We are in N.E Ohio, right in the path of the total eclipse. I would like to stay home and experience it from the yard. We are in a suburb with street lights all around. I’m thinking the street lights will come on and spoil the whole thing.
We are in N.E Ohio, right in the path of the total eclipse. I would like to stay home and experience it from the yard. We are in a suburb with street lights all around. I’m thinking the street lights will come on and spoil the whole thing.
I have vivid memories of watching a nearly total eclipse as a kid in NYC. We used a number of stacked film negatives to look through and since I didn't go blind it must have worked OK.
We are in N.E Ohio, right in the path of the total eclipse. I would like to stay home and experience it from the yard. We are in a suburb with street lights all around. I’m thinking the street lights will come on and spoil the whole thing.
We are in N.E Ohio, right in the path of the total eclipse. I would like to stay home and experience it from the yard. We are in a suburb with street lights all around. I’m thinking the street lights will come on and spoil the whole thing.
We are in N.E Ohio, right in the path of the total eclipse. I would like to stay home and experience it from the yard. We are in a suburb with street lights all around. I’m thinking the street lights will come on and spoil the whole thing.
You may want to look at a site that will tell you the length of time in your location. If you’re on the edge of totality, the experience is going to be shorter than if you’re right on the maximum line.
Here’s a great site. Click on a point on the map and it will tell you what time and how long the eclipse will be. (Let me know when me and DW should be there and what kind of beverages you’d like us to bring ).
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html
There's something to be said for staying flexible & not making firm plans in advance. For the 2017 eclipse, the original plan was for my brother & niece to come down to my place since the path of totality was about an hour south of me. But as the day got close the weather forecast started looking really cloudy for my area, so 2-3 days before the eclipse we got hotel rooms in Kentucky a couple hours outside the path. We drove down to somewhere between Knoxville & Chattanooga, set up in a city park in some small town near the center of the path, and had a great time.
Definitely looking forward to that. For next April, the path of totality will be less than 40 miles from my home so I've been excited about it for a couple of years now.
I have vivid memories of watching a nearly total eclipse as a kid in NYC. We used a number of stacked film negatives to look through and since I didn't go blind it must have worked OK.
I imagine most folks today would say "film negative? What's that?"
Good advice! I have probably seen a few partials over my lifetime but they were not that remarkable. Seeing the 2017 totality was something else altogether. We'll probably go to Dallas for the event but not sure if it is going to become a big traffic jam.
This is a good site for planning where to go:
https://eclipse2024.org/eclipse_cities/
Big differences in length of totality at locations not too far apart. I want to experience 4+ minutes.