Posted on 01/26/2024 2:17:01 PM PST by Texan4Life
In my Tim Allen voice:
The next total solar eclipse to visit North America will be April 8, 2024. The duration of totality will be up to 4 minutes and 27 seconds, almost double that of The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017. The 2017 total solar eclipse was witnessed by about 20 million people from Oregon to South Carolina, and the upcoming 2024 Great American Eclipse is sure to be witnessed by many millions more.
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Last I saw, the Cleveland Guardians were trying to figure out exactly when to schedule their home opener... which normally would be in progress during the eclipse and Cleveland is almost dead-center on the track of totality. Lots of concerns about (a) whether everybody’s eyes would be protected, and (b) that the dramatically varying light levels would wreak havoc with the batters.
We’ve already got our plans made and will be traveling to Cleveland. If the weather looks bad, we’ll head southwest till we hit sunshine.
I’m planning to round up high school and college students and demand their money or I will make the Sun go dark forever.
They’ll give in.
Does anyone know a map that shows the width of the partial path and percentage eclipsed?
I smoked glass absolutely black for the transit of Mercury. All you could see was a dim circle with a black dot moving across.
We didn’t look at it as long as you could look at an eclipse. But no harm done.
And the effects of the eclipse are more than just the sun. It’s the crescent glints in the tree shadows, the darkness, the birds
My friend told me that during an eclipse, her parents made all.ten children stay inside with the shades drawn.
That was probably the one I had no luck with cardboard and a pinhole.
Partial Solar Eclipse - Trumpet Voluntary
Luckily, my husband wasn’t there when I pointed the camera to the sun. Had a cameraman once who got a beatific look on his face and said, “Clouds! They’re God’s scrim.”
Several minor league teams handled it in 2017. Lots of places near Knoxville TN were giving out or selling eclipse glasses then.
The women’s basketball final is the previous day.
Solar panels and EVs will suffer and a young lady in Sweden will weep.
April 8 is my wife’s birthday…coincidence? I think not. Good thing it’s a Monday, a WFH day.
I did the cardboard box and pinhole one time for an annular eclipse and it worked out wonderfully well.
just have to step out in the yard here in FWD.
This will be my third total eclipse. 1963 in Maine (clear skies until right after totality), 1979 in Winnepeg (clear skies) and now back to Maine again. I will have to travel a little bit north to get into the path but the unknown is our typically bad April weather. We’ll be gathering at a friend’s camp and, regardless of the weather, we’ll have a great time.
Intriguingly, this year the Annunciation of Christ is celebrated on the same day of the eclipse, April 8th.
It’s usually on March 25th but this year Holy Week bumps it to the first free day after Easter Week.
I choose not to see this as a coincidence. :)
I saw the one in the Northwest in February 1979, and my wife and I traveled to Oregon to see the 2017 eclipse. We thought about going over to Arkansas for the one this April, but I don’t think that’ll be possible. Oh, well, there’ll be another total eclipse visible from parts of the continental U.S. in August of 2044, and I’ll only be 89 then.
In 1979 the forecast for Winnipeg was overcast right up to the wee hours of the morning of the eclipse. As for 2044, I’ll be a few years older then you. I’m not counting on seeing it.
I was in Portland at the time of the 1979 eclipse, and it was rainy as usual. I figured that the weather might be clear east of the Cascades, so I drove through the Columbia Gorge out to around Boardman, but it was still overcast. At first light, about an hour before the eclipse, I saw a hole in the clouds about 50 miles back to the west and just made it there in time. Lucky.
I have no plans to travel although it would be cool to see. But I’m in NYC, and we’ll get a lot, so that’s nice.
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