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April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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

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vdeane

Quote from: Rothman on April 10, 2024, 09:10:05 PM
Quote from: vdeane on April 10, 2024, 08:51:53 PM
Quote from: Rothman on April 10, 2024, 01:08:46 PMDon't have to go to Thacher...not sure why'd they kick you out.  I've found a couple of cornfields for stargazing...lots of wide spots off the road to look up from and the like.
The park is closed at night.  It comes up on r/Albany whenever the northern lights might be visible and people ask where they can go to see them.

But a state highway goes right through it. :D

I do have to say I find it easier to find a quiet spot outside of Syracuse than outside the Albany area.  Seems there's more of an abrupt end to the development outside of the metro area of Syracuse, so you don't have to go that far to find the dark.

Gotta be a place out in Clarksville or out thattaway... :D
It's legal to drive through on NY 157.  What's not legal is stopping and staring at the sky.  Presumably the police treat it like that road in Estonia that passes through Russia.
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Evan_Th

I saw the eclipse from Georgetown, TX!

In the morning, the sky was at least half clouded over, but my friends and I decided to stay and risk it.  There were lots of gaps in the clouds during the partial eclipse phase, and it was even more epic to watch through sometimes-thin clouds.  And then, about ten minutes before totality, everything cleared around the sun.

It was epic.  We heard the birds go silent, the crickets start chirping, and the dogs from the next house over whine and look around confused.

This's the second total eclipse I've seen (after Salem, OR, in 2017); I'm hoping to see another.  Spain 2026?

Duke87

Quote from: vdeane on April 11, 2024, 12:43:18 PMIt's legal to drive through on NY 157.  What's not legal is stopping and staring at the sky.  Presumably the police treat it like that road in Estonia that passes through Russia.

Eh don't assume, it depends on whether the responsible agency has a stick up their ass or not.

My photos of the 2020 comet, coincidentally enough, were taken in a park that technically I wasn't supposed to be in at night but that rule is only enforced against people who cause trouble and no one stopped me.
If you always take the same road, you will never see anything new.

vdeane

Quote from: Duke87 on April 14, 2024, 12:13:04 AM
Quote from: vdeane on April 11, 2024, 12:43:18 PMIt's legal to drive through on NY 157.  What's not legal is stopping and staring at the sky.  Presumably the police treat it like that road in Estonia that passes through Russia.

Eh don't assume, it depends on whether the responsible agency has a stick up their ass or not.

My photos of the 2020 comet, coincidentally enough, were taken in a park that technically I wasn't supposed to be in at night but that rule is only enforced against people who cause trouble and no one stopped me.
There are plenty of stories on Reddit of people getting kicked out of Thacher for stargazing, unless they're all lying to keep the riff-raff away?
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formulanone

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Stopped by Amherst, Massachusetts on my way to a project site:







Quote from: Duke87 on April 14, 2024, 12:13:04 AMMy photos of the 2020 comet, coincidentally enough, were taken in a park that technically I wasn't supposed to be in at night but that rule is only enforced against people who cause trouble and no one stopped me.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I were in a closed park in Gainesville, and a policeman asked us what we were doing there.

"Stargazing" was our answer, and showed him our binoculars and star maps.

His reply: "Oh, every other couple is always lying to me. Ok, just be safe"

bugo

Quote from: triplemultiplex on March 07, 2023, 10:38:29 AMThere's something very primal about gathering with thousands of other humans in the middle of nowhere and all simultaneously cheering the eclipse at the moment totality begins. 

That would be miserable. I wouldn't want to be in a crowd which was cheering and hooting and hollering when totality begins. It would ruin it. I viewed the eclipse from my family's property in Arkansas, and it was just 4 of us, and nobody was cheering. The birds and crickets were really loud, though.

bugo

Quote from: ozarkman417 on April 06, 2024, 02:43:13 PMMy cabin is in an area near Mena, AR but I may drive up to somewhere near Mount Magazine or Nebo for better viewing conditions.

