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.

[Mel Fulks]

I used a black lawn and garden bag, in 2 ply mode and enjoyed it all. I enjoy noon marks more, it’s a show every sunny day.
This town has a 90 foot pyramid noon mark with a special feature . June 21 Sun shines on all 4 sides and for a couple of minutes all 4
sides are illuminated and no shadow is cast. It is a memorial to some thousands of Confederates killed in the war. People then set their
clocks with noon marks. Easy to find a photograph of : Memorial To The Confederate Dead, Richmond Va. The builder had been a
Captain in The Confederate Army. He was also a surveyor. Two men were killed in the year of work building . One was run over by
a mule and the other one was hit by dynamite throwing a large piece of granite.

[Rich Engelhardt]

It's all over here.
It was pretty cool.

I watched the run up to it on TV and I have to admit, I go into the excitement more than I had ever thought I would. I even managed to talk my wife into looking.
She's not interested in things like this at all.

[Ron Selzer]

Sat on the deck and talked to the neighbors while it happened. Got dark enough the street lights came on, did cool off fast for a little bit. Amazing how much heat and light the sun produced when it was approximately 70-80% covered.
Ron

[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!

[Jason Roehl]

I drove 70 min SE to my sister's on the south side of Indianapolis. It was near perfect weather--just a wisp of clouds in the sky, and 75°F. By the time the sun was 50% obscured, I could tell that the sun was less intense on my skin, even though it didn't feel much cooler outside. Took lots of photos, saw some Bailey's Beads, and a couple solar flares. But photos just don't do it justice. At full eclipse, there was a very ethereal quality to the darkness, and direct viewing of the totality almost didn't look real. It reminded me of the Dark Saber in the Mandalorian (if you watched that series)--the black center was VERY black, but the corona glowed. Then, just like that, the diamond ring popped.

When it was all said and done, I left my sister's about an hour later, and that 70-minute drive became almost three hours due to eclipse traffic leaving the area. I didn't even go home, but met my wife and son at a bar less than a mile from home to watch our Boilers play for the national championship. The big man did his part, but the rest of the team just didn't help enough.

Getting up at 0415 and going to bed after midnight is getting harder to do...

[andrew whicker]

It was definitely surreal when it became of a full eclipse.

it was also amazing how little sun it takes to light and heat the area. It only got truly dark and cold when it was a 100%. Even at 99% it was relatively light outside although definitely cooler.

We watched it near Shelbyville (rural and lots of fields). Interesting to hear the animals get ready for sleep and then 3 to 4 minutes later wake back up.

[Ronald Blue]

We were a couple hundred mile north of the totality path. Started looking weird/different. We had the approved glasses and sat outside and checked every few minutes at the progress. 2:01 PM Central was peak for us. My daughter lives in Ohio West of Cleveland and was virtually dead center in the totality path. Said it was definitely strange getting dark for 3 or 4 minutes. Fortunately for most the weather was clear enough to get a good view of it.

[George Yetka]

Blue skys all day, 230 rolled around and a giant cloud rolled right in front of the sun. Couldn't see a thing.

[Michael Weber]

Blue skys all day, 230 rolled around and a giant cloud rolled right in front of the sun. Couldn't see a thing.
When the eclipse you’re waiting on, as you mentioned earlier happens, the sun should be easily visible. :cool:

[Ed Aumiller]

FYI... if you had eclipse glasses, please recycle them via https://astronomerswithoutborders.org/home
they send them to poor countries when they have an eclipse... there is one this fall in South America

[Brian Elfert]

FYI... if you had eclipse glasses, please recycle them via https://astronomerswithoutborders.org/home
they send them to poor countries when they have an eclipse... there is one this fall in South America

The local Menards had hundreds of pairs of eclipse glasses left early Monday afternoon. I checked the Menards website yesterday curious to see how many eclipse glasses were still in inventory and the eclipse glasses were gone off the website. I would not be surprised if they threw away the remainder. They had them on clearance last week already for $1 instead of the original $2. Minnesota was only getting a partial eclipse which is why the eclipse glasses did not sell out.

Menards stores in a state that was going to see totality ran out of eclipse glasses a week or more before the eclipse. I saw something from a Menards employee saying they would answer the phone and immediately say they were out of eclipse glasses as that was the majority of calls.

[Jim Koepke]

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