Kay Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Getting close to 90% coverage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Author Share Posted April 8 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 Author Share Posted April 8 On the backside. The light looks like LED lighting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxtrix Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 OMG 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Someone with us took this picture through the clouds 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxtrix Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Speechless. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Words do not describe it 19 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Few minutes after peak 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Temp dropped from 74F to 69F at IAD. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weather Will Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 That was awesome 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Absolutely unreal! Surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 Pretty cool. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DDweatherman Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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 Share Posted April 8 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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