I still can't believe how I lucked out yesterday with the eclipse. Because the traffic was so bad I ended up cutting my Interstate drive short by 30 miles, heading down a random country road, pulling off in a lovely grassy area just a ways from a highway maint motor pool & storage area where they were seriously blasting Dark Side of the Moon across the countryside. The Great Gig in the Sky was echoing across the field as totality occurred. AYFKM, what incredible luck!!! 🤯 🤯 🤯 #eclipse
Sorta thinking that we should all head outside every day at the same time the way so many did for the eclipse. Take a breath and let the world stop for a bit while the heavens continue to do their thing. #eclipse#today
"Few constituencies are so ostentatiously and consistently wrong, over so many generations of human history, as the doomsayers who promise that the end is nigh.
It did seem kind of nigh there for a second, though, didn’t it?"
"Or, as the writer Kurt Andersen put it in the days leading up to today’s eclipse, after a rare (and rather substantial) earthquake rattled New York City: 'Earthquake. Eclipse. The antichrist running for president. Check.'”
I'd add: "And antichrist being eagerly welcomed and feted and promoted by large numbers of US Christians."
#PPOD: From yesterday's eclipse live stream, scientist Ryan Lambert captured a special moment during totality when he removed the solar filter from his Unistellar Odyssey telescope. At the bottom of the disk, peeking out from behind the Moon is a large solar prominence. A smaller one can be seen at the 4 o'clock position. Credit: Ryan Lambert, Franck Marchis
Total eclipse was awesome! 😎 The park at the foot of Mount Royal was a good choice for me, not too crowded, a community feel. Montreal weather was perfect! #eclipse#eclipse2024#weather#photography
Our outside boy Sandy got very scared during the eclipse, and we had to comfort him. I told him he didn't have to worry about it again since the next one is many years from now.
Eden, Ollie and I, with old friend Shawn, experienced total eclipse in Vincennes, Indiana. Seeing it with one's own eyes, being baptized in the shadow and corona, feeling the chill of darkness, hearing birds sing eveningsong in midafternoon is the thing, not the snapshots we took with our phones. So here's my eclipse in art. I hope you can feel a bit of the chill.
I wasn't exposing for the full corona, but this is what I was able to extract from the shadows. I know it extends far beyond what is shown here, but I was zoomed in too tightly to include it all. 🙃 #Eclipse
Re: the #eclipse, I'm seeing so much stuff from folks in my region calling us foolish for the all the preparation that was done in anticipation of being in the path of totality, and for getting our hopes up at all. And I'm just not here for it.
It wasn't foolish. Yes, we got our hearts broken by the thick cloud cover (but y'all, 3.5 minutes of darkness was still magical even if we couldn't see the cause). But I refuse to live from a place of cynicism just to protect myself against heartbreak.
♻️Donate your undamaged eclipse glasses to Astronomers Without Borders so they can be handed out for free in Latin America for the October 2024 eclipse!♻️
🌞Evansville you can drop off glasses to:
The Evansville African American Museum and recieve a free pass! 🌞
Sixth and Zero located at 425 Main St. is also accepting eclipse glasses
Or mail them directly to:
Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
P.O. Box 50571
Provo, UT 84605
(Deadline August 1st)
You can either reuse them for the next eclipse or wait until there’s donation programs for science outreach to developing countries so people elsewhere can enjoy eclipses (some orgs like Astronomers Without Borders are working on this)
Did you get to see the total eclipse? We had cloudy skies here and only a partial eclipse was visible on the west coast anyway. So I finished "After the Eclipse" instead!