# Solar total eclipse bragging **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867 "2012-11-13T07:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/21 "2012-11-13T22:01:41Z")
BRAGGING TIME! In the immortal words of Homer Simpson “Oh glory of glories! Oh heavenly testament to the eternal majesty…” something something. Low horizon cloud threatened. Then a large tower of cloud plonked itself right in the way. Nerdy girl just down the beach who did the maths calculated that the sun would not climb above the cloud by the time of totality. We got to see most of the disc covered by the time it hid behind the cloud… Then Bam! Just at totality, the cloud cleared. Audible gasps from the crowd. And there it was, hanging in the sky. At this point words fail me. Mother Nature is such a ham sometimes. But I saw it, and my face will be adorned with smiles for the foreseeable future. Wondrous, wondrous thing. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/22 "2012-11-13T22:18:00Z")
Wow. I’m also in Napier and it’s been pretty much obscured by the clouds. Really just darker and now lighter. I am very jealous. Well done, you. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/23 "2012-11-13T22:31:47Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > I’ve been saving up to make a trip to the States for this for ten years. Five more to go. I figured if there’s things you want to see before you die, you’d better make plans. I’m thinking Nashville. All I’ll have to do is step outside for this one! But I also I plan on being the easternmost person in the continental US to view the totality from smack dab sitting on the center of the path, in a boat, in the Intracoastal Waterway. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/24 "2012-11-13T22:37:37Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Less than a year after that, there will be another total [eclipse](http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2027Aug02T.GIF) also visible from Spain, but the longest duration (over 6 minutes!) will be from near Luxor in Egypt. Another cool setting, and clear skies very likely! As long as the fanatics haven’t taken over by then, and [destroyed all the monuments](http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/sphinx-pyramid-destruction-extremist-calls-for-demolition-of-egyptian-antiquities). Admittedly, it’s still a far-fetched notion at present, but then today it’s hard to believe that the Grateful Dead were permitted to perform at Gizeh in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/25 "2012-11-13T22:44:38Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > Low horizon cloud threatened. Then a large tower of cloud plonked itself right in the way. Nerdy girl just down the beach who did the maths calculated that the sun would not climb above the cloud by the time of totality. We got to see most of the disc covered by the time it hid behind the cloud… Then Bam! Just at totality, the cloud cleared. Glad the weather cooperated with you. We were due to have about 60% in Canberra, but but it has been totally overcast all morning. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/26 "2012-11-13T22:53:43Z")
I saw the 1999 eclipse. It was awesome and humbling. I too hope to see the eclipse in the Faroes - being in Aberdeen is rather handy for that. And **Labtrash** , you _are_ hosting an eclipse Dopefest, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867/27 "2012-11-19T16:18:53Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I saw the 1999 eclipse. It was awesome and humbling. I too hope to see the eclipse in the Faroes - being in Aberdeen is rather handy for that. > > And **Labtrash** , you _are_ hosting an eclipse Dopefest, right? 😃 Hey, as many as we can fit on the pontoon boat I plan on renting (and probably crashing into a bank just like I did at DisneyWorld)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solar-total-eclipse-bragging/640867.md?page=1)