Official 8/21/2017 Solar Eclipse Thread

ZZ13

ZZ13

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Our house is in the 99% area, but not good enough for a once in a lifetime natural event. So several of us are taking our boats about 90 miles north on the ICW this weekend to get the full totality experience.

Are any of you going to experience the totality by boat?
 
ZZ13 said:
Our house is in the 99% area, but not good enough for a once in a lifetime natural event. So several of us are taking our boats about 90 miles north on the ICW this weekend to get the full totality experience.

Are any of you going to experience the totality by boat?
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Nope. We rented a house on Kiawah Island. We will be the absolute last people in the US to see 100% totality. We will see it from the beach.

Bryan
 
We're in an 89% area but we're not taking any special trips or anything. I don't get the hype over this. I've seen several eclipses in my lifetime. Wassup with the hype.

We probably will watch it from the front yard.
 
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We're in an 89% area but we're not taking any special trips or anything. I don't get the hype over this. I've seen several eclipses in my lifetime. Wassup with the hype.

We probably will watch it from the front yard.
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For us, it's a reason to take a boat trip with some boating friends. Also what I have read is that totality is indescribable. That you have to be there and witness to understand. I'll report back how that goes.
 
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We are anchored here at Shark Hole. Took the ride up on Saturday. Hopefully it will be clear at 2:46pm today. We passed Mark Cuban's Yacht on the way here.
 
Not going to happen for us this year (we're in 72% land), but we'll be dead-center on Lake Ontario for the next one
 
It's over. We had clear view of the sun and moon during most of it and during all 2 minutes of totality. Some observations:

- the transition into and out of darkness was almost instantaneous. Now I see why those in 99% and lower might not be impressed.

- the darkness was a thrill. But it did not get pitch black where you could see stars (like some articles I read said it would). It was more like twilight.

- There was a tremendous concentrated glow in one spot as it exited totality. Not sure what that was, but that got us all to cheer. Apparently it's called Baileys Bead.

- there was a noticeably significant temperature drop during the 2 minutes of totality.

- the visual of sudden totality kinda took your breath away. That one cant really effectively be explained.
 
Was outside the whole time and didn't see anything at all. Supposed to be in the 70% area. Sky didn't darken an iota.
 
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