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The lighter yellow lines are total solar eclipses FWIW -- (link) - ty97 Apr 8, 12:15
We survived! The coolest thing was the solar flair at the bottom. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 12:15 6
- Baileys Beads. Valleys on the moons surface. -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 12:38
- A lot of the TV shots have that. Incredible. -- nm - The Last Of My Kind Apr 8, 12:21
- love the diamond ring effect -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:21 1
  - I wish I'd been able to get a picture of that in 2017. But I don't think I even knew of that phenomenon at the time. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:22
- I guess I didn't get to see that since I didn't have totality. :( -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:20 1
  - I have been corrected, a solar prominence. Flares leave the surface. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 12:26
TIL my neighbors are Indian. I'm not sure exactly what religion but apparently viewing the eclipse firsthand is not allowed. - sycor Apr 8, 12:11 3
- They can look at this then. - The Last Of My Kind Apr 8, 12:17 [Attachment] 2
  - I saw a photo on fb of a 'totaled' eclipse -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:20
  - L3 -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:18
I was in Wyoming for totally last eclipse and there were no animals around. I’m home and the birds are going WILD. -- nm - MDH Apr 8, 12:09 1
- I remember some fish flapping frantically across the surface of the water on beach tip of Baja, sky was twilight, looked neon, planets lined up. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:18
"turn around, fried eyes" -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:07
The bald tv dude on CNN is doing a good job. - Loyola Apr 8, 12:05
Close! -- (pic) - Andie Apr 8, 12:04 [Attachment]
Anyone else hear that noise? Like chanting in Latin? -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 12:02 2
- Can't hear much above the screeching of the crucifix on my wall slowly rotating upside down -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 12:05
- yes, but that was ancient Azetecian you heard -- nm - Jovian Apr 8, 12:04
So: who's up to go to the part of Spain covered in yellow on August 12, 2026? -- (pic) - ty97 Apr 8, 11:51 [Attachment] 8
- Iceland? but Spain would be awesome -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 12:05 2
  - You think Niagara Falls and Quebec don't have the infrastructure for the influx? Check out Iceland! -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 12:13
  - Iceland! -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:09
- Looks like Barcelona! -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 11:52 4
  - No one will think to go there! -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 8, 12:05
  - South of that maybe? Malaga. -- (this was a mistake!) -- nm* - Andie Apr 8, 12:01 1
    - That’s so cool. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 12:02
  - South of that maybe? Malaga. -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 11:58
You can hear the birds chirping “wtf is going on.” -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 11:48
Screw you Sun this is my time to finish the Story -- nm - The Moon Apr 8, 11:39 1
- Oh, I have always been more inclined to celebrate the moon. -- nm - Qale Apr 8, 11:44
According to National Geographic, it's dark in Texas but not here. Somebody explain how the arch of time and the movements of the solar system work. - David Apr 8, 11:30 6
- DEI -- nm - Tim Apr 8, 11:41
- Our peak in NC, which is not total, is 3:14. Shrug. Magnets, how do they work? -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 11:32 1
  - mine is 320. (I couldn't get the day off work to go to totality like 90 mins away.) -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 8, 12:16
- earth spinning counterclockwise -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:32 1
  - Fucking Democrats. -- nm - David Apr 8, 11:34
- Wait, maybe Miss Val Verde Texas can provide some insights here! - David Apr 8, 11:31
Trying to get a few pictures of my partial eclipse. I'm sure not as cool as some of you are going to be able to get. Hope everyone enjoys! -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 11:28
As the eclipse crosses Eagle’s Pass, over a million illegals will cross the border in the cover of darkness. -- nm - Fox News Anchor, probably Apr 8, 11:27
Calipari has been in Arkansas for 12 hours, and the moon is already blocking out the sun. -- nm - David Apr 8, 11:24 1
- Thats no Moon, its the Transfer Portal -- nm - budice Apr 8, 11:26
sounds like somebody's got a case of the Moon-days -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:21 1
- 👏 -- nm - JD Apr 8, 11:22
Last minute decision... watch eclipse from the cemetery. -- (pic) - Andie Apr 8, 11:20 [Attachment] 14
- LOL. These knock-off cardboard glasses maker copied the Crestron font type. -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 8, 11:28 1
  - You mean mine? Made by the telescope people? -- nm - Andie Apr 8, 11:33
- Getting in on the ground floor, smart. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 11:25
- as had been foretold -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 11:21 10
  - We were joking at lunch that the dead will rise. Then my SIL said "good thing we aren't going to a cemetery ", then we just looked at each other - Andie Apr 8, 11:27 9
    - dreaded sunny day -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:47 1
      - *ding* -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 8, 12:03
    - nice -- nm - decline Apr 8, 11:47
    - woot! -- nm - Pippy: Apr 8, 11:44
    - Aww! That's great! -- nm - David Apr 8, 11:43
    - :) -- nm - Tim Apr 8, 11:41
    - That’s really nice. -- nm - Loyola Apr 8, 11:39
    - That’s what we did last time. -- nm - mara Apr 8, 11:36
    - Aww that's awesome. Big smiles -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 11:31
I’m watching the eclipse in Mexico on CNN. - Loyola Apr 8, 11:20
anybody tied to a stake by religious fanatics in the totality path has a chance to do the funniest trick ever -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:15
