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[BMM]

I'm in the 100% zone. Almost all the businesses are closing for it and people are scalping glasses for $25 a pair. Kinda crazy.

[cpman]

I just so happened to be having to pass through the eclipse zone to get back to school for the fall.

So, I'm currently in a hotel that will get totality that I booked forever ago. Unfortunately, it may be cloudy.

I'm excited to see it though.

[lucas3431]

Make sure to take photos people.

[Bracchymyrmex]

Make sure to take photos people.

 

Make sure you have appropriate filters for your cameras if you plan on recording/photographing this eclipse. If you don't you might want to think twice about taking pictures.

[lucas3431]

Earthquake activity has picked up today, not sure if that's due to the new sunspot  . 

[XZero38]

Start finding some welding masks to stare at the sun with

[Heidispice]

It only got to a 75% coverage in my area, and the clouds almost ruined it completely, but there was half a second the clouds thinned out enough I could see the dark moon and the crescent of sun. It was pretty neat, but only 75% neat. 

[Loops117]

 

Proof that it happened

[BMM]

The 100% eclipse was pretty neat. It was kind of like night, with stars out and crickets chirping, but at the horizon it was like a 360° sunset. We were lucky and no clouds were out, so we got the full 2 or so minutes to look at it without glasses.

[FeedTheAnts]

It wasn't as spectacular as I expected being in the 99.1% area. I thought it would pretty much be like 100%, except for just the tiniest bit of difference. Instead it kinda just got a little dark and cool outside. My neighbor was mowing his grass through the whole thing and probably didn't even know what was happening

[gcsnelling]

I pretty much stayed indoors so as to avoid the frog swallowed the sun, end of the world crowd so prevalent in my neck of the woods.

[Martialis]

I got 91% coverage. We hoosiers get 100% coverage in 2024!

 

 

I pretty much stayed indoors so as to avoid the frog swallowed the sun, end of the world crowd so prevalent in my neck of the woods.

I'm assuming flat earthers exist there, too?

[Reacker]

 

While other less interesting people were taking pictures of the sun, I was taking pictures of the ground. Checkmate atheists.

 

At 99.5% it wasn't perfectly dark like it would have been at totality but it became noticeably darker 30 minutes before and after. During the maximum coverage it was so dark that you could see a couple objects in the sky pretty close to the sun (venus I think in particular), and it was as dark as you would expect it to be just after sunset.  It also became significantly cooler making the eclipse time the most comfortable weather all summer.

Edited by Reacker, August 21 2017 - 2:04 PM.

[FeedTheAnts]

Shadow Bands! Cool!

[VoidElecent]

Man I can't wait for the eclipse

[T.C.]

Man I can't wait for the eclipse

Your a little late.

[T.C.]

Start finding some welding masks to stare at the sun with

That's exactly what I used at work today. I was working outside today too. Every 5 minutes I would step away from the car I was working on and take a peak. Was quite awesome.

[Aquaexploder]

It got dark here, but you couldn't see it because their were too many clouds.

[lucas3431]

I thought this was a fantastic picture.

 

Taken by Charles Yeager on August 21, 2017 @ Birmingham, Alabama

 

As seen on Spaceweather.com

Edited by lucas3431, August 23 2017 - 11:05 AM.