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OT: Total Eclipse April 8th

That Guy said:
Am I the only one that didn't really notice a difference with the naked eye? I just went outside my office with some coworkers to check it out and we were supposed to be at 90% totality here in Connecticut, but the sun literally looked just as bright as it normally does to me lol.
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Your retinas are cooked buddy
 
That Guy said:
Am I the only one that didn't really notice a difference with the naked eye? I just went outside my office with some coworkers to check it out and we were supposed to be at 90% totality here in Connecticut, but the sun literally looked just as bright as it normally does to me lol.
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What state are you in? If it's CT you probably wouldn't notice any difference. I saw the sun disappear in Illinois.
 
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Still pretty amazing to see even if we didn’t get totality.
 
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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.
 
I didn’t think Phoenix would be effected but my neighbor lent me his glasses the sun was about 1/4 blocked . Even with that amount a person wouldn’t even notice any difference in daylight .
which is amazing .
 
upstater said:
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.
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I’m in north suburbs and we had tons of clouds but we got enough intermittent glimpses.

The darkness that took over and just sitting in day time was veeeerrrry eerie.
 
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SMH clouded over in Bristol just in time to ruin the show.
 
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.
 
auror said:
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.
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Same in southern NH.
 
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...
 
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We had some clouds and fog which made seeing the eclipse a bit easier. Somewhere about 80% max on western Panhandle of Florida.

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Home in Florida where we don't want to block the sun. Also my eyes are dilated from my ophthalmology appt
 
upstater said:
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.
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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.
 
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husky429 said:
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.
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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.
 
UConn Esq said:
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…
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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.
 

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