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.

I thought the word on the street was that the Oregon pot crop distribution was going to be delayed due to snow. Huh.

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.

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

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?

LOL

I don't know, I thought it was one of Gus's most lucid posts.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We had total in 83 or 84. It got dark in the middle of the day.

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.

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

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.

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?

And it lasts I believe under 3 minutes.

Going to see it in central Oregon, saw it mentioned here maybe 4 months ago and we booked the trip.

I couldn't believe Gus posted an actual question, lol. as much odd stuff he postulates, I suspect he would have known the answer vs asking, but alas it seem he did know the answer, so another oddly worded post

Mudhen, is that on spring gulch road?

semi-related question/non-question:
every time some end of the world
thing comes around, i see these
folks telling how to prepare for it.

if the world is ending, where do they
think they can go and hide to escape it ?

It's on Queen's Lane.

Will have to run north about 1/2 hour for max duration. Got to get Cookie outfitted for some pictures.

Thanks Gus,

I was not aware an eclipse was happening in my area this summer. I checked the maps. My house is just inside the southern edge of totality as it passes through Id.

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

The other advice I would give is no alcohol.

Folks might recall I was there in Oaxaca '91 with an attractive blonde and a bottle of wine, on an Indian ruin.

Eclipse arrives; black sun with stars around it, 360 degree dawn.

Google says that particular eclipse was six minutes long, that musta been at the center of totality as IIRC ours was four minutes where we were.

So I'm standing there trying to take it all in, knowing it would be over in just a few minutes. But I had drunk half a bottle of wine while waiting, not drunk but buzzed and wishing I was totally clear-headed at that moment in time.

Then the end of it is just like the start, but backwards. Suddenly its like that giant dimmer switch just got rolled brighter and it gets daylight out again everywhere at once, but the sunlight is not strong enough to burn.

A quick glance up and most of the sun is covered and then the sunlight gets stronger again as the moon shifts.

IIRC it takes about a half hour for the moon to leave the sun afterwards but all of that is mostly a non-event.

Birdwatcher

The epicenter of the eclipse is supposed to be in the county I live in. They are planning a big event, signs are already up. From what I've been told, hotels around here are already mostly booked up, from people all over the world. Now, I know that we don't have a total eclipse every day, or every few years for that matter, but I just don't get all the excitement over it.....especially when it comes to traveling that far just to see it. Anyway, maybe I'll set up a snow-cone stand and take advantage of the tourists.

I watched one once using a EDM (survey instrument) with a solar filter. Pretty neat. miles

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.

I was able to photograph the solar eclipse back in May 2012 during a trip to Utah. Looks like this one would require a trip to Wyoming, but the mid-day eclipse this August limits any compelling foreground. Maybe shoot upward in a stand of trees this time.
Image below was f/32, 1/4000 sec, ISO 200.

great photo !! We did that 2012 eclipse in Chaco Canyon, NM. It was pretty cool. Bob

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

"Saw' that one here in Oregon.

Clouds, dark, street lights came on, seagulls thought the world was ending, light, street lights went off, clouds still there.

At least this one will be in the Summer.

I'll be there, and never leave the house!!!! memtb

I'll be in the dang bed, doesn't get dark till 9PM that time of year.

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

It's a F*CKING Eclipse, I realize it will remind you of one of your past student's black starfish, but it's no reason to get 'EXCITED'

Have you sailed past ice flow after ice flow covered with Walrus?

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

Get in your F*cking car. It's the most life changing event you will ever experience. Assuming you're idiotic, socialist......

whoa there, kemo-sabe....

That's racist, so it obviously will not be a life changing event for you.............grin

but the idiot applies..... still working after my retirement date!!

Buffalo and Plattsburgh, NY look good for 2024!

<SHRUG> Ya wouldn't catch me saying stuff like that except face to face.



Of course not, but if'n I was just a drive away, I'd prob'ly go do that rather than sit in the back yard.

YMMV,

Birdwatcher

Anyone notice how close to the New Madrid fault line the path of the eclipse passes? I wonder if the geologists are expecting related tectonic activity.

Now I'm wondering which is better.

a) Getting laid by an attractive woman before witnessing an exceptional solar eclipse....

...or...

b) Sailing the Arctic.

Were it up to me I'd do both.

You already did one, now it is within your grasp to do another.

Hey, goals are important.

Don't GAF, in totality.

Now a lunar eclipse, that's cool!