Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:53     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
I feel bad for the people who did not find this cool. Examine your life as to why everything is a disappointment.

Either expand your horizons or smoke a little pot. Learn to live life as it is each day.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:39     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It was really cool in DC. I think the Debbie downers didn't have the glasses.


I'm in a suburb. I had glasses, but they were useless because the sun was behind clouds. I'm not upset about it, but I agree that after all the hype, it was a letdown. Oh well, life goes on.


I am in MD suburbs and yes there were clouds around 2:40, but you just had to wait 30 seconds and sun was out with the partial eclipse. My DD and I saw it at 81% and it was awesome and then we watched as it moved and moved and it was all awesome. All it took was a little patience, literarily like seconds of waiting for the cloud to move.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:35     Subject: Re:Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Capital Weather Gang got a pretty cool pic:



Why did I not see that?


Because you don't look through a filter.



So what did it look like without a filter, was the sky really that dark?


I am wondering this too. So to get a picture like that a filter was used but to the natural eye to someone who wanted to see a first eclipse they would have thought the sky around them naturally got that dark right? A lot of people thought it was going to be that way that I talked to.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:34     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow OP, I've seen some jaded, spoiled people in my life, but not being impressed by an eclipse of the sun? I bet you are a handful...


I'm not the OP, but I wasn't impressed either, because there was nothing to see


There was a rare opportunity to see a SOLAR ECLIPSE.

I totally agree with pp #1 above.


I bet your they didn't bother getting the eclipse glasses and hence couldn't see anything, and just burned their eyes out.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:33     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How many people here saw the eclipse IRL, in real time, per above?

:crickets:


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.


Another MD poster here and we loved it. First went to Udvar Hazy before and then watched at 2:40pm from the front and back yard. It was great. I am happy we spent the whole day, if I knew there was something in Greenbelt, I would have gone there.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:24     Subject: Re:Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I used the bathroom and missed it


It lasted like 2 hours. Have you seen a GI?


Ha, right? My DS was at the dentist and yet they all went out around 2:40pm and watched it.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:23     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
I thought it was awesome even with just 81%. My teens loved it too. At one point it looked like there was just a tiny crescent left out and it was so yellow, that you really see the yellow sun. It would have been great to see totality, but this was pretty great too. My dog ripped some toilet paper. He didn't want to go outside really, which is rare, though, that might be that it was hot and he maybe have ripped the toiler paper because he was bored. But, he hasn't ripped anything for over a year, so I am blaming the eclipse!
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:07     Subject: Re:Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:I used the bathroom and missed it


It lasted like 2 hours. Have you seen a GI?
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:05     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:I was in the path of totality and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Seeing the suns corona around the pitch black shadow of the moon was chilling and beautiful in the extreme. The stars did come out and crickets were chirping. Just before and after there was a phenomenon called shadow snakes where stripes of shadow and light crawl across the ground. I will never forget it.


Thanks for sharing that. Sounds awesome and I'm glad people got to enjoy it.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 19:03     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
I was in the path of totality and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Seeing the suns corona around the pitch black shadow of the moon was chilling and beautiful in the extreme. The stars did come out and crickets were chirping. Just before and after there was a phenomenon called shadow snakes where stripes of shadow and light crawl across the ground. I will never forget it.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 18:55     Subject: Re:Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
I'm pretty sure the windiness was from the storm, not the eclipse, otherwise it would get windy every night at dusk.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 18:07     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Was the weather that vastly different around NoVa?From 1:15-2:30 in Vienna we only had cloud cover for a few minutes. It was clear right at the 80% mark. Then the skies open dup a shitstorm of rain and thunder around 3. It was awesome.

I have tons of pictures through the hour to show the sun was in fact out...
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 17:57     Subject: Re:Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
Anonymous wrote:These NOVA nothing special happened posters make me glad I live in DC where everyone I know was thrilled to have the chance to see it.


I'm a pp who took exception to the "nothing special" posters too. I'm in NOVA, watched the eclipse with a whole neighborhood full of awed viewers and have seen loads of socia media postings by NOVA friends and acquaintances who took time off of work to appreciate the eclipse with friends and families. Everyone I know was thrilled to have the chance to see it, and I can guarantee you that there are people in DC who didn't give a damn, so let's not turn this into some ridiculous turf dispute.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 17:46     Subject: Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
That line the newscasters have been drawing for days on the U.S. map between Salem, Oregon and Charleston, SC?

You had to be along that line to get the full effect of the eclipse.

DC only got a partial eclipse as a result. Still, it's kinda cool.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2017 17:38     Subject: Re:Thats it? VERY DISAPPOINTED! I have encountered more darkness during severe thunderstorms.
These NOVA nothing special happened posters make me glad I live in DC where everyone I know was thrilled to have the chance to see it.