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bfslick50
03/10/24 7:05:39 PM
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If you're anywhere close you should take the day off and swing by.

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GuerillaGorilla
03/10/24 7:07:03 PM
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Looks like I'll miss out. But if you've seen one, you've seen em all.

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Zikten
03/10/24 7:08:08 PM
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I'm not even on that map so no eclipse for me
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UnholyMudcrab
03/10/24 7:09:25 PM
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Totality is a couple hours' drive south. I might do it.

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xMythic
03/10/24 7:10:18 PM
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I'm hyped for 2099! I'll be in prime position to watch it here in MN!

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mustang93
03/10/24 7:10:26 PM
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Remember when Trump looked at the 2017 eclipse? Classic Trump lmao.
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Zikten
03/10/24 7:11:29 PM
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mustang93 posted...
Remember when Trump looked at the 2017 eclipse? Classic Trump lmao.
Imagine the timeline where he went blind on that day
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VeesMcGees
03/10/24 7:12:02 PM
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I managed to see 2017's. I live a ways away. I'll see if any of my friends are going though. I wouldn't mind going again.
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GeminiDeus
03/10/24 7:12:07 PM
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Looking at the 2024 path, it's still not going to be in my visual range. It's like maybe 30 - 50 or so miles north of me.

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Incurso91
03/10/24 7:14:01 PM
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Probably going to take off work to see it. What I need to do is find good places in southern Illinois as well as a proper eye protection.
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TheOtherMike
03/10/24 7:15:23 PM
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The one in 2017 was about an hour drive from me for the path of totality. It was absolutely stunning. The sky went dark rather suddenly (I expected more gradual dimming, but no, it's almost like a light switch at totality), birds stopped singing, everything went quiet. One of the coolest things about it was the entire horizon, 360 degrees, looked like sunrise. Fucking beautiful event.

This one, my parents are taking my husband and me to Hot Springs, AR. Looking forward to it!

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IfGodCouldDie
03/10/24 7:20:01 PM
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xMythic posted...
I'm hyped for 2099! I'll be in prime position to watch it here in MN!
That's me in 2044

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theAteam
03/10/24 7:23:13 PM
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Nowhere near this one but I saw 2017 and the partial one a few months ago.

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YellowSUV
03/10/24 7:24:00 PM
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mustang93 posted...
Remember when Trump looked at the 2017 eclipse? Classic Trump lmao.


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bfslick50
03/10/24 7:24:46 PM
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GeminiDeus posted...
Looking at the 2024 path, it's still not going to be in my visual range. It's like maybe 30 - 50 or so miles north of me.

2017 was a 6 hour drive so I didn't go. Where I was there was about 90% coverage and the sky didn't darken. I'm going this time with only a 3 hour drive. You have what a 1 hour drive, you should think about going.

GuerillaGorilla posted...
Looks like I'll miss out. But if you've seen one, you've seen em all.

I do have a passion for lining things up.


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Senta
03/10/24 7:27:50 PM
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2017 was basically right on me. This one is about 5 hours away. I might go to it..

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GeminiDeus
03/10/24 7:30:08 PM
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bfslick50 posted...
2017 was a 6 hour drive so I didn't go. Where I was there was about 90% coverage and the sky didn't darken. I'm going this time with only a 3 hour drive. You have what a 1 hour drive, you should think about going.
If it didn't occur on a work day, and the weather was clear, I'd consider it. There's no guarantee that I'd be able to see it, or drive to a place to see it. It would be great to see a full eclipse, but I've missed out on others and am still living. I saw one back in the 90's when I was in middle school. Everyone in school was let out of class for it. I remember the sky getting darker and the temperature dropping and nature getting quiet.

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gamerofNS
03/10/24 7:36:08 PM
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Looks like I'll get grazed by it this year, but I'll get to experience it in full in 2079.
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dragonballer88
03/10/24 7:36:57 PM
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YellowSUV posted...
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DoctorPiranha3
03/10/24 7:37:06 PM
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I live in the path of totality. Not looking forward to dealing with work traffic that day.
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LeoRavus
03/10/24 7:40:13 PM
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Apparently in 2079 the moon will disappear right before the eclipse reaches me.

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bfslick50
03/11/24 12:52:07 PM
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PSA: Order your glasses today, they've got em on Amazon.

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Turbam
03/11/24 12:53:07 PM
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Make sure to get your glasses now

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CobraGT
03/13/24 3:06:22 AM
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Chicago will get a partial. I have already ordered glasses.

I have been thinking about ancient cultures that had accurate eclipse predictions but everyone thought the sun traveled around the earth.

