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I'm so excited. Less so by the cloud cover, but there are good patches of blue sky and the pinhole camera is doing its job.
Last one I saw was when I was about 5 years old in Melbourne.
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The video of the event from Austin and Dallas was (is) spectacular!
/ravi
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We could not see it here in europe
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Clear here in Phoenix.
We also saw the one last October from L.A.
I'll have to plan better for the next one. I put a pinhole on my DSLR, but it wasn't satisfactory.
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We live in Dayton, OH and we just viewed the eclipse.
Amazingly enough, the sky was clear. Using certified glasses we watched the last minutes before the total eclipse.
We then viewed the actual full-on eclipse and it was absolutely amazing!!
It's so crazy that when you can finally see nothing in thru the glasses that there is still all that ambient light behind the moon.
When we looked at it with the naked eye (at the appropriate time) we were also able to see a tiny solar flare at the bottom which looked like a jet of red / dark orange light coming out while the rest was a white halo around the entire moon.
it was so much better than I actually even anticipated.
I think I'm so used to bad weather / clouds that I didn't expect much.
But the weather was perfect and the eclipse was freaking amazing!!!
EDIT -- Additional Thoughts
1. When full eclipse occurred, our outdoor automatic lights turned on. Very funny.
2. It is amazing how powerful the sun is that even when it is blocked out almost entirely, there is still so much light shining.
3. It was definitely a very cool "life-moment" to see that, but also glad I didn't have to travel to see it, because it all comes & goes very fast. 
modified 8-Apr-24 15:42pm.
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raddevus wrote: looked like a jet of red / dark orange light coming out
That's probably just attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
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raddevus wrote: 3. It was definitely a very cool "life-moment" to see that, but also glad I didn't have to travel to see it, because it all comes & goes very fast.
exactly... I would have like to see it, but no worth to travel so much for it.
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Here is a photo of that flare : https://9gag.com/gag/a7oLZex[^]
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Thanks for posting that. I was guessing that what we saw was a solar flare but I wasn't sure. 
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I was in the path of totality, but it was cloudy. Was super cool to witness. Managed this snap on my phone during totality. Wish it was a bit clearer though but the clouds got in the way.
https://i.imgur.com/GikirQx.jpeg
Jeremy Falcon
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Those clouds probably worked out in your favor.
I had a completely cloudless sky, and the sun was still so bright my camera's sensor couldn't come up with anything showing the moon as clearly as it is in your picture.
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I did turn down the exposure a wee bit. Not that I'm a pro photographer, but the sun is so bright you can't see anything hardly unless you do.
Jeremy Falcon
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I finally found a use for an old welding helmet that I found in a storage locker. (at the time my nephew was in welding school and I thought he could use it...however, not cool enough for him)
What surprised me was how long the event lasted from my viewpoint of around 500 miles east of the path. For a full hour or so it was around 80% coverage. Our skies were clear, and I could see it perfectly through the welding glass.  The entire event lasted for almost 3 full hours.
I was asking someone else this morning about using home-made pinhole viewing devices...I vaguely remember doing this when I was a kid and getting frustrated that it didn't work...or it was cloudy...or I was impatient...too long ago! 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Last one I saw was when I was about 5 years old in Melbourne.
October '76. I'd parked the wife and kids with my parents in Melbourne while I spent a few weeks working in the USA.
Got back to Melbourne that morning. Really needed some sleep, but managed to stay awake to see it. Awesome!
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Brilliant
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Brilliant
I see what you did there.
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Last solar eclipse I went to, we waited one hour in a field under burning sun, then it was suddenly all dark and cold and we could not see the sun anymore because it disappeared behind some giant black disk in the sky so we missed everything. Worst experience ever.
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It was cloudy here, so I didn't get the promised super powers....
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#realJSOP wrote: I didn't get the promised super powers....
Heck, John, you really don't need any more of them...
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Especially in his caliber-of-choice  .
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I watched it from the steps of the Hualapai Tribal Headquarters building in Peach Springs, AZ. We only got about 30% - 40% coverage at that latitude, but it was still fun to see.
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The TV news around here have been talking about the eclipse for weeks.
A few days ago a reporter was telling viewers how to properly take care of those glasses... Most people won't see another solar eclipse for decades. If ever. Why would you hang on to them? Would you even remember where you stored them, decades from now...? Are they considered a family heirloom, to be passed down from generation to generation?
And then yesterday the same reporter was mentioning none of the local stores had any to sell. I suspect this morning there's millions of them available for free if anyone wants them...
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Now that it's over, I wonder if there is an associated increase in calls to ophthalmologists. In my neck of the woods we had ~95% coverage, I can imagine some people thinking "Gee, it's 95% covered, that can't hurt my eyes!".
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