Are You Viewing the 2024 Solar Eclipse?

[Phil C. McNasty]

Eclipse will happen on April 8th at 3:18PM and will last for about 2 minutes.
Should be good viewing if you live in Toronto, but I'll be driving down to Niagara Falls to get the best seat in the house

Map

eclipse2024.org

 

[IM469]

Phil, have you not heard - you can end up blind ! Day becomes night, night becomes day. And what happens when it gets dark ??? Zombies Phil, zombies !!!!

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Myself, I'm going to an underground bunker with three of my favorite SPs and then reseed the human population.

 

[niks9009]

Phil, have you not heard - you can end up blind ! Day becomes night, night becomes day. And what happens when it gets dark ??? Zombies Phil, zombies !!!!

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Myself, I'm going to an underground bunker with three of my favorite SPs and then reseed the human population.

I read in a book somewhere that you need 7 people in order to properly repopulate.

I think you are short a few SPs.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I read in a book somewhere that you need 7 people in order to properly repopulate.

I think you are short a few SPs

I can pitch in a few SP's

 

[IM469]

I can pitch in a few SP's

Thanks Phil. I'm on a budget and based on the quality I can afford, I might have actually been seeding more zombies than humans.

 

[kherg007]

One thing to look out for is ...if you think rubbernecking is bad now in the gta, reports from other parts of the world show that if you get full or close to full eclipse people stop their cars etc and even major highways like the QEW will come to a dead stop for a few minutes. I know, you're used to that lol, but some people will want to push through so it might get dangerous.
Thus be careful terbivoures...if you're out and about when it happens.

 

[Twister]

Is this total eclipse?

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Is this total eclipse?

Yes!!

Well....in Toronto I believe it will be 99% eclipse, but if you go past Hamilton towards NF and Buffalo it'll be 100%

 

[xix]

Is this total eclipse?

 

[Valcazar]

Looking forward to it.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

So 2 things to know:

1. When the Sun is completely blocked you will be able to see Venus
2. Once the eclipse is complete the shadows on buildings will look REALLY weird for a few minutes

 

[bazokajoe]

So 2 things to know:

1. When the Sun is completely blocked you will be able to see Venus
2. Once the eclipse is complete the shadows on buildings will look REALLY weird for a few minutes

I guess you won't be able to see Uranus tho.

 

[basketcase]

Yes!!

Well....in Toronto I believe it will be 99% eclipse, but if you go past Hamilton towards NF and Buffalo it'll be 100%

99.93%. Might not see the corona as clearly but should be good enough. Next one in Ontario won't be until 2048.

Still think it stupid that schools had their pa days moved because school boards are worried that it will be dark for a few minutes. Would be great for kids to have someone actually teach them what was going on instead of them sitting in their home splaying video games.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I bought my special eclipse glasses already

Amazon.ca

Interesting fact, Christopher Columbus tricked the local Jamaicans (Arawaks) into giving them food by scaring them with a lunar eclipse.
In the end it didnt end well for the Arawaks though, almost all were killed by smallpox or massacred by colonialists

How a Total Lunar Eclipse Saved Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus pulled a trick using a total lunar eclipse in 1504 that might have saved his life.

www.space.com

On Oct. 12, 1492, Columbus came ashore on an island northeast of Cuba, which he later named San Salvador (Holy Savior). Over the next 10 years Columbus would make three more voyages to the "New World." On his fourth and final voyage, while exploring the coast of Central America, Columbus found himself in dire straits.

He left Cádiz, Spain, on May 11, 1502, with the ships Capitana, Gallega, Vizcaína and Santiago de Palos.Unfortunately, thanks to an epidemic of shipworms eating holes in the planking of his fleet, Columbus was forced to abandon two of his ships and finally had to beach his last two caravels on the north coast of an island now known as Jamaica, on June 25, 1503.

Initially, the native peoples (Arawak Indians) welcomed the castaways, providing them with food and shelter, but as the days dragged into weeks, tensions mounted. Finally, after being stranded for more than six months, half of Columbus' crew mutinied, robbing and murdering some of the Arawaks, who themselves had grown weary of supplying cassava, corn and fish in exchange for little tin whistles, trinkets, hawk's bells and other trashy goods. With famine now threatening, Columbus formulated a desperate, albeit ingenious plan.

