2024 Eclipse - no Bonnie Tyler videos please

[Woodsy]

Got to look at it from beginning to end ( in brief bursts) through the cool glasses with neighbors and family
Once it was at its height here ( 93%) many went inside.

I went out behind my garage as my property borders a muni golf course and was able to relieve my self through the fence while watching the moon slowly give the sun back through said glasses ..

That was rad.

[MakersTeleMark]

Should be interesting getting all the wooks out if the weather hits, especially given their proven lack of preparation:

https://seetexaseclipse.com/blog/weather-cancellation

I went for the budget option. No leaves on the trees yet, so I improvised:

https://imgur.com/a/KpMJbPJ

[bennymac]

Lots of friends and family along the path sending some cool pics

[Flounder]

Coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Not to have to leave my backyard for over 3 minutes of totality made it even cooler.

[riser4]

All of this.

[riser4]

How dark did it get? It barely got dark here.

Streetlights and our outdoor night lights came on.

[Skistack]

Sorry folks, eclipse is closed. The moose out front should’ve told ya.


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[ex-powderbroker]

one minute of totality, three minutes, whatever. it’s just not enough. i think i have a new addiction. see everyone in ‘26?

[BmillsSkier]

Seeing some absolutely cool pics roll in from Cleveland where they were smack on the totality line with clear skies.

[bennymac]

It’s not Bonnie Tyler so its allowed

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Morocco 2027!

[skaredshtles]

We got really fuckin lucky. Did some weather chasing this morning, then ended at a park in the bustling metropolis of Walnut Springs.

Then things cooperated fully and we got a cloudless viewing of the entire totality.

When that last sliver disappears and you take the glasses off and gaze at the mind-blowingly cool black hole sun... fkn'a.

Totally worth it. Now nearly back to Amarillo. Long day...

[BmillsSkier]

Sorry to keep beating the drum but the more I see the more in awe I am of the photos coming out of Cleveland today. The clear skies, the total darkness of the eclipse and the backdrop of the city and lake made for some absolutely stunning images.

Sorry for the IG links (no way to upload photos right now on TRG) but these are absolutely worth a click, especially the drone footage from the lakefront and downtown in the first link that captures pre-eclipse to totality and back. Just amazing.

Really makes me wish I had made the trip up to see family for this one.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5hUM...owbjB3bXBka21y

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5hBAZuP...tqb3ZmaDNtYQ==

[RShea]

Was in the totality path. Started with some cloud cover coming and going , but you could definitely see the sun get obscured and blocked from 2:10 or so as clouds would part for a bit and all the way up to totality at 3:16 PM. Just short of 4 minutes- mostly cloud free but a few would blow past. A few jet airplanes up there also flying around leaving contrails. As it got pretty dark, birds, insects and animals were chirping away and making noise and could see the ring. 2 planets were visible- one about 5 o'clock and the other between 10 and 11 o'clock also. Then the bottom of the sun began to appear and glasses went back on. They said final ending was 4:40 pm, but seemed like it was closer to an hour after it was pretty darn close to being full sun again.

Cloud covers while many maybe wished the sky was completely free of them, It really made for some interesting break up of the time and at no time during the totality was it heavy cloud coverage, just lighter ones that would pass over and viewing could continue. Others in our group were doing some photography- cell phones with the film filters that were being sold, just like the glasses, and one had a digital camera with a glass filter, and a second old school film camera that he tried during totality that he did not have a filter for but had a longer zoom lens that the digital.

Only thing I did not check was the phone for the temperature change (if they even updated the temperature drop frequently enough in the weather app reporting.) Edit- weather report on nightly news reported -10 degree F temperature change in 1 hour around the totality.

After had some food, dinner basically picnic style at the friends home out on their back porch...

[muted reborn]

Saw my 8% just now. It didn't get dark at all. Damn, that was so disappointing. I thought this was going to be so cool, an eclipse and everything. My eyes are super sore and I still see the sun everywhere I look. How long until this effect goes away? Anyway, not worth the hype at all.

Did you forget to log in as Core shot?

Cleveland videos look amazing. I don't understand why people were clapping when they saw it though. The moon can't hear you.

[summit]

Hmm can't attach from the web interface

[BmillsSkier]

Cleveland videos look amazing. I don't understand why people were clapping when they saw it though. The moon can't hear you.

Lol, when the Browns are the hometown team there’s not a lot to cheer for so any excuse to applaud helps keep the skills sharp.

[akokskis]

one minute of totality, three minutes, whatever. it’s just not enough. i think i have a new addiction. see everyone in ‘26?

uhhhhhh yea. one of the most amazing things i've ever seen

[MultiVerse]

We are traveling in a straight line on a rock through warped 4 dimensional space-time next to a gigantic proton nuclear fusion inferno making everything we know possible, thanks to the sun. What a wonderful world we live in!

[Peruvian]

Whether you were in 90-99% coverage means nothing but when 99% became totality, it changed everything. It’s not until you can take off the glasses to stare at the sun that matters. The fact there were no clouds was incredible. The sun flares on the lower portion were spectacular.

We posted up at Foam Brewers on the waterfront in BTV and had an amazing experience. It was the greatest picnic that Burlington has ever hosted. I’m just glad I didn’t have to get in a car to go home.


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[skaredshtles]

Whether you were in 90-99% coverage means nothing but when 99% became totality, it changed everything. It’s not until you can take off the glasses to stare at the sun that matters. The fact there were no clouds was incredible. The sun flares on the lower portion were spectacular.

This. A partial eclipse may as well not even be considered a similar event as a total. It's not even in the same realm, IMO...

[Ørion]

one minute of totality, three minutes, whatever. it’s just not enough. i think i have a new addiction. see everyone in ‘26?

Second one for me and definitely won't be the last.

One of these (New Zealand 2028?) I'm eventually going to skin/climb a mountain to experience it from the summit.

[ex-powderbroker]

i’m so glad i took the drive from the edge of totality to the middle. i was really about to say “what’s the difference” and take the minute or whatever from my steps.

Canmore 2044 booked

[riser4]

Haven't heard Fredericton report in. Did we lose the NB outpost?

[grinch]

Haaa it was pretty cool. Clear day and total eclipse. Looks like the trg server fan can't handle my mad pixels though!

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