Kay Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 24 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said: We got lucky! Incredible!!! Photo is a photo from the back of my camera. Good luck all! Amazing! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Got massively lucky where I am in Texas. A big blobby low cloud moved in 10 minutes from totality but got out of the way with 1 minute to spare. Stole this from my brother, so cool to see the activity shooting up off the surface of the sun. Incredible stuff. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Getting close to 90% coverage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 I cried. That was amazing. Time to hit the road. 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted April 8, 2024 Author Share Posted April 8, 2024 That has to be the most amazing thing I have ever seen. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted April 8, 2024 Author Share Posted April 8, 2024 On the backside. The light looks like LED lighting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxtrix Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 OMG 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Someone with us took this picture through the clouds 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxtrix Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Just now, Interstate said: On the backside. The light looks like LED lighting yes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheMan Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Speechless. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 High clouds have moved in lol. Ah well. I didn’t have any glasses for this one and we’re at peak dim. Til next time… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 That was cool, even though it wasn’t totality here. Amazing stuff even so. Sun was just a sliver. Felt the acute cooldown and dimdown 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheMan Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Words do not describe it 19 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Amazing! I got to see the one back in 1984 when I was in school. Cool that I got to see another. My AU kid got out of class and she said the entire quad was full of students watching . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Few minutes after peak 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 OMG that was insane! So glad we took the risk and came to Ohio. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Temp dropped from 74F to 69F at IAD. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weather Will Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 It was a great experience in DC. People staring up at the sky. Humanity put down their phones for 2 minutes. Amazing.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 That was awesome 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 1 hour ago, George BM said: Temp dropped from 74F to 69F at IAD. Definitely noticed the temp drop here! I didn't notice by how much, but there was a definite difference between 3:20 and an hour ago. Here is my 80% totality pic from NoVA, taken through a solar filter, and a pic of the friggin' cloud bank that moved in about 5 minutes after I snapped that pic at 3:20. Because, of course, that's my eclipse luck...a last minute, rogue popup thunderstorm ruined the 2017 eclipse at my location as well. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round Hill WX Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Absolutely unreal! Surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 A lot of clouds in Pasadena but through the breaks it was still cool to see the eclipse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Was very cool to see a ton of people out in the local park by my house, just watching. We had good timing with the cloud deck here as it approached maximum. Everything muted, gray, and cool, but still quite bright. A sort of eerie light when you look at the woods or the sky away from the sun and see blue... but it's just not the right shade. Awesome! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 Pretty cool. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDweatherman Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 The wife has mentioned one of her true bucket list items includes seeing the pyramids and going to Egypt. 2027, the max eclipse (totality is 6+ mins) is over Luxor, Egypt. That one is already in our plans 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxtrix Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 crappy phone picture does not do it justice. the sun had a black hole in the middle of it, and it was surrounded by white flames, with a red ball of fire on the bottom. and that was after the light quickly drained away leaving the aftertaste of dread. so incredible. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 89.4% at 3:17. A total failure because a heavy stratus deck moved in around 3. The weak radiation at 11% couldn't burn through the clouds. Now back to 15% and the sun is returning but too late! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 21 minutes ago, Paleocene said: Was very cool to see a ton of people out in the local park by my house, just watching. We had good timing with the cloud deck here as it approached maximum. Everything muted, gray, and cool, but still quite bright. A sort of eerie light when you look at the woods or the sky away from the sun and see blue... but it's just not the right shade. Awesome! Same here, lucked out on clouds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 From Colesville, MD. ETA: This was achieved using an 8" dobsonian telescope (not motorized) w/42mm eyepiece and an S24 Ultra manually held up to the eyepiece in 200 megapixel mode. 9.25" solar filter used on the tube itself. Crude astrophotography is definitely possible using less than stellar setups. Just have to have the patience. Non-motorized/computer controller telescopes like this are sub-$600 and some are much lower even. Downside is the 30-50 pounds of weight they can carry with them. 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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