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Offline Prince Art

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2017, 09:43:17 AM »
Central FL here, 85% coverage. Took a few hours off to watch it with the fam. Looked oddly overcast, weather cooled off for a bit, mosquitoes started biting. Solar glasses were nowhere to be found for the week or two before, & the Harbor Freight welding mask didn't work for more than a couple seconds >:(, so we settled for indirect viewers. I still had the box my dip tank came in earlier this year, so I made a big one. It worked well to show the shadow of the moon moving across the sun. (Cool enough that I want to try to make a legit camera obscura sometime). All in all, an interesting thing to observe... but you guys who got totality had the real spectacle. Some of the videos I've seen are really cool!
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2017, 10:34:27 AM »
People in my area got disappointed, raining and very cloudy look just like any other storm cloudy day.
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Offline RICK STEFANICK

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2017, 10:42:51 AM »
It did cool off here about 20 degrees then got dark but seemed like it went straight into lighting back up. about 2 minutes total. pretty cool
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Offline Northland

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2017, 10:52:01 AM »
....was in St. Joe Missouri for the eclipse (pretty close to the path of totality). It was overcast and rained, but I did see the start and end of the occlusion.
It got eerily dark during totality and birds flew to roost in the trees. The trip home, on the I-35 was bad (450 mile jaunt).

Next chance... 2024. It will be prime viewing for Texas folks (Dallas & Austin).