So the morning breakfast done and wandered through Atwater market shops to select bread, local sausage, cheeses, bread and paté and then took metro & walked to the St Lawrence river near Verdun to select a picnic & eclipse viewing spot.
Yay! This cool tool from #NASA shows the percentage of eclipse and exactly when it will occur, based on zip code. Just click your location on the map. It also shows the predicted weather at the time!
I realized I'd been spreading my #Eclipse2024 observations across a bunch of different platforms so I wrote up some notes for a blog post and paired them with a small Flickr photo gallery.
Eclipse 2024; Christians warned insurance policies void if they rapture
Insurance companies in the USA have warned Christians that their life insurance policies do not cover rapture. Their families might be at risk of hardship if they don't all rapture together.
I am amused by the suggestions from Vermont state agencies that people should bring a paper map in case GPS stops working. After 17 years with smartphones and Google/Apple Maps… ** do people even know how to read paper maps anymore? ** 🤣
Did you use a colander to see or take pics of the eclipse? I know we laugh at it, but I seriously enjoy seeing others’ colander pics. In such a divided time, at least we all have colanders in common! Anyone remember Hands Across America? This is like that, but with colanders 🤣 Please post your pics and use the hashtag #Colanderstronomy (and maybe #ColandersAcrossAmerica?). Here’s mine, from #Colorado:
Five days out from #Eclipse2024, I'm working through the experience and processing it both psychologically and digitally.
These images from around totality, are still frames extracted from white-light HD video made near Kerrville, Texas. Far from ruining the experience, the clouds overhead at our site added a haunting, ethereal quality to the result.