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Monday, August 21st between noonish and 3pm ish North America will experience an eclipse, with he path of totality crossing from one corner of the US to another.

Resources:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/3d-stl-files - 3d printable pinhole projectors

https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/eclipse.html



We are traveling south to Georgia to be within the path of totality, but even 600 miles north in Michigan the moon will cover 80% of the sun so the eclipse will still be fascinating everywhere.

Anyone else traveling or does big something special for the eclipse?

Also, if anyone wants to join us in northern Georgia (Lavonia) we are renting a house, come up and be inundaunted with children! We will be visiting family so I don't think we will have time to travel to visit @Denbrought @Officer_Charon and other Georgia dwellers, but if anyone is willing to meet halfway let me know and we will see what we can work out.

We're close enough to the 100% mark in NC that we won't be going anywhere. I hope the weather is clear. It has been rainy and cloudy lately.

What gear are you using? Glasses, etc.

stienman said:

Monday, August 21st between noonish and 3pm ish North America will experience an eclipse, with he path of totality crossing from one corner of the US to another.

Resources:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/3d-stl-files - 3d printable pinhole projectors

https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/eclipse.html



We are traveling south to Georgia to be within the path of totality, but even 600 miles north in Michigan the moon will cover 80% of the sun so the eclipse will still be fascinating everywhere.

Anyone else traveling or does big something special for the eclipse?

Also, if anyone wants to join us in northern Georgia (Lavonia) we are renting a house, come up and be inundaunted with children! We will be visiting family so I don't think we will have time to travel to visit @Denbrought @Officer_Charon and other Georgia dwellers, but if anyone is willing to meet halfway let me know and we will see what we can work out.

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I'll ask @CynicalKat, as that's only 2 hours from us. Are you doing a 3-day weekend there, or just the eclipse day?

I am a bit jealous that my brother will travel to Tennessee to see the totality.

I just bought some welding goggles off of Amazon, and will walk outside for the 75% blockage here.

I'm going to bumfuck, NC to see it. The forecast is cloudy. I'm disappointed but it should still be a nice weekend trip.

Also, if you bought glasses on Amazon, check their site. They just recalled a bunch for being fake. Don't want to go blind.

We were really hoping to be living in Oregon by the time the eclipse hit, but since the first house deal fell through, there was no way we were going to get the second one done in time. Still, Frederickson should see ~90% coverage.

blotsfan said:

I'm going to bumfuck, NC to see it. The forecast is cloudy. I'm disappointed but it should still be a nice weekend trip.

Also, if you bought glasses on Amazon, check their site. They just recalled a bunch for being fake. Don't want to go blind.

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Asheville isn't bumfuck.

Huh, according to the map I checked there'll be 96% coverage here. I guess we should try to get glasses after all... Oops.

Any recommendations on affordable certified protection? Amazon sounds unsafe due to counterfeiters.

drawn_inward said:

What gear are you using? Glasses, etc.

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We got the amazon glasses that amazon essentially recalled. We have another friend bringing some good ones when they meet us Monday. I've got some filter film for my cameras and will consider projecting it if something falls through, and a final backup is shade 13 welding goggles.

blotsfan said:

Also, if you bought glasses on Amazon, check their site. They just recalled a bunch for being fake. Don't want to go blind.

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We fall in that category. I left one with a friend who has access to a spectrophotometer, and two pairs of known good glasses. So we will find out if these ones are comparable. We have the requirements of the standard, so it will be an interesting comparison, but unless the results are very clear we probably still won't use them, UV and IR damage is invisible and will just as surely cause blindness as visible light.

Denbrought said:

I'll ask @CynicalKat, as that's only 2 hours from us. Are you doing a 3-day weekend there, or just the eclipse day?

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Denbrought said:

Huh, according to the map I checked there'll be 96% coverage here. I guess we should try to get glasses after all... Oops.

Any recommendations on affordable certified protection? Amazon sounds unsafe due to counterfeiters.

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Amazon has pulled most of the listing that aren't certified, that said, call your local planetarium, museum, science center, etc and see if they have some you can buy.

I think I'll be OK, I put the goggles on in a darkened room and I could not find the open window at noon.

drawn_inward said:

Asheville isn't bumfuck.

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I'm not even gonna be in Asheville. I'll be in Cherokee, population 2k.

sixpackshaker said:

I think I'll be OK, I put the goggles on in a darkened room and I could not find the open window at noon.

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As long as they are shade 12 or higher then they are suitable. Some add a green tint, but otherwise lots of people will be using welding goggles.

We will also do a pinhole just so the kids can learn several ways to view the sun.

stienman said:

As long as they are shade 12 or higher then they are suitable. Some add a green tint, but otherwise lots of people will be using welding goggles.

