Total Eclipse

Ken & Peggy said:
Pulled the trailer down to Eddyville, KY to see the eclipse. Lucked out and found a campground with a cancellation that was right in the path of Totality! Trip down took 7 hours - a bit longer than usual.
We (my daughter and I) were able to set up the tripods on a basketball court about 50 yards from the campsite. The experience of a total eclipse is truly one of those events that is unlike anything I've ever seen - just incredible. You can understand how primitive peoples would have thought that things in the world weren't quite right...
The drive home took 10 hours, with bumper to bumper traffic on Interstate 57 much of the way - but worth it.
Here's a few pics from the day.

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AMAZING! great pics!thanks for sharing! By coincidence I just viewed a youtube video about a group that happened to locate themselves at the exact point (a farmers field) at which they could additionally view the space station cross the path of the sun and moon during the eclipse and photo/video the experience, it was amazing as well!
 
I watched the 2017 eclipse from Fossil, Oregon. We were fortunate to have family that owned a rural motel in the path of totality, so we made it a camping event in the grassy field behind the fine establishment. It was the second one I've seen (in addition to two annular solar eclipses); the first being the 1998 eclipse, which I saw it from a ship off of the west coast of South America. Pictures don't ever do it justice...I watched people break down crying, while others were having a spiritual experience. I get it. They're truly that amazing amazing to watch. Looking forward to the 2024 eclipse...turns out we have family living in the path of the eclipse in Texas!
 
Sounds like a good excuse to be somehwere. The only total solar elcipse I've been able to see was way back in High School --- There was one in the late 2000's early teens that was hyped beyond all belief --- but paying the bills took presidence --- and where we were was not 100%

The 'feeling in the air' during the event was so very very strange in both cases.
 
Co-worker of mine reserved a Hotel / Motel room a year in advance of where the total eclipse was taking place for a very cheap rate... when they started filling up reservations and realized the occasion they tried to up charge her reservation by $150 dollars !!
 
Carl U said:
Co-worker of mine reserved a Hotel / Motel room a year in advance of where the total eclipse was taking place for a very cheap rate... when they started filling up reservations and realized the occasion they tried to up charge her reservation by $150 dollars !!
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Many places are already doubling their rates and requiring 3 day minimum stays. I'm sure at this point you'd be hard-pressed to find lodging since we're within a year. Spots are out there, just harder and harder to find.
 
Long Truong said:
It's in the middle of the day so I guess I could just take the day off and drive down to southern IL and back. No need for a night
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Sounds good on paper, but I think the reality would be different. EVERYBODY will think the same thing. That's what we experienced after the last eclipse - bumper to bumper on I-57 on the way home. It took 10 hours from roughly Paducah to Chicago.
Indy is a bit closer, btw, it'll save you some time.
 
Jay & Valerie said:
Math geek in my loves that the moon exactly fits the size of the sun even though they are VASTLY different sizes. Great pics by the way.
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To tickle your geekiness some more, how about this additional fact: not only do the relative sizes of the sun and moon correspond to their relative distances to make them appear the same size in the sky, but the moon has been receding from earth for over billions of years. It is another amazing coincidence that only recently (in geologic time) has the earth-moon distance reached the point where, during a total eclipse, we humans can actually observe the sun's corona (seen in some of the photos in this thread).

We live in a very special time.
 
Turnip767 said:
To tickle your geekiness some more, how about this additional fact: not only do the relative sizes of the sun and moon correspond to their relative distances to make them appear the same size in the sky, but the moon has been receding from earth for over billions of years. It is another amazing coincidence that only recently (in geologic time) has the earth-moon distance reached the point where, during a total eclipse, we humans can actually observe the sun's corona (seen in some of the photos in this thread).

We live in a very special time.
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Indeed we do...
 
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