Im almost ready I even broke down and purchased a dual axis motor for my equitorial mount. Hope the skies are clear, Im prepared to travel last minute to find them. Pretty excited about this. :up:

Enter city state or latitude and logitude to get an estimated time and percent of totality.

http://www.eclipsesundial.com/index.php

You get nothing, I get a strip tease that ends , uh, lacking. I'm not sure which is worse.....

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Off topic
Don't bother to write about this solar eclipse, ´cause some day after the earth will be destroyed.

Read about it on a Danish news paper-Again these conspiracies have a new day in September.

Back to topic.

Markus

The Time animation shows what the eclipse might look like through an equatorial mounted telescope. For an observer simply looking through some eclipse glasses, the Moon will appear to take a curved path relative to the Sun.

Click here for animation.

http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/041..._2017Aug21.png

NASA will be flying two WB-57 aircraft taking photographs. Looking forward to seeing them. :up:

^ Is that the English Electric Canberra?

the way the weather is looking for the 21st that might be my only opportunity to see the eclipse too. :(

Any one in Oregon? Has any one seen anything yet?

I'm tuning in to CNN and MSNBC ... out of here :up:

Just watched it. We had a few people gathered at one of the patios at our apartment complex. I couple of them had the special glasses, and we all took turns looking. We're quite a way south of the full eclipse and saw about 91%. The sky wasn't exactly dark, but it was like an overcast day, without a cloud in the sky. There were also lots of little "eclipse" reflections on the sidewalk where the sunlight filtered through the leaves on the trees.

Well, after great views of the early stages of the eclipse from my Rockin Robbins observatory in Deland, FL, I found that contrary to predictions we had a 100% eclipse here, not the 87% projected. Unfortunately it's because we had a superior eclipse caused by terrestrial clouds, completely blotting out the sun from about 20 minutes before maximum and continuing now, over half an hour later.

So yay! I didn't have to travel 500 miles to see a 100% eclipse, but boo! it wasn't the eclipse I was hoping to see.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WF...=w1296-h729-no

Just before the beginning of the Great American Eclipse.

It rained here,lol Never saw it!

Took my welding helmets to work. Turns out the auto darkening helmet doesn't quite work right if you don't hold it perfectly towards the eclipse, and the lens might turn off.

So there was a lot of "Oh That's Awesome! AHHHHHHH MY EYES!", as the helmet got passed around.

Took this with my phone through one of the helmets:

https://www.woodtalkonline.com/uploa...969529696a.jpg

First image. At first I wasnt sure if the eclipse was happening as I really didnt know what expect. But at this stage it was pretty obvious.

https://i.imgur.com/5RLyOAK.jpg

About half way through

https://i.imgur.com/VvGEBxO.jpg

About if not right at maximum coverage.

https://i.imgur.com/91RHJWg.jpg

Last photo, well after maximum coverage (85%) went home afterwards and cracked open a cold one.


https://i.imgur.com/tDNHk4Z.jpg

I saw pretty much the same as Rockstar here in Reno. 83%
Clear blue skies for the event.
Looked pretty cool.

Magic

I watched 100%. A good portion of Missouri was in the totality zone so I was able to drive about 25 minutes and be within that.

100% totality was awesome. Sky went dark but horizons looked like a sunset. The light refracting around the moon made a sort of rainbow-y ring around the moon and it was totally cool for the minute and a half of it that we had. Unfortunately I was not able to get any pictures of the 100% eclipse. But it's definitely one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed.