Any Chrons Folk in the Eclipse Path?

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One of my daughters will be under the shadow of totality, but I won't. I wondered if any Chrons people will be seeing the eclipse next week at least as a partial one. I'm looking forward to watching it with the solar filter on my telescope.
 
We are pretty darn close to it here in the Chattanooga area. We will have to travel just twenty miles or so to reach the totality zone. It's a very big deal, so I hope we don't run into huge crowds of people. We hope to just find an open area to stop and watch the show.
 
I'm about 40 miles from totality - going to attempt a drive from Portland to Salem on Sunday night & stay with friends, and then ...somehow get home after the thing...
 
Good luck to both of you who have responded to my question. I hope you have a great experience!
 
I'm in the 75 to 80 percent path. This summer of Persistent Fog in the late morning (10:30 ish) may damage my chances to view the thing; unless I head East a couple dozen miles. (Missed the Perseids, totally, again)

My Brother and my Mother live in Bend, OR; directly in the sweet spot for totality. They have different responses, though. Bro will probably be on the flat roof of his house, or a local mountain top, with his camera equipment.

Mom is so philosophically averse to the expected traffic congestion and crowds, that she is fleeing 400 miles South to visit me, for the duration, rather than experience this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Well, that'll be nice, I guess, I don't see her often. She'll be staying on to celebrate her 80th Birthday. She is such a global gaddabout that we haven't been in the same hemisphere on her Birthday in decades.

Meanwhile, my elder daughter and her boyfriend will be driving 700 miles North, from San Francisco, to camp on a week-long Rave-Eclipse-Festival, on a private ranch just North of Bend, OR. They'll be stopping by my house on their way home, to catch the big B-Day celebration.
 
80ish percent here, also. I've arranged to take off from work at 2 p.m. in hopes of getting a peek at the eclipse through my telescope (with solar filter, of course).
 
85%

I haven't seen whether or not you need the special glasses only if you are in totality or not. Some sources seem to imply that and others are vague. After all of the eclipses that have occurred this should be settled.
 
psikeyhackr said:
85%

I haven't seen whether or not you need the special glasses only if you are in totality or not. Some sources seem to imply that and others are vague. After all of the eclipses that have occurred this should be settled.
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If you are looking at the sun you absolutely need the glasses no matter what. In the case of totality it gets so dark that people think they don't need them, in the case of partial it's pretty obvious you need them. The reality is that if your are fully in the path of totality you can actually look safely at the sun during the approximate two minutes whilst the sun is completely covered by the moon. But it's extremely unwise because if you are still looking when the first bit of the sun reappears then you are in far more danger than in a similar partial eclipse as your pupils will be more dilated due to the very low light during totality.

Bottom line you need solar filters whenever you look at the sun; total eclipse, partial eclipse, no eclipse. The only reason an eclipse is more dangerous is that during the eclipse itself it's easy to be lulled into a false sense of security by the apparent low light levels.
 
I actually have very thick prescription glasses, mostly because, as a kid, no one told me that looking directly at the sun was a bad thing. I enjoyed seeing how long I could look directly at it.
 
Cathbad said:
I actually have very thick prescription glasses, mostly because, as a kid, no one told me that looking directly at the sun was a bad thing. I enjoyed seeing how long I could look directly at it.
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Ouch!!! And I thought you were just kidding about the glasses....
 
No where near (Belgium). But back in 1999 I took a short trip across to Reims and had clear skies and totality for over two minutes. An incredible experience. And I can vouch for Vertigo with the warning; it was pretty bright right up until almost full totality - the sun really does put out a lot of light. Without special filters (or light cloud) you won't see the "eclipse" if it partial (not even up at 80%) because the sun just shines too much.

If you can make the trip to get from a partial to a total eclipse it's worth it as it's a spectacular thing.
 
There was a partial eclipse once when I was climbing in the Himalayas and, unsurprisingly, I had no filters with me but I did have binoculars and no I didn't look at it directly through the binoculars :eek: but used them to 'project' the image onto the surface of a pale rock. Worked just fine :D
 
Extollager said:
One of my daughters will be under the shadow of totality, but I won't. I wondered if any Chrons people will be seeing the eclipse next week at least as a partial one. I'm looking forward to watching it with the solar filter on my telescope.
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NJ has 70%. My boss is driving to South Carolina to see 100%
 
I'm not sure of our percentage, but the picture I've seen of what we'll get looks to be 85-90% or so.

The school is giving out glasses to the kids and they'll all go outside to see it. Except the ones who aren't allowed to look at it due to being Native Americans of a flavor that believes you can't look at eclipses. Our neighbors, one of whom is my daughter's best friend, are some.

ETA: Thought I would add an interesting bit here from a semi-local news channel, with some explanation of the above. :)

Navajo beliefs surrounding the eclipse explained
 
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