Eclipse 2024

Charlie said:
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Look closely and you can see some sun spots. I posted two other pictures in a different thread before I saw this thread.
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In '78 ish I was in the 4th grade and living just outside of Lansing. There was a solar eclipse and I'd made a box with the same principal, but you put your head in the box for a better view in darkness. I took it to school so I could go outside and watch the eclipse. The teacher and principal thought I'd done a great job, deemed it safe, but wouldn't let me use it because I *might* look up at the sun.
 
Les White said:
In '78 ish I was in the 4th grade and living just outside of Lansing. There was a solar eclipse and I'd made a box with the same principal, but you put your head in the box for a better view in darkness. I took it to school so I could go outside and watch the eclipse. The teacher and principal thought I'd done a great job, deemed it safe, but wouldn't let me use it because I *might* look up at the sun.
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I remember that eclipse. We made viewer boxes. I don’t recall seeing a thing.
 
I remember one of these during my childhood and using a piece of paper with a hole in it to watch it happen in shadow because that's what the school system told us to do.

Then during the 2017 one, I got several pictures with an older digital camera. Will post if I can find.

Then today, I was at work. Got to take a few minutes to experience it, AND got a video of the owner/my boss (about to be 67) using a pair of the "eclipse" shades, over his normal shades to look through his iPhone with another pair of "eclipse" shades held over the camera to get a picture of the event🤔🤯

He couldn't figure out why he couldn't line it all up😁. I won't post the video obviously but his son (actual boss) got the video within a couple minutes😎🤣.

It is an event to be witnessed to be sure, but I personally don't understand the time, effort, energy and funds, folks put into being in the area to witness the "epicenter". I have to go to work...
 
We are here in Texas, about an hour from the boarder. Mostly cloudy but we got a few great peeks during totality. I filmed video of totality that I'm working on converting to a time lapse. Dad was able to get some good still shots...

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FourSpeed426 said:
We are here in Texas, about an hour from the boarder. Mostly cloudy but we got a few great peeks during totality. I filmed video of totality that I'm working on converting to a time lapse. Dad was able to get some good still shots...

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Nice images of the coronal mass ejections.
 
View from Paoli, IN:

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Little bit of traffic coming home. Similar to Christmas traffic on the interstate.

Side note: southern Indiana is a nice place. Once you cross the Ohio, it’s pretty rural.
 
TexasEskimo said:
We just viewed it with the cheap glasses. I kept saying there was a speck of light at the 5:30 position. Your pics confirmed it was a view of a coronal mass ejection. Thank you.
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There was another at 3-o’clock that I saw with my naked eye. Pics show it, too.

It was worth the trip to see. As with the 2017 eclipse, it’s an experience like no other.
 
TexasEskimo said:
We just viewed it with the cheap glasses. I kept saying there was a speck of light at the 5:30 position. Your pics confirmed it was a view of a coronal mass ejection. Thank you.
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Sure thing, my parents both saw those with the naked eye in real time during totality. My wife, kids and I were not able to see them in person until looking at the pictures
 
 
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