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[Darth Fluffy 302]

Oct 14 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse

Visible in Oregon in the morning, through Texas around noon - I've lived along the path of this twice, no where near it now.

Prof, this will pass over San Antonio, but not Austin. You're the closest that I know of.

[mlooney 3,417]

Not even close to my part of the world.  Damn it.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

2 hours ago, mlooney said:

Not even close to my part of the world.  Damn it.

You can see a partial. Pinhole projection viewer is easy to make; watch the projected image, not the sun.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

13 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Oct 14 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse

Visible in Oregon in the morning, through Texas around noon - I've lived along the path of this twice, no where near it now.

Prof, this will pass over San Antonio, but not Austin. You're the closest that I know of.

We won't see the "Ring of Fire" annular eclipse from where I am, but we will get an 81% partial eclipse. We've bought pairs of ISO-approved sun-view glasses so we can look at it, and so we can look at the Big One coming up in April of next year (since we're right on its path).

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

 

I don't recall ever being in the path of totality.  Every partial I've seen has been obscured by clouds.  And I only saw an annular once where the dark disk & bright ring were fully apparent to me.

But as I often work at night, I have seen several Lunar eclipses.  Many people insist the moon takes on the colour of blood at these events. The moon usually looks copper coloured to me.

Am I looking at the wrong satilite?

 

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Many people insist the moon takes on the colour of blood at these events. The moon usually looks copper coloured to me.

The moon normally looks orangish-brown to me.

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

I don't recall ever being in the path of totality.

I suspect there won't be an empty hotel room to be found for miles around.

[Don Edwards 548]

We're very carefully avoiding being too close to the path of totality for a few days before & after - just at the time of year when we're heading south for the winter.

In western Utah, sites I found recommended being based no further north than Salt Lake - that's if you DO want to see the eclipse - so we're spending the weekend about 50 miles north of Salt Lake and some distance off the freeway and into the mountains.

Our normal migration pattern, we would have been spending tonight & tomorrow night pretty much dead center for totality - those being the two nights it would be most difficult to find a space in an RV park, and that being the absolute least likely area to find one.

Monday night should be a lot easier.

If we could have scheduled the whole thing, maybe three months ago, we might have taken a different approach. But there are reasons that wasn't feasible for us.