Total Solar Eclipse - August 21, 2017

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I used binoculars to project on to a piece of paper - worked out good. Had glasses too so the binoculars were the ongoing view and I used the glasses every now and again to look at it directly.
 

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From CNN. I especially thought this picture was awesome:

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http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/us/eclipse-photos/index.html
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
I don't know why one in TN would drive to MO when there's plenty of places in TN that will be in the totality area (and closer).

Plus MO sucks :) (says the guy with a degree from Columbia College).
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I could understand if it were someone in western or northwestern TN driving to Chesterfield or St Louis...but driving all the way to St Joseph (the western border of Missouri) to see it was the part that I find a bit more baffling.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
2024 Total eclipse path.
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My family has acreage north of Austin. That's where I'll be in 2024 if it's in the path of totality. If it is we need to build a Texas style Stonehenge thing on the property.

A real cool spot has to be where 2024 and 2017 intersect... southern Illinois iirc.
 
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We only got 82% here but still had a cool show. Sent everyone home at noon and watched from the pool.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
My family has acreage north of Austin. That's where I'll be in 2024 if it's in the path of totality. If it is we need to build a Texas style Stonehenge thing on the property.

A real cool spot has to be where 2024 and 2017 intersect... southern Illinois iirc.
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I'll bring the beer and chips. I'm only three hours north.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
My family has acreage north of Austin. That's where I'll be in 2024 if it's in the path of totality. If it is we need to build a Texas style Stonehenge thing on the property.

A real cool spot has to be where 2024 and 2017 intersect... southern Illinois iirc.
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Paducah, KY is in the path for both.
 
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Nasa captured the space station in high speed frames as eclipse was happening in front of the sun.
 

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When I saw I-40 backed up past Cedar Bluff yesterday afternoon I pretty much decided it wasn't worth the trouble to go to Sweetwater or one of those places down I-75. So I planned nothing. Didn't even have glasses to watch the partial in Farragut. Saw a winery in Loudon was doing something so I put the address in my phone and headed that way around 2PM. No traffic at all on I-75 south at that time. I was doing 80-90 and a couple if cars blew past me. Got there and didn't really like the looks of it. Drove down the road a mile looking for a good spot to stop. Nothing. Turned around, slowed down but didn't pull into to winery event. Continued around the bend and BOOM. I was under that huge cross on the right hand side of I-75 southbound 10 minutes before totality. Guy was there from PA even had an extra pair of glasses for me. Totality lasted about 2 and a half minutes. It was rather amazing. Preacher said that the lights on the giant cross would come on. That didn't happen but they did on the church steeple. It was kinda zen-like.
 
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