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  • Re: 4APRIL24 Solar Eclipse

    From Blue White@21:4/134 to Warpslide on Tue Apr 9 07:56:17 2024
    We were in the path of totality for today's eclipse. It was cloudy
    but luckily there was a break in the clouds and we got to see the ring
    from my own back yard.

    The last total solar eclipse in my city was January 24, 1925. After
    today's
    eclipse the next one will be October 26, 2144.

    It is a once in a lifetime event. That said, we in parts of North
    America have had the rare treat of being able to view one twice in a
    lifetime, and twice within 10 years time. A few places in Illinois were actually in totallity for both of them.

    As you pointed out, that is what makes it special.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 9 06:45:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to niter3 <=-

    I don't specifically understand what sets this eclipse out from the rest? Why is the whole country shutting down things?

    I don't really understand that either, but it's going to be a total
    elipse in some areas, which is a rare thing. There are people
    traveling to see it in totality.

    Having Arkansas declare a state of emergency for a tourist event and
    discouraging local tourism was, interesting to say the least -
    especially since they were one of a couple of states in the path of
    totality.



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  • From Nodoka Hanamura@21:1/158 to n2qfd on Tue Apr 9 22:20:52 2024
    Sadly Cinci was not under a total eclipse - but my neck of the woods got about 99.6% occlusion at the maximum, which was still nice. It's a shame that the next time we'll get one in is the 3340s... anyone know how the time machine work's coming along?

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  • From n2qfd@21:1/154 to Nodoka Hanamura on Tue Apr 9 21:20:09 2024
    All clouds here too...

    It's my second one actually. I was skipping class in high school in 1994 the last time we had a partial in this area. Same orange storm like light. Dark enough for the lights to come on, but I couldn't see it. We're not allowed nice things above 1200' AGL in this part of NY!
    My wife was in Albany and was able to see it some and I read that folks in Lake Placid in the Adirondacks were able to see it though.

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  • From Nodoka Hanamura@21:1/158 to n2qfd on Wed Apr 10 02:30:16 2024
    On 09 Apr 2024, n2qfd said the following...

    All clouds here too..
    Cloud Layer wasn't an issue thankfully, though we did get scammed out of 20 USD for two glasses.
    It's my second one actually. I was skipping class in high school in 1994 the last time we had a partial in this area. Same orange storm like n2> light. Dark enough for the lights to come on, but I couldn't see it.

    We had a brief moment during the totality where some of the street lights started to kick on - it was neat to see how the world just.. got darker - though I would have loved to see how it'd look in full totality, though.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Apr 10 07:29:01 2024
    Having Arkansas declare a state of emergency for a tourist event and
    discouraging local tourism was, interesting to say the least -
    especially since they were one of a couple of states in the path of
    totality.

    I wondered why the Weather Channel eclipse coverage only included a
    camera view from Arkansas and, unlike TX, IL, IN, OH, NY, and Maine,
    didn't have any local event coverage. Now I guess I know. ;)

    They may have been going by the experience of some of the other
    smaller neighbor states from the 2017 eclipse and decided they didn't
    have the infrastructure to handle such a mass migration event.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nodoka Hanamura on Wed Apr 10 06:50:00 2024
    Nodoka Hanamura wrote to n2qfd <=-

    On 09 Apr 2024, n2qfd said the following...

    All clouds here too..
    Cloud Layer wasn't an issue thankfully, though we did get scammed out
    of 20 USD for two glasses.

    I did the old-school trick of sooting up an old UV filter with a
    candle. We were only around 45% here.



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