Annular Solar Eclipse 2023-10-14

[VictorR]

It's started here on the west coast and peaks in an hour (on the coast), but it's cloudy where I am so I'll miss it.

Apparently it leaves interesting shadows so if anyone has experiences to share from today or otherwise I'd love to hear!

 

[LadyS]

We're at the end of the eclipse (the very last ones in the U.S) but unfortunately it's mostly cloudy here too .. you can still see it through the glasses but not sure if I'll get it on camera..

 

[LadyS]

I normally love clouds but..

 

[Angular Chap]

Apparently it leaves interesting shadows so if anyone has experiences to share from today or otherwise I'd love to hear!

Speaking of interesting shadows, here is what a solar eclipse looks like from space! These are not of today's eclipse, the space station was in the wrong position, they are pictures from previous years.

 

[LadyS]

 

[Rodafina]

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Wow!!!

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

It was overcast here. And although I had picked up free eclipse glasses from the library, I couldn't see the actual eclipse.

But the whole world became dimmer, and redder. Every moment I looked up it got darker and darker. Then after 9:19, it became brighter and brighter.

It was quite an experience.

Thank you @LadyS for the photos. What an incredible sight!

Do you live in the Pacific NW?

 

[DaisyRose]

I was about to make a post about this, but you beat me to it lol. I have special sunglasses that I had since 2017. I saw the eclipse in 2017, so that’s why I had my glasses. This is amazing! The next eclipse will happen when I’m 47.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Spaceweather.com is an amazing resource.

It's a long running after school program in Bishop CA (Sierra Nevadas, toward Death Valley).

They send up weather balloons and record the data.

Every day the kids update the data on their website. It's my go-to for checking solar and geomagnetic data.

During the eclipses, they usually have the kids send a weather balloon up, and then they post the image of the shadow over the Eastern Sierras. It's eerie.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

It would be cool if there was a break in the clouds and someone in Roseburg, Oregon was able to photograph it. That's where the eclipse first peaked.

 

[LadyS]

 

[VictorR]

It would be cool if there was a break in the clouds and someone in Roseburg, Oregon was able to photograph it. That's where the eclipse first peaked.

This one was taken in Eugene.
[Photo credit Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard]

 

[LadyS]

It was overcast here. And although I had picked up free eclipse glasses from the library, I couldn't see the actual eclipse.

But the whole world became dimmer, and redder. Every moment I looked up it got darker and darker. Then after 9:19, it became brighter and brighter.

It was quite an experience.

Thank you @LadyS for the photos. What an incredible sight!

Do you live in the Pacific NW?

It was cloudy here in South Texas but it actually helped with photos and viewing too. Although you can't see the photos were off the gulf of Mexico.. very cool !

 

[LadyS]

 

[Tom]

The sun is being eaten by a black hole!

Raining here so no see.

 

[Richelle-H]

I just returned from viewing the eclipse this morning. Drove 200 miles+ yesterday and spent the night in Elko. Looked grim right before it started but the weather cleared up enough to see as much of it as anyone could wish. Tried to take a photo with my phone near the beginning but the light overwhelmed things for the most part. However, I was able to snap this shot, which I kept because of.... Well, take a look and see if you can spot the reflection of the eclipse in the bottom third of the photo. It surprised me as I was not expecting it and only spotted it much later when reviewing photos I had taken after the eclipse ended.


Best viewed at full size +

 

[VictorR]

Some photos from Albuquerque:

[Shadows]

[Composite of phases]

[Golden Ring in a Red Sky]

 

[SusanLR]

Those rings on the ground are very cool.
I didn't get to see it either.

I remember when I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let me go outside until it was over.
She was always afraid I would look at it and go blind.
That started me thinking of how the sun is something that is there to see every day,
unless cloudy, and yet we never look at it.

I wonder if we are all told not too as a kid, or is it just a natural knowledge not to look into it?

Sometimes it's impossible not to see when driving west at sunset.
And you have to peek out around the edge of your sun visor to look at the traffic light!

 

[Angular Chap]