tomorrow is the day....thank god

did you get your glasses?

will you be watching?

i am in the zone of entirety, or whatever the fuck its called.

i will set my alarm to wake me from my afternoon nap and go into the back yard to view this, i remember the last one.......kind of uneventful, i must say.

but is ALL OVER the local news and even mentioned on the national news.

hotels and motels in ohio are charging sinfully exorbitant prices with mandatory 3 and 4 day stays. why is everything about money?

There will be totality here from 3:04-3:08, and partial for an approx.hour before and after,

Schools, the university, doctors' offices, many businesses are closed.

We're supposed to have 300,000 people (aka nuts) pile into town that usually holds just under 100K.

I have my glasses, hopefully they're authentic. I did buy others on Amazon but sent them back when they weren't listed on the American Astronomical Society site-
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters

I'll be glad when it's all over.

amen brother, amen

What the eclipse will look like where Renny lives:



What the eclipse will look like where Alan lives:

Power metal version was pretty good.

Settling for 94 percent here in the Chicago suburbs.

We're supposed to have the eclipse here at it's peak (95.9% magnitude) around 3:23 EDT, with partial for an hour before and after. I didn't bother with glasses. I'm not looking at the sun. Schools are closed here.

I'm more of a lunar eclipse fella. Anyway, I'll be dusting off my Uranus jokes for the occasion today.

I'm surprised Uranus ever lets dust settle on it.

I have been walking around saying "Today I will make the moon blot out the sun, beware my power."

What chasing the eclipse feels like.

At first I thought the above was a Dr Chris Evil post. Looks like he was "eclipsed". I wonder if he'll "moon" JohnG!

It just passed it's peak here for me; got about as dark as 8:30 twilight in June, and is now lightening up. neat, but i've seen it get darker with impending thunderstorms

Yes, it was over hyped and under delivered.

I want my money back. .

We went down to Jones Beach and despite some high clouds, we could clearly see the Moon as it covered quite a bit of the Sun. Got damn cold down there suddenly.

We had over four minutes of totality in Midlothian, Texas. Otherworldly beauty, with the corona hanging high in the sky. There were clouds around our location, especially to the south which made this the darkest total eclipse I've seen. And the eerily-lit clouds around the eclipse were great… but the nail-biting that came before, not knowing if the eclipse was going to happen in a clear spot, was not fun.

Totality was very dark here and you could look at it without glasses. The temperature dropped 5-10 degrees.

When it was over, the sunlight reappeared very fast,

300,000 visitors? Ha! Maybe 300. Or maybe they headed to Indianapolis.

Nothing but clouds and rain up here in the PNW, but we weren’t in the path of totality anyways. I look forward to all the pics from my photographer buddies, some of whom traveled to get their shots.

Here at 3:23 PM EDT

I didn’t manage to make it to Little Rock to see the eclipse with my family but my nephew took this awesome totality shot: