I’m in St. Louis. Depending on the weather, I’ll either head west towards Columbia, or southeast towards Carbondale. Both are near the path of totality, and both have large national and state parks close by to avoid crowds and light pollution. They’re also both about two hours away, so I shouldn’t need a hotel or anything.
I stayed home from school in '94 to see the only other solar eclipse in my life. I’ll definitely be calling off work for this one.
I was thinking maybe Boise. Not that populous, easy plane ride from San Jose where I live, and very likely to not have cloud cover that time of year.
I couldn’t tell you where I’ll be in the next 48 hours, let alone that far out! I like that cool map, though!
If I wanted to see the total, I guess north of Burns, Ore. would be the place for me. Hey, I got a camper!
I’m going to be watching it from Hopkinsville, Kentucky as well! First eclipse; very excited.
The Hopkinsville contingent should get together for a mini-Dopefest.
Well I live in Oregon, right in the path so I guess I’ll be at work. I might try to get the day off but I dunno. I’ll just probably step outside or something lol
My backyard, which will be in totality. If I get ambitious I’ll drive a few miles south for a longer look.
Oregon desert. One or two towns or there are converting county fairgrounds into temporary campgrounds.
My biggest hurdle will be that I’ll have a four month old baby in tow.
Google says the magnitude here will be 0.9, and that’s close enough for me so I’ll just watch it from home. Just ordered some eclipse glasses from Amazon.
Haven’t decided yet. I’m not in a city that will get totality, but I’m close enough to make a day trip out of it. Alternately, I might make a bigger trip, but that becomes complicated(read: dependent on other people. And also expensive).
Home in Nashville, near ground zero. I’d say a Dopefest in Nashville is called for. It’s not far from Hopkinsville but a lot more interesting.
Unfortunately, trying to catch celestial events around here is usually disappointing because of all the light pollution from the city.
Wow, that’s bad light pollution if it affects solar observations!
I’m planning on driving north to either Douglas or Torrington, Wyoming. I figure I’ll be joined by most of the rest of the state of Colorado.
Hopefully the light pollution will be limited – this event happens during daylight hours.
Anything less than 100% totality will be a disappointment. You’ll see a sliver of the sun and no corona. If you’re that close, take a drive and see the real thing.
Light pollution??? You do realize that solar eclipses don’t ever happen at night, right?
Right here in Tennessee, & ignoring it.
It’s just darkness, we usually get some every night.
I’m going to drive up into Wyoming to see it. I’m a little concerned about the potential traffic on the interstate that morning, so I might try taking some back roads and/or heading up there before dawn. My biggest worry is being stuck in traffic and seeing only a partial eclipse.
Wait, solar eclipses are when the earth’s shadow falls across the face of the sun, right? The neon lights around here ruin the effect.
Better check on your reservation. A recent story on the news revealed that the hotels on the coast have been cancelling long-held reservations and then re-renting the rooms for up to $1,000 a night. It’s quite the local scandal.
Maybe not usually, but statistics would suggest that it has to happen every once in awhile.
I live about an hour from the band, so we declared ROAD TRIP and will be going to see it. That day was originally scheduled to be a required work day for us teachers, but we howled in outrage until they turned it into an optional work day.
Slight hijack: as a teenager I read an Asimov story (from his Black Widower Society series, I think), in which a photographer chartered a plane and flew in the high atmosphere filming the moon’s shadow as it raced across the earth, or something like that. It was a lovely idea, but is it feasible? Has it ever been done?
I’ll be going a little ways north to Nebraska, either to Auburn or Beatrice, depending on weather. Totality is closer than that but I’ll be meeting up with friends.
Nowhere near.
But to add some suspension, I did witness the great eclipse of August 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_11,_1999
“It was normal working day, around 11h AM. Sunny, no cloud on the sky, no wind. Calm. In the parking lot of a medium office building. Peons gathered to look the phenomenon through several layers of blank CD-s (very effective). It was 99,1% from my position. Sky got purple, shadows got dark purple. Birds shut up, dogs stopped barking, light cool breeze came from nowhere.”
No wonder the ancients shat their linen underwear when they saw this.