Did you watch the eclipse? (POLL)

[PopClick]

You should have just usedthe welding lenses, like I did.

I used what I already had on hand.

 

[peacenik]

This was allegedly seen over the mid day skies:

 

[Tommy379]

I saw it and it was very anticlimactic.

 

[17Bees]

I drove to NC mountains to see it. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. It started with the thousands of frowning crescent shaped shadows all over the ground, then a progressively bigger bite out of the sun. The temperature dropped at least 10 degrees as the sunlight dimmed in this eerie other worldly kind of way. Finally it was a full eclipse and you could see the sun's corona all around the big round black spot of the moon. It was total dark and the crickets and frogs started chirping and I began to see stars. The moon fully hid the sun for a full two minutes and then came the biggest part of the show. The sun's corona turned from flowing outward rays to narrow bands of reds and yellow all around the moons perimeter, then suddenly the diamond ring appeared when the sun first emerged the other side. The diamond was magnificent and the band turned from red and yellow to a bright gold and the diamond glistened bright. When the band disappeared the diamond was too bright to watch without the glasses and the crescent shadows appeared again - this time smiling instead. I took pictures but it just didn't capture it at all.

Driving back home was another thing altogether though. Traffic was .... not magnificent.

 

[TemporaryCircumstances]

We did at school.
Like Tommy said: it was very anticlimactic

 

[garet82]

nope. because when it happened its night time in my place

 

[Magenta]

I had forgotten all about it, but when I was driving to work at nine o'clock this morning, the car and pedestrian traffic was very congested with people out and about, many heading to a specific destination to watch the eclipse unfold. I was busy at work for much of it, though I went for a pre-breakfast walk around eleven in the morning, and the lighting was a bit eerie as someone said. Some of my co-workers watched it through a pinhole box We had 85% coverage, being just north of the path of totality in Oregon, where it looked like this:

 

[Pipp]

I drove to NC mountains to see it. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. It started with the thousands of frowning crescent shaped shadows all over the ground, then a progressively bigger bite out of the sun. The temperature dropped at least 10 degrees as the sunlight dimmed in this eerie other worldly kind of way. Finally it was a full eclipse and you could see the sun's corona all around the big round black spot of the moon. It was total dark and the crickets and frogs started chirping and I began to see stars. The moon fully hid the sun for a full two minutes and then came the biggest part of the show. The sun's corona turned from flowing outward rays to narrow bands of reds and yellow all around the moons perimeter, then suddenly the diamond ring appeared when the sun first emerged the other side. The diamond was magnificent and the band turned from red and yellow to a bright gold and the diamond glistened bright. When the band disappeared the diamond was too bright to watch without the glasses and the crescent shadows appeared again - this time smiling instead. I took pictures but it just didn't capture it at all.

Driving back home was another thing altogether though. Traffic was .... not magnificent.

Everything you write is beautiful.

 

[rachelsedge]

I think to truly appreciate it, you'd have to see it at 100% totality. Where I live, they had 95% and I heard it was underwhelming.

But I traveled and stayed with family in order to see it in totality. It was on my bucket list. I took a vacation day for it. And it was totally and utterly WORTH IT. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. It was different than what I expected. In a better way. When it was totally covered, I started gasping and my mouth hung open and I almost cried. It was so unreal.

 

[zeroturbulence]

I drove to NC mountains to see it. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. It started with the thousands of frowning crescent shaped shadows all over the ground, then a progressively bigger bite out of the sun. The temperature dropped at least 10 degrees as the sunlight dimmed in this eerie other worldly kind of way. Finally it was a full eclipse and you could see the sun's corona all around the big round black spot of the moon. It was total dark and the crickets and frogs started chirping and I began to see stars. The moon fully hid the sun for a full two minutes and then came the biggest part of the show. The sun's corona turned from flowing outward rays to narrow bands of reds and yellow all around the moons perimeter, then suddenly the diamond ring appeared when the sun first emerged the other side. The diamond was magnificent and the band turned from red and yellow to a bright gold and the diamond glistened bright. When the band disappeared the diamond was too bright to watch without the glasses and the crescent shadows appeared again - this time smiling instead. I took pictures but it just didn't capture it at all.

Driving back home was another thing altogether though. Traffic was .... not magnificent.

I have to admit... I was waiting for a punchline! Beautifully written!

 

[zeroturbulence]

I think to truly appreciate it, you'd have to see it at 100% totality. Where I live, they had 95% and I heard it was underwhelming.

But I traveled and stayed with family in order to see it in totality. It was on my bucket list. I took a vacation day for it. And it was totally and utterly WORTH IT. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. It was different than what I expected. In a better way. When it was totally covered, I started gasping and my mouth hung open and I almost cried. It was so unreal.

Wow. I've only seen like 90% eclipse and thought that was cool, but never 100%. The way u describe it makes me want to see a total eclipse now... I actually felt like if you've seen one, you've seen them all, but apparently a full eclipse is where the real deal's at!

 

[Lynx]

We only got 93% eclipse here. It was boring. I was at w*rk so I couldn't drive across to where the full eclipse was.

 

[mailmandan]

I watched the eclipse throughout the day all the way up until it reached a full eclipse while I was delivering mail. It was so cool!