2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready

[dcbc 14465]

15 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

With regards to the "temperatures drop" claim, my nerd self recorded the air temperature off KXAN every five minutes from the start to well past totality.  Conclusion?  Eh.  Maybe temperature didn't rise as much as it might have in a normal day, but it wasn't like a cold front blew through.  I suspect what people are perceiving is a reduced level of radiative heating, even though the air, which is a giant thermal "capacitor", doesn't cool off:

During the partial eclipse last fall, it was a 10 degree drop.  Today, in totality, it wasn't as drastic, and we didn't get the big wind shifts we got during the partial event last fall.  But what a show.  I'm so glad the clouds broke for us.

[UnivTex34 1763]

 

Timelapse from my drone at our viewing site out near Kingsland.

[jimmyjazz 45893]

Although we had total cloud cover in west Austin, I still thought the massive change from "kinda dim" to "dark" and back over maybe 2 minutes was awesome.  My older dog was freaking out.

[The Royal We 3069]

12 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Yep, I listened to a guy on NPR a month or so ago talking about how you should do whatever you can to get in the path of totality, and as deep into it as you can get. He emphasized how precious it is and how you should try to get as much time in totality as possible. He was right.

I could’ve stayed home, gone to the northernmost part of Dublin and seen 1:23 of totality. I could’ve stopped in Delaware and seen 2:35 of totality. Instead I drove on to Marion and got 3:34 of totality. Every extra second of jaw-dropping wonder was worth it. I’m so lucky that I could leave a little after noon and be back around 5:00. 

1000%

We listened to The Daily on the way out there and "Mr Eclipse" was talking about how impactful his first total eclipse was on the rest of his life. I honestly thought it was a little much and maybe he was just a wackadoodle. Nope. I get it now. All three of my kids really enjoyed it too. My middle son is skeptical of pretty much everything and I could tell leading up to today that he was happy to get out of school and was humoring me with his interest, but that shit went out the window the moment totality hit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/podcasts/the-daily/mr-eclipse.html

[gsoda3 3251]

3 hours ago, CHIEF said:

Yep. There was a huge one at about 5 o'clock.

CHIEF

i was wondering what that was. 

 

3 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

someone smarter than me needs to capture this series of images and make a .gif

load it right now and you can see the giant 1000-mile wide blob of darkness travel through texas

pretty incredible

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=sp&band=01&length=24

 

 

going in, i thought this was way overhyped.  but i get it now.  that was amazing.

[Captain Ron 12872]

[speed817 19256]

Pretty cool seeing the solar flares....

[4th&Five 41519]

Saw this on X. Not sure where it was  

 

[gsoda3 3251]

A guy named Chris Scholz posted this in the World Wildflower Photography group on facebook.  It's a composite he took using a 15 year old camera. 

 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Just flew across the country the last 3.5 hrs and it didn’t even get dark once..lame

[Grimas 669]

5 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Son #2 is disappointed.

"All dad had in the fridge was Bud Lite..."?

[AbeFroman 2154]

Pretty damn cool if you asked me.  We sat out in the near park here in Dallas and there was a lot of people out.  The clouds moved away at good times.  It was a good afternoon.

[George 491]

1 hour ago, speed817 said:

Pretty cool seeing the solar flares....

What’s the little red dot around 5:00? I noticed that with naked eye but had no clue what it was. 

[MissingInAction 25020]

2 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

 

I was surrounded by dumbasses not wearing eye protection.

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

16 minutes ago, Grimas said:

"All dad had in the fridge was Bud Lite..."?

Alas, just an energy drink.

[Radical Larry 28566]

"All dad had in the fridge was Bud Lite..."?

All he wanted was a Pepsi.

[Aqua Buddha 14582]

1 hour ago, The Royal We said:

1000%

We listened to The Daily on the way out there and "Mr Eclipse" was talking about how impactful his first total eclipse was on the rest of his life. I honestly thought it was a little much and maybe he was just a wackadoodle. Nope. I get it now. All three of my kids really enjoyed it too. My middle son is skeptical of pretty much everything and I could tell leading up to today that he was happy to get out of school and was humoring me with his interest, but that shit went out the window the moment totality hit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/podcasts/the-daily/mr-eclipse.html

I see that now.  This was my first and it was breathtaking.  The crowd audibly gasped.  Some cheered.  A woman next to me "My God.  Look at it.  It's awesome."

Easily one of my top 5 experiences ever.

[markstanco 12573]

"All dad had in the fridge was Bud Lite..."?

No miller light?

[texasdago 7569]

37 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I was surrounded by dumbasses not wearing eye protection.

You live in College Station ?

Edited April 9 by texasdago

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

33 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I see that now.  This was my first and it was breathtaking.  The crowd audibly gasped.  Some cheered.  A woman next to me "My God.  Look at it.  It's awesome."

Easily one of my top 5 experiences ever.

I can relate. I get that a lot.

[Guadaloopy 10960]

We viewed from an elephant sanctuary in Hugo, OK.  For the 2.5 hours before the eclipse, we had pretty heavy cloud cover.  But no shit, not ten minutes before totality, we started to see tiny breaks in the clouds and caught glimpses of the eclipse in progress.   Less than a minute before totality, an opening came in the clouds that lasted for the entire totality!   What was really cool is that during the totality, the elephants started trumpeting.   A surreal experience!   

