Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:31 pm
We had about 70 percent coverage here. Probably the best one I have ever seen in my lifetime.
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Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:38 pm
About 93% here, really cool. I especially liked watching the shape of the sun mirrored in the shadows of the tree leaves and just walking around. I didn't have the glasses so I made a pinhole camera.
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:55 pm
Got a nice view of it outside my office both through borrowed eclipse glasses and through a serendipitous cloud.
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:25 pm
100% here! Absolutely stupendous!
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:38 am
We had 90%... in 2024 we will have 100% 
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:38 pm
Went out to western Nebraska (Alliance) with the family to see the eclipse in totality. All but one of my children (& her husband) were there...including my son and his wife from TX. We showed up a few hours before the eclipse and parked along a rural road without a building in sight - appropriately surrounded by hillsides covered in wild sunflowers.
It was a more amazing an event then I could have even imagined!
As totality approached, shadows became strangely distorted as the crescent sun was projected through leaves and even the gaps between our fingers. Excitedly, we watched the darkness move rapidly toward us (at 1550 MPH) across the distant hills to the NW and envelope our area in a shadow-circle with a 35 mile radius. It immediately went from dim cold sunlight to looking like an hour after sunset - with the reddish sunset in all direction. The temp dropped probably 10 - 15 degrees (some put sweatshirts on), the mosquitoes came out and began to bite us, crickets sang, planets became visible, a chilly wind blew, people cheered - and the amazing sun was encircled by its glowing corona...which doubled the size of the sun like wispy paint-brush strokes. It was about as bright as a full moon. Then, after about 2 1/2 minutes of darkness, a flash of blue-white sunlight broke the brief night...and the world turned back to color. During the darkness our eyes had adjusted to the dark, so the faint sunlight after the totality seemed falsely brighter than it realy was - for example car headlights and taillights, which normally don't show up much in regular daylight, seemed about 10X too bright by contrast. We all just lingered in the slowly warming sunlight for another hour as the process reversed itself - invigorated.
What an amazing - strangely spiritual - experience the whole thing is - reminding me once again of how tiny we are as we stand in awe and reflect on the creative genius of the God of all creation.
It was a more amazing an event then I could have even imagined!
As totality approached, shadows became strangely distorted as the crescent sun was projected through leaves and even the gaps between our fingers. Excitedly, we watched the darkness move rapidly toward us (at 1550 MPH) across the distant hills to the NW and envelope our area in a shadow-circle with a 35 mile radius. It immediately went from dim cold sunlight to looking like an hour after sunset - with the reddish sunset in all direction. The temp dropped probably 10 - 15 degrees (some put sweatshirts on), the mosquitoes came out and began to bite us, crickets sang, planets became visible, a chilly wind blew, people cheered - and the amazing sun was encircled by its glowing corona...which doubled the size of the sun like wispy paint-brush strokes. It was about as bright as a full moon. Then, after about 2 1/2 minutes of darkness, a flash of blue-white sunlight broke the brief night...and the world turned back to color. During the darkness our eyes had adjusted to the dark, so the faint sunlight after the totality seemed falsely brighter than it realy was - for example car headlights and taillights, which normally don't show up much in regular daylight, seemed about 10X too bright by contrast. We all just lingered in the slowly warming sunlight for another hour as the process reversed itself - invigorated.
What an amazing - strangely spiritual - experience the whole thing is - reminding me once again of how tiny we are as we stand in awe and reflect on the creative genius of the God of all creation.
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:12 pm
I found out what really caused the eclipse.
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:52 am
We attended this event. About 3000 plain people showed up. Groffdale Conference young men and others provided shuttle service via trailers with straw bales pulled by tractors.
http://www.createdheavens.com/ee2017.html
http://www.createdheavens.com/ee2017.html
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:33 am
Wow...what a cool event Ernie. The web site is quite impressive as well.Ernie wrote:We attended this event. About 3000 plain people showed up. Groffdale Conference young men and others provided shuttle service via trailers with straw bales pulled by tractors.
http://www.createdheavens.com/ee2017.html
Were the skys clear?
Re: 8/21 Eclipse
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:50 am
Traveled to Tennessee to see it in the path of totality. Simply amazing, well worth it. The wonders of God's creation!