armed with my cell phone and a pair of eclispe glasses. this is the best I could do.
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Dunno how but I missed the whole thing. Up a 7:30 (slept in for the first time in a long time), breakfast and read some newspaper for about an hour then out to unload truck (small load of wood), short coffee break and out to mow. Somehow I didn't eveen notice it getting dark druing all off that.
It was getting cloudy here in MPLS, but I was able to see it shortly after 1:00 thru a welding hood, looked like an upside down cressent moon.
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Gay if your not in the complete totality zone in my opinion. Here in nj you could feel the temp change and it looked like the sun went behind a cloud in regards to outside brightness
Muted sunlight in NW Ohio at max. 85% around here. Noticed flocks of sparrows heading into my arborvitae hedge to roost 5 minutes before the max here. Within 1/2 hour after max, the hedge was empty again. I'll be in the total area in 2024. Now, back to splitting...
I saw it on TV at the bar while having a Coke and a hot dog.
Had the truck loaded for a two o'clock firewood delivery and the guy called an cancelled. First time for everything.
Well, I have seen an eclipse before...
Isn't there different kinds?
Sun and moon; earth and moon?
Had the truck loaded for a two o'clock firewood delivery and the guy called an cancelled. First time for everything.
Well, I have seen an eclipse before...
Isn't there different kinds?
Sun and moon; earth and moon?
I started taking pics around 1pm. 2:30 was total darkness, but not really. It looked more like early twilight, dark but not so dark you needed a flashlite. I could see the dark approach, but it was more like a big shadow. My phone pics dont show the ring around the dark center. It was dark enough you could look at it with your naked eye, but only for a couple minutes, as soon as the moon moved away from center, it became too bright to look at. this is a pic of totality with out the eclipse glasses
I don't remember much about a partial eclipse when much younger. Dad made a big deal out of it then. Came to library early and got one of the last few glasses for sun looking. Tossed my name in the hat for a book drawing. Watched on and off for the 1/2 hour before total blackout. And steady for 6 minutes leading into and out of total black. Different, being able to see the edge of the sun around the moon. Went to lunch came back to library netted for a while read wood mag and got call. Library I was in called to tell me I won the book. "American Eclipse" by David Baron!
Mudstopper got the same pic as my tablet, which is why it isn't posted.
Cool & low humidity in this library, nicer than outside earlier. May get reasonable out there in a little while
homemade
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It was cloudy here, about an hour north of Milwaukee. Couldn't see anything. We had a big rain cloud move in at peak eclipse time so I didn't even notice the darkness.
Some idiot decided to plug up the jaw crusher on Friday so I was picking rocks out to clear the clog.
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Some idiot decided to plug up the jaw crusher on Friday so I was picking rocks out to clear the clog.
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Ron
You could feel it more than see it here; it didn't get very dark but the streetlights came on. Ron
tnflatbed
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We got the full eclipse here, was able to see a few planets and the shadow banding effect as well. Myself and a couple coworkers ran a man lift up probably thirty foot for a viewing platform. It was neat but like so many things in life it was over before you could enjoy it 
. It is amazing how many people converged along the path of the eclipse, the roads were absolutely a parking lot, even the secondary roads I take home in the evening where I might pass 20-30 cars had probably a 1000+ this evening, thank god they were heading the opposite way.
. It is amazing how many people converged along the path of the eclipse, the roads were absolutely a parking lot, even the secondary roads I take home in the evening where I might pass 20-30 cars had probably a 1000+ this evening, thank god they were heading the opposite way.
ChoppyChoppy
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Supposed to be something special? Nothing here.
Jakers
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it was cloudy here so it just looked like the clouds got thicker. i was in the skidsteer finishing loading the last load of this mornings removals and kept thinking i needed to hurry before it rained. i had to remind myself that it was an eclipse. my guys stopped to look at it through a welding lens but said you couldnt see much through the clouds
My youngest son actually figured out how to take pretty good pic's with his smart phone. I guess you have to be smarter than the phone to figure out how to use one.
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I tried to get some pics with my phone thru a welding helmet. Didn't work, blurry & glaring. Looked pretty neat though.
The longest/darkest location for it was in Chester, IL, about an hour from where I live. We went down and had a great time. Got so dark I could see stars. Guy next to us had a telescope with a solar filter and I could see sun spots. When the eclipse happened he took the filter off and we could see solar flares! That was so awesome!
I don't think you can view this unless you have fb, but it's worth a shot.
I don't think you can view this unless you have fb, but it's worth a shot.
Uncle, I looked it up, 2min 40 sec. at Chester Ill. We had 2min 38sec. Not a lot of time to figure out proper settings on a camera for a good pic. I have been playing with my cell phone since and still havent figured out how to change setting, I guess flip phones aint made for solar pictures.
The eclipse did explain to me a phenomena I used to experience when I used to have a job. We had/have a machine used to surface and line railroad track. The machine has a long beam on the front with a projector that shoots a beam of light to a receiver mounted on the rear of the machine. In the middle of the machine is a shadow board that breaks the light beam when the track is lifted to a set position. The projector actually uses a specially coated projector bulb Mounted in what looks like a flashlite, and has a chopper wheel with holes in it that spins a certain speed to create a frequency signal the receiver reads and sends to the machines computer. What would happen at certain times of the day, the machine would go haywire and jerk the track out of the ground. What was happening was working east to west or west to east, the sun would be at the correct position in the sky to effect the light signal the receiver was reading and send false information to the computer. When this happened, we would stop work for 3 minutes and the problem would go away. The 3 min totality time of the eclipse coincides with the 3 min shutdown time of the suns effect on the machine.
The eclipse did explain to me a phenomena I used to experience when I used to have a job. We had/have a machine used to surface and line railroad track. The machine has a long beam on the front with a projector that shoots a beam of light to a receiver mounted on the rear of the machine. In the middle of the machine is a shadow board that breaks the light beam when the track is lifted to a set position. The projector actually uses a specially coated projector bulb Mounted in what looks like a flashlite, and has a chopper wheel with holes in it that spins a certain speed to create a frequency signal the receiver reads and sends to the machines computer. What would happen at certain times of the day, the machine would go haywire and jerk the track out of the ground. What was happening was working east to west or west to east, the sun would be at the correct position in the sky to effect the light signal the receiver was reading and send false information to the computer. When this happened, we would stop work for 3 minutes and the problem would go away. The 3 min totality time of the eclipse coincides with the 3 min shutdown time of the suns effect on the machine.
