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Message 1879212 - Posted: 20 Jul 2017, 9:19:54 UTC

The science channel is making a big deal out of this. They are cool to watch but unfortunately I live about 300 miles south of the path the total eclipse will follow. I think my area will get between 50 and 75% totality.
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Message 1879213 - Posted: 20 Jul 2017, 9:29:51 UTC - in response to Message 1879212.  

I think that we may get 3 minutes of total darkness here in Middle Tennessee. It is said to be frightening to watch and experience.
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Message 1879231 - Posted: 20 Jul 2017, 11:55:49 UTC - in response to Message 1879213.  

I think that we may get 3 minutes of total darkness here in Middle Tennessee. It is said to be frightening to watch and experience.

Only for those who don't understand what's really going on.
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Message 1879283 - Posted: 20 Jul 2017, 18:11:26 UTC - in response to Message 1879231.  

Only for those who don't understand what's really going on.


Even so: to see the Penumbra racing along at very high speed will be an emotional realization for me I am sure.

I am still amazed that Columbus knew when an eclipse was about to take place.
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Message 1879287 - Posted: 20 Jul 2017, 18:28:23 UTC - in response to Message 1879283.  

Only for those who don't understand what's really going on.


Even so: to see the Penumbra racing along at very high speed will be an emotional realization for me I am sure.

I am still amazed that Columbus knew when an eclipse was about to take place.

I think seeing that phenomena will only be possible from the air. On the ground the event will happen at the speed of the sun crossing the sky.
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Message 1879572 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 1:46:18 UTC - in response to Message 1879212.  

The science channel is making a big deal out of this. They are cool to watch but unfortunately I live about 300 miles south of the path the total eclipse will follow. I think my area will get between 50 and 75% totality.


Nyah, nyah! 89% totality here!
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Message 1879610 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 7:00:31 UTC

I checked and locally the coverage will be 88.3%. I doubt if you could detect a 0,7% difference. ;-)
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Message 1879635 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 10:01:30 UTC

I still remember the eclipse of 1961 because it coincided with the end of a love affair. There is a movie, I believe by Antonioni, which describes such a coincidence.
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Message 1879648 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 12:20:19 UTC - in response to Message 1879287.  

The sun is fixed. The Earth is rotating at 1000 miles per hour linear speed at the equator. At my latitude its about 600 miles per hour. If I could find a tall building here in Nashville, I might be able to see the darkness rolling in. I figure that the shadow is about 120 miles wide.
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Message 1879690 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 16:46:36 UTC

Back in the early 90's, I experienced a partial eclipse, and it was weird. I didn't know it was coming. I was just sitting outside on the courthouse steps where I worked, eating my lunch around noon on a clear and hot summer day, when the light outside started dimming , and the air became noticeably cooler. The dimming of the light was eerie because there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and birds started flying around like they do in the evening. Quite an interesting lunch. I'm really looking forward to this one coming up because I think Louisville, Kentucky is closer to the total path then it was last time.
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Message 1879692 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 17:05:52 UTC - in response to Message 1879690.  

Yes Gordon, I remember that event here in Nashville. It was around noon here as well and. I had a pinhole in a piece of cardboard projecting onto a sheet of white paper. I think that it got up to a 3/4 eclipse. Yes the light was quite different then. The total eclipse will be even more strange and exciting.
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Message 1879728 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 22:22:12 UTC - in response to Message 1879692.  

Yes Gordon, I remember that event here in Nashville. It was around noon here as well and. I had a pinhole in a piece of cardboard projecting onto a sheet of white paper. I think that it got up to a 3/4 eclipse. Yes the light was quite different then. The total eclipse will be even more strange and exciting.


It is probably also the one I experienced in south central NY in the early 90s.
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Message 1879776 - Posted: 23 Jul 2017, 0:08:19 UTC

I went to the planetarium today to get some special glasses, and they told me this area should experience a 96% eclipse this time. I'm kind of leery of using the glasses. I just hope it doesn't rain!
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Message 1879864 - Posted: 23 Jul 2017, 4:43:50 UTC - in response to Message 1879776.  

I went to the planetarium today to get some special glasses, and they told me this area should experience a 96% eclipse this time. I'm kind of leery of using the glasses. I just hope it doesn't rain!


I also obtained special glasses, Thurs. evening.
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Message 1879904 - Posted: 23 Jul 2017, 13:12:12 UTC

In Stockholm there hasn't been a total solar eclipse since May 3 1715, and the next total eclipse in Stockholm does not occur until March 24, 2927 :(
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Message 1881376 - Posted: 31 Jul 2017, 19:46:08 UTC

I bought a sheet of heat sensitive solar eclipse postage stamps:

https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2017/pr17_032.htm
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Message 1882159 - Posted: 4 Aug 2017, 23:35:13 UTC

There is also a total lunar eclipse in 3 days, Aug. 7th. But none of the lunar eclipse will be visible from the USA.
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Message 1882183 - Posted: 5 Aug 2017, 1:33:05 UTC - in response to Message 1882159.  
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We have two guests coming in from Wash DC area for the eclipse--friends of my son.. Welcome here.

Nashville TN area a prime location here.
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Message 1882184 - Posted: 5 Aug 2017, 1:35:49 UTC - in response to Message 1882183.  
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Think of the two solar eclipses that Eddington pursued which ultimately proved Einstein's theory of General relativity.
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Message 1882221 - Posted: 5 Aug 2017, 9:34:53 UTC - in response to Message 1882184.  

I have read and printed the NYTimes article on the Eddington expedition. Many USA universities are going to repeat his observations.
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