|
|
Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 5,026 Likes: 2
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 5,026 Likes: 2 |
It was interesting. total for 3 1/2 minutes.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 59,167 Likes: 2
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 59,167 Likes: 2 |
Around here, it's about a 95% chance that any celestial event will be fully obscured by clouds..... Maybe 98%.. Total clouds here and drizzle, naturally.
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 8,780
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 8,780 |
Damn cool. Amazing how quickly it got light again.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 7,712 Likes: 7
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 7,712 Likes: 7 |
Damn cool. Amazing how quickly it got light again. That was the most surprising part to me. I was in Nashville when they got a totality a few years ago, but I think the moon was closer on this one so it was more dramatic. I don't remember it being that dark or lighting up that fast when it moved past totality. Or it could just be Texas being closer to the sun.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2021
Posts: 10,802 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Oct 2021
Posts: 10,802 Likes: 2 |
Too cloudy and raining here to see it.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2022
Posts: 1,969
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2022
Posts: 1,969 |
It was interesting. total for 3 1/2 minutes. That's what she said.
"Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 10,808
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 10,808 |
Best use for an eclipse is if you're off in a jungle somewhere, captured by a tribe of savages who are about to roast you and you tell them you can make the sun go out. Then the eclipse happens and they all bow down and worship you and make you their chief forever. At least that was a fairly common event in movies and TV shows of the 50's. I would imagine you'd have to be pretty careful about the timing.
Mathew 22: 37-39
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2021
Posts: 10,802 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Oct 2021
Posts: 10,802 Likes: 2 |
Friends in Hot Springs Village said it got almost totally dark and they could see the stars. All of the security lights came on.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2021
Posts: 10,802 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Oct 2021
Posts: 10,802 Likes: 2 |
Best use for an eclipse is if you're off in a jungle somewhere, captured by a tribe of savages who are about to roast you and you tell them you can make the sun go out. Then the eclipse happens and they all bow down and worship you and make you their chief forever. At least that was a fairly common event in movies and TV shows of the 50's. I would imagine you'd have to be pretty careful about the timing. Recently, Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto”. Good movie.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2017
Posts: 1,556
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jul 2017
Posts: 1,556 |
Was very cool here. We could see solar flairs during totality. Got really cold when it got dark
living the good life every day
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 10,731 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 10,731 Likes: 1 |
Even with the clouds ,it was kinda neat how it got dark and cold,then poof gone.
Glad I didn't spend any money on a AB+B or anything.
We couldn't see the sun at all
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 17,275
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 17,275 |
An eclipse is not too exciting to watch but... the reactions of some are amazing.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
GeoW, The "Unwoke" ...Let's go Brandon!
"A Well Regulated Militia" Life Member
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,521 Likes: 4
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,521 Likes: 4 |
Best use for an eclipse is if you're off in a jungle somewhere, captured by a tribe of savages who are about to roast you and you tell them you can make the sun go out. Then the eclipse happens and they all bow down and worship you and make you their chief forever. At least that was a fairly common event in movies and TV shows of the 50's. I would imagine you'd have to be pretty careful about the timing. Christopher Columbus did something like that with a predicted lunar eclipse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 21,830 Likes: 4
Campfire Ranger
|
|
OP
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 21,830 Likes: 4 |
Around here, it's about a 95% chance that any celestial event will be fully obscured by clouds..... Maybe 98%.. Total clouds here and drizzle, naturally. Know that well. Never paid attention or knew better until a girl in Green Bay ask me about PA. "Does the sun shine much there, especially in winter?" Didn't know how to answer, but once I started paying attention, its freaking dreary here. Year round. Either cloudy or hazy.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 8,226 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 8,226 Likes: 1 |
100 percent. Clear and was pretty damned awesome. +1! Really freaking cool!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 38,890 Likes: 4
Campfire 'Bwana
|
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 38,890 Likes: 4 |
Best use for an eclipse is if you're off in a jungle somewhere, captured by a tribe of savages who are about to roast you and you tell them you can make the sun go out. Then the eclipse happens and they all bow down and worship you and make you their chief forever. At least that was a fairly common event in movies and TV shows of the 50's. I would imagine you'd have to be pretty careful about the timing. Christopher Columbus did something like that with a predicted lunar eclipse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipseMark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 30,816 Likes: 14
Campfire 'Bwana
|
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 30,816 Likes: 14 |
Went dark here at 1230......
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,578
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,578 |
It was cloudy but I saw about half the totality during a break in the clouds. I wish we could get that in July and August.
NRA-Benefactor
TSRA-Life
"It's a terrible thing when governments send their young men to kill each other." Charles Byrne,WW2 Vet.
On the day Desert Storm began.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 57,494
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 57,494 |
I would go out of my way to see them just depending.
I won't miss seeing one if its in the backyard. Cloudy out here today. Wife saw a bit of it in town at work.
They are cool to see and rare.
When that fails to be worth a look, then quit looking at the every day sunrises and sets too. IMHO.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 60,912 Likes: 14
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 60,912 Likes: 14 |
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
|
|
|
|
|
116 members (1OntarioJim, 6mmCreedmoor, 338reddog, 14idaho, 01Foreman400, 8 invisible),
1,486
guests, and
841
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,192,371
Posts18,488,327
Members73,970
| |
Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|
