Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
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Anonymous
+1. People need to open a fucking book and not just Wikipedia |
Anonymous
| I was impressed that there was a rainbow as a follow-on show! |
Anonymous
Gee, I just assumed it got cooler because of the rain. And because of the cloud cover, I wouldn't even know if the sun was a crescent. What a dud. |
Anonymous
That is likely, because without them you really didn't notice any change except a slight relief from the heat. When my kids came home from school with the glasses, I caught the tail end and it was a totally different experience. |
Anonymous
We travelled to totality and it was so amazingly worth it. It was breathtaking. |
Anonymous
Was the wind pick up due to the eclipse? I assumed it was due to the rain. |
Anonymous
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It seems almost every day I witness fellow Americans displaying ignorance in new ways. THAT is the real disappointment.
With just a little curiosity and research even my first grader knew what to expect and was able to enjoy this rare experience rather than complain like someone deceived her. |
Anonymous
I was at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. My wife and kids were with me and we had a few hundred other people who work here that all got together out on the mall on center to watch. We met some friends and another family whose son is in our kids class at the preschool on center. They had lunch trucks there from 11:30 until about 3:30. We had people with some fancy telescopes and cameras with solar lenses, etc that were there. We go there around 1:30 and stayed until about 3:00. We had eclipse glasses which we got from the agency and my wife also made us some pinhole projector boxes this morning which the various kids enjoyed. So we did watch the progress from just after the moon started overlapping the sun through just after totality. OP may not have been impressed, but the several hundred people at NASA were pretty excited to have watched it including the kids. So my family and I did watch much of the eclipse IRL, in real time. -NASA guy. |
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Ooooh, Toronto and Montreal! And my alma mater. |
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I was in Charleston (100%) and it did not get entirely dark.
Those pictures on tv we're from space. |
Anonymous
Different poster. We were in the path of totality. The sky got very dark, dark enough to see s few stars/planets. Night time bugs started chirping and birds went wild right before and right after. They seemed confused. Streetlights, store signs, etc all came on. It got breezy and noticeably cooler. The sun looked just like the picture Fox had on its website. It went all black first then had a huge black center with and very narrow, almost white rim. When the son started showingagain, it came back with a bright narrow flash on one side almost like a starburst. We put our glasses back on then. It was definitely dark, similar to what it looks like when a very dark thunderstorm suddenly rolls in, so you could still see everyone. The sky though was dark for sure, like the very tail end of twilight. It was very awe inspiring and worth the time going to see it. |
Anonymous
Why did I not see that? |
Anonymous
I'm not the OP, but I wasn't impressed either, because there was nothing to see |
Anonymous
There was a rare opportunity to see a SOLAR ECLIPSE. I totally agree with pp #1 above. |
Anonymous
Yes, but from what I saw in NOVA, you wouldn't even know a solar eclipse was happening. If I saw anything resembling an eclipse I would have been impressed. I just experienced a cloudy day. |