Solar Eclipse

brianlux

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/infamous_dragnet_blue_boy_lsd_scene

URthekey

Just got this great shot through the tinted portion of my windshield....

tempo_n_groove

URthekey said:

Just got this great shot through the tinted portion of my windshield....

Nice shot!  I tried that with my iphone but didn't get a good result.

URthekey

That ones a little blurry this one is sharper

northerndragon

It's was pretty cool to see from my front yard in NC.

pjhawks

i watched it online through ABC and have to say those places that had the Total Eclipse looked cool as shit.  Philly area here was in the 75-80% range and as a few mentioned above thought it might get darker than it did. 

HughFreakingDillon

totally overcast here. was also expecting it to be darker, but nothing. I am in the 70% range I think. 

PJ_Soul

HughFreakingDillon said:

totally overcast here. was also expecting it to be darker, but nothing. I am in the 70% range I think. 

There were no clouds here at all, so it definitely got noticeably dimmer, but probably only as dim as it is on a dark, cloudy day in the winter. Weak!

HesCalledDyer

A couple of folks in my dept had glasses and someone even had a piece of welder's glass.  Tried to get a pic with my phone thru the glasses but I had a hell of a time getting it to focus.
It did get a little dimmer here (not much) and the temp & humidity both dropped a significant amount.

Definitely beats the Rapture of 2011.

F Me In The Brain

HesCalledDyer said:

A couple of folks in my dept had glasses and someone even had a piece of welder's glass.  Tried to get a pic with my phone thru the glasses but I had a hell of a time getting it to focus.
It did get a little dimmer here (not much) and the temp & humidity both dropped a significant amount.

Definitely beats the Rapture of 2011.

That was awesome.  Totally forgot about those nutters.

PJ_Soul

F Me In The Brain said:

HesCalledDyer said:

A couple of folks in my dept had glasses and someone even had a piece of welder's glass.  Tried to get a pic with my phone thru the glasses but I had a hell of a time getting it to focus.
It did get a little dimmer here (not much) and the temp & humidity both dropped a significant amount.

Definitely beats the Rapture of 2011.

That was awesome.  Totally forgot about those nutters.

Lol, oh yeah, fucking Harold Camping. What a dick.

HughFreakingDillon

Trump just looked directly at the eclipse without glasses. what a fucking idiot. 

http://people.com/politics/president-trump-melania-watch-total-solar-eclipse-white-house/

JimmyV

HughFreakingDillon said:

Trump just looked directly at the eclipse without glasses. what a fucking idiot. 

http://people.com/politics/president-trump-melania-watch-total-solar-eclipse-white-house/

Before long we will get video of some Trumpists letting their kids stare right at it because science is a liberal conspiracy and they don't believe in the danger. Just wait. It's coming.

hauntingfamiliar

Trippy stuff! We didn't get complete darkness, but it did get darker with that crazy light haze. 

mace1229

I dont get the people who dont get excited about this. Everything that has to align just perfecly.
I suppose if it happened every month I wouldnt care. But its so rare and thats what makes it amazing. If the sun was 1% larger, or the moon smaller, or one close, this wouldn't even be possible. But for the moon and sun to be so far apart, but seemingly same size. If the moon was larger we may see more solar eclipses, but that halo affect wouldn't occur.
Even at about 90% where I was it was pretty awesome. temp dropped about 15 F within about 30-40 minutes and to only see a small sliver of the sun was pretty cool.
I guess if you were expecting darkness and armageddon you could be disappointed. But understanding how everything comes together to make this happens makes me not want to miss it and puts see a 100% eclipse on my bucket list.

I put the goggles on my 3-year old and he got excited. I asked him what shape the sun looked like and he said "moon!"

HughFreakingDillon

mace1229 said:

I dont get the people who dont get excited about this. Everything that has to align just perfecly.
I suppose if it happened every month I wouldnt care. But its so rare and thats what makes it amazing. If the sun was 1% larger, or the moon smaller, or one close, this wouldn't even be possible. But for the moon and sun to be so far apart, but seemingly same size. If the moon was larger we may see more solar eclipses, but that halo affect wouldn't occur.
Even at about 90% where I was it was pretty awesome. temp dropped about 15 F within about 30-40 minutes and to only see a small sliver of the sun was pretty cool.
I guess if you were expecting darkness and armageddon you could be disappointed. But understanding how everything comes together to make this happens makes me not want to miss it and puts see a 100% eclipse on my bucket list.

I put the goggles on my 3-year old and he got excited. I asked him what shape the sun looked like and he said "moon!"

it's really not rare, though. it happens roughly every 2 and a half years somewhere on the planet. is it rare per geographical location? yes, but globally, it isn't. 

but I get what you are saying. it is pretty cool. I was wondering today.......of all the people historically that didn't understand what this was, did they all go blind from staring at it?

eeriepadave

kinda cloudy here in PA which was good in some aspects.  I didn't try to take a pic.  Didn't get that dark here which kinda sucked also

eeriepadave

mace1229

HughFreakingDillon said:

mace1229 said:

I dont get the people who dont get excited about this. Everything that has to align just perfecly.
I suppose if it happened every month I wouldnt care. But its so rare and thats what makes it amazing. If the sun was 1% larger, or the moon smaller, or one close, this wouldn't even be possible. But for the moon and sun to be so far apart, but seemingly same size. If the moon was larger we may see more solar eclipses, but that halo affect wouldn't occur.
Even at about 90% where I was it was pretty awesome. temp dropped about 15 F within about 30-40 minutes and to only see a small sliver of the sun was pretty cool.
I guess if you were expecting darkness and armageddon you could be disappointed. But understanding how everything comes together to make this happens makes me not want to miss it and puts see a 100% eclipse on my bucket list.

I put the goggles on my 3-year old and he got excited. I asked him what shape the sun looked like and he said "moon!"

it's really not rare, though. it happens roughly every 2 and a half years somewhere on the planet. is it rare per geographical location? yes, but globally, it isn't. 

but I get what you are saying. it is pretty cool. I was wondering today.......of all the people historically that didn't understand what this was, did they all go blind from staring at it?

I consider that rare. Occurs every couple years, but it only visible to a very tiny sliver. Heard on the news somewhere on average its visible to less than 0.5% of the earth's surface. I was bummed I was only 3 hours away and couldn't go, there may never be one as close to me in my life time.
Rare in terms of viewable opportunities for the average person.

FoxyRedLa

HughFreakingDillon said:

FoxyRedLa said:

Don't people look at the sun on and given day anyways.....?

yes, but my understanding of it is, on a normal day, you can't look at the sun too long, as it's too bright.  your brain doesn't detect radiation damage to your eyes in pain form, so if you are looking at the eclipse, it won't be as bright, so you'll be able to look longer, but the damage will be the same. 

Gotcha. Thanks!