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Here it comes!  Soon will be sipping mimosas in the front yard waiting to see how the chickens will react.  We all got glasses (not the chickens and cats) and are stoked.  It was cloudy yesterday but nothing but clear skies this AM.

Weird how the moon is just the right size and just the right distance from the earth for this to happen. I'm not buying it.

At some point in the future the moon, having been slowly spiraling away from earth (as it is), will no longer be large enough in the sky to cover the sun, and there will be no more eclipses.

>>>Weird how the moon is just the right size and just the right distance from the earth for this to happen. I'm not buying it.

 

aint no planet x coming cause aint no space cause aint not globe earth

IM LOOKING AT IT I DONT CARE WHAT GEORGE SOROS SAYS FUCK IT 

Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over>

Eclipse>

Dark As A Dungeon> 

Here Comes The Sun

> Steal My Sunshine - Len 


Embryonic Journey: Jorma Kaukonen
Waiting for the Sun: The Doors
Here Comes the Sun: The Beatles
Good Day Sunshine: Beatles
Across the Universe: The Beatles
Paint it Black: Rolling Stones ("I Want to see the sun blotted out from the sky")
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd
David Bowie: Space Oddity
Invisible Sun: The Police
Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me: Elton John
Black Hole Sun: Soundgarden
Brain Damage/Eclipse: Pink Floyd
Dark Star: Grateful Dead
Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone....
Here Comes Sunshine: Grateful Dead
Third Stone from the Sun: Jimi Hendrix


 

Walking on sunshine - Katrina and the waves 

How is it looking there Ken?

Very dense fog here on the coast of Marin.

Looks like a Pac-Man.

Moonshadow

Sunrise, Sunset-Fiddler on the Roof

Moonshadow<<<

Did somebody say fatwah?

Sun Is Shining-Bob Marley

 

Moondance-Van Morrison

so, every kid in our school has been told they have to keep their glasses on during the eclipse..

anyone wanna place bets??

There's a little black spot on the sun today...

 

North Korea is going to attack us when we have these stupid glasses on.

Plus I burnt a retina in the one from 1970.

 

Looks like I'll have Govt Mule's Soulshine on from 7/15/17

Reporting from Aerohead and Kimberly's deck  in Corvallis- the sky is amazingly blue, there is a chunk out of the sun, the breeze is starting to come up, it's getting cooler, it's about 20 minutes before totality

Reporting from an office cube in foggy San Francisco.

What a spectacle!

(Forced to watch NASA TV.)
Enjoy it !

Crescent moon shaped now.

XM has a dark star marathon

Eclipse......DS.......LDS

How's your day going????

Splitting time watching NASA TV and going outside with the glasses GFish gave me. Pretty fucking cool.

High Judit and Walt and Kimberly!

 

Hi Mark D from all of us!

 It was a pretty remarkable sight -  the sky got pretty dark -  the sides of the sun came shooting out - 

Anyone doing a Not Fade Away chant?

slightly darker fog here

At some of those large festival style gatherings, I bet the science nerds and wooks are nervously sizing each other up about now.

7/12/90 remember it well

Sunny & Hot here in central Jerseyland.  Clear sky,  80's temps.  I may take the Dog out in the Woods and continue mowing the Woods roads;  they've gotten overgrown with all the Rain.  Eclipse will make for some cooler temps to facilitate sweatless mowing.  About an hour before the 74% 'totality'.

watched a lil on NASA tv..some pretty cool stories more than any real viewing..they say the camera just cant capture what all you lucky people that are in totality can actually see....

we ll be between 65-70% here...so , not much to see, except that itll get  dark outside...or darker etc....

 

my sister is in totality in south carolina and is seeing her first total eclipse, so itll be interesting to hear what she has to say...

80% here. Like dusk out. Cicadas are singing . Wild!

Really nice here, got to see about 80%. 

A TRILLION PICS TAKEN..................cool

Meh.

Last sliver passing now. That was fun. Best moment was when it first started. I put the glasses on, and looked up for the first time. Moon just starting to carve out a hunk of light.

Only 80 % here and it was pretty cool. I wish I had been in totality. Watched that on NASATV.

Best parts - the diamond ring effect and the color of the sky during and around totality.

Happy eclipse everybody!

 VERY Cool Everyone !

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that was pretty boring 

wouldnt even know it happenned in Ct at 70%...and of course, my sister in carolina is planning her trip to argentina in 18 months, and buffalo or niagra falls in 2024!

 

see ya there....of course....;)

Well, that was pretty cool.  Strange, very dim lighting, funky shadows, and much cooler temperatures.   Traffic on the roads this morning was practically non-existent and could have headed down to Salem easy.  

