It was a good eclipse viewing. We saw my wife’s cousin, who is a dear, and we watched the eclipse in her backyard. In classic teenager style, my two went from ‘too cool for school’ to ‘gleefully getting the perfect shot of the eclipse on their phones’ in record time. Worth the drive up, and back. And thank God the sun came out.
Now I just have the SCA event this weekend to get through.
Very cool. Especially the part where my kids got into it. Worth the entire trip right there.
PS: Yes, my camera is bad.
The sun is beginning to shine… BUT SOON IT SHALL BE CONSUMED BY THE GREAT WOLF FENRIR. No, wait, sorry, we’re in the universe where it’s just a solar phenomenon. Never mind.
Moe Lane
PS: My wife (coming back from an errand): “It’s weirdly quiet. I don’t know if it’s eclipse-related, or we’re just in Ohio.”
And hopefully the eclipse, tomorrow. Here’s hoping…
Peaks at 4 AM, Eastern time. I may set my alarm.
Saw this via Facebook: “Although the 2024 solar eclipse won’t travel coast to coast within the United States, it will sweep across the North American continent, beginning in Mexico and traveling northeast toward Canada.” This time the arc is from southwest to northeast, which will end up hitting (I think) more major cities, including Dallas, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Montreal. …I’ve never been to Montreal, actually. I hear that it’s an interesting place to visit and has some nice battlefields. Although Dallas will have better weather. But what am I gonna do in Dallas?
Anyway, something to think about.
Not by me, you understand — I’m going to go out and take a gander at the 80% coverage when it peaks, assuming the sky doesn’t cloud over like it threatens to, but I got other stuff to do, too — but by the rest of the United States. Something like four percent of the population is supposed to be watching it today. I can’t imagine that there’s going to be much else going on while it’s happening.
Seriously: heed this.
August 21st, to be precise. The arc of totality for this one starts in the center of South Carolina and will go all the way across the country to south of Portland, Oregon: if you’re in that arc, you’ll get a total solar eclipse. If you’re not, but you’re still in the USA, you should get at least a 50% eclipse (NASA maps here) – which are interesting, too. We’re going to get close to 80% eclipse where I live; assuming that the sun’s actually out that day, I figure that I’m going to go take a gander and bring the kids out with me, too.
I can’t see it, thanks to cloud cover, but maybe some of you folks can.
