A week from today - Next Monday - 8/21

[Elrod]

.........Enjoy

[Catherine]

A friend of my husband is going to Missouri to take photos; he is an amateur astronomer.  We'll see about 63% occlusion here.

[NECPA in NEBRASKA]

We are supposed to be in the 96-98% zone. We will just stay here to watch, because it will be a nightmare of traffic to get to the closest place for 100%. I just hope that my eclipse glasses get here in the mail.

 

[Catherine]

35 minutes ago, NECPA in NEBRASKA said:

my eclipse glasses

I have an ancient set of welding glasses that belonged to my grandfather that I use to view eclipses.  They're great.  Full rectangular pane, rather than little squares.  But they are heavy to hold up.

[Randall]

I'm in No. Ky but will be backpacking in Land Between the Lakes area in far western Ky during the eclipse.  Special glasses for our group.

 

[Jack from Ohio]

I will be in TN (Lenoir City to be exact) to video and watch the eclipse.  I have NASA approved viewing glasses and filters for my cameras.

Any electric welding helmet will be safe.  Otherwise, do your homework on any other things you use for viewing.

[Elrod]

................Tuesday 8/22............

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[Randall]

What's that song say, 'What a wonderful world this will be'

[Elrod]

 

[Catherine]

27 minutes ago, Jack from Ohio said:

Any electric welding helmet will be safe.

I did research on this back in junior high school in the early 70's (if memory serves) to make sure of it.  Hard to do, back in the days of libraries only!  I found out the limitations of the local branch very quickly and had to go to the main branch "downtown" to find out.  The main branch had more than two rooms of books...

[Gail in Virginia]

We are in the .92 magnitude for the eclipse this time.  My mother and brother had already scheduled vacation for that week, and will be in the .99 band.  If my niece goes back to college by then (and I think she plans to) she will be in the 100% range.  We all have our glasses, and my husband is talking about dragging out his telescope to use the attachment on that.  I really doubt any work gets done that afternoon here, but that is okay.  The last solar eclipse I remember is from 1979 (I think).