2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready

[Deej 76941]

Exactly what time is the eclipse? I want to be sure I'm out fishing. 

[YGIFS 19452]

Man, I never thought of that.  What do fish do for those couple hours of partial or couple minutes of totality?  It'll be a mild day so probably won't make a difference either way very much.  But I've never given any consideration to like a dead of summer or dead of winter eclipse.  What does that do to the fish?  Not like they live long enough to see multiple ones.  High in the Shower thoughts by Deej.  Join us next week for "If you drop acid in the Southern Hemisphere but drive quickly into the Northern Hemisphere before it kicks in, do you hallucinate in Black & White?"  

Overall window in Central Texas is 10:30-1:30p.  Not quite totality, but pretty damn close will be 11:30-12:00p.  Give or take a few minutes depending on your exact position.  Looking to be only light cloud cover so be patient, there'll be some great viewing windows in there.  

[Biff Tannen 45745]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

still not allowed within 50 yards of the public libraries giving them away, no?  

[Deej 76941]

34 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Man, I never thought of that.  What do fish do for those couple hours of partial or couple minutes of totality?  It'll be a mild day so probably won't make a difference either way very much.  But I've never given any consideration to like a dead of summer or dead of winter eclipse.  What does that do to the fish?  Not like they live long enough to see multiple ones.  High in the Shower thoughts by Deej.  Join us next week for "If you drop acid in the Southern Hemisphere but drive quickly into the Northern Hemisphere before it kicks in, do you hallucinate in Black & White?"  

Overall window in Central Texas is 10:30-1:30p.  Not quite totality, but pretty damn close will be 11:30-12:00p.  Give or take a few minutes depending on your exact position.  Looking to be only light cloud cover so be patient, there'll be some great viewing windows in there.  

Bass tend to feed more in lower light conditions, in my experience. It's why sunrise and sunset are so productive. I figure I'll get an extra feeding window on Saturday. 

[YGIFS 19452]

Mine too. But there’s also a circadian rhythm even to subsurface marine life.  Surely a midday blackout would mess with em a little bit but then some modicum of “but we have only been done eating for a couple hours” would kick in.  I dunno.  Can’t take the girls fishing for this one but maybe April one wilL make for a fun experiment and fishing excursion. 

[MissingInAction 25199]

I'll be in port a. Can't wait.

[PantsTent 2002]

HEB sells eclipse glasses, as well. 

Thanks, was not aware…sure enough Oak Hill was open and had them.

[Born to Run 6569]

I live in west Austin
is it worth driving further west?

[Guest]

Just a heads up if you have those cheap paper glasses. I got a pair today and tested them. They work well, but they are so narrow that bright sun gets in around them. I did it for only about 10-20 seconds and an hour later my eyes felt like I'd been around someone welding.

I took a piece of cardboard, cut out two eyeholes and then taped the glasses over them to block more light 

[Texas Jeff 1945]

I don't trust the paper glasses ... just my opinion.  I will be making a pinhole camera to check it out, which is really simple to do.

Something to check out during the eclipse tomorrow.  Find a tree with leaves throwing a shadow on the ground, or on a building.  You may see some half moon shapes, which is pretty cool.

[miguelito 11312]

Or use a colander to see the shadows/images.

Edited October 14, 2023 by miguelito

[InkaUtexas 26144]

A few years ago my dad made me some Spaceman Spiff glasses for a halloween costume. They are pretty damn good. I plan on using them tomorrow. Science bitches! 

[davidg 4038]

3 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

I don't trust the paper glasses ... just my opinion.  I will be making a pinhole camera to check it out, which is really simple to do.

Something to check out during the eclipse tomorrow.  Find a tree with leaves throwing a shadow on the ground, or on a building.  You may see some half moon shapes, which is pretty cool.

 

Eclipse shadows from the live oak tree in my front yard during the 2017 partial eclipse.  Didn’t know this happens and I noticed it as I was going into the house to get some stuff to view with.    A programmable shade level welding helmet also works pretty good  for viewing eclipses.

 

[Born to Run 6569]

I live in west Austin
is it worth driving further west?

Once more?

[YGIFS 19452]

So what time do I take this hit of acid?

[Hate 20146]

I'll be on the golf course for this one.  It should be a great preamble to next April.

[South Austin 52621]

7 hours ago, YGIFS said:

So what time do I take this hit of acid?