The priest working out the numbers must have just sketched out their elliptical path for the earth, must have done the calculations and must have turned over the dates.

Does anyone think you could get accurate eclipse predictions if your model had the sun going around the earth?

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EyeWontBeFooled
03/13/24 3:10:07 AM
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GuerillaGorilla posted...
Looks like I'll miss out. But if you've seen one, you've seen em all.


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bfslick50
03/13/24 6:55:23 AM
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CobraGT posted...
I have been thinking about ancient cultures that had accurate eclipse predictions but everyone thought the sun traveled around the earth.

The priest working out the numbers must have just sketched out their elliptical path for the earth, must have done the calculations and must have turned over the dates.

Does anyone think you could get accurate eclipse predictions if your model had the sun going around the earth?

They didnt use their model to make those predictions. They had centuries of data on when eclipses occurred and noticed the time interval pattern. Its the same with comets, we observed the repeating pattern and used that to guess the orbit. With Earth/Sun/Moon you can build accurate predictions using Earth as center but everything gets wonky when you try to add in the other planets.

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mustachedmystic
03/13/24 7:03:18 AM
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Yeah, no. I saw the 2017 one, and that was all the eclipse I need to see. It isnt even full where I live, so I will not be taking off work.

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Irony
03/13/24 7:05:33 AM
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It's even gonna pass over here and my walmart is selling glasses lmao

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Error1355
03/13/24 7:16:57 AM
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I ordered my glasses a month ago.

I have off that day anyway, so I'm planning on waking up early and trying to just find a field or something in an area northwest of Pittsburgh lol.

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Winnsock
03/13/24 7:37:15 AM
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Ill be out of the country when it happens ;_;

Im so bummed. There wont be another one where I live in my lifetime. If I make it to 2045, I can drive a few hours up to Oklahoma to see it and hope that it isnt cloudy that day.
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bfslick50
03/13/24 7:49:58 AM
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It is amazing how much 5% of the sun is able to do. Totality catches your attention but be just a bit outside that band and walking around everything still looks normal and you'd have to reason to look up (which you shouldn't without the special glasses just as you shouldn't stare at the sun on a regular day).

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Ratchetrockon
03/13/24 7:54:07 AM
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I'll be able to see one in the year 2078 without traveling too far

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CobraGT
03/14/24 3:28:41 AM
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bfslick50 posted...
They didnt use their model to make those predictions. They had centuries of data on when eclipses occurred and noticed the time interval pattern. Its the same with comets, we observed the repeating pattern and used that to guess the orbit. With Earth/Sun/Moon you can build accurate predictions using Earth as center but everything gets wonky when you try to add in the other planets.

[after some reading] I found an article in Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/eclipse/The-frequency-of-solar-and-lunar-eclipses

"Because of the extra one-third day (and thus an additional eight hours of Earths rotation) in the saros, the eclipse recurs each time approximately 120 farther west on the surface of Earth. After three saroses, or 54 years and about a month, the longitude is repeated."

To be accurate the priest would still need to use the plane of the moon's rotation around the earth and the plane of the earth 's rotation around the sun. Just recording them and adding 54 years would come close but would not be precise.


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YellowSUV
03/14/24 3:40:14 PM
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Eclipse prediction is really old. If I recall, even Babylon had the rudimentary ability to predict eclipses.

Until recently, eclipse prediction wasn't really common knowledge. Christopher Columbus and Tecumseh are probably the 2 most famous people who used their knowledge of eclipses to persuade people of their "powers."


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Strider102
03/14/24 3:43:21 PM
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I'm going to be at between 90% and 100% totality, so kind of excited.

Though I will say this, don't type it on YouTube because there's countless "The end of the world" videos.

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CableZL
03/14/24 3:44:14 PM
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I've got my eclipse glasses. I just need to schedule a vacation for the 8th and 9th.

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bfslick50
03/15/24 9:26:05 AM
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CobraGT posted...
[after some reading] I found an article in Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/eclipse/The-frequency-of-solar-and-lunar-eclipses

"Because of the extra one-third day (and thus an additional eight hours of Earths rotation) in the saros, the eclipse recurs each time approximately 120 farther west on the surface of Earth. After three saroses, or 54 years and about a month, the longitude is repeated."

To be accurate the priest would still need to use the plane of the moon's rotation around the earth and the plane of the earth 's rotation around the sun. Just recording them and adding 54 years would come close but would not be precise.

Accurate and precise are relative terms. If a priest predicted an eclipse, looked up at the sun, saw it get to 95% coverage that day, they'd likely still record that as an accurate prediction.

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