USA Totality Eclipse 2024

[IHinIN]

Wife and I watched it from our deck. We were in the path of totality here in east central Indiana. It was wild how quickly it went dark and the temperature dropped probably 10 degrees. These pics were taken at 3:10 PM but it looks more like 9:10 PM. It looked like the sun was setting all around us.

 

[tim81]

What scare? I didn't know people were scared by it.

The nostadamus **** in 2000 was the deal over there

 

[rwm]

80% in the CLT.

 

[dkemppai]

About 75% here. Heavy clouds, so not great viewing. A few very quick glances through breaks in the clouds. The dark ones are cell phone snaps through the welding helmet, and the last one was the cell phone directly through cloud cover. Had to twiddle the shade number on the helmet from 8 to 13 with varying cloud thickness.

The bright spots were a hole in the clouds. That let a lot of light through, and was brighter than where the sun was.

It's the third partial I've seen here. I thought the last few lunar eclipses were more interesting.

Deer came out into the field to feed. Probably thinking it was getting close to dinner time.

 

[woodchucker]

Had to laugh, my neighbor was looking at it with his son, just bare eyed, holding his hand up to I guess prevent a full blown blast. The problem is the amount of UV that's still beaming at you as well. I had my welding helmet (fixed lens one that came with the welder) and it was bright at that moment... Not too bright for the helmet, but still bright.

 

[Boswell]

overcast thinned out enough that we got a great view of totality. Very memorable. I am disappointed in my welding helmet. The auto-darken would not trigger. Worked great if I held the TEST button, otherwise stayed clear. I had a normal pair of eclipse glasses as a backup and of course nothing was needed during the total eclipse portion.

 

[RJSakowski]

overcast thinned out enough that we got a great view of totality. Very memorable. I am disappointed in my welding helmet. The auto-darken would not trigger. Worked great if I held the TEST button, otherwise stayed clear. I had a normal pair of eclipse glasses as a backup and of course nothing was needed during the total eclipse portion.

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My Autodarken helmet wouldn't trigger either. My wife put the helmet on for a staged photo op. I didn't trust it for viewing. We used fixed shades for viewing. At 87%, it didn't get really dark but it was noticeable.

 

[skogkatt007]

Every eclipse is accompanied by significant cloud cover. NY/NJ. I never buy goggles, will glance up for a split second. But nothing truly amazing has ever been seen by me. Yawn.

 

[rabler]

Despite an iffy forecast we had a fairly clear sky. In the third picture, the solar flair around the 7 o'clock position was visible as a red dot to the naked eye. I hauled out the old dslr for this, probably hadn't been used in nearly a decade, batteries even fully charged only last a few minutes. Just a cheesy film filter held over the lens, had meant to buy a real filter but never made it to the top of the round to-it list.

 

[Eddyde]

We had clouds but could still see it pretty well. This was taken right about maximum cover, about 94%,
at my location, upstate New York.