Compulsory Eclipse pics

[Toopy14]

A friend of mine took these.

 

[guitarzen]

My workplace is in east Austin, so we were right on the very edge of totality.

I'm in Austin too (on lake Travis) but more into the path - got a patch of clear sky right before totality and it was pretty incredible - around 2 minutes, really clear. Much better than I thought it was going to be. My iPhone pics sucked compared to what my eyes saw.

 

[Toopy14]

Grabbed this pic. off the NASA feed.

The sun is in an 11 year cycle of maximum solar flares. Checkout the one on the bottom right.

 

[Toopy14]

This is pretty cool too.

See the outline of the moon on the ground. One of the interviewers asked a NASA rep. if it wasn't perfectly round because of the lack of data. He said, just the opposite. They have so much data from a satellite that has been orbiting the moon for the last 9 years, that they've been able to perfectly map the shape of the moon with all of its imperfections.

 

[DallasGlenn2005]

You guys who are in Austin, do you play anywhere locally?

 

[Toopy14]

And no human sacrifices to report here. Which is nice.

I wouldn’t go that far. The Toronto Star posted this.

'Niagara breaks record for largest gathering of people dressed as the sun.'

 

[DallasGlenn2005]

This is pretty cool too.

See the outline of the moon on the ground. One of the interviewers asked a NASA rep. if it wasn't perfectly round because of the lack of data. He said, just the opposite. They have so much data from a satellite that has been orbiting the moon for the last 9 years, that they've been able to perfectly map the shape of the moon with all of its imperfections.

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My best friend lives just outside Kerrville in Hunt, Texas. He told me the hardcore watchers descended on that area like pigeons from all over the world.

 

[Toopy14]

My best friend lives just outside Kerrville in Hunt, Texas. He told me the hardcore watchers descended on that area like pigeons from all over the world.

Niagara Falls, on the Canadian side, estimated there were 1 million people.

 

[guitarzen]

Grabbed this pic. off the NASA feed.

The sun is in an 11 year cycle of maximum solar flares. Checkout the one on the bottom right.

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You could actually see that flare on the lower right clearly with the naked eye. I pointed it to my wife during totality. The corona/solar wind was wider than this to the naked eye, really cool

 

[mr_fender]

That flare on the bottom right is several times larger than Earth. The scale of the sun is mind blowing.

 

[Toopy14]

You could actually see that flare on the lower right clearly with the naked eye. I pointed it to my wife during totality. The corona/solar wind was wider than this to the naked eye, really cool

That’s pretty cool. Can you imagine how far out into space that flare went. Mind boggling.

 

[Toopy14]

A high school friend took these.

 

[AtomicJeff]

My best friend lives just outside Kerrville in Hunt, Texas. He told me the hardcore watchers descended on that area like pigeons from all over the world.

My Mom lives in Llano. She had a big get together for it.
It was cool here in Dallas, too.

 

[Musikron]

This was my rig for the eclipse.

 

[Thalagyrt]

Maybe relevant?

 

[Admin M@]

Paging @Mark Day and @Don Henderson!

 

[AtomicJeff]

Beginning tomorrow, an untold number of ophthalmologists from Texas to Maine will get to make their downpayments on those planned summer backyard swimming pools...

 

[Holbert71]

My son took this picture today.

 

[GitGuy513]

Beginning tomorrow, an untold number of ophthalmologists from Texas to Maine will get to make their downpayments on those planned summer backyard swimming pools...

My sisters is a retired 50 year ICU RN, and all she kept texting was be careful and don’t look at it long. Then she goes into how as you get older the cells in your retinas are weaker and damage easier. Uhg. Due to all the trauma and death she has witnessed I think she’s a bit of a hypochondriac. Oh well, she means well.

 

[GitGuy513]

A high school friend took these.

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This one with the light cloud cover is really cool.