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NorthCyd

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For those that experienced totality, were you able to see the stars?

You could see a couple of the brightest where we were at, but half the sky was obscured by clouds too. It was cool seeing the dusk effect all around the horizon. The corona was so vivid. Really cool experience.
 

carvers4math

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Saw Venus with 2:23 totality in Douglas, Wyoming. The second diamond ring really popped, horizon and shadows very cool.
 
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SpokaneCY

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If I recall correctly, there are no pain receptors for the damage caused by looking at the sun. However, in about 12 hours, if your eyes won't focus when you are trying to read CF, the eclipse glasses you bought off the dude on the street corner might have been fakes...

They came with the happy meal - they BETTER be authentic!
 

MNCYWX

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Did not see stars by Columbia,too many light clouds but eclipse was visible the whole time.

Was worried about those so I went south about 15 miles to Ashland. Clearly saw the three planets and even a couple of stars too.

Such an awesome, surreal experience. And no, the picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice.


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Cyclones_R_GR8

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Was worried about those so I went south about 15 miles to Ashland. Clearly saw the three planets and even a couple of stars too.

Such an awesome, surreal experience. And no, the picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice.


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I agree, I feel the total experience was worth the drive. I haven't had a chance to do anything with my pictures yet. I don't have a card reader on my work laptop. Might have to go get my laptop out of the car.
 

TOFB4ISU

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Did some rough flight planning on getting down there for 2024. 7 years to plan a flight isn't too soon is it?
Ironically we were at the airport. Tons of very expensive planes parked no doubt owned by very rich people from who knows where.
 
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Venus was easily visible several degrees to the right of the sun, Mercury was also visible, faint, about one sun width to the left. Mars was not visible, although right there, too close to the corona. I could see no stars. Went to west central NE, travel time to: 51/2 hours, travel time home 91/2 hours. Completely stopped on I-80 once in NE, once in Iowa. Got off interstate both times and still had near gridlock on US highways. But worth it!
 
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Cyclones_R_GR8

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Venus was easily visible several degrees to the right of the sun, Mercury was also visible, faint, about one sun width to the left. Mars was not visible, although right there, too close to the corona. I could see no stars. Went to west central NE, travel time to: 51/2 hours, travel time home 91/2 hours. Completely stopped on I-80 once in NE, once in Iowa. Got off interstate both times and still had near gridlock on US highways. But worth it!
Being that they were talking clouds in Nebraska I went across the border into Wyoming down highway 85 near Lusk. When I left it took me 3.5 hours to go the first 60 miles with the last 7 taking 1.5 hours. After that it was pretty smooth driving.
 
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StClone

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Carbondale was indescribable. C'mon 2024

Eastern side of Southern Illinois at Cave-in-Rock State Park experience is hard to put into words, too. Seeing the sun wink out behind the grayish blue moon makes words and pictures fail.

I first heard about the 2017 lunar eclipse back in 1970's. Post-eclipse traffic was very big deal with some taking 14 hours for what usually takes a little over 4.
 
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CascadeClone

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We were in Hamilton, Mo by the high school. It was cloudy and rained terribly for a while, but we hung on just in case and had no where else better to go.

We ended up having about 70% clouds, so we could see the sun at times as it moved in and out. Not bad considering we thought it was going to be a total washout.

Sometimes between my sunglasses and cloud it was easily visible, but the special glasses were too much combined with clouds when they were there. We did get a clear view of totality. It was a heck of a thing, it did get dark and kinda spooky for a while. Definitely saw some stars, esp Venus was very bright. Dog was chill, no problems there. Took some lousy pics with my phone thru the glasses, attached one below.

The coolest thing to me, was as the moon moved off totality, it also came into a little less cloud, and it got very bright very fast as that happened simultaneously. Difference between 99% and 100% is HUGE in terms of amount of light/dark.

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