Thread: Eclipse viewing

96.4% at my workplace. Viewed thru welding hood. Pretty cool...not earth shaking, as all the hoopla down is southern Illinois is making out to be.


Although, it would have been cool to see Ozzy playing Bark at the Moon, as he did today in Carterville, Il.

Just a partial of 64% here in Massachusetts.
It was a little overcast, but I was able to see it very clearly using my cell phone camera pointed over my shoulder. All of the pictures that I tried to take were overexposed and completely washed out as expected.

Pete <:-}

Is it supposed to get dark outside?

Originally Posted by MisterClean

I painted an old CD to observe the eclipse. It's a little overcast here but I think we'll get a peek.

That hole is way too big. Hopefully you figure that out in time. Literally a pin-hole would give a sharper image.

quite an experience. We had total eclipse where I'm at and it was completely dark for about 4 minutes. craziest thing i've seen in awhile. it got noticeably darker for about 30 minutes and then in about 2 minutes it went from what I would consider "pretty dark" to absolute nighttime.

It was not quite total at the tech school I was at today, still a little sliver showing but still a great site. My sons or daughters had not seen one before. They watched from the house where it was a total eclipse, all of them said it was the coolest thing they had ever seen. So we plan on going camping in the path of the one in 2024 since that one will be only 50 miles to the center from the house. And April is a good time for camping. The shadows from the trees were really cool looking.

Originally Posted by AcesandEights

96.4% at my workplace. Viewed thru welding hood. Pretty cool...not earth shaking, as all the hoopla down is southern Illinois is making out to be.


Although, it would have been cool to see Ozzy playing Bark at the Moon, as he did today in Carterville, Il.

Yeah, seeing Ozzy would have been really cool.
Not a big deal to me but i couldnt see much. But it was the second one in my life time. Hope to be around for the third.

WOW!!! Totally Awesome!!!

100% totality here in the back yard, lasted just over 2 minutes. A couple of bats flew over, my cat went totally crazy and the neighbors roosters started crowing when the sun started coming back out.....what an experience!

Originally Posted by DoughBoy68

WOW!!! Totally Awesome!!!

100% totality here in the back yard, lasted just over 2 minutes. A couple of bats flew over, my cat went totally crazy and the neighbors roosters started crowing when the sun started coming back out.....what an experience!

Saw it from the top of Clingman's Dome. It was pretty cool!