And meanwhile, over at the Eclipse Fest, a dude got "scared" by the music and decided he had to leave, running over a couple of tents in the process:

http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/08/post_2.html#incart_big-photo

 

Ha ha

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LOL

First blind President ever after today

 

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We we only had 70% and it was cloudy but made for groovy pictures.

 

The moon is waning and so is my peak....but the dark stars keep on playin

Awesome shadows. 

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cb that deserves a Bowl Of GodFather OG ! coolcoolcool so incredibly Tasty and at 25% !   In A Brand New Glass Piece

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Awesome ! Voodoo !

^ fuckin awesome voodoo 

Baltimore partial

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not mine, i stole it

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Hearing Wyoming was The State To be at.

 

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Thought about returning to Idaho for it but didn't bother. 91% in Salt Lake.

obscured by clouds in SF, caught a good  view  a few miles south on the porch with my free library issued glasses...

The cicadas are singing the second time today. I think it's cool.

The cats came in after watching the eclipse in the driveway with us - they were very careful to face away from it until totality - and tried to convince us it was breakfast time - again!

 

They failed.

Is that a colonial woman churning butter on the wing of the space station?

voodoo, your head looks eerilie similar to the spaceships that landed on earth on the movie ARRIVAL.

 

 

im not sure what that means....but, id have it looked at if i were you....

This is how it looked for me from my back deck in Bohemia, NY at 2:48 PM - Partial Eclipse and darkness

I was making a years batch of Sofrito and caning them into mason jars and a little peaking too.

I got totaled.

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in the shadow of the moon...

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its really dark out on east coast now

Yea...I know...this is pretty far out stuff, however that's exactly why it intrigues me! 

The eclipse today reminded me of the ancient, lost, Sun Mystery. I suggest checking this out. Much of the study of the sun is to try to figure out why it is hotter on the surface than at it's core....maybe because the sun is actually a reflector. Also, I believe that Julian The Apostate actually wanted to force the Christians to maintain & preserve the Sun Mystery as a part of Christianity and they refused...thus his real intent is quite often not explained correctly.  

http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/sun_mystery.html

excerpt: Believing that when we apprehend the Sun all we see is a globe of gas moving through space is the product of materialistic thinking first witnessed in ancient Greece, but which has found its apotheosis in the intellect of Western man. The fact is, if physicists would journey into space, and use appropriate measuring equipment, they would discover that the Sun is not a globe of gas giving out light, but that it is a reflector, which cannot itself radiate light, but at most reflect light back from whence it came. This seems strange to modern intellects. But, in the spiritual sense, light streams out from the planets and although physically it appears as though the Sun gives the planets light, in reality, it is the planets that radiate light to the Sun and the Sun simply reflects this back into the solar system.

This relationship was readily understood by the wise men of ancient Persia with their instinctive, non-rationalised, wisdom. And in this sense, the Sun was regarded as the earthly source ofLight, but not as the ultimate source itself, but simply as the reflector of the Light. Then, as human consciousness evolved the Egyptians and Chaldeans perceived the Sun as the reflector of Life and later, as the human descent into matter proceeded, among the Greeks, the Sun was seen as the reflector of Love. And, it was this later manifestation of the Sun Mystery that Julian the Apostate wanted to preserve but which Dark Forces wanted extinguished and so had him killed. Julian the Apostate was resolved to preserve the ancient Gnostic wisdom and its memorials which could have made it possible for the true Sun Mystery to find its way to men. For, in the first centuries of Christendom, Christ was still regarded as a Sun-Figure, an Apollo, by people still imbued with Gnostic consciousness.

Well I kinda blew it- I headed up to Idaho early but cut off about 80 miles south of Idaho Falls- wanted to avoid the traffic snarls.

Found a nice spot for 97% totality but I should have just gone for it and dealt with it.

Next time you see me. .

 

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Do you all remember Mark Twain's story,  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court? (Movie with Danny Kaye.)

An engineer is transported back to King Arthur's time and knows that an eclipse occurred then. He uses the info to his advantage and all's well.

It's been years since I read the book or saw the movie, but I remember them as very good.

 

Klondike - next one is in almost 7 years for USA on Mon. April 8, 2024. I'm in Ohio & my wife & I were already talking about it because it looks like we will get totality for that one. Here's the map for next time around. 

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I was in Cincinnati on April 8th - 1989--Saw a Dead show- and a Giants/ Reds game the next day- I remember it rained.

Maybe south Texas is the place to be- I'll start checking Super 8 motels.

 

Niagara Falls!

Slowly I turn...

Step by step...

Took Mr. Hüsky out to the Woods and ran the mower,  chopping the overgrowth on some woods roads which allow access to Fields & Forest.

It was clear & sunny when we headed out there,  but prior to the 74% 'totality'  clouds arrived out of nowhere,  obscuring the visuals...  all 20-25 minutes thereof.

