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April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Started by webny99, March 03, 2023, 03:03:36 PM

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Quote from: webny99 on March 19, 2024, 10:16:10 AM
The reason being that the experience is not proportional to the percentage of coverage. The experience of 100% is a lot more than 20% better than 80%.

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I have a 2-week clinch-a-thon in KS, MO, AR, OK and TX that main-events in Kerrville, TX (overnighting in San Antonio).  This is as ideal as 2017 was, where I was able to base in the path of totality and set up a chair outside the hotel in Grand Island.  Kerrville and Cleveland (Ohio, not Texas) are two cities with NASA presence.

This Flickr album (3/4 down page 1 to page 2) shows a surreal capture of 2017's shadow cutting through Grand Island.

I drove in the day before and out the day after in 17. No such luck this year - hotels were sold out over a year in advance outside San Antonio.  I got into one by the airport.  In 17, the VMSs were mentioning SOLAR ECLIPSE even on the day before.

Kerrville is doing what they can to plan for this.  They're treating it like a 4th of July, but this is not the Fourth of July, because the crowd is WAAAYYY much more than in-town folk.
Scott O.

Not all who wander are lost...
Ah, the open skies, wind at my back, warm sun on my... wait, where the hell am I?!
As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
Raise your what?

Wisconsin - out-multiplexing your state since 1918.

Rothman

The number of people I've heard that are headed to Kerrville specifically is surprising.  Wonder if they'll be able to handle the crowd.
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Evan_Th

Quote from: webny99 on March 19, 2024, 05:01:05 PM
Quote from: oscar on March 19, 2024, 03:57:09 PMAs for my own plans for this year's eclipse, I intend to dodge the eclipse like I did in 2017. Doesn't help that, unlike in 2017 when I was out west anyway, the most predictably clear skies in the totality path will be in Mazatlan, Mexico. I might feel differently if I lived in the totality path, and could just let the eclipse come to me, even with no assurance the weather will cooperate.

Assuming you will be in Virginia, I don't see a convenient option to drive to the path. Probably 6-7 hours minimum. The Dansville-Mount Morris area wouldn't be too bad of a run and avoids big cities unless you count Harrisburg, but it is too bad CSVT isn't open yet.

My parents are planning to drive up from NC to visit their friends in Erie, PA, for the eclipse.  It's a long drive, but doable.  And, it helps that they've got a reason to do it even aside from the eclipse.

formulanone

Quote from: oscar on March 19, 2024, 03:57:09 PMAs I mentioned ahead of the 2017 solar eclipse, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about a solar eclipse called "Nightfall". That was set on a planet in a six-sun system, where at least one sun is always in the sky ... except once every 4000 years or so, when five of the suns are below the horizon, and then the sixth is totally eclipsed.

People went bat-shit crazy on those occasions. Not so much that almost nobody had ever experienced total darkness, as their shock at what they unexpectedly saw in the sky during the total eclipse.

After reading Nightfall, I have been reluctant to casually mention attending and working for a university without knowing my audience.  ;-) 



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