Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire the coming eclipse in "totality."

It's an omen, an evil omen! Portends the end of days (which are coming anyway, eventually).

Mudhen, is that on spring gulch road?

I will be sure to snag some welding lenses for the grandkids.

It was my good fortune to see a very good one in Oaxaca in July of '91, from a blanket amid a deserted old Aztec (?) ruin, in company with an attractive blonde and a bottle of wine.

Waiting and waiting, not much happening, quick glimpses of the sun revealed steadily more of it obscured (we had no special viewing equipment).

Then at about 95% totality, still daylight but less intense sunlight, like you didn't need a hat in the sun, quick glance up and almost all the sun is covered by the black disk of the moon.

For those saying 95% or whatever is enough they are sadly mistaken and will be missing by far the best of it.

What happens next is that its like God took a giant dimmer switch and slowly rolled it closed, descending darkness everywhere at once.

Then at full eclipse a black sun, surrounded by a bright corona, with stars visible around the sun.

Look around you in this strange darkness and you can see the brighter horizon out of the moon's shadow in every direction, like a pre-dawn sky extending 360 degrees around you.

I won't drive up to see this one, I'll be back in school already, but I would urge anyone who ain't experienced totality to go out of their way to see it.

JMHO,
Birdwatcher

I was in a total eclipse in Sidney MT during my senior year in HS.

Pretty cool. We all went outside to experience it. If I remember right, it was about 10:30 AM give or take, went dark as hell for a few minutes.

Even some pictures of it in the ol' school yearbook of 1979.

In 1979 I was a senior in HS as well living in Bozeman MT. I remember watching the total eclipse.

I'll experience it from Lake Ontario with rods in the water

I've been sadly mistaken a time or two in my lifetime. I can assure you it will not be over 5% of the f*cking sun.

Because you ain't seen one, most likely you have no idea whereof you speak, 95% and totality are a world apart.

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/what_you_see.htm

EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS ASSUMES YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF TOTALITY....

...all the sun's light is blocked, and you're looking at the most beautiful thing you're likely to ever see - the solar corona, shimmering around the Moon's disk brilliantly (and which is only about as bright as the full Moon). It will look to you as though someone has painted the sky a deep blue-black, has cut an impossibly-black hole in it with a pair of scissors....

No picture in the world can do justice to the sight you have before you, and you will want to etch it in your memory forever. Ten years from now, you'll still be able to imagine this sight in your mind - so burn it in there now, while you can....

..look at the horizon all around you. It will be the orange of a sunset, all the way around the whole horizon! You are in the middle of the circle of shadow that the Moon has projected onto the surface of the Earth, and all around you at the horizon, the eclipse is not total! You're seeing the sunset effects of the Sun's light from a hundred miles away or so, all around you!

There Dude, I gave it my best shot. Its like nothing else you will ever see.

Pass it up if ya wan't, just don't cause someone else to miss it.

I already seen mine in '91 and will be working, so will pass on this one.

But Holy Kshizzle! If I'm still drawing breath in April of 2024 a total eclipse is gonna cross right through Texas, in April yet, about the prettiest month of the year down here.

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2024Apr08Tgoogle.html

Sometimes life just rocks

Birdwatcher

from the map, looks like Casper, WY and St Joseph, MO will be well placed.... quite far away from me in SE VA.