Eclipse 2024 Photo Thread
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I’m going to post my feelings on this event. I saw it in Missouri in 2017 while sitting in a park with a lot of like minded people who were excited about it. When it happened, everyone was cheering, myself included.
Today was better for me, I experienced it in my driveway with my family. My neighborhood was quiet, the temperature dropped a few degrees, and the birds went quiet while the crickets and one tree frog started their chorus. 4 minutes later, everything started getting back to normal. Science/nature is so interesting.
Oh, and that 360 sunset was beautiful as well.
Today was better for me, I experienced it in my driveway with my family. My neighborhood was quiet, the temperature dropped a few degrees, and the birds went quiet while the crickets and one tree frog started their chorus. 4 minutes later, everything started getting back to normal. Science/nature is so interesting.
Oh, and that 360 sunset was beautiful as well.
My son and his girl are at Pace Bend Park outside Austin and he sent me these two pictures.
The only pic I took today 
Found it my desk couple days ago. Put it back for the next one but in 20 years won’t be me using it.
Found it my desk couple days ago. Put it back for the next one but in 20 years won’t be me using it.
In eastern PA taken on an iPhone. Not great but we could see it in short bursts because of the clouds…
I would like to see the Venus transit in 2117. 
I still have my piece of welder’s glass I used in Athens, Greece during the partial eclipse in 2006. It was very useful today. And here my wife was bugging me for keeping it that long. Sheesh.
MolaKule
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I just saw this:
My old man is a character and hasn’t changed. Just got off the phone with my mom. They drove 500 miles to experience the Totality of the Eclipse. She calls me from on the road. I say mom “did you see the eclipse, were you in total darkness?” She says “No son, I only saw a partial”. “What??!!!!!??”, I said.
“Yeah, your Dad and I watched until 5 minutes before it peaked and then he said we had to leave now to beat the traffic!”
My old man is a character and hasn’t changed. Just got off the phone with my mom. They drove 500 miles to experience the Totality of the Eclipse. She calls me from on the road. I say mom “did you see the eclipse, were you in total darkness?” She says “No son, I only saw a partial”. “What??!!!!!??”, I said.
“Yeah, your Dad and I watched until 5 minutes before it peaked and then he said we had to leave now to beat the traffic!”
Taken with my iphone 15 pro max
I think I probably still have my piece of #14 welder's glass from the total eclipse here in early '79 - but earlier today we used the dedicated solar-viewing glasses with mylar lenses.
We had almost four minutes of totality where I was, in a church parking lot near Shelbyville, IN. I snapped this picture during totality to show how the horizons were still illuminated outside the umbra of the shadow.
This is about as good as it got here - c. 53% coverage, through a moderate cloud layer. Taken by my friend Bert through his welding helmet.
