The Eclipse Across North America

[FlyTexas]

Safely viewed the eclipse with my homemade viewer. A commentator on TV mentioned that a colander from your kitchen made for a suitable eclipse viewer. The colander worked like a charm! It was like seeing 50 eclipses staring up at you from the sidewalk.

Brian

[Vancouver]

I tried the colander thing but got spaghetti over my face, trust me to be too literal, nobody instructed me to use a clean one.

In all seriousness, we were advised we would get about a 90% coverage here near Van. I went out in the yard and can say that there was barely any difference in light output. So all in all a bit of a non event unlike the one I witnessed in London in the early 2000's when the skies went dull (not dark) it was markedly colder and the eeriest thing was the silence that fell, birds all just went silent.

[airboatr]

I tried p3d and no eclipse there either

Well sure there is, look here..

[blanston12]

I tried p3d and no eclipse there either

Well sure there is, look here..

I stand corrected.

[airboatr]

A bad joke .. but at least I posted one in British colours.

[blanston12]

No problem Joe.

Even with the overcast we still got a show. Here in the SF Bay area we were supposed to get 78% coverage at max time. While overcast the clouds started to brake up and we got glimpses of it through the clouds that were almost better than having it clear since it was save to look at with just sun glasses until it became totally clear and then you needed the protective glasses to look at it. Through the overcast I got this picture.

[airboatr]

Very nice Joe.
This is one of mine. I used my welders glass to protect the image censor which colored the sun green and used an app to remove the green by desaturating the color.


What type of filter did you use? Just the clouds?

[blanston12]

Mine was just the clouds, there were times it was to bright and times you could see nothing at the right time you needed nothing.

[Paul K]

I wanted so badly to travel up to South Carolina or Tennessee to be directly under the path, but with my open wound from the spider bite I need to be in a controlled area when changing the dressing ..

Why didn't you just watch it on the web ?

[FlyTexas]

Some of our customers probably wished they had stayed home and watched it on the web. We heard reports from our customers, flying in and out of Atlanta, that the one hour drive from the eclipse viewing site back to the airport took them seven hours.

Brian