We will also do a pinhole just so the kids can learn several ways to view the sun.

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They are 14 goggles. But it looks like the item was pulled off Amazon. I don't know if it sold out or were sell outs. I shot an email off to Amazon, hopefully they will respond.

Harbor freight has cheap adequate welding goggles. We are using the $40 electronic ones though, since I prefer them for welding.

Even the knock offs at least cover the whole spectrum.

Since I missed out on getting ISO-certified filters for my binoculars, I am DIYing an indirect viewer with a monocular I own and a sufficiently large amazon box.

I'm heading up to Albany, Oregon, with a pack of glasses bought back in February after heavy research. Will try to scalp some of them, cut one up for a cameraphone & GoPro filter, and have a sheet from a previous event to try to make a filter for the DSLR.

Since this is the eclipse thread...



--Patrick

I'll be in Albuquerque that day, so I'll only catch a partial.

GasBandit said:

I'll be in Albuquerque that day, so I'll only catch a partial.

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If you take a wrong turn you may end up in totality.

I've got a 4-pack of Celestron glasses to use, as well as a solar filter for the end of my telescope. Only 55% up here, but still better than no event at all!

Hint: don't EVER use an eyepiece filter for a telescope. Filter the end of the tube, not the post-concentrated part. You can really fuck up your telescope and/or eyes the other way. Ya it's cheaper, but it's your eyes. Don't screw around!

Better to modify the input than the output, when possible.
I believe this to be true for all photography.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

Better to modify the input than the output, when possible.
I believe this to be true for all photography.

--Patrick

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Programming, electronic signals, telling people stuff, etc. the earlier in the process you can modify the data stream, the better - generally speaking, anyway.

I already am in Hopkinsville, KY, which is on the path of totality - just a bit off from dead center and is going to be some of the longest points, so I'm excited. We already have our glasses and I'm taking a late lunch that day (I work from home so that makes it pretty easy). They're calling for over 200k people to come here this weekend (town's population is about 30k) - my son's school is closed on Monday and everything.

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We interrupt this thread to state the following (mostly for @Dei):
I have actually seen Major League. It was the in-flight movie on a plane/train/bus/I-don't-remember-what-mode-it-was trip I took.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

--Patrick

School already started here, so my kids are going to go outside to see it during the school day and get free glasses from the school district. My husband's job is also giving everyone glasses and a set time to go see it. I have no glasses, though I might be able to find some in the house that I got from the planetarium for the last eclipre/Venus transit a few years ago. Too bad I never keep track of this stuff.

We have totality just south of us and scouted out viewing locations last weekend.

We have glasses and a telescope with a solar viewing/photography setup, but I also want to see some of the other eclipse things, like shadow snakes!

Smarter Every Day has a video on the cool things to look for during an eclipse.

blotsfan said:

I'm not even gonna be in Asheville. I'll be in Cherokee, population 2k.

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I figured you weren't talking about Asheville - I just don't know any other towns in western NC. I'm sure it's beautiful there though. Eastern TN/western NC is nice, scenery.

If you are a film buff there is a spot near there that may be of interest:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-fugitive-train-wreck

Here's an interactive map with timings:

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html

I am in SC and directly in the path of totality. My Aunt & Uncle are coming over from Augusta.

The Columbia, SC area is expected to get somewhere in the vicinity of 1 million visitors due to the I-20 and I-95 corridors. For reference, we only have about 200,000 residents here. I don't think there is a single hotel room available right now.

I'm going to be sleeping off nightshift. If I see any of it, I'll be amazed.

Gonna have one in 2024 going over Montreal, gonna be prepared

Jay said:

Gonna have one in 2024 going over Montreal, gonna be prepared

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More info please. If it goes over Montreal, it'll go over Halifax.

Eriol said:

More info please. If it goes over Montreal, it'll go over Halifax.

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(Wikipedia)

Oh shit, that'll go over central Texas as well.

~92% totality for me. I'm going to build myself a pinhole box.

With blackjack. And hookers.

Found a company streaming from on top of a grain elevator here in town in case people would want to watch.. (Not affiliated with them, just live in the town)

For the other Haligonians out there, I'm going to be setting up this afternoon at Trinity United Church (Maps link to navigate by) in Timberlea (just off of highway 103) with some sun shades (Celestron brand, so won't blind you!) and my telescope with a sun filter on the end of that too. I'll have a few lawn chairs, and will be chilling out for the duration of the partial eclipse. For us it starts at (approx) 2:30pm, so if anybody in the area can come out, I'll attempt to entertain you!

