Anyone planning on viewing the Solar Eclipse?

[cjshaker]

We are going in the camper. So we can be very flexible as to our location. That way,  I can watch the weather radar, and avoid areas with a chance of clouds and rain.

That's one of the reasons we're backpacking. We don't have a trailer...or a reasonable vehicle to pull one, but that would be the best way, for sure. I have several spots picked out in case we have to move to clearer skies, but since we're so mobile, we can move to just about anywhere and not have to worry about finding a hotel.

[57 lima bean]

Celestial tune for those that will seek the awesomeness ........ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bil3-qR9s3U

[cjshaker]

Celestial tune for those that will seek the awesomeness ........ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bil3-qR9s3U

A lesson in "How To Kill A Thread"

[57 lima bean]

My apologizes Doug.This living in Minneapolis must be getting to me.

[cjshaker]

My apologizes Doug.This living in Minneapolis must be getting to me.

Apology not accepted...because I thought it was funny..lol

[chris401]

Were going to use a pair or two of shades under my welding helmet.

[My427stang]

Would like to, but the team that works for me wants to see it, and someone has to answer the Generals if they need something

[cjshaker]

Were going to use a pair or two of shades under my welding helmet.

Test it first. If it's an auto-darken helmet, they don't always work so well. I tried mine and it didn't work too well. Even with the sensitivity set to max, the sun wasn't bright enough to activate it. It would for just a second, then it would de-activate. Not a good thing when you're looking at the sun. If it's not an auto, then you're good.

[chris401]

It is not an auto dimming lens, just a plain 10. Looking at the sun through it with shades leaves a spot on my eyes for a minute. With two or three pairs of shades it should work. I wondered about the auto dimming, I will pass that on to my neighbor. When I was a kid we had a full eclipse but rhos time we are only seeing a partial eclipse in central Texas.

[FERoadster]

Doesn't look to good for us to see the 90% here. A quick moving forest fire has the smoke plume so thick we can't even see the sun. The fire is moving closer so the smoke will be worse tomorrow.If you want search on Chetco Bar fire.

Richard

[AlanCasida]

They're talking like it's going to be mostly cloudy Monday around here. I am in the 98% coverage area. I was going up to the northern part of the state to see the total eclipse but I am not sure it's worth the 7 hour round trip for less than 2 minutes of viewing time for the total eclipse.

[turbohunter]

Ok that was pretty cool.
Put the live feed on the tube, turned the sound off and the local station played Dark Side of the Moon to coincide with totality during the last song Eclipse.

[KMcCullah]

Yep..kinda cool.  I pulled up a traffic cam north of Denver this morning. I-25 North was bumper to bumper at 6AM. Everyone was headed to Wyoming. Crazy shit! Just not my thing. Reminded me of Y2K when everybody stocked up on Ramen and moved "off grid".  But Doug was right...my auto darkening lens didn't work very well. Got myself some cheap sunglasses with a gold plated 10 shade lens, that worked good. Got about 85% eclipsed in western CO. 

[thatdarncat]

Clouds & light rain rolled in to Minneapolis right at the start of the eclipse. It was only going to be partial here anyway, but with the clouds there was nothing to see here. I watched a bunch of the coverage on tv. I feel for the people that traveled across the world just to have a cloudy day, but many seemed to be having fun anyway.

[chris401]

Cooled down some for an hour or so. It was as if the sun was on a dimmer. With three pair of shades behind my shade 10 welding helmet we got a good view.