Total Eclipse of the Sun

[Nebuchadnezzar]

No, not the song, lol.

August 21, 2017, set your calendars and get ready because this eclipse is going to be real close to Cincinnati.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-august-21

Check out that website and watch the 10 second or so animation. This will or should be a pretty big event around here.

Forgot to add, the best place to view this will be in Hopkinsville Kentucky about 75 miles southwest of Louisville.

[*bfine32*]

(11-02-2015, 08:34 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: No, not the song, lol.

August 21, 2017, set your calendars and get ready because this eclipse is going to be real close to Cincinnati.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-august-21

Check out that website and watch the 10 second or so animation. This will or should be a pretty big event around here.

Forgot to add, the best place to view this will be in Hopkinsville Kentucky about 75 miles southwest of Louisville.

Well that's just great. I looked directly at the animation and now I'm blind.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

(11-02-2015, 10:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well that's just great. I looked directly at the animation and now I'm blind.

You'll only be blind for a few minutes unless you do it to much then it will be permanent. What your mother said will come true and you will get Harry Palms.

Wait, you're talking about looking into the sun? Oh, then disregard my previous statement.

[Bengalzona]

"Turn around, Bright Eyes..."





Still trying to figure out what that video is about after 30+ years. Some Cougar caught in a all-boys private school with teenage male models who have eyes like the vampire boy in "Salem's Lot" (Ralphy)?

[Bengalzona]

Come to think of it, I'm still trying to figure out 90% of the music videos from the eighties.

[crispy]

(11-02-2015, 10:39 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: You'll only be blind for a few minutes unless you do it to much then it will be permanent. What your mother said will come true and you will get Harry Palms.

Wait, you're talking about looking into the sun? Oh, then disregard my previous statement.

I did it too much to the point I had to have laser surgery about 10 years ago.  Think I'm gonna need it again in a couple years...........

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Next week around noon I think. Get you "Eclipse Glasses" or make something that will let you watch it.

[BengalHawk62]

Do you think a welding mask will be sufficient to look at the eclipse?

[Nebuchadnezzar]

(08-15-2017, 02:18 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Do you think a welding mask will be sufficient to look at the eclipse?

Yes, it will

[*bfine32*]

In my area we are about 75 miles away from the total eclipse belt. We get a 97.3% eclipse.

[Benton]

(11-02-2015, 08:34 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: No, not the song, lol.

August 21, 2017, set your calendars and get ready because this eclipse is going to be real close to Cincinnati.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-august-21

Check out that website and watch the 10 second or so animation. This will or should be a pretty big event around here.

Forgot to add, the best place to view this will be in Hopkinsville Kentucky about 75 miles southwest of Louisville.

One of my papers is just outside Hopkinsville; the other is in a spot that actually has the best view (longest totality for longest duration) but it's a county with a population of less than 8,000... and a third of them are in jail.

Anyway, it's been pretty nuts the last 18 months or so. They're anticipating 100,000-300,000 people somewhere along Interstate 24, many of them from other countries.

[Yojimbo]

Lucky me, I work for Oregon DoT and my office is in Salem, right in the path of totality. ODOT is predicting 1 million extra drivers on the highways here. Total gridlock on eclipse day.

[jfkbengals]

(08-15-2017, 02:18 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Do you think a welding mask will be sufficient to look at the eclipse?

I was told by a vendor that shade level 14 should be appropriate...

[*Awful Llama*]

I'll be damned if I'll stand around in funny glasses and helplessly watch while a bunch of damn furreners conjures up some giant dragon to swallow up my sun.



Besides, I'll be sequestered as usual in a glass and aluminum box we collectively call "work."

[Millhouse]

Got my high zoom binocs, ready to go!

[XenoMorph]

Sköll Is gonna finally eat tonight

[CKwi88]

Administrative judge is actually halting all court proceeding at the courthouse between 2 and 3 to allow workers to go see it.

Don't have any eyewear, so I'll prolly just go outside to see how dark it gets

[Tiger Teeth]

(08-17-2017, 07:38 PM)Awful Llama Wrote:

That kinda' looks like my tattoo.

[HarleyDog]

Put my phone lens up to a pair of welder glasses and took this today: