The Great American Eclipse

Roccus7

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OK, been sitting on my hands waiting for someone else to start this thread long enough. Seeing a total solar eclipse has always been high on my bucket list. Immediately the partial solar eclipse that I witnessed here in 2017, I discovered that we'd be getting a total one on April 8, 2024 with path of totality clipping through Maine's north woods. The long-term immediately started...

  • Knowing Maine weather, set my expectations very low for a cloudless day in early April. Databases gave that a 25% chance of happening. What the hell, even having night pop up at 15:30 in the afternoon would be cool.

  • Ordered a multiple sets of Solar Sunglasses

  • Started checking on accommodations in the path of totality. Figured an overnight stay would be important as "the" path was a good 3 hour drive from Chez Roccus.
    THANK YOU POSEIDON!!! Very good friends with a house on the ocean side of the peninsula bought a house up near Greenville in 2020, smack dab in the middle of the path!! Weaseled an invite for the Admiral and I.
As we're approaching E-Day, lots of short term items on the checklist, like "libations", clothes and footwear to go up north. We actually might have to bring our snowshoes to hike up to our observation location.; they've got over 2 feet of snow on the ground up there. Along with other minutia, but everything is under control.

AND there is the weather forecast... After the state got socked with that major storm Wednesday and Thursday, I figured the cloud cover will suck. So glad I was wrong, it's looking light a blue bird day up there, and our friends have a standby generator up there so even if power isn't restored, we'll be fine.

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Anybody else have plans for this truly, once in a lifetime event??
 
I have family in Rochester right in the path, but considering that we were inTN for 2017 we elected to skip the hilaria this time.

That being said, if you haven't seen one, make every effort to do so. It's definitely an experience worth the effort.

Make sure you have good quality eclipse glasses for viewing partiality. Once you hit totality you don't need them, but watching the whole thing develop is part of the experience.
 
CELLFISH said:
Earth-Quakes are enough for me
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We have them too, usually 1 every couple of years, but yet to experience one over 3.2...

Did not feel the one yesterday, probably because a nearby construction site was blasting ledge, a common occurrence, and I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference...
 
March 1979

It's March 1979, and I'm 11 years old. This was so very cool! We got to see this by poking a hole in a paper plate. I still don't understand why I couldn't just LOOK at it. The paper says it will happen again in 2024...wow...I can't imagine even being alive then! I would be 55! No way!

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jpd said:
March 1979

It's March 1979, and I'm 11 years old. This was so very cool! We got to see this by poking a hole in a paper plate. I still don't understand why I couldn't just LOOK at it. The paper says it will happen again in 2024...wow...I can't imagine even being alive then! I would be 55! No way!

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The paper plate pin hole camera. I've used it for every solar eclipse I've ever seen, but never totality!!
 
we will be in my back yard with friends and neighbors.

we figured my yard as best viewing site without obstructing trees.

we will have a fire pit burning hard liquor, beer. Wine and soft drinks while q‘in burgers and dogs.

if in the area and know where my area is, your more than welcome to join us.
View safely.
 
JackPrintMD said:
we will be in my back yard with friends and neighbors.

we figured my yard as best viewing site without obstructing trees.

we will have a fire pit burning hard liquor, beer. Wine and soft drinks while q‘in burgers and dogs.

if in the area and know where my area is, your more than welcome to join us.
View safely.
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Dang, you know how to throw a celestial event party.
 
looking forward to it. might take the bike down to centerport beach or crab meadow beach has a great open view facing NW. Was in NYC at work for the one in 2017 that was cool.

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from an Episode from ‘ SUPERMAN ‘, as the asteroid is crossing the Sun endangering of falling to earth..🌎 cell…
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cany said:
Do you like trying to throw every thread off track? Normally I would just delete But I gotta know
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“ EVERY THREAD “ haha , i find some humor and coincidences in it , you got the power , just get rid of it…

btw, ya see the humor , “ DICKS MEAT MARKET “

maybe i should’ve put it in funny pics thread..
 
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