Solar Eclipses for the US in 2023 and 2024

Very cool for little one’s first road trip. ❤️

Wow!! So yeah, we drove the extra bit, turned to be 35 minutes for an extra 90 seconds but it was so worth it.

We got to a park about an hour before the eclipse started, which was good since the parking lots were pretty much filled up when we got there. Some older couple were saying the they small lot I pulled into didn't have and spots left, I found/made one. We were also able to sit at a picnic table which was good.

The eclipse started at 12:37 local time, totality started at 1:54 local time. 20 minutes before totality the temperature started to drop, and during totality dropped around 20 degrees. It got cool enough that I could have used a light jacket. I had purchased solar viewers and a pair of solar binoculars. The binoculars let me see the sun about 10 times larger in them. Birds started singing maybe 8-10 minutes before totality. We saw Jupiter up and to the left of the Sun, Venus down and right to the Sun. There was also a very, very faint spot that is could have been the Devil Comet. Didn't see Mars, there were trees that blocked it. We did see Bailey's Beads and the diamond ring. Chimmy, my Chihuahua Toy Fox Terrier thought it was night time and tried to sleep, then seemed a bit confused after the totality phase

Shortly before totality.



During totality.



The surrounding area, about a minute before totality.



During totality.

The math, it's ok. This isn't the red room. Time from the eclipse from 2017 to the one today.

6 years, 7 months, 22 days, 1 hour, 17 minutes, 1 second.

Distance between the two locations, Anderson SC and Walnut Ridge AR

As the crow flies: 472 miles
Drive distance: 588 miles
From SC to Home to AR: 609 miles

I should have done the same.

I went to Findlay. From Detroit, that's typically a two-hour drive, +/- 15 minutes depending on traffic. Thanks to a three-mile stretch of I-75 near Monroe where the left lane was blocked off for construction, today it was a 4 hour drive. Good thing I left early. Also why I went to Findlay instead of some place like Niagara Falls. I don't even want to imagine what those people dealt with; I've seen how packed that place gets on a random Thursday. Niagara Falls is dumb anyway, if I want to see flowing water I can flush my toilet.

Sulu: We’re not going to make it are we?

*David Markus shakes head slowly*

I'm sure there are more out there, but this is the coolest photo of the eclipse I've seen so far. Bobby Goddin/USA Today Network.

Folks on the airplane didn't get to see the eclipse, sun was pretty much directly over them.

However, they most likely did see the shadow of the moon on the earth almost below them, the shadow (I haven't looked it up, but from looking at the map of totality) was about 110-120 miles wide where people on the ground could see the totality.

Holy shit!

Looking at pics of the eclipse, what I thought were Bailey Beads at one point, were not Bailey Beads but a solar flare.



We did see the red flares during the eclipse, along with the Bailey Beads. While reading and looking up info on the last few weeks about the eclipse, there was mention about the possibility of seeing flares coming off the sun.

^similar mindblowing pic

Arkansas is kinda nice. Stayed in a national forest near Caddo Gap.

Visiting The Home Office now for Dayton Half-Off Shoes.

I actually caught a solar flare, though the quality is so shit you can't really tell, and the picture wasn't as steady as I hoped.

Phone?

Yes. It's all I had. It's a Samsung A14 with my eclipse sunglasses in front of the lenses.

Also, true story, an angry bee was chasing me around the yard at the time.

Unless you shoot in burst mode, phone camera shutters tend to be really slow which means movement of the camera (or the subject) causes blurring. It's why I use both hands to keep the phone steady any time I use the camera.

I am very bad at photography.
Well, no, with a real camera, I can do pretty well. With a phone camera, I'm very shit at it.

El Eclipse del payaso.

I didn't bother trying to take photos/video because, while I have many skills, photography is not one of them, for the time being at least.

I saw one of the flares though, the one that was at the 7 o'clock position. I thought it was a dead pixel and I finally had evidence that we're in a simulation. I was aware that solar flares might be visible, but I didn't know they'd be such a vivid red; I thought they'd be white like everything else the sun does. I didn't know what I was looking at at the time.

Skydivers witness total solar eclipse mid-air