USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was "three years away for USA" when started)

Venus and Jupiter.

Yes!

iPhone photo, Venus in LR:

Made it!

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

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.

There’s a prominence big enough to see with the naked eye.

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.

Just finished here in Lebanon. Kids both said this was the coolest thing ever! Success!

Yep, just ending here near Indianapolis. Scared the three-year old quite a bit.

Just reaching full coverage, perfect clear skies, sw Ontario!
Awesome!

My homemade eclipse tracker and camera mount, used twice and likely never again…

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.

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! :100:

It got night time dark! My neighbors and I stood out front!

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.

Awesome! The sun showed how powerful it is because, even at 94%, it only dimmed marginally. The 6% still provided a lot of light.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.