What cabins, and what direction from Mena are they? I was born and grew up in Mena, unfortunately. I rode down from Tulsa to rural Polk County near Acorn to view the eclipse.

bugo

I ended up going to rural Polk County, Arkansas at my family's property. The skies were clear and I was out in the middle of nowhere, so I thankfully didn't hear any cheering or hooting and hollering. The birds were singing loudly and the crickets were chirping, and that's all I heard. The traffic wasn't bad going down there along the Muskogee Turnpike/I-40/US 59/US 270 route that I usually take. We drove back to Tulsa a few hours after the eclipse. I looked on Google Maps, and it showed that I-40 had heavy traffic, so we came back via US 270, US 59, OK 9, OK 2, US 266, US 64, US 69 to the Muskogee Turnpike, and traffic was not bad at all.

bugo

Quote from: cl94 on April 08, 2024, 08:32:03 PMIt is quite ironic that the two places everyone was congregating for the eclipse (South Texas and Southern ON/ Central and Western NY) had the worst weather for viewing it, while Northern New England (which never has sun in April) had the best.

The weather in west central Arkansas was ideal. It was really hot when the eclipse began, but it quickly cooled down once totality was imminent. I was in a valley with very little light pollution, and it was fairly dark during totality, not as dark as I expected but it did look like dusk for a few minutes. I'm glad I got to witness it. I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to until the day I went.

I didn't get any good pictures, but I took this one, which shows the sky was clear.


bugo

Quote from: CtrlAltDel on April 08, 2024, 11:35:43 PMI ended up just east of where US-70 splits off of US-71, so a bit south of Mena. The sky to the north was clear but the sky to the south was a bit hazy, but luckily it cleared just before totality started.

That's much closer to De Queen than to Mena. It's a little over an hour from Mena, but about 15 minutes from De Queen.

CtrlAltDel

Quote from: bugo on July 09, 2024, 02:41:45 PMThat's much closer to De Queen than to Mena. It's a little over an hour from Mena, but about 15 minutes from De Queen.

That's correct. I was more or less halfway between De Queen and Dierks.
I-290   I-294   I-55   (I-74)   (I-72)   I-40   I-30   US-59   US-190   TX-30   TX-6

ozarkman417

Quote from: bugo on July 09, 2024, 01:56:16 PM
Quote from: ozarkman417 on April 06, 2024, 02:43:13 PMMy cabin is in an area near Mena, AR but I may drive up to somewhere near Mount Magazine or Nebo for better viewing conditions.

What cabins, and what direction from Mena are they? I was born and grew up in Mena, unfortunately. I rode down from Tulsa to rural Polk County near Acorn to view the eclipse.
The cabins are near the Polk/Howard County Line, close to Shady Lake.

bugo

Quote from: ozarkman417 on July 11, 2024, 12:23:14 PM
Quote from: bugo on July 09, 2024, 01:56:16 PM
Quote from: ozarkman417 on April 06, 2024, 02:43:13 PMMy cabin is in an area near Mena, AR but I may drive up to somewhere near Mount Magazine or Nebo for better viewing conditions.
What cabins, and what direction from Mena are they? I was born and grew up in Mena, unfortunately. I rode down from Tulsa to rural Polk County near Acorn to view the eclipse.
The cabins are near the Polk/Howard County Line, close to Shady Lake.
I walked across the Shady Lake Dam when I was in high school. I wouldn't do it today.
Did you go to the Tall Peak fire lookout? It's just north of the lake. It is a CCC-built lookout that has a stone base and a wooden top.

ozarkman417

Quote from: bugo on July 16, 2024, 01:27:59 PM
Quote from: ozarkman417 on July 11, 2024, 12:23:14 PM
Quote from: bugo on July 09, 2024, 01:56:16 PM
Quote from: ozarkman417 on April 06, 2024, 02:43:13 PMMy cabin is in an area near Mena, AR but I may drive up to somewhere near Mount Magazine or Nebo for better viewing conditions.
What cabins, and what direction from Mena are they? I was born and grew up in Mena, unfortunately. I rode down from Tulsa to rural Polk County near Acorn to view the eclipse.
The cabins are near the Polk/Howard County Line, close to Shady Lake.
I walked across the Shady Lake Dam when I was in high school. I wouldn't do it today.
Did you go to the Tall Peak fire lookout? It's just north of the lake. It is a CCC-built lookout that has a stone base and a wooden top.
Not on that trip. I camped just outside of the tower about a year before the eclipse. Wasn't going to sleep inside because the rat that rummaged through my Taco Bell set up camp first  :crazy:



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