LOL. Rick Pitino rumored for UK opening. -- nm* - Strongbad Apr 8, 11:15
You can definitely see it -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 8, 11:13
"Hail Satan, may your coming forth cleanse the World" -- (pic) -- (link*) - budice Apr 8, 11:12 [Attachment]
"once in a lifetime event" that happens every 18 months (just not in North America) -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:11 12
- Glad I got to experience the '17 eclipse. But kind of wishing I traveled to Kentucky to see this one. Since that's about the closest place - sycor Apr 8, 11:38 2
  - Aug 12, 2026 in Spain, Iceland, Greenland -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:40 1
    - Sounds like a good enough reason to go to Iceland to me. -- nm - sycor Apr 8, 12:00
- There's that town in Ohio? That had it the last time but otherwise it's less than 1 in a 100 yea4s at any particular point -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 11:21 2
  - Carbondale, IL. Had total in '17 and this year. - The Last Of My Kind Apr 8, 11:30 1
    - so that's where the sun don't shine. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 11:33
- and most people wouldn't be able to travel around and see them. So it is definitely once in a lifetime for millions of people -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Apr 8, 11:16 3
  - well that's on them, not the celestial bodies -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:17 2
    - You heard the man, Brazilian favella dwellers. Be more fucking worldly. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 11:20 1
      - yup. stupid poors -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Apr 8, 11:21
- Statistics are lies. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 8, 11:16
- Math! -- nm - Qale Apr 8, 11:13
ST photog folks. If I try to take a picture of the eclipse with my DLSR without a filter, will I kill the camera? -- nm - decline Apr 8, 11:07 7
- At totality you are fine...direct sun will burn the sensor...and burn a hole in your shutter. Ask me how I know -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 11:19 1
  - yeah, my timing ain't that good. I'd fry the dang thing - decline Apr 8, 11:29
- There's at least one data point that demonstrates that is a bad idea -- (link) - JD Apr 8, 11:10 [youtube]
- Yes, it'll burn out the sensor. - Reagen Apr 8, 11:10 3
  - Stupid sexy sun. -- nm - Qale Apr 8, 11:14 1
    - can't the government turn it down or something so we can take pictures of it ? -- nm - decline Apr 8, 11:36
  - that's what I figured. thanks -- nm - decline Apr 8, 11:11
Happy eclipse to those in the path, I hope you enjoy clear skies, even it's only for the key five minutes. -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 11:04 1
- see you on the other side :) -- nm - Pippy: Apr 8, 11:16
There's a little black spot on the sun today. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 11:03 5
- ~Blinded by the light~ -- nm - Strongbad Apr 8, 11:16
- Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun - The Last Of My Kind Apr 8, 11:08
- STDs -- nm - budice Apr 8, 11:06
- ~black hole sun .. wontcha come~ -- nm - mud Apr 8, 11:05
- turn around bright eyes -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:05
okay Katy Tur, jfc - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:02
hope MegBro aren't stuck in the Niagara Falls clink this morning -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 10:57 3
- Nah, sitting in the hotel room looking out at the clouds :/ -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 11:06 2
  - trip report! -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 11:08
  - *shakes fist at the sky* -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 11:06
def felt like the shades were starting to come down as i just walked into the building -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 10:55 3
- And now I've got Pearl Jam in my head -- nm - na-Baron with 100 pairs of shades Apr 8, 11:01
- what is shades up to these days -- nm - budice Apr 8, 10:55 1
  - Mentioned on an earlier board this week. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 10:57
LET IT BEGIN!!! -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 10:51 2
- If something starts opening up - eag Apr 8, 10:59
- All are welcome -- (pic) - budice Apr 8, 10:53 [Attachment]
oh no -- (link) - ty97 Apr 8, 10:49 1
- I hope they are in the Texas sun wearing those sauna bags and it's filling up with their juices -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:52
I don’t care if fucko “doesn’t care” about abortion. I care about giving him the power to end it nationally on day one with the stroke of a pen (which - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 10:45 2
- further evidenced by the fact that he (proudly) appointed the three FedSoc goons who actually overturned Roe -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 8, 10:48 1
  - worst prez ever -- nm - mud Apr 8, 10:49
I'm busy working but ELI5, why don't we look directly at an eclipse? -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 10:42 28
- Cause it's the sun. Don't look at the sun unprotected. There is nothing different about the sun's rays during an eclipse. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 11:05 1
  - haha, yeah, I figured that out below. I had always interpreted it as an eclipse-specific issue, which is why I didn't understand. -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 11:07
- I googled whether sunglasses are sufficient protection. They are not. - na-Baron Apr 8, 10:54 2
  - Put on a hundred pairs of them. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 10:57 1
    - I can't lift my head. -- nm - na-Baron with 100 pairs of shades Apr 8, 11:01
- Look what happens when you use a magnifying glass to start a fire. That's what can happen in your eyes - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:44 17
  - Note, you CAN look at the total eclipse but not when any sun is visible -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:46 5
    - No totality here and I have a meeting at in 13 minutes anyway :) -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 10:47 4
      - who sets a meeting during an eclipse? -- nm - Pippy: Apr 8, 11:18 1
        
