OT: Total Eclipse April 8th

[Chin Diesel]

Your retinas are cooked buddy

Solar eclipse: What are the symptoms of eclipse blindness? What to watch for after its over

Did you look at the sun without protective glasses during the eclipse Monday? You may want to monitor your eyesight and watch for these symptoms.

www.pnj.com

 

[Jay-Bone]

93% totality here in MA with a nice bright sunny day. At peak, the ambient light was a bit darker, especially in my room with skylight windows. like twilight. But not dark. Neat enough using the glasses to see it mostly covered, but not exactly life changing.

Same in southern NH.

 

[MJKI]

The owls were crazy during the full eclipse up here in the north country. The @Chin Diesel article is good but please do your local eye doctor a favor and do NOT call tomorrow with an "emergency" from looking at the sun. The next few weeks are going to be hell for all local ECPs...

 

[Fishy]

Worse eclipse ever.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Why are people saying its over? I looked at it without glasses, and I'm still seeing it.

 

[Chin Diesel]

We had some clouds and fog which made seeing the eclipse a bit easier. Somewhere about 80% max on western Panhandle of Florida.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Home in Florida where we don't want to block the sun. Also my eyes are dilated from my ophthalmology appt

 

[husky429]

100% totality here in Buffalo. Nighttime arrived in 2 seconds. That was wild. But seeing the corona and the sun flares, red beads, was really much more than I was expecting.

We saw 4 minutes of totality in a pocket surrounded by clouds. 30 minutes north in Niagara people reported seeing only 10 seconds of total eclipse. Downtown Buffalo got ZERO view.

I live in North Central Buffalo and it was like the sky opened a pocket for us to see.

In the ADKs here. Perfect weather, no clouds around the sun at all. Much cooler than I expected in the totality. I doubt I'll ever have that experience again.

I can't get over how cold it got. Must've dropped 20 degrees.

 

[MexicoHusky]

My first total eclipse. It was very cool. I wish i had a better lens on my camera.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Why are people saying its over? I looked at it without glasses, and I'm still seeing it.

I think that's your retina detaching

 

[Chin Diesel]

In the ADKs here. Perfect weather, no clouds around the sun at all. Much cooler than I expected in the totality. I doubt I'll ever have that experience again.

Make one wrong comment about your SO's clothing choices in front of her friends. It'll make the eclipse feel like the cauldrons of hell.

 

[phillionaire]

A solar eclipse… the cosmic ballet goes on

 

[TXHuskyFan]

100% in Dallas area

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Glendale still gets around 65% of the eclipse. I’ll take 65% of an eclipse and watch the national championship in person vs 100% of the eclipse but not watch it in person any day…

Perfect example of a both/and. Enjoy your day!

I'm full happy having spent time in the path of totality, accessed pretty easily, and anticipating a leisurely drive 30 miles back to LouKY through the Indiana countryside on a lovely mid-70s day, with pretty shifting cloud cover.

Plus, I'm thankful for this opportunity to once again showcase my bad photography skills. Zoom in if you dare to bother, and see spot of the moon inside the center of sun up in the sky, and my favorite mother-daughter combo down at the bottom on the sloping, dandelion-covered ground at the Washington County Justice Center.

In person, it was exactly the quintessential thin, white ring surrounding the black circle that you see when you are looking at the work of someone with good equipment and knowledge of how to use it.

 

[upstater]

Friend took this one:

 

[HuskyHawk]

Pretty tame here in MA. Last time we had 100%. The NASA video of totality hitting in Cleveland was pretty cool.

 

[nomar]

Worse eclipse ever.

I texted my wife (who's out of town): "The eclipse was stupid." At least it was in NYC, where there was 90% coverage.

Just like you can't be a little bit pregnant--either you are or you aren't--either the sun was eclipsed or it wasn't. It wasn't.

 

[Mr. French]

 

[Martin]

Most of the sun was blocked but didn’t get very dark. It was still humbling making me feel like a speck of dust across the multi-verses.

 

[storrsroars]

Have to admit, this is one of the coolest (and now least useful) collectibles out there in the golf world:

 

[Conndog]

Most of the sun was blocked but didn’t get very dark. It was still humbling making me feel like a speck of dust across the multi-verses.

You really need all of it blocked- when it was happening, while there was still a bit of sun not blocked, it was light outside. Same thing when moon moved to unhide the sun, the smallest amount of sun reappearing caused the artificial night to end

 

[tykurez]

Mind blowing. I’ve witnessed partial eclipses before but the difference between 90% and 100% is the difference between jumping off the ground and flying to the moon. Incredibly breathtaking and really really hard to explain.

Now I’m back at base camp getting ready to puke watching our guys. Go Huskies.