Staying with relatives near Eugene, OR. Took a chance and wrote up real early and drove out to the high desert south of Bend. There are clouds, but it’s not solid, so my son and I will get to see it.
The weather forecast was wrong as usual. The clouds dissipated earlier than predicted, and the sky is nice and clear roughly half an hour before the eclipse begins, so now I’m pissed that I don’t have my eclipse glasses! I also have a small Meade Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope for which I could have gotten a sun filter, but sadly the telescope has fallen victim to the compactness of the Maksutov-Cassegrain design, namely, I have not seen it since my last move and I literally do not know where it is, except somewhere among many unpacked moving boxes in the basement.
That picture by itself is amazing.
Anyway, the sky is clear in Odessa and I will be watching from the parking lot of a Hampton Inn. Probably won’t be able to produce a picture, though, unless I have very good luck using my eclipse glasses as a makeshift filter.
Dont forget about natures pinhole cameras!! All small spaces caused by tree branches and leaves will cast a shadow/image of the sickle shaped sun. Its fascinating to see all the images on walls and the ground. Good luck!
(Im not sure about a complete elcipse though, Ive never been through one)
From Monument Valley —
Yesterday the forecast was 50% cloud cover until 10am, but I woke up to clear skies in Santa Fe. Pretty cool to see it from my front porch.
Hey, congratulations. Should be at maximum here in 25 minutes…
It makes you realize how good our eyes/brains are at adjusting to different light levels. We had 90% obscuration here, but if you had asked me to guess I would have said it was maybe 50% dimmer. I think it’s quite possible I would not even have noticed the ambient dimming if I hadn’t been aware of what was happening.
From San Jose using a Pixel 2 with a “Solar Snap” lens filter:
Well, I actually did manage to get a couple clear pictures, but on my old school camera camera (with an SD card), and won’t be able to upload right away. I am several hours from my computer…
The NASA feed had a few minutes of the eclipse from Odessa, TX and they must have had the hydrogen-alpha filter on as we could clearly see quite a number of prominences including a big one at about 2-O’clock.
Hope all of you in the path could see some of it.
On my way home from the 1999 Europe eclipse I held my canister of 35mm film in my hand as I approached the gates at Bucharest and Amsterdam Schipol airports and asked the attendants if I could hand the film off to them rather than have it pass through the X-ray machine - like I was some kind of professional photographer - and they complied! Also, wow, to see the image of my Celestron scope in a camera case as it went through the x-ray monitor - solar filters, eye-pieces and a 16" aluminum tube attached to a box of wires (it’s one of the alt-azimuth auto-tracking kinds). I haven’t flown with the scope since then and I’m pretty sure that nowadays I’d have to open everything up and demonstrate that it’s just a telescope with servo motors.
Eclipse almost over. The wife and I at Monument Valley.
And… you guessed ti… the OP misses another one. Probably it was my last chance, too. But I think the sun will be coming out any moment now.
There were about 90 seconds of visibility, a few minutes before maximum.
Complete cloud cover here in Chicago for our partial eclipse.
At least you have next April coming up. Are you planning to head downstate for it?
The nature’s pinhole camera effect on my porch in Ashland Oregon
Had to hop in the car and drive to see the full annular period because a blanket of thicker clouds rolled in. Thanks to whoever recommended mobility when viewing.
Still had to glimpse it through clouds, but we still saw it.
Nice! We just had a partial here in Memphis. I’m planning to drive to the Jonesboro AR area for the total in April. I’ve never seen one.
Nice shot, where were you?