The totality of the eclipse was uber impressive here in Clarksville, Tennessee. 100% eclipse for over 2 minutes, temperature drop, darkness equivalent to night...absolutely NO cloud cover. The view through the eclipse glasses was superb...facinating to watch the moon munch away at the sun until it totally covers it and then the reverse when the sun begins to reappear. It's supposed to happen again here in 2024, so I guess, God willing, I'll try to make that event, too!
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SOLAR ECLIPSE on MONDAY
We had bright sunshine up here and it was like late afternoon in the middle of the day. It was interesting, but not a celestial life-changing event. No apocalypse.
I showed our cereal box pinhole projector to the cambio delivery guy, and you'd have thought he saw his first IMAX. He said it hurt his eyes to look at the eclipse directly. I wonder how many times he had tried.
It got clearer towards 1:00 p.m. so my wife and I headed out to the countryside in La Paloma where a sister lives with her two children. She was at work, so we had the kids Ubered from where they were to the house and by the time we got there it was 2:00 p/m. and the show was starting.
I had made two boxes and three viewing lenses so we were able to see the very beginning of the show.
Pretty soon, some of the neighbors, typical Dominican country folk, started to wonder what we were doing, and so wife showed them and caused wonder among the flock. What impressed me was that they walked to the nearest hardware store and bought a piece of welder glass (#12, I checked) so they could watch the show, too. It was like a 4th o July fireworks display, with the oooohs and awwwws....
The two kids really seemed to enjoy the festivities (the sandwiches, nibbles and soft drinks helped with that, I suppose) and they used both the boxes and the lenses.
Momma got home in time to see the last half of the show. And grumpy me came away with a smile on my face. .
Like CB says, not an earth-shaking, mind-bending event, but certainly worth seeing.
Wife asked me if I had seen eclipses before and I said yes but I did not pay much attention to them. Then she asked me why now? And I said that back then I did not have any small children to share the event with and now I did.....and that was what put that smile on my face.
HB
I had made two boxes and three viewing lenses so we were able to see the very beginning of the show.
Pretty soon, some of the neighbors, typical Dominican country folk, started to wonder what we were doing, and so wife showed them and caused wonder among the flock. What impressed me was that they walked to the nearest hardware store and bought a piece of welder glass (#12, I checked) so they could watch the show, too. It was like a 4th o July fireworks display, with the oooohs and awwwws....
The two kids really seemed to enjoy the festivities (the sandwiches, nibbles and soft drinks helped with that, I suppose) and they used both the boxes and the lenses.
Momma got home in time to see the last half of the show. And grumpy me came away with a smile on my face. .
Like CB says, not an earth-shaking, mind-bending event, but certainly worth seeing.
Wife asked me if I had seen eclipses before and I said yes but I did not pay much attention to them. Then she asked me why now? And I said that back then I did not have any small children to share the event with and now I did.....and that was what put that smile on my face.
HB