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

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Psalm 19:1 tells me:
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork."
Every News person spoke repeatedly, of the work of "Mother Nature"! Would it kill them to utter the word "God"? It stuck out like a sore thumb, every time I heard it.:unsure:
 
I was skeptical of this Total Eclipse being as big a deal and some people said it would be but I must admit, it was a big deal to experience the total eclipse for just over 3 minutes in the middle of the afternoon.

What was so impressive to me was the speed at which it went from twilight to complete darkness, 3 minutes later, same thing in reverse dark to light in mere seconds. In the three minutes of darkness, street light came on and even my solar garden lights came on.

It's one of those things in life you can't possibly explain to someone. You simply have to experience it yourself to truly appreciate how special it is. I'm glad I was able to experience that. Truly a once in a lifetime experience!
 
We are in Dallas. This is the pic my hubby took from outside his place of business.

I saw the same thing from my gym when all the members and staff went outside at 1:40pm. I've always thought solar eclipses were "meh" so I've never seen one, but it was pretty cool. I still wouldn't spend what others have spent to travel from out of town for 4 minutes of amazement. Just glad I was in a place where we could see. And yes, with glasses on.

The most eerie part was that it went totally dark and I could see the lights of the gym on inside as if it were night.

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We had only the very top of the sun not blocked here. Very late just before dark light. The grass became cold on a day that
30 minutes before was near 80. Soon the grass had dew on it and the sun was just a tiny edge of Orange & it seemed the
Moon's gravity was pulling orange light onto its dark side. Very Cool. 3 time I have been in one. Unforgettable. Then I mowed the yard.
Snowball worked in her flower Garden. You see the Eclipse changes everything. (y)
 
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Some of the best eclipse news images here, including an awesome diamond ring:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/s...ictures-celestial-event-us/story?id=108887208

More fine images here including a higher magnification shot of prominances:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/total-solar-eclipse-photos-2024-rcna146832

For you that still don't understand why this rare event was so enjoyed and important to so many of we Earth monkeys that love experiencing moments of existence, the following video does more to provide why than any mere words.

Good video below on large downtown crowd in Dallas as totality reached them. That is like my experience at the downtown river park crowd in 2017 in Salem Oregon. Note how quickly light change during the final seconds. Unlike the slowly shrinking crescent, the landscape darkens in a dramatically short sequence and then coming out likewise is near normal light everywhere again in seconds. Feel the growing emotion in the crowd by vocals, yelling, and screams as light passes into totality over the last 20 seconds or so. There is no doubt from the crowd yells when the diamond ring shows during the last 3 seconds.


On some of the national network TV news coverage, reporters were unexpectedly suddenly choked up with uncontrollable tears, feeling and absorbing the moment deeply, realizing it was really happening, while totality occurred.
 
Being in Nevada we only had a partial eclipse but I went outside to enjoy it. The one we had last spring was better. Unfortunately, I have never seen a total eclipse. I did keep my glasses from last time.
 
CallMeKate said:
I haven't heard anyone mentioning power outages :rolleyes: but I guess there will be car accidents if drivers are either (1) wearing those eclipse glasses or (2) looking up instead of at the road. Gosh. I'll admit I did wonder how animals will act... but those like farm animals that do certain things at certain times of day. It would most likely confuse them, I'd think. Not sure about pets... but I'm thinking they'll adjust just fine. :giggle:
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In the end (as we all knew it would), the media hyperbole never came to be, no apocalypse, no power outages, no accidents, pets didn't go insane (although the dog I saw was a bit weirded out). I'm just puzzled why the media went to such great lengths to suggest that all society in the 115 mile track of the eclipse would perish. Just stupid. :D
 
300 Couples, allegedly, got married in Arkansas during
the Eclipse, they must have had a pastor/priest for each
pair, that wouldn't leave much room for others, I fear.

Mike.
Will they keep track of these people to see if they last?
 
NewlySenior said:
pets didn't go insane (although the dog I saw was a bit weirded out).
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We had an eclipse back in the '70s
We were living in the mountains at the time
Seems it was around noon
Everything went quiet
and dark
and the wind went still
The dogs did get a bit weirded out
The birds went silent
and the chickens roosted

We got weirded out too
because we didn't know anything about the coming eclipse
 
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David777 said:
Some of the best eclipse news images here, including an awesome diamond ring:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/s...ictures-celestial-event-us/story?id=108887208

More fine images here including a higher magnification shot of prominances:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/total-solar-eclipse-photos-2024-rcna146832

For you that still don't understand why this rare event was so enjoyed and important to so many of we Earth monkeys that love experiencing moments of existence, the following video does more to provide why than any mere words.

Good video below on large downtown crowd in Dallas as totality reached them. That is like my experience at the downtown river park crowd in 2017 in Salem Oregon. Note how quickly light change during the final seconds. Unlike the slowly shrinking crescent, the landscape darkens in a dramatically short sequence and then coming out likewise is near normal light everywhere again in seconds. Feel the growing emotion in the crowd by vocals, yelling, and screams as light passes into totality over the last 20 seconds or so. There is no doubt from the crowd yells when the diamond ring shows during the last 3 seconds.


On some of the national network TV news coverage, reporters were unexpectedly suddenly choked up with uncontrollable tears, feeling and absorbing the moment deeply, realizing it was really happening, while totality occurred.
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David, thanks for posting that! Was watching the guy standing and his reactions and listening to the crowd as it progressed - cue goosebumps and even tears pricked my eyes listening. So eerie and amazing.

Got me thinking afterwards about ancient times and how they viewed these phenomenons with terror thinking their Gods were angry with them.

We know now our eyes can be damaged by looking directly at these phenomenons, which set me off thinking how many suffered eye-wise in those ancient times who perhaps ended up blind - confirming in their minds Gods were punishing them.
 
David777 said:
What I wrote:
"I'm not surprised so many adults, especially urban people that rarely venture beyond that people world, not only on this board but generally elsewhere, sadly, hardly understand why so many others are so interested in this exceptional rare event in anyone's lifetime...."

Understand how you thought what I wrote meant that could be interpreted so but that was not my intent. As highlighted, that narrowly was meant to address the significant numbers of urban people, a minority, that hardly ever to never leave their urban world and not a statement meant to state ALL or even MOST urban people that would be nonsense. Is why I stated so with a relative limitation. Since they rarely to never visit rural and natural areas, they are less likely to develop significant positive interests or better understandings for such places, including the night Universe and daily solar cycle. 🙂
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Thank you for the clarification. (y)
 
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