The Silver Screen Oasis

Lots of clouds here, low and high, but the celestial gods were kind and the low ones cleared at exactly the right moment and we got to see the main event through the light upper clouds. One of my solar tiki lights came on. Tried to take cell phone pics, but mine is just too low res to show anything but a bright spot.

The 65" tv that I use as a monitor is getting old and now has 5 light spots left & right off center in the screen that show up with light backgrounds. Was really funny to see my cell phone pic of light gray clouds with the sun blob in the center and 5 softer white satellites around it.

Hibi wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 2:54 pm It got pretty dark here in Ohio, but it didnt last that long. This was the darkest eclipse I've seen so far. (I don't trust those glasses and never use those or look up. Just went out to look around). The past ones were Bleh. That said, I'm glad its over. So sick of the hype for this for weeks now. On to the next overexposed news story.....

I guess the good news is the next one in our area is 2044.
I've experienced wildfire smoke overload, where it was dark during the day with an orange sky. So dark during the day just makes me nervous.

jimimac71 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:00 pm

Hibi wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 2:54 pm It got pretty dark here in Ohio, but it didnt last that long. This was the darkest eclipse I've seen so far. (I don't trust those glasses and never use those or look up. Just went out to look around). The past ones were Bleh. That said, I'm glad its over. So sick of the hype for this for weeks now. On to the next overexposed news story.....

I guess the good news is the next one in our area is 2044.
I've experienced wildfire smoke overload, where it was dark during the day with an orange sky. So dark during the day just makes me nervous.

I'll probably be dead by then. No problem! It came and went so quickly it was like a non-event. I was expecting a gradual long progression. Wasn't like that at all.

A possibility for me too Hibi.
I don't know when in 2044, but I'd be either 86 or 87.

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Andree wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:21 pm Now available: Caitlin Clark's Total Eclipse Guidebook.

She is so popular, even I know who she is.

jimimac71 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:19 pm A possibility for me too Hibi.
I don't know when in 2044, but I'd be either 86 or 87.

Frankly I hope I'm dead in 20 years. I wouldn't want to be that age. (mine, I mean!)

Hibi wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:10 pm
I'll probably be dead by then. No problem! It came and went so quickly it was like a non-event. I was expecting a gradual long progression. Wasn't like that at all.

Sound as if someone should now cue up a certain Peggy Lee song for ya here, Hibi?!

Dargo wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:42 pm

Hibi wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:10 pm
I'll probably be dead by then. No problem! It came and went so quickly it was like a non-event. I was expecting a gradual long progression. Wasn't like that at all.

Sound as if someone should now cue up a certain Peggy Lee song for ya here, Hibi?!

YEP! Funny when I was young I thought that song was so stupid. I can relate to it now.

It was still fairly light up until the last minute or so. And then it got dark very quickly. And 3 minutes later when the totality was over, it got light again just as quickly. Within 10 minutes, the light looked like it would on a cloudy day.

Although the clouds broke up a bit, there was a big puffy one between me and the sun, so no viewing for me. Just the eerie darkness.

jimimac71 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 4:25 pm

She is so popular, even I know who she is.

Yeah, hard to avoid. It's a shame Iowa lost. Awww.

Yeah, it was WAY LAME here in COASTAL NORTH CAROLINA, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky when it happened at 3:15.

It did look eerily weird for a bit though.
Made me wanna rewatch DOLORES CLAIBORNE.

Edmund : I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day,
what should follow these eclipses.

Edgar : Do you busy yourself with that?

Edmund : I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as
of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death,
dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state,
menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless
diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts,
nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

***
As you can see, there is discord afoot within the realm.
***
King Lear, I ii .

It was the complete eclipse here.