was over I drove 400 miles, 7 1/2 hours, back home to Baltimore. It should have been 6 hours home but the beginning of the trip was miserable due to the outflux of everyone leaving the “Zone of Totality”. All told, I drove 700 miles in 11 1/2 hours. And it was worth it.
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
Supposedly from the James Webb telescope
@f00l
One pro photog got this
@f00l
I got this shot
@f00l
This was what the horizon looked like during totality.
Was amazed at how fast it got dark in the final seconds and how dark it was.
@f00l
Also was blown away by the corona. Didn’t know it changed every instant until I saw it.
About 1 min in to see the active corona
@f00l That’s great that the clouds drifted enough for you to see it!!!
@f00l Just watched the video - that’s the best coverage of it I’ve seen, so thanks for that. Is it how you saw it? I can understand how people in the past would have been terrified by it!
@Kyeh
Supposedly caused “end of the world” social events - from riots to religious movements - in the deep dark past.
Yes mine looked much like that newscast, except for more cloud cover, but could always see the sun thru the clouds.
Watching the corona was trip in itself.
Not Webb, that’s a NASA shot from Earth from a previous eclipse.
@f00l That “pro” photo with the bluebonnets in the foreground was pretty obviously assembled. The position of the eclipse above the horizon was completely impossible, for one thing.
@werehatrack
I was wondering if there was a convex lens involved.
@blaineg
I was misinformed.
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/youtube dark side of the moon
I’m in the full path. I enjoyed the view. Outside my office building. Then I enjoyed hearing the reactions of people on my floor when the network dropped ,
I sat on my deck in 75° weather, and had 3 1/2 minutes of totality. Temp dropped 3°. The shadow was moving @ 4000 mph, but it stayed long enough to bring some confused bats out to flitter around.
Was mostly cloudy but still saw this (it was much more detailed in person). I didn’t understand why someone would spend thousands to get into the path of totality… but now I get it.
@j2 Great photo!
100% occlusion. 99% Cloudy. We caught some glimpses through the clouds, but nothing but darkness during the totality. Sucks, but still cool.
live on the path of totality. local EMA was predicting an additional 100k people ( doubling the county’s population) to come in for the eclipse. they opened up the fairgrounds for camping… ended up getting about 100 campers according to the news. I drove past there twice, only saw a handfull of vehicles.
My Gf lives 20 mi away, closer to the center of the path,(like an extra 20 sec of darkness! wow!), so i drove out there and we watched together.
on both the way there, and back, didn’t run into any abnormal amounts of traffic…and the clouds cleared about an hour before the eclipse.
oh… and the store where we both work, the glasses (regularly $1.99) were marked down to 99cents on Eclipse day.