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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: StarSwirl05 on August 20, 2017, 06:18:14 PM
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I know I am, hoping the weather doesn't give us the short end of the stick like it has for past celestial events.
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I have a great telescope with a solar filter so normally I'd be all over this. I'll be preoccupied with something more important though, so I'm not bothered by having to skip it.
Besides, here in Florida we aren't getting totality.
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I work at a library in northern Utah. We have 800 pairs of solar glasses to hand out and I think it's going to be insane. We've had all sorts of sob stories this week about why someone should be allowed to have the glasses early unlike everyone else in town. I don't even feel bad telling people they had to wait until the event (as our grant to get the glasses stipulated btw) because it isn't like people haven't known for months that the eclipse was happening and if it was that important for them to have the glasses, they would have gotten them earlier.
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I am^^ My husband and I will be watching from our backyard with our eclipse glasses.
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I'd say yes but..
I don't have the proper glasses and honestly I may just be asleep
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It's at ten in the morning here. We aren't getting totality here (that's for Edmonton in 2044 if I recall correctly) but dad got some viewing glasses from work. It's going to be cool!
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I am! I'm dragging out my solar scope and participating in the Citizen Scientist project! You could say I'm over the moon about it (I couldn't resist).
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I am! I'm dragging out my solar scope and participating in the Citizen Scientist project! You could say I'm over the moon about it (I couldn't resist).
I am president pun and I approve this message. :lmao:
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Not me (obviously lol) but I'm eagerly awaiting July 13th 2037 when Australia will have front row seats for another Total Solar Eclipse. If I'm still living in the area I'll be in the perfect position to observe, I'll have to get a pair of solar glasses (I think 20 years is enough time to do so). :biggrin:
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I'm pumped! Not in the line of 100% but around 80%
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I'm getting ready to head north of Kansas City with a friend to try and catch it (glad I live withing 100 miles of the total part). Unfortunately there's storms popping up around the area so the chance clouds will be in the way is high. :(
On a pony related note: There's already some art appearing in recognition of the event. :P
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https://mountainlygon.deviantart.com/art/Celestia-Eclipsed-699957765
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http://dstears.tumblr.com/post/164431689512/happy-day-of-black-sun-everyone-if-you-are-going#_=_
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https://unicornarama.deviantart.com/art/Solar-Eclipse-2017-698638525
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Not gonna bother. Its missing California completely. How does that even work?
Post Merge: August 21, 2017, 08:15:39 AM
I'm getting ready to head north of Kansas City with a friend to try and catch it (glad I live withing 100 miles of the total part). Unfortunately there's storms popping up around the area so the chance clouds will be in the way is high. :(
On a pony related note: There's already some art appearing in recognition of the event. :P
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https://mountainlygon.deviantart.com/art/Celestia-Eclipsed-699957765
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http://dstears.tumblr.com/post/164431689512/happy-day-of-black-sun-everyone-if-you-are-going#_=_
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https://unicornarama.deviantart.com/art/Solar-Eclipse-2017-698638525
That last one cracks me up.
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we are having 70-80% totality :D i am SO there!
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I've been living near Salt Lake City this year; drove up to Idaho Falls last night to see totality. I've been looking forward to this eclipse for years!
....aaaand next week, I'm moving to Ohio!
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Not gonna bother. Its missing California completely. How does that even work?
Post Merge: August 21, 2017, 08:15:39 AM
I'm getting ready to head north of Kansas City with a friend to try and catch it (glad I live withing 100 miles of the total part). Unfortunately there's storms popping up around the area so the chance clouds will be in the way is high. :(
On a pony related note: There's already some art appearing in recognition of the event. :P
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https://mountainlygon.deviantart.com/art/Celestia-Eclipsed-699957765
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http://dstears.tumblr.com/post/164431689512/happy-day-of-black-sun-everyone-if-you-are-going#_=_
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https://unicornarama.deviantart.com/art/Solar-Eclipse-2017-698638525
That last one cracks me up.
You should get at least a partial eclipse. That's what most are getting (that aren't on the path of totality).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Watched with glasses from my own backyard. Quite the stellar event if I do say so.
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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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Got about 30 secs of darkness in Cumberland county TN
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Got about 30 secs of darkness in Cumberland county TN
That's a beautiful picture!
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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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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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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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Got about 30 secs of darkness in Cumberland county TN
Phenomenal shot! Thanks for sharing! :D
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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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Um, I don't see your images.
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Um, I don't see your images.
Should be fixed now.
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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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Lucky you were able to see totality. I had like 80% here, which was good but not as spectacular. :)
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I didn't have the special glasses and where I live it was supposed to be around 80% totality but it was cloudy for most of the time. I did look up at one point just to see where the sun was in the sky and I just saw a bright spot in the clouds. I had intended to watch the tv coverage but ended up staying away from home longer than I thought I would so by the time I returned it was almost over.
Ponyfan
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It was 80% here and it actually got darker more than I was expecting. Think early morning haze but at mid morning. The library was the only one to get glasses and they had to share with two other branches. Despite days of "go here for a party...." with details. People were still lining up well past the 150 mark. My friends and I arrived at 5AM,there was one other couple that was ahead of us. We spent the next four hours guarding our spots from line jumpers. The lack of manners was astonishing.
People could learn a few things from our favorite ponies.
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It was 80% here and it actually got darker more than I was expecting. Think early morning haze but at mid morning. The library was the only one to get glasses and they had to share with two other branches. Despite days of "go here for a party...." with details. People were still lining up well past the 150 mark. My friends and I arrived at 5AM,there was one other couple that was ahead of us. We spent the next four hours guarding our spots from line jumpers. The lack of manners was astonishing.
People could learn a few things from our favorite ponies.
Man, I'm glad that people at our event seemed to be polite and didn't try to push or line jump. I think we had somewhere around 2,000 people show up. Though it might have helped that the police station is right next to the library and there were officers wandering around and watching the eclipse with us.
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Me and my friend went to a spot near Missouri City, MO to catch it. Good thing we did because NE Kansas and Kansas City got skunked out of it by clouds. Where we were the clouds moved in not even a minute after totality ended.
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Here's my Funko Luna and Cele just before the totality:
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One thing that's also interesting is listening to what's going on around you during the eclipse. Crickets chirp as though it's night time.
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Birds started singing all around us while it was going on, then stopped once it started to get lighter.
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I was in the partial zone (about 60% I think?) and it was still really cool! I got a few pairs of the glasses at Lowes about a month ago, and it's a good thing I did because they were sold out everywhere near here the week of the eclipse! I don't think our library had the glasses, but I know they did have a live stream of it going in one room.
My best friend and I went to the beach to watch it and it was really neat! Almost the whole beach had the glasses which was kind of neat. The beach was a fun place to watch it. Then we went back to her house so her dad could try the glasses to see it.
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This reminds me how fast the time vfles. We had full sun eclipse 18 years ago.
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All of the photos are amazing! :D
Also, hello fellow Bright Glow :happy: