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.

100% Totality for 33 seconds, pretty damn cool. Best part, I totally avoided the traffic:ahoy:.

My wife and I went to South Carolina to see totality. It was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures. I never did get the SLR ready and even if I had, I'm not sure I would have remembered to take pictures of totality. It was too mesmerizing.

There were quite a few clouds which obstructed the view before totality and it even started raining for a bit. But, it cleared up just before totality and we got to see that from beginning to end. What luck!

Just awesome.

Had a ringside seat watching it on live tv but nothing like actually being there I should imagine.

Corona Corona!
 

While'st imbibing the appropriate 'cold one':https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/disp...-193908098.jpg
:()1:Alas! we'd too much Bay area overcast-didn't see a thing; the daughter, in Oregon for the big event with 1,000,000 other insane lookie-loos, reported an immediate temperature drop of 8 degrees(total eclipse) as it passed.:yeah:

Up here all we got was 67% coverage and the highway alert electronic signage was still calling on people to turn on their headlights during the event.