Eclipse!

[Freckles]

In Portland we had 99.2% obscuration (official term) at 10:19am PDT. Blue sky. It was recommended to NOT wear the eclipse glasses with your regular glasses so I chose the indirect method. Worked fine. Held a 8 1/8 x ll cardboard with small hole in center by right shoulder (back to the sun). Then another cardboard in left hand, focusing it back and forth. Focusing on the sidewalk was fun, too.
There was no one around, but it got very quiet, and cool. How quickly it got darker, but reversed and got lighter. Then back to normal.
Unusually dry here. Recently ended a 57 day dry spell.

[mon]

I turned my back to it and looked at it with the I pad and recorded it. It was way too bright even that way as there was nary a cloud so I quit. I must confess I saw green splotches for a few minutes afterwards so it was probably a bad idea. It reminded me of a book called Delores Claiborne, there was a movie too with Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The plot revolved around a murder and a solar eclipse, think Steven King wrote it. A very good book I thought. My cat just brought a bag of Temptations up the stairs and put them on the bed, I wonder if that's a hint

[RICHARD]

The sun wasn't as occluded in my town - as a matter of fact? I missed the whole thing!

I sat with the neighbor in the driveway and we chatted - the sun did dim - until she asked me, what time is it supposed to happen? I looked at my super-duper 24 hour time zone watch with the 5 alarms and stopwatch, timer and saw that I set the time, but not the alarm.......Living in California I have seen and been a part of some really nifty space/science stuff, but the absolute best has always been the bigger-than-life shows that mother nature has put on.
The NEXT eclipse is in 2024 in april and that sucker is going to pass over the town I live in..........I can hardly wait.

[Freckles]

The NEXT eclipse is in 2024 in april and that sucker is going to pass over the town I live in..........I can hardly wait.

The next eclipse will be on April 8th, one day BEFORE my 90th birthday. Hopefully, I'll see it, but it would be on TV because Oregon is not on its flight path.

[cats4ever]

Today, panicked people have been calling eye doctors because they stared at the sun yesterday without their eclipse glasses.
I guess that Donald wasn't one of them...

[RICHARD]

Today, panicked people have been calling eye doctors because they stared at the sun yesterday without their eclipse glasses.
I guess that Donald wasn't one of them...

Donald who?

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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/photo-woma...opstories.html

As the days go by, I wasn't worried that I missed the eclipse itself.

It was the stories of the people who got to see it that made me smile.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-...-solar-eclipse

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Useless science facts?

The surface of the sun is something like 10,000 degrees, but as the plasma moves away from the sun, It accelerates and the temp goes up to 1,000,000 degrees. Scientist don't know how this happens.....but if we know that, then it's not a mystery anymore?

The sun is 93 million miles away, the moon? About 240,000 (don't quote me on that)....

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Bad pun time....


How does the sun get a haircut?

He 'e - clips' it.

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The next full moon is September 6 at 00:04 hours (12:04 a.m.)


One fun thing to do is - if you never have seen one - is a moon rise.

Go online and see what time it rises in your area and take a few minutes to watch it......no special glasses required....

[kuhio98]

ZERO % sun coverage in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Guess I'll have to plan a road trip for 2024 to experience an eclipse.
Viewing a shooting star is also on my bucket list.