OT Total Eclipse day

nonesuch00

Where I at I reckon it was about 90% total, the eclipse. I didn't watch it, had no money for glasses, LOL, but I was outside preparing to dig up & give away the excess raspberry & blackberry bushres I have as they sprerad very fast, and it felt like I was in a tropical fish aquarium, with the light shimmeringly quite strangely and beautifully.

Timbales

FirstBastion said:

It was mostly cloud cover for a large part of the day, then it got dark, and it got colder,  and then a small patch of blue managed to break through. 

Technically, this is after the event,  while it was still darkened.  Almost totality,  being at the fringe edge of the solar path swath.  Two more pics in my "Day" thread.

Ditto for me.

miladyderyni_173d399f47

I very much enjoyed it, as well as reading about what others saw. My son got a couple good pics, including 1 of fireworks from a barge at totality. If he gives me permission, I will post them tonight.

 

@FirstBastion I love that picture.

frank0314

Here are a few images my son took. Scaled to fit forum but if you click on the attachment image you can see full size. One the first on you can see the coronal mass ejection at about 7 o'clock and then again at 4 o'clock

 

Faeryl Womyn

A Canadian mailman I follow on tiktok has a video of the eclipse. There are clouds, however you can see it happening.
https://www.tiktok.com/@dancingmailman/video/7355594902773828869?_r=1&_t=8lNQsNJQ6rO

Richard Haseltine

FirstBastion said:

scorpio said:

ArtAngel said:

FirstBastion said:

We are about 100 miles from totality (Niagara Falls) so we're suppose to get 99% for four minutes, and the shadow supposedly triggers a drop in temperature too.  Going to be an fairly unique kind of day. 

Am so envious of you guys. No totality here in California. Nada. When my career in insurance relocated me to Ontario, I first lived in Scarborough, 158 miles from Niagra Falls. The last time I saw Niagara Falls was before my hubby got injured/disabled, at my brother, Walter's house, who lived 82 miles away. I miss his crazy sense of humor and his infectious laugh which rumbled almost as loud as the falls.

According to the internet Scarborough is actually 3476 miles from Niagra falls. 

 In this case,  it's Scarborough, suburb of Toronto, now amalgamated in Toronto proper.  Situated in the province of Ontario Canada

 

Different from the Texas location immortalized in the song Scarborough Faire.

While Yorkshire does often feel like the English Texas I don't think that geography is correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)

FirstBastion

Richard Haseltine said:

FirstBastion said:

scorpio said:

ArtAngel said:

FirstBastion said:

We are about 100 miles from totality (Niagara Falls) so we're suppose to get 99% for four minutes, and the shadow supposedly triggers a drop in temperature too.  Going to be an fairly unique kind of day. 

Am so envious of you guys. No totality here in California. Nada. When my career in insurance relocated me to Ontario, I first lived in Scarborough, 158 miles from Niagra Falls. The last time I saw Niagara Falls was before my hubby got injured/disabled, at my brother, Walter's house, who lived 82 miles away. I miss his crazy sense of humor and his infectious laugh which rumbled almost as loud as the falls.

According to the internet Scarborough is actually 3476 miles from Niagra falls. 

 In this case,  it's Scarborough, suburb of Toronto, now amalgamated in Toronto proper.  Situated in the province of Ontario Canada

 

Different from the Texas location immortalized in the song Scarborough Faire.

While Yorkshire does often feel like the English Texas I don't think that geography is correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)

 Its all relative to which continent you are living on at any given time. But yes,  the olde English roots wins purely on historical basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Renaissance_Festival

 

Diomede

I was in Texas in the total eclipse path.  Cloudy day, but had enough breaks in the clouds to enjoy the eclipse.  Was most impressed with the temperature drop.  RE: England and Texas,  When I was young, I toured around England and Scotland.  At that time, there was still a connection between Texas and the former western textile manufacturing areas of England.  I think it was in Chester that I got a Lone Star beer and fried potato planks correctly labeled 'fries.'  

miladyderyni_173d399f47

Son gave the okay to post his pictures. They are take from summit of Pinnacle Mountain in Arkansas.The first picture is of a barge where folks were launching fireworks at totality.

Faeryl Womyn

Those are great pictures Milady and that includes the ferry with fireworks. We never had fireworks, though have heard of other places setting them off.

ColinFrench

RawArt said:

saw this today in my Toronto feeds

Great shot RawArt, thanks for reposting it!

Edit: Just read that the image is fake: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/image-of-eclipse-behind-canadas-cn-tower-is-ai-generated/ar-BB1llAyD

Oh well, still a cool image.

FirstBastion

This one is real.Toronto was on the edge of totality,  and could only have 98-99% partial

xyer0

Richard Haseltine said:

FirstBastion said:

scorpio said:

ArtAngel said:

FirstBastion said:

We are about 100 miles from totality (Niagara Falls) so we're suppose to get 99% for four minutes, and the shadow supposedly triggers a drop in temperature too.  Going to be an fairly unique kind of day. 

Am so envious of you guys. No totality here in California. Nada. When my career in insurance relocated me to Ontario, I first lived in Scarborough, 158 miles from Niagra Falls. The last time I saw Niagara Falls was before my hubby got injured/disabled, at my brother, Walter's house, who lived 82 miles away. I miss his crazy sense of humor and his infectious laugh which rumbled almost as loud as the falls.

According to the internet Scarborough is actually 3476 miles from Niagra falls. 

 In this case,  it's Scarborough, suburb of Toronto, now amalgamated in Toronto proper.  Situated in the province of Ontario Canada

 

Different from the Texas location immortalized in the song Scarborough Faire.

While Yorkshire does often feel like the English Texas I don't think that geography is correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)

Smile when ya say that, podner. 

Tramp Graphics

I got Pictures: 

 

 

 

 

 

murgatroyd314

I've managed to beat one of the pictures I took into something that actually resembles what I saw:

Faeryl Womyn

Great picture murgatroyd.

I just found out about this, had no idea there was suppose to be a comet.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Unkz2rzEtno

ArtAngel

scorpio said:

ArtAngel said:

FirstBastion said:

We are about 100 miles from totality (Niagara Falls) so we're suppose to get 99% for four minutes, and the shadow supposedly triggers a drop in temperature too.  Going to be an fairly unique kind of day. 

Am so envious of you guys. No totality here in California. Nada. When my career in insurance relocated me to Ontario, I first lived in Scarborough, 158 miles from Niagra Falls. The last time I saw Niagara Falls was before my hubby got injured/disabled, at my brother, Walter's house, who lived 82 miles away. I miss his crazy sense of humor and his infectious laugh which rumbled almost as loud as the falls.

According to the internet Scarborough is actually 3476 miles from Niagra falls. 

The internet is not always right. But for us Canadian born, we know where Scarborough actually is. 158.3 Miles away from Niagara Falls.

Redfern

Mzzkiti: "Flea-ridden Adams! Always hogging the best observational trajectories!"

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The bit loses something unless one is familiar with the 1956 sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet".  In a wee "world building" sequence, the commander of the flying saucer (crewed by humans) notes how they can arrange their own eclipses by simply aligning the ship behind a planet and its sun.  Here, Lt. Mzzkiti (an OC from a long dead webcomic I used to illustrate) is a bit miffed the C57D has "stolen" the "sweet spot".