        Clients on the other side of the world -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 11:23
      - Look at the shadows of trees, the shape of it is projected hundreds of times ,quite cool really -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:49 1
        
        Yeah, for a partial eclipse, filtering the light through a collander or salad or pasta strainer is way more interesting -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:51
  - So is that to say it is okay to look as the eclipse is progressing, but not at totality? -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 10:45 10
    - other way around. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 8, 10:48 1
      - Well, not exactly. It's just that people forget during the eclipse & instinct tells them it is "safe". And then their eyes get damaged. - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:50
    - It's never okay. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:46 7
      - It's actually ok at 100%, but the problem is anticipating when that ends. -- nm - Reagen Apr 8, 11:04
      - (Now, maybe there's something with eye dilation making it "safer" normally, that could be fair) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:47
      - Got it, so it's not anything unique about an eclipse. It's a "don't stare directly at the sun ever" thing -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 10:46 4
        
        So why isn't the Donald blind. He looked at it twice for several seconds each time -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:51 2
        
        It's not instant, and maybe not even noticeable at first. The damage accrues over time. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:52 1
        
        another zionist hoax -- nm - MAGA mud Apr 8, 11:01
        
        That has been my take. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:47
- The light from the sun gets magnified by your eye and boils your eyejuices -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:43 4
  - why only during an eclipse? -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 10:45 3
    - Do you normally look directly into the sun? -- nm - znufrii Apr 8, 10:46 1
      - of course! -- nm - ty97 Apr 8, 10:46
    - It's not only during an eclipse. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:45
Just spent 30 minutes directing my ex-wife through the traffic nightmare that is currently southern Quebec. - Mop🧹 Apr 8, 10:32 4
- Might as well try to rebook that flight now...before the rush -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:42
- You should have just went. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 10:42 2
  - I had my eclipse in 2017. -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 8, 10:57
  - I figured if he did that at the last moment it would prove he won the Powerball. -- nm - Meg Apr 8, 10:54
New Coca Cola commercial featuring Marvel heroes -- (link) - budice Apr 8, 10:32 7
- Q: How would Daredevil know it's Coke and not some other carbonated beverage? - na-Baron Apr 8, 10:39 6
  - Bottle shape. -- nm - Spawn Apr 8, 10:45 1
    - Same way that he differentiates between his girlfiends - JD Apr 8, 10:46
  - It is cannon that his hypersensitive fingers can 'read' print. -- nm - JD Apr 8, 10:44 1
    - This I knew! But in the ad he knows from across the room, so "Veto, Darwin." -- nm - na-Baron Apr 8, 10:56
  - I've never checked, but maybe there is braille -- nm - Beryllium Apr 8, 10:39 1
    - I accept this explanation. -- nm - na-Baron Apr 8, 10:43
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..that's amore' -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 8, 10:31 1
- When an eel bites your knee as you swim in the sea, that's a moray. -- nm - na-Baron Apr 8, 10:33

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