# USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was "three years away for USA" when started) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873 "2021-03-27T21:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/901 "2024-04-08T18:43:19Z")
Venus and Jupiter. Yes! iPhone photo, Venus in LR: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/ITnn3h9.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/vSaEpAb) ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/902 "2024-04-08T18:50:22Z")
Made it! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/903 "2024-04-08T18:52:39Z")
I got a light meter app on my phone, and it’s gone from about 4100 to 2100 since just before partialiity. May not be perfectly accurate but it’s an interesting trend ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/904 "2024-04-08T18:58:04Z")
Well, it was too overcast here in San Antonio to see the sun. But it did get dark. It got dark enough that the automatic lights on the property all came on. Then when the sky started to get light again all the birds acted like it was pre-dawn and started flying around and making noise. It was cool. Don’t know if I’ll make the next one. In 20 years I’ll be 95. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/905 "2024-04-08T19:03:17Z")
There’s a prominence big enough to see with the naked eye. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/906 "2024-04-08T19:05:06Z")
> [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#): > > Totality just over in Torreon. Miraculously the clouds parted and we saw it all. Corona is bright and regular and some big naked eye prominence at the 5 o’clock position. Awesome. Here in Mazatlán we had a wide band of cirrostratus partly obstructing the sun from end to end. Just enough to render everything up there a bit out of focus, but still plenty bright. During totality the hole and corona were obviously visible, but not super sharp. No details of the corona were visible. We did see Venus which was far enough away from the Sun to be in clear sky. Whether from my own less than ideal vision, or the crap “optics” of the glasses, I never got a “diamond ring” effect at either end. I saw what I suspect was the prominence you mentioned, but at the time I assumed that was a long-lived Bailey’s bead since it did not appear (or at least I had not noticed it) until quite late in totality. Sounds like your move to Torreón paid off. Ours conditions were pretty good but not exquisite. Right now we have 15 minutes left until normalcy, and looking around you’d never know anything was unusual about the Sun. With glasses it still has a bite out of it, but not a lot. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/907 "2024-04-08T19:12:50Z")
Just finished here in Lebanon. Kids both said this was the coolest thing ever! Success! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/908 "2024-04-08T19:14:08Z")
Yep, just ending here near Indianapolis. Scared the three-year old quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/909 "2024-04-08T19:18:04Z")
Just reaching full coverage, perfect clear skies, sw Ontario! Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/910 "2024-04-08T19:19:34Z")
My homemade eclipse tracker and camera mount, used twice and likely never again… [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/nk6thC4.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/LIFns9q) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/911 "2024-04-08T19:19:58Z")
I live in Ohio, in the totality region. That was really awesome. Got amazingly dark for a good minute or so. And everything was casting a sharp shadow as it was getting darker. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/912 "2024-04-08T19:24:52Z")
I got a beautiful pic just when the eclipse was very close to the 94% that we enjoyed her in Chicagoland. My God, what a picture perfect day!! Crystal clear and totally cloudless skies and a temperature of 70 degrees! 💯 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/913 "2024-04-08T19:25:05Z")
It got night time dark! My neighbors and I stood out front! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/914 "2024-04-08T19:25:09Z")
Still finishing in Carmel Indiana, just north of Indianapolis. Clear view, and awesome. I could see the orange flares in the corona, which I saw when I looked at the feed from Mexico. And we viewed from the front yard of my daughter’s house. No crowds, no traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/915 "2024-04-08T19:26:18Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > It got night time dark! My neighbors and I stood out front! Awesome! The sun showed how powerful it is because, even at 94%, it only dimmed marginally. The 6% still provided a lot of light. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/916 "2024-04-08T19:26:57Z")
Yeah, we saw that at like the six-o-clock position. It was glowing orange. Pretty cool as I don’t remember seeing something like that last time. I missed that rippling light/shadow effect this time, though. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/917 "2024-04-08T19:28:07Z")
Unfortunately we had a 100% cloud cover here. I couldn’t even see where the sun was in the sky. But it was cool to have it get dark and then light again. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/918 "2024-04-08T19:33:53Z")
Cool, the clouds lifted enough here in NYC for me to see the 90% through the glasses. Has the gloomy look outside like right before it rains. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/919 "2024-04-08T19:37:11Z")
We had wispy clouds here in the FW area. Near totality, I checked a couple of times to make sure it was the clouds and not the moon. (Peer over the top of the glasses until I saw the glowing cloud and put the glasses back in place) Clouds were not too dense to see totality! There was a wispy cloud between me and the eclipse, which diffused the light in my picture ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873/920 "2024-04-08T19:38:52Z")
It got pretty frigid here as totality approached. None of our cameras really captured anything good. The lumens reading on my app plummeted to zero at the peak. It was really a “night and day” experience. We were able to see the sun at totality despite the clouds, as well as a planet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873.md?page=47)