Solar Eclipse

[Rambunctious]

Nothing burger...

 

[OldLady]

I'm hoping to slide into a rock quarry near totality center line. The white limestone surroundings should be great for viewing eclipse shadow bands / snakes. Plus no street lights to pollute total darkness. Got eclipse glasses, telescope, large white sheet, gas & drinking water ready to go. Traffic has been heavier than normal here this weekend. Gasoline prices already jumped 30 cents on Friday.

Why worry about street lights during a solar eclipse?

They come on automatically at "dusk," don't they? So if you're standing near them, you don't get the same effect?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I'm hoping to slide into a rock quarry near totality center line. The white limestone surroundings should be great for viewing eclipse shadow bands / snakes. Plus no street lights to pollute total darkness. Got eclipse glasses, telescope, large white sheet, gas & drinking water ready to go. Traffic has been heavier than normal here this weekend. Gasoline prices already jumped 30 cents on Friday.

Why worry about street lights during a solar eclipse?

They come on automatically at "dusk," don't they? So if you're standing near them, you don't get the same effect?

I doubt they'd make that much of a difference as far as viewing the eclipse.

 

[Missourian]

We got around 95%...but the really cool part was the sun shining thru my black walnut tree created thousands of pinhole projections on the patio...

 

[petro]

Rain all day. Big nothing.

 

[SixFoot]

We had a wonderful time in Jefferson City today at the McKay Park. I sacrificed one of my eclipse lenses and taped it over the camera on my LG G4. Got some pretty good shots and videos.

 

[Tresha91203]

Total dud here. Didn't even get dark.

 

[Pogo]

Whelp --- there must have been two thousand cars, literally, parked for miles along the little mountain road (Cherahola Skyway) to watch the event. We were lucky to get a spot we could squeeze into at the highest point, about 5400 feet, where the full totality was passing. And we were luckier to park next to a scientist guy who had all the hi-tech equipment out tracking and recording the whole thing. He invited us to see sunspots and solar flares through his lenses, and showed us where to look for Mars and Mercury. Venus was going to be off to the east side.

Clouds were iffy -- sometimes heavy and hiding everything, sometimes dissipating enough to look through and see a partial eclipse. Very touch and go, but just before totality --- CLEAR and we saw the whole thing. I could see Mars but not much more in terms of stars.

Soon after as the moon started to move off to the right another cloud passed over and hid much of the exit, but nobody really minded that.


Thought we'd be sitting for hours getting back down that road but it wasn't bad. That would come on the ride home later on. Crawling at four miles an hour for at least ten miles -- then when we finally got to the end of the bottleneck, the place where you find out what's been holding everything up ----- it was the state police. Sitting on the shoulder with three cars, no incident, no merge lane, just blowing lights so intense that you couldn't safely get past them at more than 15 mph. And that held everybody up for ten miles.