2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready

[tejas60 3533]

4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

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

Stupid shit wives say thread is --->

[WithoutAClue 15381]

picture from a friend on FB.

 

[Trey3216 15347]

7 minutes ago, Helobious said:

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.

I don’t get why people get excited about Amazon chains and plain white tee-shirts, and overpaying guys that play 60 games/year….yet here we are 

[StassneyHorn 6604]

Did I do it right? Was tired of looking at sun

 

[ztejas 43467]

Whoa it looks bizarre outside. Hadn't really been paying attention but just walked out here. 

[Biff Tannen 45691]

1 minute ago, StassneyHorn said:

Did I do it right? Was tired of looking at sun

 

No

[Pods 7554]

Shadows cast from a tree onto a shade cloth. 

[LonghornSean 4003]

10 minutes ago, Helobious said:

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.

If you think people were getting excited for this one, just wait for April.

It’s a damn cool phenomenon.

[Biff Tannen 45691]

Finn’s eclipse tattoo

 

[Armybrat 40850]

Out looking at the annular solar eclipse - using two layers of eye doctor’s roll-up dark celluloid film, plus two pairs of extremely dark sun glasses. 

The eclipse looked yellow with about 5/6 totality since we were slightly off the center path. 
 

[Blotto 23538]

The shadows are the best part

[NorthLoop 14214]

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

For all us lazy fuckers. 

[Nicole44 22060]

Best one I could get. So cool seeing kiddos outside with their parents. Getting all excited and all that. 😎 

[Scheiss Meister 8408]

Maximum here near Navasota through a colander.  It's not as neat as the shadows through the trees, but pretty cool, still.  It's not completely focused because my wife is short.

[tejas60 3533]

Got damn Matt. Water shoes?  And get some sun. 

[Scheiss Meister 8408]

Last one, I promise.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

1 minute ago, tejas60 said:

Got damn Matt. Water shoes?  And get some sun. 

Those are my house shoes, man!  Orthopedic!

[bernorange 8362]

My son still has his special solar eclipse glasses his school gave him from the last solar eclipse.  We took turns having a look a moment ago.  Clear skies and amazing view of a thin crescent sun.  Surreal.

[CoachTex 2628]

[StassneyHorn 6604]

Guys y’all are doing it wrong. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

8 minutes ago, tejas60 said:

Got damn Matt. Water shoes?  And get some sun. 

I did actually go outside.  
 

[Bateshorn 9928]

Both my kids could have seen it, but sadly it’s cloudy in Eugene. 
 

Boy 1 saw it in San Antonio and said it was one of the coolest things he’s ever done.

[Scheiss Meister 8408]

My daughter in Eugene was pretty bummed about the clouds, but did get a pretty decent picture before maximum.

[HornOnTheBayou 8931]

9 minutes ago, CoachTex said:

Fine, I'll take the Ducks and the points against the Huskies this afternoon.

Edited October 14, 2023 by HornOnTheBayou

[Blotto 23538]

40 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Finn’s eclipse tattoo

 

This photo is all kinds of badass. 

[TexPx 2323]

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

Can’t wait to see your Yelp review.

[luke duke 6413]

nm

[Kennythetiger 9389]

55 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Boy 1 saw it in San Antonio and said it was one of the coolest things he’s ever done.

Encourage him to do the total eclipse. The last one was one of the neatest natural things I’ve ever seen. 

[gofuckyourself 8333]

That was a lot of fun. I got my normally "home-ridden" 82 year old mother outside and interested and my kids saw their first. The inside effects were cool too.

PSA for future one, the libraries give away glasses and our local one also had a telescope with filter for close up view.

Though I'm sure April will be nutty and packed at official locations.

[bernorange 8362]

1 hour ago, TexPx said:

Can’t wait to see your Yelp review.

DEMAND PERFECTION!!!!

[RamjetFDO 10577]

 

♫ Let’s go to Luckenbach Texas... solar eclipses and the boys ♫

 

♫ I took some photos of a burning ring of fire... ♫

[deadshank 24653]

4 hours ago, DaysOff said:

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

It got pretty dark in Uvalde county.  
 

At its darkest, butterflies started swarming out of nowhere and some hawks that were around got off of their perches and flew in erratic circles.  No four leggers were to be seen.  Animals are more attuned to sun and moon phases than we are.  An event like today’s must really set them into tailspins.   

[Deej 76818]

5 hours ago, Pods said:

Shadows cast from a tree onto a shade cloth. 

Shadows were amazing. 

[Deej 76818]

58 minutes ago, deadshank said:

It got pretty dark in Uvalde county.  
 

At its darkest, butterflies started swarming out of nowhere and some hawks that were around got off of their perches and flew in erratic circles.  No four leggers were to be seen.  Animals are more attuned to sun and moon phases than we are.  An event like today’s must really set them into tailspins.   

I caught a few bass after it started.

Edited October 14, 2023 by Deej

[bernorange 8362]

32 minutes ago, Deej said:

I caught a few bass after it started.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13585]

Didn't look but was cool biking down Alamo Street in San Antonio and seeing peeps bursting out the doors of local establishments and looking at the skies and a few minutes later in Hemisfair Park hearing a faint collective gasp and applause. Anything that gets people amped about the same thing and doesn't hurt anyone else, I'm for. 

 

[TonyTexas 10515]

I didn’t know there was a partial eclipse today. I woke up from a catnap when it was happening. I recognized that the light was weird. Thought I was going blind. 

[Armybrat 40850]

16 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

I didn’t know there was a partial eclipse today. I woke up from a catnap when it was happening. I recognized that the light was weird. Thought I was going blind. 

Been fapping too much?

[TonyTexas 10515]

2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Been fapping too much?

Just the right amount

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13585]

13 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Been fapping too much?

Wut dat

[YGIFS 19450]

ah!  myein eyes!  ze googles, zey do nothing!  

Family meeting tonight, we've all agreed that the children have dentist's appointments for the next Monday eclipse and can't make school.  So we're going camping Sunday night and staying to watch the eclipse closer to the totality path.  

[deft 6855]

Went to my kids’ elementary school in west SA and took my 8” dobsonian. I ordered a 12” piece of solar film drunk engineered a slip on solar filter last night. I probably had close to 75 kids and family use it for a few seconds so I’m definitely getting conjunctivitis. And yeah I need to stop skipping leg day.

[UT_OB1 2224]

2 hours ago, deft said:

... And yeah I need to stop skipping leg day.

You go to the gym?

[NorthLoop 14214]

7 hours ago, deadshank said:

It got pretty dark in Uvalde county.  
 

At its darkest, butterflies started swarming out of nowhere and some hawks that were around got off of their perches and flew in erratic circles.  No four leggers were to be seen.  Animals are more attuned to sun and moon phases than we are.  An event like today’s must really set them into tailspins.   

My dog was acting weird as fuck the whole time. Outside it was like dusk and he didn't know what to make of it. 

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3004]

12 hours ago, Helobious said:

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.

[Jersey Man10 3537]

Bulverde.

[Booper 415]

 

Time lapse from my phone with filter taped over lenses. 

[Disco Strangler 1878]

21 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

You go to the gym?

You should get that thing on your face checked out.  

[YGIFS 19450]

Yeah, what are the odds he develops a huge melanoma on his face during a solar eclipse?