[troph 24781]

Coming back to this. That was really amazing. I wish we had made a day of it. I’ve got some spectacular champagne we shoulda opened.  I don’t want to say it was life changing but it was meaningful and the more time passes the more meaningful it was. Makes me feel small, in a comforting kinda way.  Five stars, would visit again. 

[Biff Tannen 45666]

21 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

I can relate. I get that a lot.

God damn this got me good. 

[High Plains Drifter 11034]

 

We watched it out in the sticks between Bracketville and Eagle Pass, right on the line. Cloudy, but we did get glimpses leading up to totality, and then maybe 2 or 2.5 minutes of totality (out of 4.5). I tore the lenses out of a pair of eclipse glasses and taped them over a pair of binoculars. Pretty spectacular. 

Birds shut down, insects disappeared, could see what I guessed was Venus, and apparently I was right. 

 

Even my 13 yr old was all like: 

 

 

[speed817 19256]

Diamond ring....

[speed817 19256]

1 hour ago, George said:

What’s the little red dot around 5:00? I noticed that with naked eye but had no clue what it was. 

I believe the are solar flares. My friend got a better view of them with his longer lens.

[SubliminalHorn 6786]

July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

[Bozo_Casanova 26437]

Just now, SubliminalHorn said:

July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

Going to hang out at Marubra all day

[Guest]

Went out to the Hill Country where the in-laws live. Lots of clouds during totality, but it was cool to see how dark it got.

Honestly, the 3.5 hours it took to get home instead of the normal two hours made the event seem like it wasn't worth it. Maybe I would have felt different it it wasn't cloudy?

[hornian 5210]

4 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

An hour?

Furk, I'm in. Let's get a shaggy group together. 

[jimmyjazz 45893]

4 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

Similar story for me.  My best bud lives about an hour north of Sydney.  If his gig is still going then, I'm there.

[Updawg 2266]

Shit I might need to consider going down under for that as well. Got some friends that live there and I’ve always wanted to go

I m not buying that long of totality though

[Surly Bevo 24908]

Yea no

 

The longest known totality was 7 minutes and 28 seconds in 743 B.C. However, NASA says this record will be broken in 2186 with a 7 minute, 29 second total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse visible from parts of the U.S. won't happen until Aug. 23, 2044.6

[deft 6843]

Fuck it then. I’m going to the 2186 one. I’ll pay whatever.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13578]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kerrvillebreakingnews/permalink/2437260589793793/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

[SubliminalHorn 6786]

14 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Yea no

 

The longest known totality was 7 minutes and 28 seconds in 743 B.C. However, NASA says this record will be broken in 2186 with a 7 minute, 29 second total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse visible from parts of the U.S. won't happen until Aug. 23, 2044.6

Are you saying the internet is a liar sometimes 

regardless, still wanna go to Sydney for it

Edited April 9 by SubliminalHorn

[The Dog 44019]

[jimmyjazz 45893]

I mean, it's Sydney.  If there's one city left on my list before I kick off this mortal coil, that's it.

[pantone159 719]

34 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

That eclipse will not be longer than 5 min 15 seconds anywhere. A little bit longer than this one. That doesn't mean you should miss it though!

[pantone159 719]

35 minutes ago, speed817 said:

I believe the are solar flares. My friend got a better view of them with his longer lens.

I think these are called solar prominences? I saw an orange dot and did not realize what it was until you posted these photos. Thanks!

I'm not sure why they are red/orange though.

[immamac 42838]

15 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kerrvillebreakingnews/permalink/2437260589793793/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

worth hosting here.

 

 

[pantone159 719]

46 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Went out to the Hill Country where the in-laws live. Lots of clouds during totality, but it was cool to see how dark it got.

Honestly, the 3.5 hours it took to get home instead of the normal two hours made the event seem like it wasn't worth it. Maybe I would have felt different it it wasn't cloudy?

Sorry about your luck. If you don't get a good look at totality, you miss the good part. A total eclipse is like nothing else you have ever seen. That includes any pictures you have seen before, which just don't capture how unreal it looks. All the leadup where the sun turns crescent, things get dark, is cool but not unreal like the eclipsed sun.

[fattyflattie 4639]

7 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

Sorry about your luck. If you don't get a good look at totality, you miss the good part. A total eclipse is like nothing else you have ever seen. That includes any pictures you have seen before, which just don't capture how unreal it looks. All the leadup where the sun turns crescent, things get dark, is cool but not unreal like the eclipsed sun.

We were in same boat. Damn, didn’t realize how bad we missed it.  Guess I might get a reunion trip to Oz in a few years.  

[HOOKEM4 5036]

We couldn't see shit for the build up. About 2 minutes before totality, everything cleared. It was amazing.

 

[pantone159 719]

1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

July 22, 2028 there’s a total eclipse for Australia with Sydney smack in the middle of it with an estimated time of totality of over an hour. That would be insane. My BFF and his wife live in Brissie, looks like I may need to head down unda for it

Sydney will get a total eclipse for about 3 minutes 50 seconds, at about 2 pm.

[WithoutAClue 15341]

here's a nice composite photo

 

[HenryJames 66038]

[butthurt 1522]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5hCOGoP1E9/?igsh=Mmo5NXFpOXk3ODNi

 

[speed817 19256]

53 minutes ago, immamac said:

worth hosting here.

 

[kevwun 15769]

We got really lucky in Mason.  Mostly clear and got to see all of totality.  10 minutes after it clouded up and we only got occasional glimpses going the other way.  So glad we stuck it out and went.  Traffic getting home was real shitty, but still worth it.  We saw stars during totality which was badass.