Everybody got their eclipse glasses?

[Rich Engelhardt]

I live in the 44224 zip code.
We get the total eclipse today at 3:14 pm. It lasts for a little over 3 minutes.
Next one is in 2044. I doubt I'll be around for that one.

[George Yetka]

I keep waiting for the sun to pass between the Earth and the moon.

[Edward Weber]

I can't believe how much hype there is over this one. Eclipses happen all the time but now that it's in the U.S., people seem to have gone a bit nuts.
I saw the one in 2017, if was very cool to witness, hope everyone has fun.

[Jerome Stanek]

Right now it is sunny and clear 44256 Medina OH

[Maurice Mcmurry]

We will have to use the welding helmets. Glasses are sold out here. We have blue skies.

[Alan Rutherford]

Ordered the glasses from Amazon Thursday morning and had them Friday morning. Also have a sextant which has a low-power telescope with sun filters. Sun is about 25% covered here right now and the light looks a little wierd.

I was in Turkey in 1966 in the Air Force when there was a partial eclipse. They didn't have nearly the pre-eclipse hype we've had and I didn't know it was coming. Don't think many of the local people knew it either. I was walking around in Ankara and it seemed like the sunlight was getting turned down. Thought maybe I was having a medical problem or something. Very strange feeling. I eventually figured it out and was able to squint enough to see that it was an eclipse.

[John M Wilson]

It's pretty cloudy in the Nashville area, which is OK, as this as close as we got to totality (this time!)

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[Jim Koepke]

Here in the Pacific North West we don't need no special glasses.

Not only do we have a heavy cloud cover, we get about a 15% eclipse.

I've seen a few of them and even have some slides of one I saw back in the 1980s. Just not sure where they might be at the moment.

jtk

If you are old enough to remember The Treasure of the Sierra Madre this came to mind while reading this post:

Special glasses? We ain't got no special glasses.
We don't need no special glasses.
We ain’t gots to show you no stinking special glasses!

[andrew whicker]

I went to Indiana to visit family and see the eclipse.. the full eclipse was pretty cool. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I liked it a lot. In Utah, we've had two eclipses in the past few years, but this one was the only one I really took the time to see.

[Pat Germain]

We will have to use the welding helmets. Glasses are sold out here. We have blue skies.

Local talking heads keep repeating over and over to not use sunglasses or welding helmets. Not sure what's real, but I wouldn't change losing my eyesight to a welding helmet.

[Jerome Stanek]

Local talking heads keep repeating over and over to not use sunglasses or welding helmets. Not sure what's real, but I wouldn't change losing my eyesight to a welding helmet.

When they say welding helmets they are talking weilding goggels. I used my welding shield that was darker then my solar glasses

[Bill Howatt]

I read that welding lenses should be 14 and above. My typical ones are 10,11. I had some goggles that were probably 8 and used them in front of a 10.
We probably got about a 90% eclipse. Was disappointed it wasn't really that much darker outside than a dull day. Temperature did drop about 3.5C though.

[Maurice Mcmurry]

When they say welding helmets they are talking weilding goggels. I used my welding shield that was darker then my solar glasses

Mine were very dark too at 13 and 14. The neighbors had extra glasses. I hope they weren't the recalled ones. I enjoyed the shadows more than looking at the sun.

[Alan Lightstone]

It was only about 50% here. Didn't look up. Totally clear skies.

This is what the solar array noted during the event:
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So even though it really didn't look much darker, the solar panels knew.

[Bill George]

I had planned to use my self dimming welding hoods, a Miller and a Speedglas one but they were too smart, would not dim in just sunlight!