Eclipse!

As a font collector and typography enthusiast - her videos make me laugh right out loud. She is insanely clever!

I’m in NTX and in the path of totality - it’s crazy how many people have flown into DFW for this! Just flying in, hanging at DFW airport, then flying out.

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Maybe this will work…
Stay safe everyone!

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West Texas … about 90% when it happens.
Took some images with an iphone using a welding helmet as a filter earlier.

Have pictures from about 9:30am and 10:40am where you can see the moon approaching and two planets move from above the sun to below the sun (as they passed behind the sun).

Going to try to get a video of what it looks like locally and a few images as the eclipse happens.

We will try to share here later after we get a chance to load them onto the NAS for sharing.

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For my SAS GenXers :wink:

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I don’t have special glasses, Oh well

Disney

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Just had totality here. Now I get it - that was pretty wild.

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Cloudy, drizzly here…schools released for the afternoon for our partial coming now, but sadly all we can see are clouds… :sweat:

ETA: OH WOW @LR72

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Clouds moved in so sadly it became a non event …
:pensive:

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We just had our 88% partial. It did darken a bit into a greenish darkness, differently from normal rain and clouds.

Bless it though, my poor 4th grader is Big Mad that she didn’t get the full experience, couldn’t even use her glasses. She doesn’t remember our full eclipse in 2017. We’re watching the livestream on CNNmax now, totality in Niagara Falls, which she’s visited and does remember, so that’s some consolation. :laughing:

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Got an Eye of Sauron going on (Uh Image upside down)

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Great pics! I thought about taking pictures at the very last minute — and either I didn’t have the correct camera, or the correct lens, and had no idea what I was doing — but my pictures show … something … but not recognizable as an eclipse. I even took a second round, wearing my eclipse glasses and putting a second pair of eclipse glasses over the camera lens, and those were even worse that the first batch.

Well, you’re a professional photographer and I definitely am not lol. Here’s the best of my pathetic pics:


and with the camera wearing eclipse glasses:

BTW, we peaked at 11:06 which was 55%. That’s when I took these.

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Arizona peak at 63%.

-Ana

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Thank you for the awesome pictures @LR72 in Rochester the clouds came in and stayed for the eclipse. I thought we had a chance the morning with beautiful clear skies. But by the time 2 o’clock came around it was nothing but dark clouds. :confused:

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I just held my eclipse glasses over the lens on my iPhone camera - haha!

Yup, my parents are in Charlton (near Saratoga) and she sent me pics of the overcast skies. Boo!

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It was very cloudy in Mississauga, Canada, too. It got almost completely dark for a few minutes. This is what I captured in the backyard.

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We had clouds, but it helped. This is as close as we got

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Hey, some more info here (h/t @Pepper_Thine_Angus with a different paywalled source):

It seems like Amazon was trying to only sell eclipse glasses on the vetted vendors list from the American Astronomical Society. So the NSFE OP needed that additional verification plus the approval from Amazon.

Good to know!

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I never understood why people sold eclipse filters for cameras. I guess you do actually need a filter to get any kind of useable picture out of it.

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I agree:

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