Pitch black in Texas

JECE wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:06 pm

Longneck wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:45 am

Three and a half minutes of totality here, near Indianapolis. It rocked. We watched in our driveway. We saw the 2017 one also in Illinois and I was surprised at how different they were.

Were you not in the path of totality in 2017?

No, it was southeast of us through southern Illinois and western Kentucky.

It was raining where I was sadly, couldn't get to see it.

I drove south/east about 150 minutes to get to 100%. It was pretty cool.

<Shao Kahn>Totality!</Shao Kahn>

Longneck wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:45 am

Three and a half minutes of totality here, near Indianapolis. It rocked. We watched in our driveway. We saw the 2017 one also in Illinois and I was surprised at how different they were.

Were you not in the path of totality in 2017?

I got some amount of eclipse, not sure exactly what. Cool, but probably not worth driving multiple hours to get to.

Spartaculous wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:10 pm

Did anyone else here get to see it? I got 1 minute and 56 seconds of totality.

I think I got the same as you.

My hometown (Moncton, New Brunswick) was going to be 99.97% totality, so we drove a half hour north and got 2 min 36 secs. Was a fun experience.

Down in Texas, we got about 4 minutes of totality. It was pretty cool, most of all the dramatic change in lighting. I hadn't realized how much of a difference the total eclipse was to even 90%, which was about what I saw in 2023 during the annual eclipse.

Three and a half minutes of totality here, near Indianapolis. It rocked. We watched in our driveway. We saw the 2017 one also in Illinois and I was surprised at how different they were.

@JustAGuyNamed...Flashbanged!? See an ophthalmologist tout suite.

Spartaculous wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:10 pm

Did anyone else here get to see it? I got 1 minute and 56 seconds of totality.

I got 97%! Didn't get dark but hey it was still cool

Also, total eclipses will eventually cease altogether: https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/4Page28.pdf

My hometown wasn't in full totality; we did have to drive 65 miles or so to get to the total eclipse. It was a very fun experience.

Here is the xkcd in question: https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

I think my area got like ~70-80% max? maybe a few seconds of totality? idk, but it was pretty cool. the glasses they gave out where wack though. they worked, but were pretty goofy. paper glasses that felt like they should not work.

Small tidbit about eclipses: many millennia in the future, eclipses will be the reason the sun sets on the british empire (assuming no territorial changes). an old XKCD article. I really should read those again. probably will after this.

Spartaculous wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:10 pm

Did anyone else here get to see it? I got 1 minute and 56 seconds of totality.

Lucky. We got about 50% coverage.

I was looking thru the glasses that my prof gave me, looked at the sun through them, and when I had seen enough I kept looking at the sun but decided it was a good idea to take off the glasses so I flashbanged myself in the face

Did anyone else here get to see it? I got 1 minute and 56 seconds of totality.