Solar Eclipse 2024

[GeoffW]

For those who missed it:


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I can't see a picture.

Is that because I've specifies No Cookies in the Lounge?

[HansV]

[PJ_in_FL]

From Sulphur Springs, TX, clouds covered entire sun just minutes before totality, then the clouds moved out, leaving a high, thin layer of clouds.

And this is one of the photos I was able to take then:

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[HansV]

Thanks, PJ_in_TX!

[ChrisGreaves]

Is that because I've specifies No Cookies in the Lounge?

Hans, I'll see your and raise you one

[ChrisGreaves]

From Sulphur Springs, TX, clouds covered entire sun just minutes before totality, then the clouds moved out, leaving a high, thin layer of clouds. And this is one of the photos I was able to take then:

You lucky dog, you!
I am jealous.
Great photo. I wish y'all a safe drive home.
Cheers, Chris

[PJ_in_FL]

From Sulphur Springs, TX, clouds covered entire sun just minutes before totality, then the clouds moved out, leaving a high, thin layer of clouds. And this is one of the photos I was able to take then:

You lucky dog, you!
I am jealous.
Great photo. I wish y'all a safe drive home.
Cheers, Chris

Did you make it to the lighthouse? Anxious to see what the eclipse looked like from Bonavista and the last person in North America to see the eclipse!

[BobH]

Well done, Hans!

[ChrisGreaves]

Did you make it to the lighthouse? Anxious to see what the eclipse looked like from Bonavista and the last person in North America to see the eclipse!

No need to be anxious
Gord and I shivered in the Lee of the lighthouse, away from the brutish winds, until the cabin light came on (electronic eye say "night time!") and then leaned against the wind, me to struggle along a goat-path in the dusk to stand atop the smashing waves.
Like an idiot.
It was not black-as-night, I suspect because some light diffused through the cloud layer, but ...

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Full story here.
... and it was dead-easy to be the last person in North America to see the eclipse, because all the really smart ones were a hundred yards to the west watching the shadow skim across the foaming waves.(We could see waves breaking on Spillar's Cove several miles away).

I handed out my home-made ginger cookies to any visitors I came across; the town of Bonavista did what we in the trade call "dick-all"; Gander put on a three-day fair and show. .

As usual the best parts, for me, were not the black-disk-over-the-sun (I'm still jealous of your photo and will likely remain so), but the impact on people, and on myself, but not on the Town Council of Bonavista.

P.S. I was excited, and forgot to check the colours Red, Blue, and Green as the shadow came over us.

Cheers, Chris

[Graeme]

For those who missed it:

Or:

https://theskysearchers.com/viewtopic.php?t=34112

[ChrisGreaves]

For those who missed it:

Please see also NTV News at the 4m30s mark.
Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

Did you make it to the lighthouse? Anxious to see what the eclipse looked like from Bonavista and the last person in North America to see the eclipse!

PJ, here's a little Travel-Planner for you.
Cheers, Chris