Eclipse at your zip code

[Mik]

And the cats have been promised a fine English dinner.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Eclipse at your zip code:

And the cats have been promised a fine English dinner.

Well what actually happened is I was told that if I signed up as a foot soldier with the Masons then I’d get unlimited pussy. As usual I failed to read the fine print.

[Mik]

Yer kitten me.

[George K]

Recycle your glasses:

https://astronomerswithoutborders.org/programs/solar-glasses-distribution?fbclid=IwAR125SIKdKNwhsJJ7GLFBMur_y7yRW5eihmzZ7uQD4R5TcYMBGsjCO9DsK4_aem_Af09n1tQy5KNoziOCdtN9Ih7akcg0D62xf5HGDuYKu460oInPlX6s-jDxXJBSaEuUZwCUP21DFtk4f8rxQzDV_yJ

[89th]

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-ancient-art-of-eclipse-prediction-became-an-exact-science-20240405/

Cool article

[jon-nyc]

Home would have been 91% but I’m in Siesta Key so we’re looking at 55%.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc I'd say say hi to my folks but they're in Austin now to see the totality.

My dad taught astronomy so this is kind of a big deal for him. I'm glad he's seeing it out there.

[Horace]

95% here. Thanks for the link, George!

[Rich]

We’re headed up to Island Pond, Vermont. (we have family nearby) Supposed to have a couple minutes totality so that’ll be kinda neat. First time I’ve ever seen heavy traffic this far north, lol.

[Copper]

Through my eclipse glasses with the iPhone, I should be able to see the eclipse we'll only be around 80%

[89th]

@Mik said in Eclipse at your zip code:

We get 99.9%. Good enough for me.

I wonder if that is true? Like... will you see the "diamond ring" and have the black-out experience of totality? Sincere question, I've only seen it at like 80% (Syracuse in 2017) and people walking around had no idea since it was just as bright out.

[89th]

Here is a sunrise solar eclipse in Nov 2013, taken with my big camera (zoomed in obv).

And here is Aug 2017 in Syracuse, taken with iPhone:

[George K]

How'd you do that with your phone?

[89th]

Oh actually I brought my DSLR for that one. Sorry!

[89th]

Fun info about the coincidence of the sun and moon having the same angular size (aka the odds the moon blocks the sun but lets just enough light to create the ring effect)

[Horace]

That website asks for your zip code and then gives you times that are in a different time zone. Without ever specifying which time zone they're using. JERKS.

[George K]

Someone on my town's FB page asked if anyone had spare eclipse glasses she could use.

I thought about replying, "No, but I'll have about 4 pairs tomorrow. YOu're welcome to them."

But, being the gentleman I am, I didn't.

[George K]

G2...

[89th]

Very cloudy here but had about a minute or so where it was thin enough to see the eclipse. Our kids (at least the 5 year old) thought it was cool. Although she keeps calling it a "clips". Idiot.

[George K]

We had perfect weather. 55 degrees, and not one cloud. We went up to the rooftop terrace of our building.

I was surprised at how "not dark" it got. Even with 94% totality, it didn't even approach dusk level of darkness.