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Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« on: August 21, 2017, 12:29:35 pm »

About an hour until maximum here in Memphis, right around 93% obscured I think, got my glasses ready, some of you folks up northwest already hit totality, didn't see a thread so, here it is.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2017, 12:34:24 pm »

Was just out to see it in Vancouver.  Turns out a partial eclipse is still pretty bright, to the point of I could barely tell by looking at the sun that anything was happening.

The tree shadows on the ground from the looked pretty cool though.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 12:36:00 pm »

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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2017, 12:41:28 pm »

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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2017, 01:20:59 pm »

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People around here are actually doing that. It's great.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2017, 01:40:34 pm »

We're at roughly 50% coverage now, and the lighting is weird. I keep thinking I have sunglasses on.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 01:52:06 pm »

Saw it at the peak here in Memphis, the shadows from the leaves on the back deck were awesomely trippy, then slipped because the mother-in-law was washing the deck off for some reason and the goddamn thing is slick as fucking ice in spots, landed completely on my funny bone, pulled my shoulder and neck it feels like, pretty sure people in the path of totality heard me roar "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT" so yeah, not the best eclipse experience.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 01:53:47 pm »

Going to be a good hour or so before it's as covered as it'll get where I'm at, I think. Near as I can tell, since I just remembered to check timing a few hours ago and it's annoyingly difficult to just plug in a zip code or somethin' and have it tell me when the hell I should go outside. Supposedly started cooking off like twenty, thirty minutes ago, but it's hard to tell. You can definitely tell there's somethin' going on with the lighting, but it's not terribly noticeable, yet.

... not 100% sure I'm going to able to stay awake that long, though. Woke up at like four this morning rather sick, and it's only changed from sketchy stomach to headmurder since. Pretty sure eclipse curse is a safe assumption, here.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2017, 01:56:19 pm »

So...apparently 92% coverage is about equivalent to....A FUCKING CLOUDY DAY.  >:(

I mean yeah, cicadas and crickets started chirping up a storm, but the sky was still blue, the bright thing in the sky was still bright, and I couldn't see anything else.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2017, 01:56:44 pm »

If there isn't totality, it's somewhat disappointing without the shades, I believe. Just finished fourth contact nearish Yellowstone and right underneath it. Very, very cool event.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2017, 01:59:35 pm »

It's weird that the neatest thing to me is always the shadows of the leaves. The mindfuck of regular shadows turning into a weird overlapping mashup of crescents is the first thing I noticed back in, what, 90 or so in Texas, and the same thing here.
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« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2017, 02:00:42 pm »

3/10, would not Moon again.
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Re: Psst, the Eclipse is in progress.
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2017, 02:02:48 pm »

Clearly you must go outside and moon the Moon for this indignity. Hurry, before it goes away!
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« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2017, 02:04:34 pm »

Meh. Wasn't great. It didn't get very dark at all, and part of the shade could be more attributed to cloud cover rather than something blocking the sun.
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« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2017, 02:05:06 pm »

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