Will you get to see the the Total Eclipse on April 8?

Vicar: "I find our annual garden f`ete is scheduled for the same day as the Eclipse. I think I must get it put off."
Gardener: "You couldn't 'ardly do that, Sir - not a total eclipse you couldn't."
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Will emphasize what I briefly mentioned earlier. There is a VAST visual difference between a total solar eclipse and even the slightest amount of partial eclipse of even the tiniest amount of the Sun not occluded. Every eclipse there are many people unfamiliar of that reality that will drive off to such an eclipse and ignorantly conveniently for them stop somewhere outside totality thinking that is just a minor issue with the experience only slightly different. Very much WRONG!

I wish I could experience next Monday's eclipse but since Texas relatives passed away in recent years near the totality path, lost motivation to make the travel effort again. Experienced all the glory of the 2017 event under clear skies in Salem Oregon in a large celebrating city park crowd.
 
I'm right on the border according to the NASA map, but I don't think there'll be much to see (or not see) because the forecast is typical PA cloudiness :( I'll wait for the next one...haha :)
 
Iā€™m actually hoping itā€™s cloudy that day. Iā€™m very curious and would love to see it. We have the proper cardboard framed glasses made specifically for it but I donā€™t really trust them.
Years later Iā€™d hate for the professionals to be wrong and it be too late and end up with permanent vision problems.
 
I saw a total eclipse 56 years ago. It was cool. But if I spent a lot of money and time to get to see it, I'm not too sure I'd be happy. It's going to get dark like at dusk, and it's over in less than 5 minutes. And if there's any passing cloud, it's just going to look like 8 PM at night. The eclipse is a cool thing to see, and if it passes over you, it is worth seeing. But I doubt that it will live up to the hype touted by the commercial interests in the path of the eclipse.
 
We won't see it in France - I won't miss it.
Remember the solar eclipse on August 11th, 1999. Never felt so scared, a feeling of cold in the marrow of my bones, it looked as if the earth had died - and I understood how in older times, people could resent an eclipse as an omen of some dreadful event.
Nowadays, scientists give us very precise informations "where, what time, how long..." ... But I can't help wondering ...if ... if they were wrong, if something (or should I say "Someone") intervened and the light never came back ????
 
My DD had ordered and received a pack of viewing glasses through Amazon. They returned her money a couple of days ago and told her to get rid of them as they werenā€™t up to ISO standards. There will be lots of fakes around.
 
Ruthanne said:
I don't think so. I don't have those glasses that you wear. Maybe they will show it on TV.
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Although the news media makes a big deal about people wearing protective glasses for filtering direct viewing of the eclipse, what they fail to relate that reflects they and average persons dismal general mental thinking abilities, is that during a total solar eclipse, once the sun is fully occluded, no protective glasses at all are needed. Do you understand what I just wrote?

So why are news media person emphasizing that? Well because usually that is important for looking at far more common partial eclipses. I notice tv news reporters saying all manner of stupid things regarding science regularly. To be honest, looking at a partial eclipse through those glasses may have interest for a short time to those unfamiliar with any eclipses, but the experience will soon become rather boring watching the slowly reducing amount of sun.

That is why at Salem Oregon in 2017, in even the hour before, very few of the thousands of people at the city park I attended, paid much attention to the decreasing amount of sun beyond occasional glances noting how much more they had to wait and yet had to change. Well until maybe the last 15 minutes when people all got set up at their viewing locations with chairs, cameras, whatever as the remaining portion shrunk to nothing.
 
I remember back in the 60's my husband and I went up to Brunswick Heads in New South Wales for a week's holiday. He loved fishing so we took our gear to the nearest wharf about 8pm. Within about an hour we noticed it was getting very dark and the fish were not biting. Only then did we notice the beginning of the eclipse of the moon. What a wonderful sight and we sat in awe watching this spectacle. When it was over the fish never came back.

My father told us a story about his time in India in the 40's, there was a total eclipse of the sun. He said the chickens started to go into their pens thinking the sun was going down. At the total eclipse all the Indians were yelling and screaming saying it was the end of the world. When the sun eventually emerged, the chickens came out and the rooster started crowing thinking a new day had begun. The Indians were scratching their heads totally bewildered.
 
C50 said:
I know this one's a total eclipse but I've seen enough partials that I'm good. On the news there's talk of 200,000 people flooding into the area to observe it, which seems like a lot of hassle for a couple of minutes of viewing, but any excuse for a party.
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CallMeKate said:
Yep, true... or be forced to take off or arrange a sitter for little kids. I just saw that some Wegmans in PA and NY will be closing for half an hour on Monday... am I the only person on the planet who wonders what the big deal is?! It'll get dark like the last one and then it will get light again. Turn the lights on, or the headlights like at night. Not sure what I'm missing. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
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I don't get it either. Having seen plenty of partial eclipses, to me it's a big yawn. Beautiful sunsets over the ocean speak to my soul. The moon blocking out the sun for a few minutes doesn't.
 
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