Pretty decent in Fredericksburg, TX. Heavy clouds but they thinned out at the right time. Easily saw the corona and the big prominence at ~5 o’clock. Not to mention the diamond ring, etc. Not quite as nice as 2017 in Oregon, but still worth it.
60% here in Colorado. The dragon did not appear. I really wanted to see the dragon that i learned about in school a long time ago. Perhaps it has technology instead or has delivery meals and isn’t eating suns anymore?
At totality, a loud flock of crows flew by. A FOAF said that a very confused blue heron flew by them, in TX.
North Dallas area and there were clouds that built up just as it started (almost certainly aided by reduction in sun considering how sunny it got not long after) but it cleared up just enough to catch totality. Saw several prominences and Venus was definitely visible (and not an airplane as somebody beside me claimed)
Here we had a sun halo, still bright right before totality.
Wowza. Did get one very bright red prominence and 2 smaller ones, Venus and Jupiter were easily visible.
Perfect weather for Montreal this time of year. About 60 degrees and clear. (Four days ago, we got 8" of snow). My wife and visiting son and I went to a nearby park around 2:15 to get to the perfect bench first and did. We watched the sun diminish until totality. That lasted only about a minute and a quarter but we saw it perfectly, along with Venus and (I think) Jupiter. Then it was over. It wasn’t the transcendent experience some people write about, but it was interesting.
Here is a view of totality (with the diamond ring effect) from Wellington, OH.
We had clouds for totality, but it was still an amazing experience, only slightly marred by idiots setting off fireworks.
Oh. My. Gosh.
My grandson loved it too.
Next, the ballgame…
If you get with your SO and make love under the eclipse you’ll have good luck until the next time, but if you cheat on them during it you’ll be reincarnated as a teaser pony
Watched on several screens / feeds:
- “Ooh, that ring around the Sun!”
- “Those red bits sticking out from the Sun” (same “reporter”)
- "Who do you think won the poll (I think this was Fox) today: Sun, Moon or Earth. Earth did surprisingly well as did Sun, yet Moon won with 39% so we probably won’t need a run-off poll
- Yeah I know, pretty girl news-people and scientists. One feed had a Navajo reporter asking questions of an “Indigenous Astronomer”
- Looked like Niagara was getting totally clouded, but they got 10 seconds so well… that’s how it goes.
The live cam photos look pretty spectacular. I really want to see the post-processing
87% in DC, enjoyed it lying back on the Capitol lawn. My appreciation to NSF for the glasses. High clouds that mostly rolled right by with little effect.
As expected, just 1/8th of the Sun was plenty powerful insofar as brightness and only perceived a very slight change in quality-of-light, even thpugh through the filters you could see it was only a thin crescent.
A clear day in Philly went to cloudy during the height of the eclipse. We could see it briefly when it hit a thin spot. It did get “rain” dark. Of course it has cleared up now it is over.
Well, that was mostly a bust. A few glimpses where it peeked through the clouds but in general a waste of time…
Jupiter, Sun, Moon, Venus:
That is some good stuff! Kudos! Many of the Internet/TV feeds mentioned how people would pull out their phones. I was like “why?!” Experienced eclipse chasers like yourself have both superior equipment and you can actually look up at the sky yourself while these photos were taken,
ETA: I was impressed how some camera operators really got a huuuge diamond ring effect before they had to change lenses/filters.
I’m hoping someone created a 360 degree 4k resolution VR video this time. Nobody (that I could find) did it for the 2017 eclipse.
I know it’s not the same experience. But I’m a bit bummed for being stuck with the 96% experience and want a little bit more.
West Side of Cleveland, here. We had thin clouds the whole time, but they were thin enough that you could still see clear shadows, and we were easily able to see the corona (including that prominence you can see at the bottom of @beowulff 's picture). There was also a nice halo around the Sun at around the 95% point.
Only a half-dozen of my students came to the official event I was running at the school, but we had a number of neighbors, too, and I did a bit of a presentation for the nuns beforehand.
I have a couple that look like the nuclear stockpiles just ignited and are sending the moon off into space.
Or it could just be an exposure issue.