Coming to the admiral's rescue was Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436-1476), known by his Latin pseudonym, Regiomontanus. He was a highly regarded German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Before his death, Regiomontanus published an almanac containing astronomical tables covering the years 1475-1506.

Regiomontanus'almanac turned out to be of great value, for his astronomical tables provided detailed information about the sun, moon and planets, as well as the more important stars and constellations to navigate by. After it was published, no sailor dared set out without a copy. With its help, explorers were able to leave their customary routes and venture out into the unknown seas in search of new frontiers.

Columbus, of course, had a copy of the almanac with him when he was stranded on Jamaica. And he soon discovered from studying its tables that on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 29, 1504, a total lunar eclipse would occur, beginning around the time of moonrise.

Armed with this knowledge, three days before the eclipse, Columbus requested a meeting with the Arawak chief and informed him that his Christian god was very angry with his people for no longer supplying him and his men with food. Therefore, he was about to provide a clear sign of his displeasure: Three nights hence, he would all but obliterate the rising full moon, making it appear "inflamed with wrath," which would signify the evils that would soon be inflicted upon all of them.

On the appointed evening, as the sun set in the west and the moon started emerging from beyond the eastern horizon, it was plainly obvious to all that something was terribly wrong. By the time the moon appeared in full view, a small but noticeable dark scallop had been removed from its lower edge.

And, just over an hour later, as evening twilight ended and full darkness descended, the moon indeed exhibited an eerily inflamed and "bloody" appearance: In place of the normally brilliant late winter full moon there now hung a dim red ball in the eastern sky.

According to Columbus' son, Ferdinand, the Arawaks were terrified at this sight and "with great howling and lamentation came running from every direction to the ships laden with provisions and beseeching the admiral to intercede with his god on their behalf." They promised that they would happily cooperate with Columbus and his men if only he would restore the moon back to its normal self. The great explorer told the natives that he would have to retire to confer privately with his god. He then shut himself in his cabin for about 50 minutes.

While in his quarters, Columbus turned an hourglass every half hour to time the various stages of the eclipse based on the calculations provided by Regiomontanus' almanac.

Just moments before the end of the total phase Columbus reappeared, announcing to the Arawaks that his god had pardoned them and would now allow the moon to gradually return. And at that moment, true to Columbus' word, the moon slowly began to reappear, and as it emerged from the Earth's shadow, the grateful Arawaks hurried away. They then kept Columbus and his men well supplied and well fed until a relief caravel from Hispaniola arrived on June 29, 1504. Columbus and his men returned to Spain on Nov. 7.

 

[basketcase]

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Interesting fact, Christopher Columbus tricked the local Jamaicans (Arawaks) into giving them food by scaring them with a lunar eclipse.
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If he had tried that with the Maya, they probably would have laughed and showed him how accurate their own calendars were.

 

[y2kmark]

Yes!!

Well....in Toronto I believe it will be 99% eclipse, but if you go past Hamilton towards NF and Buffalo it'll be 100%

The longest totality will be along that center line on the map. The farther out, the shorter the duration of totality. Keep thinking though, here I am right in he best spot, so it's gonna rain that day. Story of my life...

 

[JackBurton]

Dammit. I was just cleaning junk out of my closet at Xmas and tossed the eclipse watching glasses I bought for the eclipse in Florida/southern states a few years back.

It was cool watching it then the thrill was over quick. Weirdest part was that nature went completely silent. Not a bird chirped or a bug buzzed. Completely and deathly quiet.

 

[stephenp]

No big loss, they're pretty cheap on Amazon

 

[y2kmark]

No big loss, they're pretty cheap on Amazon

Libraries around here are giving them away, so they can't cost that much...

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Dammit. I was just cleaning junk out of my closet at Xmas and tossed the eclipse watching glasses I bought for the eclipse in Florida/southern states a few years back

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