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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready


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6 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

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Made myself a cheat sheet ... these values are for my location specifically (Dripping Springs).

Hoping for a continued thinning of that damned coastal flow.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

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Made myself a cheat sheet ... these values are for my location specifically (Dripping Springs).

Hoping for a continued thinning of that damned coastal flow.

 

 

Now I need to set my watch with the atomic clock....

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I went ahead and put on my protection classes at 6 am. Since then I’ve been running with scissors, bunge jumping, and running in traffic. It’s awesome to be able to do things with no fear of injury.  

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We're shutting down the pharmacy for an hour around the eclipse and taking bets on how many missed calls we get around totality. I'm betting we get at least 2 or 3. Believe it or not there are people in DFW who have no idea a total solar eclipse is happening today 

There are a lot more than just don’t give a shit about it either. I would know
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Latest Satellite cloud layer from wunderground.com 

Folks out in Marble Falls might get lucky and catch part of the 50-mile-wide gap in the clouds that is near Fredericksburg right now, but everyone else in Cen Tex looks out of luck.

 

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51 minutes ago, miguelito said:

It would be ironic - or something - if the sun burned off the clouds, but then the eclipse cooled things off, allowing clouds to form again, only to have the sun burn the clouds off again after the eclipse.

I'll neg myself.

To quote Wally Cleaver: "You are more  complicated than a girl's purse."

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Just now, freyguy said:

One thing is for certain, I will be cracking a few beers here shortly out in the backyard.  Whether I see the sun or not, who knows.  But I will certainly be at peace.

High!

11 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

 

Latest Satellite cloud layer from wunderground.com 

Folks out in Marble Falls might get lucky and catch part of the 50-mile-wide gap in the clouds that is near Fredericksburg right now, but everyone else in Cen Tex looks out of luck.

 

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Hoping for this. We can see the sun through the clouds now in patches. Hopefully we catch a break. 

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24 minutes ago, MontereyMX said:

This is Burnet

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Motherfucker! Warn a guy to put on his eclipse glasses first. It's common courtesy.

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On 4/6/2024 at 12:55 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

Took some test photos at noon today.  Used a 10 stop ND filter on a 70-200 and 100-500 lens.  Couple taken with a tripod, couple without.  Shutter speeds varied.  Now, let's hope the cloud cover isn't a thing on Monday:

 

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did you just burn my retinas because I looked at these photos?

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7 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

did you just burn my retinas because I looked at these photos?

You say this, but I can tell you that my MIL asked me last night, in all seriousness, if she needed to get some eclipse glasses to watch the event on TV?

 

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I flipped on that NASA youtube stream of eclipse coverage, and the host goes, about all the large gatherings of people, "it's kind of like a sporting event. So let me ask you, who's the GOAT today, the moon or the sun?"...

 

 

I now hate eclipses.

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