I can understand why people travel for these now. Looks like 2045 for a widespread one in the US again.
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Anyone get their superpowers yet? I got nothin so far.
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It feels like I am going to be very alone in this opinion, but after having a good bit of FOMO this morning, I now feel fairly underwhelmed (90% location). I’m not sure how to phrase it, but in some ways the actual viewing of it through the glasses was less moving than understanding and processing the phenomenon that is occurring.
I didn’t view the 2017 one at all so this was the first time I had the glasses on. I honestly didn’t realize how dark they are, and while it’s great that it allows you to view it safely, you sort of lose a lot of sense of place, context, environment, etc., when it’s just you, a black screen, and a sliver of orange. There was a Northern Lights comparison earlier…I haven’t viewed them myself, but I can imagine part of what makes the experience breathtaking is just being able to look across the breadth of the sky and take it all in, maybe it’s against a really interesting foreground, etc.
Anyway, just some reflections on how it felt. I’m glad I went out there. This morning I was looking at future international eclipses and whether I would try a trip around one of them. Now I’m not so sure.
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Nope I totally get it. 91% here, glad I went outside for a while and yakked about it with the other couple of co-workers that actually bothered to go outside, shared my glasses, etc., but overall it was just kinda “huh, that was interesting…ok back to work”.
somebody said it was purple haze and i like that better
Had a decent view here in NJ until about 5 mins before maximum coverage when the worlds slowest cloud moved in and completely obscured the view for the last 35 minutes. Temperature dropped a good bit but other than that I wouldn’t have known it was happening. Some of my family went up to VT for totality and it sounds like they had a perfect view. Kind of regretting not joining them.
whoever earlier it said there was a huge difference between 97% and 100% was correct. the 2-3 mins of totality were as advertised.
can’t say what i’m doing in 2045, but i would drive an hour to see it again. 2+hours and i’d get a hotel wherever it was, the world around me was really interesting for like 10-15 mins…
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House is/was in totality zone. Kids’ school was cancelled, but I taught this morning and then came immediately home. Weather was perfect. We sat on the patio starting about an hour before the scheduled time, and it felt a little underwhelming as the moon started sliding across the sun. But when it finally hit totality, it was pretty amazing. Especially surprising was how night-like it got, both in terms of light and heat. (Apparently the sun emits both. Who knew?) We were able to take off our glasses to look at it for about a minute. I kind of thought that people were making too big a deal about it, but now I think I’ve been eclipse-pilled and would travel to see another one.
Also, I completely don’t understand how cameras work. This was the picture I took with my iphone when the sun was roughly 98% covered:
This is not at all what it looked like!
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I just hope nobody here is as dead inside as this guy. From 2017
That was fucking great. 5 stars. Would watch again.
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Yeah it’s a completely different phenomena. The sun just so immensely powerful even a little percent overwhelms our vision.
Didn’t travel for this one due to kids logistics but the preschoolers enjoyed looking at the weird shadows and appreciated that it looked like moon through glasses so I think hit it well for them to still have a cool experience. Once they older I definitely would consider traveling to see the totality again
UP meetup in Benghazi in 3 years?
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My wife has been wanting to visit Morocco for a while, if the world hasn’t exploded by 2027 I’ll see you in Tangier.
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Spent the eclipse in the basement of a boat. Will consider watching Ladyhawke when I get home.
Same. I had seen 2 other partial eclipses and they were interesting but forgettable. That totality experience was not forgettable. We had a handful of eclipse haters in our viewing group, who were loudly proclaiming how everyone was making way too big a deal of it. They were all converted the moment totality hit. Something about that shimmer around the outer edge is indescribable and I haven’t seen a picture or video that has accurately captured it yet.
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yep.
side note: my parents were outside their house and heard the neighbors saying how great the totality was and they both said they couldn’t see anything just darkness… nobody told them they had to take their eclipse glasses off 
they said they were looking through the shades for almost a whole minute asking each other if they could see anything omg lol
Woah, the sun went out.
Only partial here, but it was fun going outside with my son and just talking about how weird things looked.
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I said the same thing. Definitely surreal. Even though we saw almost nothing due to clouds I’m glad we drove a bit to be in totality. Really crazy.
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