US Solar Eclipse - August 21, 2017

[+ azdr0710]

didn't want to steal the thunder from the lunar eclipse thread for tonight (Sept 27, 2015), so starting a new thread that, I hope , will live on for the next 23 months!

 

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

 

this will be big, folks!!.....google around for other websites, too....

[gallahadesquire]

Thanks, Azdr! Looks like I'll visit Charleston or Nashville.

[+ azdr0710]

and this seems to be a decent website for it......

 

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm

 

along the path of totality, Ontario, OR, appears to have the best chance for clear skies

[TruthBTold]

My ass ain't going past the Mason-Dixon line for nothing.

[AdamSmith]

the Mason-Dixon line

 

Robin Williams once called it the Manson-Nixon line.

[mike carey]

My ass ain't going past the Mason-Dixon line for nothing.

Witnessing a total solar eclipse is totally worth the effort. The birds do stop singing and watching the darkness move across the landscape is eery. I have seen one and the effects were clear even though it was lightly overcast. I want to see one under a clear sky!

[+ azdr0710]

bumping this back up!.....538 days to go.....first full solar eclipse in the US since 1979 (and that one was mostly a bust).....but there will be another in 2024.....

[bigvalboy]

Thanks azdr, but you'll need to remind me a few more times in the next 538 days. At my age, I can't much remember what I need to do by the time the afternoon rolls around, but still looking forward to it, and Charleston is an absolutely delightful southern refuge in which to spend a few days while the eclipse passes through. Road trip!