Eclipse at your zip code

[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.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Eclipse at your zip code:

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.

Weird… We were at 88% and it got distinctly dusk like. We also have some clouds, and it was pretty damn cool when light clouds rolled through. Almost like totality. The dogs at the park all started howling at 3:18 for about 90 seconds…

[Horace]

It was underwhelming at 95%.

[Axtremus]

@Horace said in Eclipse at your zip code:

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.

Local time.

[Copper]

80% here, very clear sky, with the glasses it was a nice clean crescent.

The iPhone picture through the glasses is just a big blur

[George K]

@Copper said in Eclipse at your zip code:

The iPhone picture through the glasses is just a big blur

Yeah, I tried that as well.

This was at about 80%.

[Aqua Letifer]

My photo. I used an IR filter basically as an ND.

[89th]

Oh that’s nice Aqua!

Here’s what we saw.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Eclipse at your zip code:

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

[Mik]

Yeah, we didn’t get the corona but man it got dark. Lot and stadium lights came on.

[jon-nyc]

By chance I was at Warby Parker about a week ago and they were giving out eclipse glasses, limit 2 per. customer.

They're home on my dresser. I tried to look through the iPhone from here in Siesta Key but that didn't work. When I did a quick (and I mean quick) take eye glance I noticed for just a spilt second there was a chunk missing. But if you were on the beach here and hadn't heard, you would not have suspected a thing. That with no cloud clover.

[George K]

[mark]

Posted this in the other thread too.

89.1% Partial Eclipse. Decided to stay home this time.
Canon 50D on a fixed tripod w/18-200mm Zoom at 200mm f5.6 1/1600 sec exposures, ISO 100. Baader Planitarium Solar Film Filter.
271 photos aligned, registered and output to avi movie format using PIPP (Planetary Imaging Pre-Processor)
It's not perfect, but it's still pretty cool.

Link to video

[mark]

The rig.

[taiwan_girl]

@mark Neat!!!