Partial solar eclipse this Thursday. Can’t wait to share this one with my son. Anyone else anticipating this one?
Visible to most of North America all day. It’ll start early morning, then reach its peak pretty much before sunset for most of America. Should be pretty decent and a nice teaser before the total eclipse that’ll hit NA come August of 2017.
Details of visibility here.
I’m looking forward to it. The forecast is for clear skies here in New Mexico. I still have some eclipse glasses that I bought a few years ago.
I think it’s September of 2017 there will be a total solar eclipse visible over much of North America. It will go from northwest to southeast, and the path of totality will run through Lincoln, NE and Kansas City. So I won’t have far to drive to see a major event like this.
That one’s on Aug. 21, 2017. I can’t wait.
It will be in mid eclipse during sunset here, and 100% sunny skies are forecast. I took the afternoon off and even got some solar filters for my binoculars and telescope.
Can’t wait for the 2017 one tho. And the 2024 one too…
It looks like there’s a good chance of clouds here on Thursday. Oh, well, I guess I’ll have to consider myself lucky to have seen a bit of the recent lunar eclipse.
So from everything I’m clicking on, I WON’T be able to see it here in Charlotte? Or is someone better at reading these things than I am and I’m wrong
You’ll see it, but you won’t see much of it because the sun will set shortly after the eclipse begins.
Here in Chicago, the sun will also set during the eclipse, but the eclipse will be past its midpoint, so we’ll see the best part. (If it’s clear, which it probably won’t be, especially near the horizon where clouds tend to bunch up.)
I hope you know where you are, because we don’t.
It’s partly cloudy here today (and yes, my Location info is accurate), but looks like we’ll catch it at peak just before it drops below the horizon.
I built a pinhole viewer out of a cardboard box this morning. My kid was all excited.
Overcast and rainy right now - hope it clears for the eclipse
Brian
Looks like here in the Northeast, we won’t see much if any of it – and that’s not even counting the overcase and rain.
Mrs Iggy goes in for outpatient eye surgery this afternoon. They are working on both eyes. Saying she is nervous is an understatement.
I told her to have faith… if everything is turning dark it is just the eclipse. The sun will return.
After re-assuring her I checked what time the eclipse starts in her hometown. It doesn’t. It’s not visible from her location.
And looks like I will just barely miss out as well. We’re right on the border.
Canadian or Mexican?
She - Colombia, totally out of the eclipse zone
Me - Cayman Islands, right on the border of where even a part of the eclipse will be visible.
Looking forward to a good view from here in LA, just before I’m permanently blinded.
Clear skies here in New Mexico; the eclipse started a little while ago. With my eclipse glasses I can also see a huge sunspot, big enough to swallow the Earth several times over. Very cool.
Perfectly clear skies here (NE Florida) until it set-yes, ordered some filters for both my scope and binocs. Eclipse began at 6:15 or so, sun set at 6:47, so I got about 30 min. Right before it vanished, I’d estimate maybe 20% of the sun was covered, in the upper right limb. Pretty durned spectacular-and a huge sunspot in the lower middle to boot. Can’t wait for the 2017 one…
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We lucked out here in Chicago. It was overcast all afternoon, but there was a break in the clouds just after 5:30. I got a good look at the eclipse (with my #14 welders filter) for about 5 minutes, then the break closed.