And at worst, the Church has a Pokestop, so you can do that if you want, and there's a Tim's within walking distance too.

I'm at an Indian casino. I will probably gamble and then go outside when it's eclipse time. This somehow feels both incredibly trashy and yet also perfect.

blotsfan said:

I'm at an Indian casino. I will probably gamble and then go outside when it's eclipse time. This somehow feels both incredibly trashy and yet also perfect.

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At least Harrahs has cards now. It used to be all digital.

Update: They don't have my game at this one so I shan't be playing.

blotsfan said:

Update: They don't have my game at this one so I shan't be playing.

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Sorry?

Overcast in Albuquerque. Of course.

drawn_inward said:

Sorry?

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Pai Gow. The other casino here had it but this doesn't. Probably for the best.

I've got my glasses from B&H Photo. Weather calls for Isolated/Scattered storms in the afternoon, but in Florida that can mean anything. Jun's at work, but I'm going to head over there at 2:30 so I can make sure she can at least see the eclipse at its peak.

Under four hours to go, and we've currently got clear skies, with a forecast of 27% cloud cover at totality.

So we are staying put, which is great for many, many reasons. We took a big risk with this area which historically has lot at of overcast days this time of year, but it was near family and so we ran with it. Hopefully it'll pay off, but the major decision - whether to chase better weather or not - has been made regardless of outcome.

The spectroscopist used his equipment at work and tested the glasses amazon disowned. His equipment isn't designed exactly for this test but it goes past the limit for the test, and he compared it to known good eclipse glasses. Turns out these ones are better than the known good glasses.

Single data point, not the official test, my glassesprobably aren't the same as yours if you boughtones amazon disowned, I disclaim any liability for your use of his information, yadda yadda yadda, but I thought a few here would at least be interested in that data point.

Eriol said:

For the other Haligonians out there, I'm going to be setting up this afternoon at Trinity United Church (Maps link to navigate by) in Timberlea (just off of highway 103) with some sun shades (Celestron brand, so won't blind you!) and my telescope with a sun filter on the end of that too. I'll have a few lawn chairs, and will be chilling out for the duration of the partial eclipse. For us it starts at (approx) 2:30pm, so if anybody in the area can come out, I'll attempt to entertain you!

And at worst, the Church has a Pokestop, so you can do that if you want, and there's a Tim's within walking distance too.

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I wish that I were feeling well enough to join you! It would be really cool to see. I have to get my act together health wise for the next one...we're right in the path of it!

PS - I love that you mentioned the Poke Stop

Oh come on! There has not been a cloud in the sky for the last 2.5 weeks! Today? Cloudy.

Another thing to my list. This one probable will stay there forever.

My view of the sun is blocked to the east. The eclipse is only partial here and over by 7:30am anyway. :/

Cog said:

Another thing to my list. This one probable will stay there forever.

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Might be worth checking this list to make sure.

I made a pin hole projector. So my coworkers can watch too. But it has been too cloudy to test so far.

eclipse has started here. I have Celestron glasses and handheld filters, so my wife's already snapped a pic of the first sliver of the moon across the sun.

We have a few wispy clouds, but nothing substantial enough to block out the sun.

The clouds broke up here in ABQ just in time to see our 73% maximum coverage. Groovy.

Just started here in SC, a little under an hour until totality

My pinhole projector looks nothing like what it actually looks like in Denver right now. Clearly I messed up the pinhole or something because I only see half an eclipse and we're at peak.

Though honestly I didn't watch the whole time, so it could just be the little half moon I see is just the tippy top of the sun.

Totality should be 2:22 here.
My lunch (when I can go out and look) will probably start about 2:40

--Patrick

The sun currently looks like Pac-man

Pics! Severe amateur hour from smartphone:


And through the lens of telescope via smartphone


Still have most of an hour until maximum here.

Thats the best I could do with a smart phone through those glasses

Eriol said:

Pics! Severe amateur hour from smartphone:
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And through the lens of telescope via smartphone
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Still have most of an hour until maximum here.

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That's awesome!!

Be sure to look down at the shadow of the trees. Dozens of pin hole projectors per tree. [DOUBLEPOST=1503340408,1503340249][/DOUBLEPOST]

That was the most freaking awesome thing I've seen in a long time. Couldn't get a good photo because the sensor on my phone was overwhelmed, but I did get the tree shadows.

Not a professional and with smartphone during totality...

Found out that my phone's camera is not very good. Did not get a very good view of the sun. I went live on facebook, trying to capture the feel of the event, but it didn't really do it justice.

Eh, no aliens, super powers, or apocalypse.

2/10, would not eclipse again.

