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SpaceNut

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Total Solar Eclipse

From a long time member of NewMars Palomar aka elsewhere

Sun will be a crescent over my area (4th Sun/Moon up from lower left):

And roughly 15 minutes prior to Noon. I'll definitely step out to see it! Safely, of course.

The chance to view will be just the once on earth but on the Space station crew to get three shots at solar eclipse

For the station crew, the first partial eclipse opportunity will begin at 12:33 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) and end 13 minutes later.

The International Space Station's crew will enjoy views of the Aug. 21 solar eclipse during three successive orbits, giving the astronauts a unique opportunity to take in the celestial show from 250 miles up as the moon's shadow races across from the Pacific Ocean and the continental United States before moving out over the Atlantic.

"Because we're going around the Earth every 90 minutes, about the time it takes the sun to cross the U.S., we'll get to see it three times,"

SpaceNut

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NASA jets will chase solar eclipse at 50,000 feet

On Monday, a total solar eclipse will travel coast-to-coast in the U.S. for the first time in 99 years. Four NASA flight crew members who will be chasing the eclipse over Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky at 460 mph.

"These planes will be outfitted with special cameras in their nose cones," Caspi said. "So the planes … will be looking at the solar corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun." "Our results will lead to a better understanding of the corona, which will eventually lead to a better understanding of ...flares and coronal mass ejections," Caspi said.

"They can cause blackouts of radio frequency communications. Cell phones can have trouble working," Caspi explained. "It can cause power outages by knocking out power grids."

The best way to understand what erupts off the sun's corona is to photograph it over long periods of time. But ground-based cameras will only have about two minutes of total eclipse time.

Because two of the planes will be flying tandem along the eclipse path, it will give scientists an unprecedented look at the sun.

"Each plane will be able to observe totality for about four minutes. And when we stitch together the observations from both of the airplanes, we be getting  about seven- to seven-and-a-half minutes of total solar eclipse," Caspi said. "We'll be getting 30 photographs a second for seven-and-a-half minutes of totality. … That's about 29,000 photographs between the two airplanes."

SpaceNut

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Solar eclipse could cost employers big in lost productivity

Tell them to punch out or to use vacation time to cover there non work time not sick.

The first solar eclipse visible in the U.S. since 1979 will take place in the middle of the workday, which may cost employers as much as $694 million in lost productivity, according to global outplacement and coaching firm Challenger, Grey & Christmas, which analyzed wage and employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

States and cities in the path of the eclipse, which stretches from Oregon to South Carolina, could suffer productivity losses of almost $200 million.

SpaceNut

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Now here a way to profit from the solar show....
11 eclipse-themed recipes that are literally out of this world

yum, yum....

1. Black and White Cookies
New Yorkers, rejoice! Your favorite cookie just got a lot more festive, if only for a day.

2. Classic Kahlua Cocktail
Like coffee, just a lot more fun. Just keep yourself from getting totally eclipsed, you know?

3. Moon Cookies
Somehow, these aren't made of cheese.

4. Galaxy Cupcakes
Galaxy food, you are needed now more than ever. Also this frosting might turn your teeth blue, but it's for ~science~.

5. Black Magic Cocktail
Please don't get "all-black cocktail" and "blackout cocktail" confused.

6. Chocolate Coconut Macarons
We're 'nuts for this recipe.

7. Moon Pies
Come on. How can you not eat a Moon Pie during an eclipse?

8. Eclipse Cookies
If this is what science class was like in school, I would have done a lot better.

9. Galaxy Cookies
My love for these pretty cookies burns brighter than the sun.

10. Blackberry Moonshine
It'll still make you feel rebellious.

11. Stacked Oreo Cheesecake
Ok, so the eclipse is really just an excuse to eat cheesecake

SpaceNut

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Did not notice any real dimming of the sun as the eclispe occured and only took a brief few momments to use a square of welding glass to view the crescent moons shape as it crossed in front of the sun.

So when is the next to be seens is The next eclipses and where to see them

33 SLIDES Chasing the eclipses

NASA's Images of the 2017 Eclipse

8 SLIDES

GW Johnson

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Where I live,  the eclipse was around 70% area coverage partial.  I noticed a distinct lack of radiant skin heating.  The air only cooled a degree or two,  by my front porch thermometer.  I'm waiting for April 8,  2024,  when totality passes over my house. 

My welding hood and glasses were inappropriate to solar brightness.  So we did the pinhole "camera" thing as a small hole in a 3x5 card held about a yard from a sheet of white paper on a clipboard.  It worked,  just like it always does.  Digital phone camera shots of this didn't pan out very good,  because the brightness of the reflection from the unshadowed part of the paper messed up the camera's automatic irising for overall image brightness. 

What was just as effective and a whole lot more startling was the images cast amongst the shadows by the effective pinholes through the leaves of bushes and trees.  My wife didn't believe it until I showed it to her.  Almost all our bushes and trees casting shadows onto truly flat surfaces showed images of the eclipsed sun at one or another level of focus quality. 

Our best photos came from this effect where front porch bushes cast shadows and images onto the flat concrete slab of my front porch,  which is south-facing.  You pick the one of many images that looks best-focused,  and watch that.  Easy as pie,  and very,  very safe for the eyes. 

GW

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Its that time again.
This Is Where You Can See the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Across the U.S.

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April 8, 2024,  New Hampshire 100 days away from first total solar eclipse since 1959

The totality path will cross northern Vermont (including Burlington), southern Canada (including Montreal), northern New Hampshire and a large swath of northern Maine.

New Hampshire communities along the path include Lancaster, Stark, Northumberland, Milan, Dummer, Errol, Dixville Notch and Pittsburg.

Totality will last about 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

The peak in New Hampshire will be about 3:30 p.m. For the rest of the state, the sun will be obscured by 95% or more at the peak.

2079

In 56 years, on May 1, 2079, New Hampshire will experience totality again.

tahanson43206

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That was fun!

My location was just a tiny bit East of totalality, but the street lights came on in the alley, so ** they ** thought it was night time!

I'll be interested in the reports of others who might have been a bit closer to the center of the path.

(th)

GW Johnson

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The clouds thinned with gaps here.  We were able to actually see it from our front yard.  That's the first one I have ever actually seen with my own eyes.  I think we saw a solar flare protruding from near bottom right of the sun's disk during totality:  a sort of bright orange spot against the corona. 

GW

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SpaceNut

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I was too wide of the zone in NH but it did dim from the very bright day to more like evening.