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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2017, 09:31:16 AM »
I plan on heading outside when it's more significantly dark, but I have no eclipse glasses so I won't be able to actually look at it. I live in Washington state and I guess we're supposed to get 92%.
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2017, 09:36:29 AM »
Don't have the glasses and I don't want to go blind.

I might take a 2 second peak but that's it.
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2017, 09:39:36 AM »
There's a live stream of the event going on NASA's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0

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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2017, 09:40:17 AM »
Just checked it out with my special glasses.  I'm at home and in the path of partial eclipse. :biggrin: Very cool.

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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2017, 10:22:01 AM »
Where I live we are supposed to have about 90% totality and the sun is slightly covered at the moment- should not be long now before it begins to get darker!  It's amazing and fascinating and cool other people here are watching too :D
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2017, 10:35:27 AM »
Back inside, it was nice being able to have a cooler temperature outside. Even though I was unable to actually look at the eclipse itself, it was pretty neat seeing be darker outside than usual.
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2017, 10:44:07 AM »
Okay...our event was crazy.  We had 800 pairs of glasses to give away at 10 am.  By 8:30 there was a long line.  By 9:30 it was 3/4 of the way around the block and by 10:15 it was around the block and going down Main Street.  We've been telling people all morning that we're out of glasses but to ask if they can share with someone for a peek at the sun.  As far as I know people shared.  We also ran out of 25 dozen cookies in ten minutes. 
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2017, 10:48:38 AM »
Watched with glasses from my own backyard. Quite the stellar event if I do say so.
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #23 on: August 21, 2017, 11:41:32 AM »
I've been outside recording the temperature change for the past 2 hours. It dropped nearly 10 degrees at the max eclipse!

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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2017, 11:50:56 AM »
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Got about 30 secs of darkness in Cumberland county TN
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #25 on: August 21, 2017, 11:56:18 AM »
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Got about 30 secs of darkness in Cumberland county TN

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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #26 on: August 21, 2017, 12:16:16 PM »
Turned out to be a pretty decent show, though obviously it would've been better with totality given the diamond ring and beads.

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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #27 on: August 21, 2017, 12:17:50 PM »
We were around 70-75%, but there was no visible difference (wasn't darker or colder here). I took a couple pictures with my cell phone - got a bit of reflection on the edge showing the coverage.

I'm looking forward to the 2024 one, looks like we are going to be directly in the path. :D
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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #28 on: August 21, 2017, 12:53:24 PM »
We had over 2 minutes of totality here - it was awesome!  Saw the diamond ring and everything.  :cool:  My cousin came up from Arizona and he got some great photos and video of it.  The neighbor had his telescope out with a solar filter and we got to look a few times before totality - could see some sunspots that way.

A couple shots I took during totality:

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Re: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Who's Planning on Viewing?
« Reply #29 on: August 21, 2017, 01:21:49 PM »
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Got about 30 secs of darkness in Cumberland county TN

Phenomenal shot!  Thanks for sharing! :D
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