Solar Eclipse

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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I think I'm going to partake in this.  I have a welding helmet that I'm using.  

    What is everyone else using?
    I got a dozen pairs of glasses for free online like 6 months ago,

    Some of the towns here in Oregon are expecting to be so over crowded that they'll run out of fuel and water and other supplies. The hype is everywhere.
    #FHP
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    I'm camping the day before and the day after. Usually when camping I expect to escape from people. Not going to happen this time.
    #FHP
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    I hope everyone goes and gets a hotel and watches it from the parking lot so that I can enjoy the mountains lol
    We will sleep at the trailhead and have our spot staked out about 4 miles down the trail by the time most of the fatties get out of bed and put on their new sunhats.
    Still, I'm expecting a shit show getting down off the Blue Ridge Parkway after it's over. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,624
    rgambs said:
    I hope everyone goes and gets a hotel and watches it from the parking lot so that I can enjoy the mountains lol
    We will sleep at the trailhead and have our spot staked out about 4 miles down the trail by the time most of the fatties get out of bed and put on their new sunhats.
    Still, I'm expecting a shit show getting down off the Blue Ridge Parkway after it's over. 
    Always take the extra day before and after!
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    tempo_n_groove said:
    rgambs said:
    I hope everyone goes and gets a hotel and watches it from the parking lot so that I can enjoy the mountains lol
    We will sleep at the trailhead and have our spot staked out about 4 miles down the trail by the time most of the fatties get out of bed and put on their new sunhats.
    Still, I'm expecting a shit show getting down off the Blue Ridge Parkway after it's over. 
    Always take the extra day before and after!
    Oh yeah, we have Tuesday off, we will probably chill at the trailhead long enough to make dinner.  It's gonna be hot as balls and that's going to make me irritable.
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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    rgambs said:
    northerndragon said:
    Lucky me just chillin in Asheville. Helps when you just live in the right place at the right time.
    Woot woot!  I'm coming down to Black Balsam in the Pisgah District outside of Brevard, do you know it?

    I would get up on a mountain if you can, in town is no kind of place from which to view such a magnificent celestial event.
    I just moved here at the end of April. So I know where Brevard is but not the specific area you are going to be in. I haven't figured out where I will be on Monday yet. The in laws are here for the weekend and leave Monday morning so it's going to be tight where ever I end up.
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  • camsjam
    camsjam Posts: 375
    markymark550 said:
    camsjam said:
    Less than a week away!!!  Going on a wing n prayer driving south from Raleigh to Sumter sc late Sunday night and napping in the car once we pick a likely viewing spot. Hoping for a clear cloud fee view!  Looking forward to seeing an awesome beautiful natural occurance to remind me that there is still so much beauty in the world in spite of the ugliness humans create.
    Midlands of SC are going to be crazy. We're expecting over 1 million people coming to Columbia. I'm honestly not sure if the city can support this massive influx of people all at one time. I'm taking the day off just in case it's too crazy.
    You're smart. Columbia should be crazy. I'd love to get to the river walk there but I am going for a small-scale city hoping it might be easier. Have you been getting a lot of cloud cover down there? Our sky was completely overcast up here.
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    I have to say I had no idea people would go so far out of their way to experience this. I remember there being a solar eclipse when I was in school, all those years ago. I don't recall much fuss being made about it. 
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,766
    edited August 2017
    We should be getting 92% coverage here apparently. I'll be at work I think - if I remember to grab some eclipse glasses at the drug store I'll go up on the roof and check it out. There was a total eclipse of the sun when I was a little kid back in the early 80s and I didn't see shit using the crappy shadow viewer things that my teacher had us make. Total eclipse fail, lol.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    PJ_Soul said:
    We should be getting 92% coverage here apparently. I'll be at work I think - if I remember to grab some eclipse glasses at the drug store I'll go up on the roof and check it out. There was a total eclipse of the sun when I was a little kid back in the early 80s and I didn't see shit using the crappy shadow viewer things that my teacher had us make. Total eclipse fail, lol.
    Ha ha! That's exactly my memory too. Science class fail. 
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Could one just use the front-facing camera on one's phone to view the eclipse?
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    oftenreading said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    We should be getting 92% coverage here apparently. I'll be at work I think - if I remember to grab some eclipse glasses at the drug store I'll go up on the roof and check it out. There was a total eclipse of the sun when I was a little kid back in the early 80s and I didn't see shit using the crappy shadow viewer things that my teacher had us make. Total eclipse fail, lol.
    Ha ha! That's exactly my memory too. Science class fail. 
    Third on this train!

