Juliancolton

Naked eye pink pillars down here for a few minutes. Beautiful.

I'm not convinced this was the shock from the X9.3 associated CME yet... IMF already trending weaker and north

Still much too bright here from twilight but at least it's clear for the time being.

Largest flare of the whole solar cycle. Still several hours before the next link with SOHO is established to determine the extent and direction of any potential CME, but it looks pretty textbook. A "glancing blow" scenario seems most likely with the position of the source region.

If you still have your eclipse glasses, definitely go check out the naked-eye sunspots currently near the middle of the sun's disc. Snapped this a few minutes ago... the bottom active region is rapidly evolving into a more magnetically complex configuration and could start producing some pretty sizable solar flares.

38 here as well. Normally you get the first few brisk nights and think about the inevitable heat still to come, but this year, who knows... might be a bona fide early cold season.

That was the weenie run of the year for me. It's so outlandish that I don't even feel guilty about ogling.

My point forecast has a low of 41F on Saturday morning so normally I'd be on the lookout for for the season's first reading in the 30s, but things don't look ideal for maximum chill. The core of the 850mb cold pool will have retreated by late Friday with some weak WAA and high clouds increasing throughout the night. Exciting, I know.

I got seasick once on one of those silly whale-watching boat rides and 3 hours felt like an eternity. Not sure you could pay me enough to spend days at a time on the high seas...

I've actually spent a little time since Monday looking into what it would take to hit up La Serena, Chile in 2019. At the centerline, about an hour north of the city if you take the rural coastal roads, totality is just 2m36s – as we've all just witnessed, that's spectacularly brief. That said, it all goes down about an hour before sunset, so the low angle would introduce a while new dimension into it I think. The photography prospects would be epic with the beaches and rocky coastline.

Some folks just don't share in the enthusiasm even after experiencing the thing for themselves. My dad has seen a couple in his lifetime and thinks it's pretty cool when you find yourself in totality, but probably wouldn't go out of his way to see another one even if it were only a half hour down the road. Everybody gets their kicks in different ways... if it were up to me, my whole family would be fanatical snowstorm chasers but alas.

Yeah, that may well be the defining shot for me as well... I love all the human activity and the fact that there are some actual landmarks connecting the eclipse to a real place. I was slightly worried the sun would be too high to capture any foreground elements, but I actually visited this spot with my widest lens at 2:40 on Sunday and confirmed that I could get the shot. Overall I'm pretty thrilled with how I managed to successfully take several different types of pictures while still enjoying the event with my own senses. My goal now is to be fully automated for the next one so I don't have to concentrate on the cameras at all during totality. Very much a fan of your photos as well. That most recent one is spectacular with how brightly Regulus is shining.

Took 16 hours to get home from Greenville and I'm only now getting to process my photos from the event. A couple of my favorites... Outer corona, Regulus, Mercury, and some earthshine on the moon: Gorgeous prominences just after second contact: Wide-angle view of the Reedy River and thousands of spectators at totality:

Even all the way to the shores of SC you only have 6 fewer seconds of totality than the point of greatest duration near Carbondale. That's totally imperceptible, so chalk it up to jackpot fetish.

Oops. What are we payin' the mods for if we can't even get an old thread locked? smh

No accommodations anywhere except SC. This was always a multi-purpose trip so I don't have much freedom to deviate from my itinerary unfortunately...

SC looks like crap again after some pretty encouraging runs yesterday. The GFS in particular has a nasty stratiform overcast with pretty much no hope of mitigating factors verbatim. I was planning on leaving this evening but I think I'll wait to see the overnight runs before starting the 12 hour drive... if the outlook gets much worse I may cut my losses and start planning for Chile in 22 months.

Go to an eclipse party/viewing event/popular destination and bum a pair off someone. Most folks I know who bought eclipse viewers bought them in packs of 5, 10, or more to guard against damage and to share with observing neighbors.

Let's see if we can decouple the BL.

The Euro op is pretty miserable looking on the synoptic scale for SC. Let's not do that solution.

The Disney parks will see over 6 minutes of totality in 2045, so that should be quite the show. That's approaching the maximum possible duration for any total solar eclipse, I believe. I can only imagine the festivities they'll host leading up to it.

Eh, I'd trade this for the '66 Leonids outburst without a second thought.

Anybody else noticing some color showing up on maples? I'm sure it's not stress from lack of rainfall...

Just about an inch here. It was needed for sure.