I was out riding my bicycle during the whole thing. We only got about 60% here in the Phoenix area, so the sunlight was about like late afternoon though the peak was just before noon.
I had a pair of those sun-view glasses from my previous 2017 eclipse up in OR.....So went out at 11:13 and checked it out- my neighbor's kids were home so let them check it out also....(They stayed home from school because their crazy mother thinks "There is dangerous radiation from the eclipse!"
Here in central CA we were at 30% so the sun just had a big bite taken out of it. Also punched some small holes thru a paper plate and showed them how to do a "Pinhole Projector"
So you can watch the eclipse in toe-tality. -------------------------
The eclpse is the best thing to happen, ever
All weekend, nothing else in the news. No murder, house fires, car accidents, politics. So nice to have a weekend when nothing else happened. -------------------------
Eclipse party at my house!
For only $600 you get one drink, one snack and your own 2"X2" spot to stand.
Party starts at 3:18 PM and at 3:22 PM GET THE HELL OFF MY PROPERTY! ---------------------------
Made a pin hole out of big box but clouds stop that ~ 40% Then Clouds thin enough to see ~ 90+% max where I'm @.
I don't by BS claiming "Must see" & spend Hundreds to many Thousands of $...
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My area was in the 80% range. It got a little bit dark here, starting at a little bit after 2 PM. But it was a "strange" dark. I guess because the shadows weren't as long as they are in the evening. Our maximum was at 3:02.
All the people who were wigging out cracked me up. Jeez, people. It's just a friggin' eclipse. Do some reading, if nothing else. None of our animals seemed to notice.
I took some pics of the light filtering through our trees. You can kind of see the crescent shapes.
I saw it all. We were in the 100% totality band, tho there were some interspersed clouds. It had been some decades since I last saw a total solar eclipse (I think on the Indian ocean but may have been in the Pacific) and I had forgotten how brightly the sun returned when totality waned.
It got almost fully dark here, and the change from partial to full eclipse came in an instant, as if someone turned off a light switch. Streetlamps came on, vehicles equipped with auto headlights, security lights..they all came on. Clouds came and went during the whole thing but it was mostly clear during the 4 1/2 minutes of totality.
We had intended to watch from the backyard, but about an hour beforehand, decided to drive about a mile and sit on the tailgate of my truck in a big parking lot where a business had sponsored some vendors..tee shirts, baubles, stupid little signs..the usual crap but the main reason we went because it was in Waffle Cone Ice Cream Parlor's parking lot, and I made dang good use of the few steps totheir front door. Damn the A1C, full cone ahead!
An hour after the eclipse was over tho, clear blue skies horizon to horizon and bright sun returned. Go figure..
Afterwards, we moseyed on over to a city park that was supposed to have live entertainment this afternoon,, but that had been cancelled too.
Overall, for the City of Copperas Cove, (and many places in Central Texas) it was a financial bust. Here, they had expected every town and city's populations in the totality band over 900+miles of Texas to double, and had spent a lot of $$ bringing in entertainment, trying to sell tent and RV camping spots out at Ogletree Gap, booking food trucks and other things, (eclipse glasses for $3 ea that many stores were giving away free) but by Thursday-Friday, it was obvious from forecasts, that the weather was not going to cooperate. People went elsewhere and I'm glad of it.
And now, the city is probably gonna have to send crews all over, picking up the hundreds pairs of those glasses people chunked on the ground as soon as it was over. Saw them all over the ground at the city park.
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Crop from phone pic, direct view because of clouds. Didn't even try to get best setting on phone or edit beyond crop & text.
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Originally posted by Raydar: All the people who were wigging out cracked me up. Jeez, people. It's just a friggin' eclipse. Do some reading, if nothing else.
Is same "nut cases" that go T.S. etc for every show or go to WWE WM this weekend, all often spending Thousands of $ per event...
About 96% totality where I live. Of coarse clouds moved in about the time it started and got thicker at the peak. There were many gaps though, and we could see the progress quite well. It definitely got colder, but not as dark as I thought it would with nearly total coverage.
My daughter and I went outside with welding masks... we were able to see it pretty well here in Florida, but we only got to 85% obstruction (or whatever it's called).
I actually had a business trip planned for this week in San Antonio, and would have seen it there, but decided to cancel my trip because lodging and rental cars would have been a fiasco.
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I was just a few miles from the center of the path of totality, and had almost 4 minutes of full coverage. This is the second time for being in the center of the path, the first time in 1970.
The light filters on the camera produced the vertical points effect in the photo.
I saw it at 100% totality for about 4 minutes, got some pictures on my film camera but haven't developed them yet, this is the best I got on my potato phone.
