When we were in southern Spain last, Ms. JordanIB really wanted to go to Gibraltar but it was tough to squeeze into the itinerary. They are in the path of totality in 2027. Although Tangiers sounds awesome too.
I was thoroughly ready to be unimpressed but I stand corrected. I worked out of the office in Toronto today and the moments of near total coverage were very surreal. It was dark like at night, but without all the street lights on as they are when it is actually nighttime. Pretty wild.
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Don’t you live in Portland? You travel to get this?
I think it’s one of those things where 100% is spectacular and 1-99% is meh.
I can’t really tell much from a lot of the photos I’ve seen of people who lived in the path but this one that’s done by a pro is very cool and probably has a bunch of different exposures going on to be able to show what it looks like more accurately. For those who saw it, does this capture the feel at all? It was taken over the South Pacific.
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Yeah, I am currently in the DFW area. In 2017, I elected not to travel from the Bay north to Oregon with a newborn because I saw I would have the option to take a kid who might remember the eclipse to either visit old friends in western NY or to the in laws in DFW in 2024. DFW predictably won. The girls miss a couple days of school for an amazing astronomical event.
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Total cloud cover in my part of totality, but still kind of cool when the dimmer switch was hit and it rapidly darkened. Happy to report there isn’t a cloud in the sky now. f WNY weather always and forever lol.
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The problem here is the 90%. 90% is nothing. I was at 90% for the last one. If you didn’t know there was an eclipse, you almost wouldn’t realize it.
Was in Kennesaw, Ga golfing and around 3 it was like I was wearing sunglasses, but I wasn’t. Got a few photos with my camera, but haven’t had time to process them.
To be fair, it gets noticeably dimmer at 90 percent, but it’s still just dimmer daylight. There is nothing like the immediate and dramatic change in lighting at totality, and the view of the sun is unlike anything else in the universe.
On the one hand, yes, but on the other, the diamond ring lasts mere seconds. I was lucky to get a decent picture. Your have multiple minutes of totality, so it’s much easier to fit your proposal within that window than in the much narrower ring period. It is super cool, though. I didn’t think I could get such a cool pic with just my phone.
What phone do you have?? Those pics are great.
I’m not going to be one of those eclipse chasers so if I got a possibly once in a lifetime view of totality and someone chose the ring moment to distract me with a proposal I would never forgive them. Middle of totality would also be risky and annoying.
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Apparently this is an AI generated image…sigh
Not a single being has ever had a wilder, more disorienting day than that fish.
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