Solar Eclipse (2024)

Any Spikers in the path of totality or traveling to the path?

I’m in the DFW area. Will be dark in about 3 hours. Funny thing is I am about 5 miles to the northwest of 100% totality. But I will not be traveling. (Got some personal matter to tend to at home.) Anyways, 99.9% ain’t bad.

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Just FYI wear either red or green clothing during the eclipse and during you’ll be seen wearing purple… fun science fact. lol

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It’s happening. :grimacing: another 35 minutes or so til 99.9 % totality in my area.

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We’re pretty much socked in with clouds, and of course we’re in the totality path. At the moment I just have dark clouds.

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Had major cloud cover during totality, so much that I was able to shoot this with no filter on my phone.

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Filter applied to a Samsung 22 phone.
99.9-ish% totality about 5 miles from the path.


Obviously it didnt get completely dark outside, but it felt like 45 minutes after sunset.
Cool phenomenon.

Next eclipse over the USA

Next one over Texas: 2317 :neutral_face:

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Some phone shots. We got lucky… almost completely overcast a few minutes before totality, but then the a gap in the clouds drifted in. :sunglasses:



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Just looked like Pac-man here. Was better 7 years ago.
Guess I’m waiting another 21 years for the next one which should pass overhead.

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Currently in Chicago area and we got a 90-some % …got a little bit dimmer…but nothing like the total we saw in the Smoky Mountains in 2017… Temp definitely dropped rapidly though…

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LOLZ

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People underestimate that 10% of the sun is still extremely bright.

The 1999 solar eclipse went right over my house. (While I was in Denmark of course, so no totality for me. But it was bad weather anyway).

It was still impressive, but I had assumed that the 60% or so that I saw up there would change anything. It didn’t. If I had not looked up (through clouds and with filter) I wouldn’t even have noticed.

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during the one in 1999 I worked for ESAB a welding equipment supplier … so there were about 7 of us stood outside wearing welding helmets staring up into the sky

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Some light high level cloud cover here






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Excellent shots @Fridge!

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