04-07-2024, 06:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2024, 06:01 PM by ShadowsDad.
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It's eclipse day! I was going to drive the 40ish miles to the center of the path of totality, but rethought that idea. Too many people will be there and I really dislike crowds. I saw a total eclipse as a child and I'd like to see another without spending gobs of $ chasing one down. But totality is not going to happen for me. I had out of the way spots all figured out (farrrrr out of the way in the wiliwacks!) , but the spring snow storms that we had, ruined those unplowed sites in the way back of beyond that few know about.
Where I am will lack totality, we'll be at maybe 95%+ covered so I won't get to see the magic of the corona, but could get the diamond ring effect. So due to my dislike of crowds and just the logistics of getting to totality (there's more involved that I'm not mentioning), I'll see it from home.
I'm an amateur astronomer so I'll see it through my filtered wide field 'scope and it'll still be enjoyable to see the hunk of rock we call the moon moving in it's orbit*. I was thinking that maybe we'd be clouded out, as usual, but no. The rest of the US will be mostly clouded out but we're expected to be clear (Maine). The best states are expected to be Maine, VT, and NH.
*The last eclipse I saw I had random nightmares years afterward of immense "rocks" rolling on me and crushing me. I was a child, that's my excuse.
Where I am will lack totality, we'll be at maybe 95%+ covered so I won't get to see the magic of the corona, but could get the diamond ring effect. So due to my dislike of crowds and just the logistics of getting to totality (there's more involved that I'm not mentioning), I'll see it from home.
I'm an amateur astronomer so I'll see it through my filtered wide field 'scope and it'll still be enjoyable to see the hunk of rock we call the moon moving in it's orbit*. I was thinking that maybe we'd be clouded out, as usual, but no. The rest of the US will be mostly clouded out but we're expected to be clear (Maine). The best states are expected to be Maine, VT, and NH.
*The last eclipse I saw I had random nightmares years afterward of immense "rocks" rolling on me and crushing me. I was a child, that's my excuse.