2024 Eclipse

[Oldiesmann]

Starting this in advance of tomorrow's eclipse so we have all the pics in a single spot rather than buried in the Photos Old and New topic

I'll be at work and won't be able to make it to the path of totality (which will be about 20 minutes from where I work), but I wasn't sure if I wanted to deal with the crowds in those areas. Probably should have taken the day off anyway, but live and learn. That just gives me an excuse to take a vacation for the next one (when I'll be 63)

[patricia19]

For those unable to see the Eclipse,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdlE0xT-sI

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/watch-live-the-total-solar-eclipse-has-begun-over-north-america

[Marilyne]

Hoping we hear from some of our members who were in the path of totality,  or close.   I think that Tomereader (Joanne),  in Dallas, was directly in the path.  There are others here in S&F from Texas, so I hope we hear from them as well?

Michael,  it must have been spectacular where you were, being as you were only 20 miles away from the path?    Way out  here in coastal Northern California, we saw a small part of the eclipse, by looking at the sun with the glasses.  The best way to describe it, is that it looked like a round apple, with a bite taken out of the lower right side.

[RAMMEL]

I'm just North of NYC. Not total, but it did get dark. I did not have those special glasses so didn't go out and look at it. I relied on the benefits of TV.

[phyllis]

It didn't get totally dark here but it got pretty dim. David went out but I saw it on YouTube and I could see more than he could so he came back in and watched it, too.