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    Has anyone else observed the eclipse? I was a little too far south to see totality, but I saw a partial eclipse. I'd seen eclipses before when I was a kid, but this was it's always nice to see another one.

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    Default Re: Total Eclipse of 2017

    did you remember to keep your glasses on even while it was partially dark

    so you didnt unwittlingly damage your eyes?


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    Haha yeah, the local library has been drumming that into kids for the past couple of weeks.

    Here's the live feed. We're at the tail end but it's still fun. https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive/#NA...Public+Channel

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    I was dumb...DUMB...today.*

    I wandered outside forgetting about the Eclipse (thought it was tomorrow) and was wondering why it was relatively dark and looked up at the sky thinking we were finally getting some overcast weather and realized it as soon as I looked at the sun. Luckily it was only for a fraction of a second. Hurt like a though.

    I do remember years ago seeing a very partial eclipse in the Bay Area and looking at it for a full minute with sunglasses on and it didn't hurt but whatever...younger eyes I guess.
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    I was in the zone of complete totality, I live just South of Charlotte so we only had to drive like 3 hours (normally one hour... traffic) to see it down in Newberry. Got to see the whole thing, played Also Sprach Zarathustra when it finally covered up the sun and timed it perfectly.

    You can glance at the total eclipse for a second, quickly, or see it indirectly out of your peripheral vision, but never look at a partial eclipse.

    Partial eclipse doesn't compare, even at 99% totality it's like broad daylight out. Experiencing the total eclipse is kind of like the same as before a bad, tornado-producing thunderstorm. Where the sky turns dark and has an almost green tint to it, and the cool breeze picks up. Then it suddenly goes black, the sky itself turns purple and looks like it does during a sunset. But instead of one half of the sky turning colors, it's like a ring of fire around the horizon.

    Not taken by me, this was by a friend in East TN:

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    I'm about a ten hour driving distance away from the zone of totality. I could have gone but with school starting back I simply couldn't. It sucks but I know in the future I will try my best to see another one. It will just be a while.

    It was still cool seeing it on the livestream, even though I know it's nothing compared to seeing it on the ground.
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    There's supposed to be another total eclipse in Austin in 2024. I'll be in my forties then.

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    Runs from Austin thru Tennessee to Maine, basically, yep.

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    Sounds like a good time to go visit family.

    Texas is actually getting two within a six month timespan.



    I would like to see both. I personally think annular eclipses look just as cool but either way I want to see at least one. We will see.
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    Lol I like how they just all avoid europe.

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    What is this racism. Antartica gets an eclipse but Australia doesn't? en institutionalised racism.



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    Silly caligula, the eclipse just doesn't want to go near a penal colony
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    It knows it'll just get caught in the web of one of your giant-ass spiders and get stuck, that's why it doesn't go to Australia.

    You'll get one eventually. I'll live long enough to see it do this again right across the middle of South Carolina in 2078.

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    Maybe an eclipse already tried to get to Australia but died unnoticed in a camp in Papua-New Guinea because it was black?

    Eclipses are cool, though, as they allow us to test General Relativity.
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    At least Darwin and Perth are fairly close to the 2023 eclipse. Poor New Zealand gets cut out completely.

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    Well I don't care, I didn't want to see the eclipse anyway. Stupid things, just a moon interposing itself between a planet and a star, with the freakishly anomalous coincidence that the size of the moon exactly occludes the sun while allowing the corona to be visible in a moment of extremely rare natural beauty, who wants to see that? #corncob
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gen. Chris View Post
    I do remember years ago seeing a very partial eclipse in the Bay Area and looking at it for a full minute with sunglasses on and it didn't hurt but whatever...younger eyes I guess.
    Nope...Nineteen cases of solar retinopathy, they all were young. Visual prognosis after solar retinopathy - British
    Same here, all patients were young Acute eclipse retinopathy: A small case series - NCBI - NIH
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    I saw it from a live feed. Good stuff, wish i could see it from up close.

    You guys are lucky. Here, in Greece, the next Total Eclipse that we will be able to see will be in 2088 if i'm not mistaken.





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    Eclipses are fun. No doubt about it. I however slept through it after an all night with TWM2.

    Kind of like how I missed my first computer class final nearly four decades ago in college. Yes I probably was not ready for college.

    I think I get more excited about sporting events, moon rocket launches, just walking through a research lab, etc. than an act of nature though. It is probably just a flaw within me.

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    Just a bit south of totality - and had to work. But my wife and kids got drive north to see full show. Even the partial was cool I especially liked the crescent shadows
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