Tried my best to stare at the Sun through the stands of tall Oaks & Ashes,  but clouds were the deterrent towards retinal Burn.  It barely got Dark or Cool.

Still,  got a ton of maintenance mowing accomplished,  and Dog & I got a few miles of exercise with all the mowing,  trips back to the Barn for more Gas,  and trots along the freshly - mown Woods roads.  

Keeping the overgrowth down makes for tick - free jaunts out amongst the Big Trees.  The ticks love to lurk on tall weeds & grass and jump on mammals passing by.  Little fuckers have infrared vision.

Usually,  this time of year stuff will get waist - to shoulder height unmowed.

So,  remedial mowing keeps the tractor trails from getting taken over by brush.

Hopefully  we'll both be around for the next Solar Eclipse,  with clear skies.

We're on the way back from totality 

It was fucking RAD 

There was a shortage of safe viewing glasses around here. Someone put an ad on Craigslist for 70 pair at $5 each. They put MY ADDRESS as the place to come, so people came, woke me up, insisted I had them, etc. I can only hope it was an innocent typo for another address on my street and not intentional by some unfriendly prankster.

Had a great viewing of the total eclipse,  so much more happened that I could have even imagined!  WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!   Saw all those strange things you were suppose to see (Shadow Snakes, Bailys Beads, Diamond Rings, Crescent Shadows, freaking AmAAAAAAzing! 

 (I now have a new addiction, need to save those pesos and travel to the next one!)   

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Judit, sounds like a nightmare.  What a drag.

Judit ~ I would do some checking to try to find out who placed the ad? 

Druba ~ cool set up mang! That looks the place to be! 

My wife send me this pic off of FB - it is awesome! Not sure who took it to give credit to as they obviously deserve. 

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SICK Fark !! THX !

That has to be the image of the year, Threadkiller.

Thanks! I want to find out where, when & who about that picture...looks like it may be a NASA picture from over the South Pacific

Here's a pic of the Yaquina Bay bridge in Newport, Oregon  (coolest pic I've seen so far!)   Taken by Arjen Sundman

(and thanks Fark, good times for sure!) 

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Here's a pic of the Yaquina Bay bridge in Newport, Oregon  (coolest pic I've seen so far!)   Taken by Arjen Sundman

(and thanks Fark, good times for sure!) 

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Druba - yes that is awesome! I think the one I uploaded is from 3/2016 eclipse...freaking FB peeps- putting up old pictures from previous eclipses & me sharing - D'OH! Sorry VLZ I should have done some research first. 

Nice pics all around. Clouds in central Ohio made a partial event less than we had hoped. frown

2024 here we come!♦

Just used google images to search for the source, sadly, it's a composite;  

http://www.snopes.com/eclipse-over-south-pacific/

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That Yaquina Bay Bridge shot is awesome.  And with a -1.5 negative tide yesterday morning, you could have combined some serious clam digging with the eclipse watching.

Ok here we go! 

This composite image shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse over Ross Lake, in Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe.

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

 

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Watch the shadow go across the Earth ~ NASA image from EPIC

Editor Rob Garner   www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/nasas-epic-view-of-2017-eclipse-...

Dang - over 1600 images here from the 8/21/17 eclipse: https://www.flickr.com/groups/nasa-eclipse2017

This one is hilarious! Thanks Mike Kite for "Much Better" ~ http://aberrantart.com/

Copy / paste to go directly - www.flickr.com/photos/120622138@N08/36604822071/in/pool-nasa-eclipse2017/

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Santa Barbara Mission

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I'm stymied. When I try to upload pics taken on an iPhone, sent via email from phone to computer, they are sideways. I tried rotating them on the computer but they still come out some wrong orientation. Any helpful ideas?

Judit that's crazy, re: cl

The Craigslist thing was crazy and fucked up. I and some friends Googled and we couldn't find the ad but people came for some time after we looked. I never thought about checking into it with Craigslist. Hmmmm.

Wow this one is supposedly real, if so, great shot! Saw it below reading about the guy who ran a lady over in her tent at Symbiosis Gathering Eclipse Fest

Ted Hesser's viral photograph from Smith Rock State Park during the 2017 total solar eclipse quickly went viral. Hesser's capture shows a friend posing as what's called the diamond ring effect takes hold. It was liked more than 55,000 times on Instagram and shared more than 77,000 times on Facebook.(Ted Hesser/Special to The Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/08/the_story_behind_viral_iconic.... - By Rob Davis

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Sorry to hear about that Lady J.

I do hope it was just a mistake.

The eclipse was pretty amazing.

 

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I figured out the posting orientation.

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This was amazing: totality. What is the lavender oval to the lower left of the sun?

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>>What is the lavender oval to the lower left of the sun?<<

That's the bending of time and space...

Ahhh, of course. Thanks, Trailhead.