[miguelito 11312]

8 hours ago, Born to Run said:

14 hours ago, Born to Run said:

I live in west Austin
is it worth driving further west?

Once more?

If you want to see the full ring of fire, head west or south.

 

[Wally Fairway 5587]

I sure hope this isn't a glimpse at April, because it's raining all day here

[Nicole44 22078]

This place sells four packs for those wanting them if you’re headed south/west for the Ring of FIRE. Pretty cool. Just thought I’d share. 

[Biff Tannen 45745]

21 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

This place sells four packs

What does it say that I immediately thought you meant beer.

[Scheiss Meister 8413]

I used my reading glasses to focus the partial eclipse in August 2017 onto the sidewalk.  It was pretty cool.

[Born to Run 6569]

If you want to see the full ring of fire, head west or south.
 

Thank you!

[Biff Tannen 45745]

So looks like about 11:50 am in Austin right?

[austingirl 2192]

This works remarkably well as an eclipse viewer - I did this in 2017 and I just made a new one. Working great. Use an actual pin to make the hole in the foil - you may have to experiment, but if you use, say, a writing pen to make the hole, the image will be blurry. 

 

[HRSchenker 2274]

11:52am will be the maximum for those of us in DFW. Just looked it up to see the next time our area gets the total annular eclipse and it's September 5, 2165. 

[GopherRock 1769]

Obligatory

 

 

[rpspeed 1400]

29 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So looks like about 11:50 am in Austin right?

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/austin

[LonghornSean 4024]

36 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So looks like about 11:50 am in Austin right?

For me it’s already worth checking out now if you have glasses or a viewer as the moon started peeking over the sun about 20 minutes ago.

Such a small and simple visual, but I find it so cool to look at.

Edited October 14, 2023 by LonghornSean

[Nicole44 22078]

From Round Rock it looks like the moon took a bite out of the sun when I went to look just now.  Pretty cool. 

[Trey3216 15366]

The colander trick is really cool as well.   Just take your standard colander and use the refracted light to see the “negatives” on the ground.  
 

Here’s one from ‘17

Edited October 14, 2023 by Trey3216

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13587]

Started/going

[tejas60 3534]

About half way to the ring in Kerrville. 

[Biff Tannen 45745]

Shadows on my porch

[Scheiss Meister 8413]

I was setting up to try to focus on a book cover with my readers and got this by accident.  Blurry, but it is going through my head.

[Scheiss Meister 8413]

The light going through my wife's hat brim.

[Trey3216 15366]

[NorthLoop 14249]

Got the full ring in NB for about 3 minutes 

[DaysOff 7975]

This is a bust. I thought it'd be way darker out even with the ring.

[BrickHorn 18287]

It is eerie outside. Not a cloud in the sky near noon but it’s like someone dimmed the lights to 40%. Plus there are little crescents of light in ever tree’s shadow. Pretty cool.

[Red Five 40896]

I was unaware of this. "Um, why does it look dark outside?".

[Helobious 9466]

2 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

This is a bust. I thought it'd be way darker out even with the ring.

It makes it look like kind of a cloudy day for a few minutes, just without clouds. I have no idea why people get excited about eclipses.

[deadshank 24653]

From deer camp.  Cloud cover helps with viewing. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26571]

4 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Got the full ring in NB for about 3 minutes 

Sure that wasn't South Austin's mom?

[South Austin 52621]

4 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

This is a bust. I thought it'd be way darker out even with the ring.

I want my money back!

[Pods 7586]

That was pretty cool.

You can easily see how it would scare the shit out of a civilization that worships a Sun God. Would have been a very powerful tool for Aztec and Maya priests that could predict it. 

[tejas60 3534]

1 minute ago, deadshank said:

From deer camp.  Cloud cover helps with viewing. 

I stole this pic. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19227]

16 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

Something to check out during the eclipse tomorrow.  Find a tree with leaves throwing a shadow on the ground, or on a building.  You may see some half moon shapes, which is pretty cool.

 

[Js1 85587]

2 minutes ago, deadshank said:

From deer camp.  Cloud cover helps with viewing. 

I can see why ancient civilizations just assumed this was the end of days 

[Trey3216 15366]

5 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

It is eerie outside. Not a cloud in the sky near noon but it’s like someone dimmed the lights to 40%. Plus there are little crescents of light in ever tree’s shadow. Pretty cool.