Any eclipse experiences to share?

Was cool, literally. That is, I wasn’t expecting the main effect I noticed to be the sensation of unusual chill. There was too much smoke in the air where I was to see the cool shadow effect from trees, but I had viewing glasses which worked well. I was where it was nearly full but not, and the amount of daylight remained merely dim visually, but the chill was palpable.

I heard bats shortly after it got dark. This was at 1:25 pm Central time.

Some might say I have a chip on my shoulder but it was just an eclipse.

Oh yeah.
And you’re just the guy who can answer a question I have about the photos I shot today.

And the filter the sun burnt through on my teleconverter

Got some sweet video too!

Enlarge the first photo and look to the right. Is that three coronal ejections?

You were in Boonville Mo while I was just a little southeast in Imperial. Lovely experience.

Now, I know you got some shots today, so let’s see em’!

FYI:
Sony a99, Minolta 600/4 + 1.4Xapo.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Nice! I found this for comparison http://www.sciencealert.com/10-unique-photos-you-really-need-to-see-of-the-solar-eclipse Look at the top right ejection.

Wow that’s a super cool collection. Assuming the Oregon photographer shot straight horizontal like I did, it’s interesting to see the difference in angle from Oregon to Missouri where I was.

Thanks for the link @jonsblond!

His is sharper than mine. I should publish full resolution next time. I also avoided using the 42mp camera to protect it for work use. I used the 24mp camera expecting it to burn up like my filter did. But the camera was fine no issues.

I’m jealous. I have a Samsung s4. I’d happily use what you have.

I saw it in Townsend TN. The chill in the air is eerie – and real. I aimed my thermal imager at the ground and tracked temperature . It dropped from 93F down to 75F and returned. Very cool!
I think it would have been more fun to view it with a crowd with cheering and yelling. Our small group was relatively quiet .

I was with my family at the house I grew up in outside of Loudon Tennessee. We got about a min and a half of totality. My neices and nephew were having a blast and asking all kinds of questions about it. You could feel the solar radiation dying down and it became pleasant to sit out in the yard. The temperature started to drop noticeably and when there was just a sliver of sun left the crickets did come out, solar lights came on and a cool breeze seemed to start. At totality you could faintly see a few stars, the corona was unmistakable and it was a strange darkness. Once it was over it was back to 90+ degrees

I was with Rick, my daughter in law and 3 of their 4 kids. The oldest is 10 (he turned 10 that same day,) then 3 (almost 4,) and 2½.

The two year old was clueless but we broke out the baby pool and the hose and that kept the two youngest occupied. I took a picture of him during totality (about 90% here) trying to capture the color of the air and the odd shadows, but it didn’t work.

The first time the 3 year old looked through the glasses she said, Well, the sun is broken!. Then she jumped in the pool. Every time there after we got her to look she’d say, “Well, it’s even more broken!” and she’d jump in the pool. Then, as she does any time a camera is on her (which is often,) she had to pose.

The 10 year old was much more involved. However, I screwed up. We didn’t have any deciduous trees around for the sun to refract through, so we missed the most awesome part of all…the crescent shadows the leaves make. I’d forgotten about them until people started posting pictures on Facebook after it was over.

But it was a fun time with the kids. Not one of them even tried to look at the sun with their bare eyes either…and we never had to tell them not to. Go figure.
I, however, took a couple of sneak peeks, a second or 2, for whatever good it did, which was none.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies FANTASTIC shot!! Yes, that was a coronal ejection. I saw it too. Very nicely processed. How was the weather there? We had clouds the whole day but it cleared up just enough to see.

Believe it or not I did not shoot any photos. I just wanted to experience it. I wish I’d known you were in the area I would have come and said hi. I was there for a week before. I’m in St. Louis now. My niece shot a picture with her iphone through my binocs and I’ll email it to you. Can you email me once you get the video and picture processed?

To me the most eerie thing was right before totality when everything went dim. It was really, really bizarre.

I’ll add that I was in a relatively small group, but I found myself screaming with everybody else. I lost my mind.

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@Rarebear “I’ll add that I was in a relatively small group, but I found myself screaming with everybody else. I lost my mind.”

Yes I thought all the women were supposed to take their clothes off and start dancing around the pond until Old Scratch incarnated. Then we were supposed to drink special Kool-aid, the kind that makes you real sleepy and forget about life.

But it never happened. I hit the wrong party.

I was at work, in a city in New York state that’s about 45 minutes from Grand Central by train.

I went outside with my boss around 2:40 and there were probably 50 people from the building I work in, standing on the street in front. I took some photos of the people becuase to me, that was very interesting. Eclipse photos there will be a million of, taken by phogoraphers that are way better than me, but what I will remember with my photos is the people in front of the building, all united, all excited.

Someone shared her glasses with me and having the glasses on made things entirely different.

I live near a lake and I am in a FB group for the community. I saw a photo of my neighbors sitting at the lake, all looking skyward with the glasses on. It reminded me of the old photos with people at the movies wearing 3D glasses.

According t a site I looked at this morning, totality was in some town in Tennessee. The distance from my house to that town is over 700 miles. Where I was, it didn’t get too dark.

^^^ Nashville did.

Beautiful view from Shoshoni, Wyoming.

I was not prepared for how amazing this was going to be. I was even worried that I’d built it up in my head into something more than it was, and that I’d be disappointed. The opposite happened. My mind was blown. During totality I forgot how to even think and I started shaking. It just awed me more than anything I’d ever seen before.

Come hell or high water I’m doing what it takes to see a full eclipse.

@Mariah Yes, Ones IQ drops about 50 points during totality.

Stapleton NE. It was eery. The quality of light hitting everything was so strange—cool and clear and quiet. Felt like the world was holding it’s breath.

@kruger_d That’s a great description.