Getting up at oh-dark-thirty, driving a hundred miles south of our campsite, contending with car-mageddon, parking in a field with a few hundred thousand others...was worth every bit. It was wonderful!
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We saw a partial eclipse, my eldest son who is five years old was truly fascinated!
Now to make my day complete I really want to see a flat earthers produce a model of their space pizza that incorporates the eclipse going West to East coast in the US.
Cool. Celestial events are awe inspiring.
Anecdotal: Samuel Clemens was born on the day Haley's Comet passed Earth in 1835 and died on the same day 75 years later in 1910.
Space pizza? Really? Some people's kids...
I went out to check out the partial in my area. 100% cloud cover, didn't see shit.
I saw it as a small crescent of sunlight.
I was just east of Hopkinsville Kentucky. Awesome! I am now an addict. 2024 here I come!
Ditto on 2024. Had a great totality eclipse experience, (no clouds, and traffic was not too bad.) I am already planning how to make 2024 even better. 4.5 minutes of totality in 2024! That time I will set it up that I have no mad rush to get home before the bulk of the crowds, I will get a good base of operations place somewhere close to totality, and have a car to move quickly to clear skies if needed. Plenty of time to plan and research, but it seems Texas will be a good bet due to its arid climate and history of cloud cover.
I spent some time in Fairbanks, Alaska. At night I watched the Aurora Borealis do its ribbon-like dance in the sky. During the long months of winter there was a perpetual twilight where the sun would just crest the distant mountain ridge and slip back down. On night flights we would often be visited by St Elmo's Fire that wrapped itself around the interior with an eerie iridescent blue glow for a few moments and then be gone. Mother nature's got some serious chops.
Imagine you were on a planet circling UY Scuti, the largest star. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/uy-scuti-everything-to-know-abou... I wonder would you ever see a solar eclipse?
We saw it all in NE Georgia. It was wondrous. During totality, the sun was black with its shining corona, the sky was a very pale, sunset blue with Venus visible to the right of the sun. However, all around on the ground, it was very dark. The cicadas started to sing and as the sun came out of totality, we saw a bat flash by, out hunting. Right before and after totality, the thin crescent of the sun shining through tree leaves made little crescent shaped images of the sun on the ground (see attached).
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Did anyone tune in PBS last night? On NOVA they produced an up to the minute broadcast of the eclipse. It was fantastic. They explained that even though the sun's surface is only about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, that mini flares can reach temperatures of over 1 million degrees. They explained everything known and told what they are looking for with research.