Are You Viewing the 2024 Solar Eclipse?
- Thread starter Phil C. McNasty
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"Entity", a tiny bit better, but still not quite there. As for it being beyond human comprehension, it's within comprehension, "(something) created our Universe".
Anyways, won't go back and forth about this, because we can, but it's exhausting like the other topic tied to it a lot, politics.After staring into the Sun for a few seconds, I now have a strange permanent half moon dark space in my vision.
Whats going on??
Same, I work there so I took a drive down to the waterfront. I couldn't get a good pic of the totality because of the clouds, but I caught it briefly on video.
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I remember my parents making a shoebox camera so we could watch it in southern Ontario. I was only five at the time, but I still remember what a neat experience it was.
Saw today's eclipse at work. Almost 2 minutes of totality. Lucked out with only a bit of high cloud, which didn't ruin things. Saw some pink prominences during totality and the diamond ring effect just as totality was ending.
Absolutely fascinating to experience in person.
Just west of Burlington. I got caught up at work and had to modify my original trip. I pulled off the highway and found a plaza. The clouds opened up and it was clear until totality started to occur. I saw one planet but right on cue a light misty cloud started to cover it. I could still get shots and took one photo of the darken neighborhood.
Think I made a mistake to stay in Toronto and think that that 1% would not have been that big of a deal. Looks like I missed out on totality. My only consolation was there was signfiicant cloud coverage and except for that 15 min in Hamilton (which would have been chancy anyway), there is no guarantee I would have seen that magical specatcular display that everyone's talking about. Hopefully I'll catch it in VR 360 degrees.
However, it was still an interesting experience as a partial eclipse in Toronto and it did get quite cold and dim. While it didn't have the punch, I think it at least whetted the appetite to want to experience the totality in VR (if a 360 degree video is available).
However, it was still an interesting experience as a partial eclipse in Toronto and it did get quite cold and dim. While it didn't have the punch, I think it at least whetted the appetite to want to experience the totality in VR (if a 360 degree video is available).
It was amazing.
Was watching the weather forecast in the morning and instead of driving to Niagra Drove 2 and 1/2 hours southwest and watch 3 mins of totality with clear blue skies from Long Point Prov Park The clouds cleared just in time for the solar eclipse
Was watching the weather forecast in the morning and instead of driving to Niagra Drove 2 and 1/2 hours southwest and watch 3 mins of totality with clear blue skies from Long Point Prov Park The clouds cleared just in time for the solar eclipse
How were the crowds down in the park? I read there was a London family that tried to get a Niagara hotel room, but got caught off guard with the crazy high prices. They should have just gone to Long Point.
I have family member that drive from London to Port Stanley and saw the total solar eclipse there and it was clear sky had a great experience from that location
There was many cars at Long Point but able to secure parking it’s a large park and saw the eclipse at the beach on Lake Erie. Was not crowded in the beach. Though afterwards It was bumper to bumper get out of the park but wasn’t as crazy as QEW from Niagara on that day
The parking at N falls was 70-100 dollars a day instead of $20. The weather was awful there and I’m very happy that I didn’t go there for the eclipse
This is my third planned total solar eclipse sighting so I’m generally more prepared than most
No doubt that any place that has a few roads out is going to have crazy traffic on the way out. It probably would have been better to go camping or rent a cottage though I'm sure it would be quite expensive too.
It never ceases to amaze me that there are people willing to pay more than double the regular rate for parking, food, lodging, etc.
