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the word on the street is that the moon is going to eclipse the sun in the coming august of 2017. the trajectory has already been determined?
so, who's going to be there, and who's going to stay far, far away?
i'll go if i can schedule it. a total eclipse, what a concept.
in the olden days, i'll bet fear & panic would run rampant. but thank god for the holy men, to help calm the crowds down a bit.
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I thought the word on the street was that the Oregon pot crop distribution was going to be delayed due to snow. Huh.
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I'll have to settle for 96% at my house.
Besides, it's my birthday and I ain't going anywhere, except maybe for a swim.
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I'm taking the day off, August 21st, the path of totality will be less than 30 miles away. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html
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Gus, the all-knowing, chief story teller of the Campfire didn't already know the answer?
What the hell, next he'll make a post telling us Hillary really won the presidency!
Gus has been reduced to the same status as THE WIZARD OF OZ. Do you own a dog named Toto?
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I don't know, I thought it was one of Gus's most lucid posts.
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It's an omen, an evil omen! Portends the end of days (which are coming anyway, eventually).
Will have to make a field trip, have only seen a partial eclipse around 50% which was fascinating.
Gus, eclipse forecasting is an ancient art.
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Which explains a lot.
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It's an omen, an evil omen! Portends the end of days (which are coming anyway, eventually).
Will have to make a field trip, have only seen a partial eclipse around 50% which was fascinating.
Gus, eclipse forecasting is an ancient art. why, yes. yes it is, from all indications, and many written records. probably a bit of oral tradition mixed in with the main storyline as well? anyways, it's not so far from where my bride & i honeymooned back in the day. might take the grands, or at least some of them to the countryside this time around in august. seeing an eclipse probably doesn't account for much, but who'd dare miss it if the price was in reason?
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We are going up to WY to see it.
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We are going up to WY to see it. might better to book a room pretty quickly unless the intent is to campout under the stars. we're going to go back to the old honeymoon grounds. one doesn't want to miss a true totality unless watching it on TV is good enough.
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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.
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Sure one does.
96% whilst grilling in the backyard, watching the dogs and drinking a beer sounds like a helluva a lot more fun to me.
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We'll just sit in the back yard to watch it. Quite a few years ago we had a 95% one here. It was very interesting.
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I'll experience it from Lake Ontario with rods in the water
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We had total in 83 or 84. It got dark in the middle of the day.
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All hotels in Jackson Hole are booked for the event. Im already scheduled to be driving a tour bus.
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All hotels in Jackson Hole are booked for the event. Im already scheduled to be driving a tour bus. the word on the street is that the hotels/motels within driving distance of the band of totality are filling up. we'll probably commute. it'll be quite the adventure for those of us who want to participate. by participation, i mean looking toward the sky as the totality occurs.
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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
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We have been invited to an eclipse party in Jackson that, unlike the eclipse, will last for a few days. Room and board are included in the invitation, so we will be there at ground zero. Our host is an advanced amateur astronomer and has a very nice observatory right there on his property.
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It's in totality about 20 minutes from the house. Still might got to a buddy's in John Day anyway. More predictable weather.
What will it do to the Urth? Does anyone know?
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