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There's a total solar eclipse coming up on August 21st! Are you guys as excited as I am?! It's the first total eclipse of the sun in about 100 years (I'll be singing Little Shop of Horrors the whole time :) and the first one in our generation.
We got some eclipse glasses, and they're way different from what I was expecting. For some reason, I thought they'd have special colored lenses like those old 3-D glasses. But they're just really really really dark plastic sunglasses. (I'm sure there's a lot more to them than that, but that's pretty much what they look like.)
I'm hoping to be able to film a little bit of the eclipse, maybe make a short video. Apparently, once the eclipse starts the trees will cast little miniature eclipse-shadows on the ground, which sounds creepy and also cool. XD
Do you guys have any plans for the 21st?
submitted by Micearenice
(August 9, 2017 - 7:12 pm)
(August 9, 2017 - 7:12 pm)
DRAGONRIDER! You're on vacation in Maine?! Where in Maine?
(August 21, 2017 - 11:16 am)
(August 21, 2017 - 6:02 am)
I just got to see the eclipse and it was so cool! My dad told me that people were sitting outside an ice cream shop and lending people their eclipse glasses, so my brother, my mom and I started walking towards where all the shops and restaurants are. The man in the house next to us was looking through a welding mask at the eclipse, and he let us try it. It was amazing! The sun wasn't entirely covered, but it was still really cool to see.
(August 21, 2017 - 1:53 pm)
(August 21, 2017 - 2:10 pm)
AHHHH THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! Totality just passed us! The moon's moving away now.
There's no way I can explain how beautiful it was to look up and see the moon surrounded by the sun's corona...
We had 1 minute and 30 seconds of totality, but it felt like way less. I'll post my pictures as soon as I can!!!
(August 21, 2017 - 2:12 pm)
Exactly.
Only people who have seen it know what you mean, there are no proper words to describe the sudden twilight, and then, the blotting out if the sun.
I didn't feel terror, like I expected to feel at the (brief) loss of the sun, and the cold. Instead, I felt only wonder. I was smiling for an hour straight afterwards.
I'm going to see the solar eclipse in 2024. I don't care where I need to go, but I need to see it.
I also don't care that I had to get up before dawn this morning.
That one minute and 37 seconds of totality was worth it.
The shadows were also very cool.
-Nianad
(August 21, 2017 - 11:30 pm)
@Leafpool, sorry I guess I wasn't allowed to post what town I was in. I'm near Acadia National park.
(August 21, 2017 - 4:12 pm)
If you guys want to see the full eclipse, look it up on NASA's website.
(August 21, 2017 - 6:23 pm)
Okay, here are the pictures. This one was taken a few minutes after first contact:
(August 22, 2017 - 7:01 am)
It went from that to this in about 30 minutes.
(August 22, 2017 - 7:03 am)
Here are some eclipse shadows shining onto a chair:
(August 22, 2017 - 7:04 am)
Second contact just about to happen!!!
(August 22, 2017 - 7:06 am)
And...totality. The picture doesn't do it justice, but here it is:
(August 22, 2017 - 7:09 am)
So there are my pictures! How did everybody else's eclipse go?
(August 22, 2017 - 7:18 am)
Wow, those pictures are absolutely amazing! I only saw a little less than half of the sun covered, and my mom couldn't get any good pictures.
(August 22, 2017 - 11:41 am)