Remember, don't do this

This is what I got and posted to my store's social media:

Covar said:

This is what I got and posted to my store's social media:

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"Na na na na na na-Batclipse!"

Celt Z said:

Eh, no aliens, super powers, or apocalypse.

2/10, would not eclipse again.

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Did you try turning around?

pics we got. Spoilered for size

Celt Z said:

Eh, no aliens, super powers, or apocalypse.

2/10, would not eclipse again.

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I got superpowers, but they mostly occur offscreen due to the writer's strike.[DOUBLEPOST=1503346248,1503346034][/DOUBLEPOST]Wait---sorry---I mean "abilities".

I screamed at the TV this weekend. The host said that you don't feel the sun damaging your eyes because you have no nerve endings in you eyes.


WHAT!!!!!

No pain receptors sure, but no nerves?

My uncle got some really good pictures. Chief among them, this shot:



He has given me permission to repost as long as credit is given. So, picture by Dr. John W. Brice, MD, Esq., and all around great guy.

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That's no moon.

Fun Size said:

Did you try turning around?

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Every now and then.

General Specific said:

My uncle got some really good pictures. Chief among them, this shot:

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He has given me permission to repost as long as credit is given. So, picture by Dr. John W. Brice, MD, Esq., and all around great guy.

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That's phenomenal! He did an amazing job. I'm now totally embarrassed to post mine lol.[DOUBLEPOST=1503352357,1503352169][/DOUBLEPOST]I didn't think that I was going to get a chance to get any pictures, but a friend of ours was here today with a viewing shade thingy and let me borrow it to try and get a picture. I took this with my infrared camera through a welding mask-type thingy. Super amateur for sure, but I tried. I had a super hard time focusing.

Yeah, none of my pictures came out at all. My uncle is a photography buff and so has a lot of high-end camera equipment.

My dad made blockers for the event, it was awesome!

The totality was pretty amazing and I'm glad it's something I got to see in my life. 2024 goes through buffalo but who knows if the weather will be ok/if humanity will still exist by then.

In 2024, I had better be healthy because we will be in the path of that bad boy.

I don't understand all of the excitement, I mean the 2017 Eclipse has been out for quite a while!

Back in the thread. Great photos btw.

Here's my last one, of the maximum we had here (55%-ish)


Again, smartphone looking through telescope eyepiece. But you get the idea. It's funny seeing some of the stuff behind me in the reflections from the eyepiece as well!

Great pictures everyone!
NASA's shot of the ISS silhouette during the eclipse is pretty cool, too.

Nice photo bomb NASA.[DOUBLEPOST=1503374339,1503374121][/DOUBLEPOST]Next time I'm taking a colander to the eclipse instead of making a pin hole viewer.

Made the 4 hour drive down to Cookeville, TN to be in totality. I have been eyeing this day for 15 years, but only realized about 6 months ago that the family farm where I spent many summers & holidays in my teen & college years was within the path of totality (Smithville). Unfortunately the family sold the farm a few years ago, but we still had somewhat of a family reunion gathering in Cookeville with family coming in from Seattle, Iowa, Central Illinois & us coming down from Lexington.

I am so glad I did. There is a HUGE difference between a partial eclipse & totality. I can also see why everybody was stressing so much the need for glasses until totality. The diamond ring effect was absolutely piercingly bright. Being my first eclipse of any kind, I found it interesting what you could actually see with the glasses on... the sun & nothing else. So much so that when totality first occurred, it took me 5 seconds or so to realize I needed to take the glasses off.

Anyways - the video here is from the park where I was & isn't mine. It's exactly the reason I didn't take many pictures or videos. I'd rather just experience the moment & I knew someone else out there would do the heavy lifting

Cloudy. My Sun looked like @HCGLNS'.

--Patrick

WasabiPoptart said:

Great pictures everyone!
NASA's shot of the ISS silhouette during the eclipse is pretty cool, too.

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I thought the 2nd image there, of the EARTH during the eclipse was pretty damned weird. Neat and incredible, but weird and even a bit scary. A big dark patch on the Earth.

We had to change our planned location due to rain. It was still cloudy, but we could see the eclipse through the cloud cover. That actually turned out for the better, because we weren't standing under full sun and getting roasted.

Due to having to drive an extra 40 miles, we had to hurry with the setup and forgot to clean the lenses on the telescope, so the photographs all have particles on them (we'll just call those "sunspots" ). And we didn't have time to set up the camera properly, so also kinda blurry. But that's okay. Experiencing totality was amazing.

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I thought the 2nd image there, of the EARTH during the eclipse was pretty damned weird. Neat and incredible, but weird and even a bit scary. A big dark patch on the Earth.

