Total Solar Eclipse in August

[apeman]

Guys, the total eclipse in 2024.

It's going over my house.

Check it out here,

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8

3 minutes, 57 seconds of totality.

Bring your tents.

There will be totality over my camp in the Adirondacks too.

And how much totality you got, ape? Hmmmmmmmm?

Total solar eclipse visible (100.00% coverage of Sun)
Magnitude: 1.0207
Duration:
2 hours, 23 minutes, 54 seconds
Duration of totality:
3 minutes, 31 seconds
Partial begins:
Apr 8, 2024 at 2:12:16 pm
Full begins:
Apr 8, 2024 at 3:24:21 pm
Maximum:
Apr 8, 2024 at 3:26:06 pm
Full ends:
Apr 8, 2024 at 3:27:52 pm
Partial ends:
Apr 8, 2024 at 4:36:10 pm

[Speaker to Animals]

Like I said, I don't think the beginning and end times represent the span you can view with the naked eye. It's more like the time span of the main event, a smaller segment of which you can look at it without the glasses. That said, even if it were only 5 seconds it would be worthwhile.

I had something like 1 minute 10 seconds of totality according to that site, but it was for only about 20 seconds I could actually see it without the glasses.

[Fife]

[Fife]

Great pics: http://www.boredpanda.com/solar-eclipse-2017

Am I the only one who tripped out on the snake shadows?

Well, it has been an unusual day, to say the least. I didn't get to hit the centerline at the lake, and I had to watch from a hospital parking lot in one of those very few blue counties on the line.

Having said all that, we had a clear sky and a good two minutes of totality. It was everything I thought it would be and more.

[Fife]

It's been a year??

Damn some of us are getting old; relativity is a bitch.

[Okeefenokee]

Last time I was home my dad told me about the crazy shit the shadows on the back porch were doing.

[Speaker to Animals]

That shit was crazy.

There is no comparing anything with what happens when the shadow actually passes over you.

I actually feel sorry for people who missed it.