    I'm just looking forward to that weird, surreal-ish view.  A rarity, especially here (and we have many weird, surreal-ish people =) )
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    camsjam said:
    markymark550 said:
    camsjam said:
    Less than a week away!!!  Going on a wing n prayer driving south from Raleigh to Sumter sc late Sunday night and napping in the car once we pick a likely viewing spot. Hoping for a clear cloud fee view!  Looking forward to seeing an awesome beautiful natural occurance to remind me that there is still so much beauty in the world in spite of the ugliness humans create.
    Midlands of SC are going to be crazy. We're expecting over 1 million people coming to Columbia. I'm honestly not sure if the city can support this massive influx of people all at one time. I'm taking the day off just in case it's too crazy.
    You're smart. Columbia should be crazy. I'd love to get to the river walk there but I am going for a small-scale city hoping it might be easier. Have you been getting a lot of cloud cover down there? Our sky was completely overcast up here.
    I was outside pretty much all day today. It was clear this morning, but around 11 it was overcast and a very slight drizzle of rain right before noon. Cleared back up around 2:30 or so.

    Weather report this morning said there was a very good chance of clouds and/or rain on Monday.
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    I'm directly in the center of the path. Schools will be closed along with many businesses. There's expected to be about 1 million plus extra people flooding to the tri county area. Traffic, cell phone towers will be jammed, and a spike in fuel costs has made this thing more of a pain in the ass. In the SE, it will only last for about a minute and a half. As opposed to the NW, where you will get about 2 and a half minutes of darkness. 


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  • SmallestOceans
    SmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    Degeneratefk said:
    I'm directly in the center of the path. Schools will be closed along with many businesses. There's expected to be about 1 million plus extra people flooding to the tri county area. Traffic, cell phone towers will be jammed, and a spike in fuel costs has made this thing more of a pain in the ass. In the SE, it will only last for about a minute and a half. As opposed to the NW, where you will get about 2 and a half minutes of darkness. 


    Yea I was gonna head down to Tennessee last minute with a friend, but I'm gonna pass. My gf talked me out of it. It's gonna be insane down there and we're without a reservation or a clue. Good luck to all that are traveling and I hope the weather turns out to be nice. Imagine the impact these eclipses used to have when they would happen unexpectedly. People probably thought the world was coming to an end. I'll catch the next total eclipse up here in 2024.

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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    dankind said:
    Could one just use the front-facing camera on one's phone to view the eclipse?
    It might fry your lens. 

    Don't look directly at the Sun unless it's fully occluded, even the slivers coming from a 90 some percent eclipse carry enough radiation to cause retinopathy if you look for long.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited August 2017
    rgambs said:
    dankind said:
    Could one just use the front-facing camera on one's phone to view the eclipse?
    It might fry your lens. 
    Really!?! I didn't know that camera lenses could get fried.

    I don't know if I'll be particularly aggrieved if I lose the front-facing one, though. I mostly use the rear-facing camera -- it takes better pictures. I think I'll risk it. I'll just use my camera app and view the eclipse on my phone's screen.

    My wife's nerd shop think tank has the glasses. but they're not handing them out till Monday. We're leaving town tomorrow. :angry:
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  • LongestRoad
    LongestRoad Posts: 477
    what if you do a selfie with the eclipse in the background? lol
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Im going to get another pair of glasses to use one of the lenses over my camera. That way I'll hopefully get good pics of the eclipse. 
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,529
    My house will have better than 90% totality and I'm about an hour without traffic from 100%.
    Might get on my bicycle and head south about 30 miles.
    Still not sure if I'll  hit the road or not.
    Either way it will be fun.

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