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From NASA

Celt Z said:

Eh, no aliens, super powers, or apocalypse.

2/10, would not eclipse again.

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Have you tried going swimming near where the US Navy machine-gunned those barrels of toxic waste off the coast of New Jersey? (Also if you go supervillain please tell me your disposable henchman uniforms are less skimpy than @Emrys's. I feel so exposed.)

Attempted to sleep through it. My wife was watching a friend's 2 girls. Oldest is, like mine, ADHD. Neither were medicated.

Also, Savannah was overcast and rainy, so the point was moot.

Maybe I'll visit Texas for that one.

Didn't get pictures, but Morgantown looked like it typically does when a storm is about to roll in.

mikerc said:

Have you tried going swimming near where the US Navy machine-gunned those barrels of toxic waste off the coast of New Jersey? (Also if you go supervillain please tell me your disposable henchman uniforms are less skimpy than @Emrys's. I feel so exposed.)

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Maaaaaaaaybe...

Rare footage of Jeff Bridges after looking up without eclipse glasses:

I hope everyone heeded the other warning about the eclipse:

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Looks like LISP has had a leak.

--Patrick

Here is my video, I got some good photos, but no computer for camera transfer while on holiday. I'll try some wireless shenanigans, but everyone might have to wait until I get home next week.

This is somewhat-kinda-not-quite eclipse related: Escape of farmed Atlantic salmon into Pacific blamed on solar eclipse

"Exceptionally high tides" Ya, whatever. Negligence more likely, though given the place has operated for 30 years, maybe not. I dunno.

On the good news front, apparently Atlantic Salmon have never been detected successfully spawning in the Pacific, so it's a short-term problem.

This is VERY eclipse-related: Rapper defiantly stares at eclipse, cancels Toronto show

For a rapper whose debut single was called "Unorthodox," Joey Bada$$ isn't one to accept conventional wisdom. Defying widespread warnings, he proudly stared at the solar eclipse without protection.

It didn't turn out to be a great idea. The rapper cancelled three shows starting Wednesday as he complained about his vision.

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"didn't turn out to be a great idea" No, really?

Way to stick it to the man!

Yes. The man in the moon.

My brother finally posted his eclipse pictures.

Eriol said:

This is VERY eclipse-related: Rapper defiantly stares at eclipse, cancels Toronto show

"didn't turn out to be a great idea" No, really?

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Maybe - now hold on a second, I know this may seem crazy - but maybe, what he needed to do, was learn the difference between "conventional wisdom" and scientifically proven fact dispensed by - and on behalf of - certified medical professionals.

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Maybe - now hold on a second, I know this may seem crazy - but maybe, what he needed to do, was learn the difference between "conventional wisdom" and scientifically proven fact dispensed by - and on behalf of - certified medical professionals.

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See the thing is that BOTH "conventional wisdom" and "scientifically proven" were the same here.

Well now it's anecdotally proven, too. That's the kind of evidence that people believe.

--Patrick

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Well now it's anecdotally proven, too. That's the kind of evidence that people believe.

--Patrick

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I only believe anecdotal evidence that is 100% organic and origin-certified to my monkeysphere, thank you very much.

Hahahahahahahaha

Patients treated after putting sunscreen on eyes during solar eclipse

Got back from Tennessee last night, I didn't go blind. We watched the eclipse from the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, great atmosphere, gave out free glasses to everyone coming in. I'll get some pictures and the video that my wife made posted soon.

This is the video that my wife took. She's a sound person, not a camera person.


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Dei said:

Hahahahahahahaha
Patients treated after putting sunscreen on eyes during solar eclipse

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This was the best improvised solution that I saw:


--Patrick

Sparhawk said:

This is the video that my wife took. She's a sound person, not a camera person.

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@PatrThom Just click on view on facebook?

Sparhawk said:

@PatrThom Just click on view on facebook?

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Sparhawk said:

@PatrThom Just click on view on facebook?

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Click where, exactly?

--Patrick

Original post edited, even though my wife's post was public.

Dei said:

Hahahahahahahaha

Patients treated after putting sunscreen on eyes during solar eclipse

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Why are people so fucking stupid?

WasabiPoptart said:

Great pictures everyone!
NASA's shot of the ISS silhouette during the eclipse is pretty cool, too.

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The Smarter Every Day Youtube channel got video of the International Space Station transiting the sun during the eclipse, as well:

Photos of rental cameras damaged by the eclipse.

This is why you don't look at the sun:

figmentPez said:

Photos of rental cameras damaged by the eclipse.

This is why you don't look at the sun:

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Wow, that's some impressive damage. I took precaution with my solar filters.