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Meh....I've seen them before. No biggie. I'm not doing anything for this one. We had one over DC a few years ago. Everyone ran out to see it....then back into the office for work. ![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Didn't fly in it but was on a hill in St. Genevieve MO for the last one and watched the shadow tear off as it departed. That was pretty cool. 90% will be unspectacular.Anybody been airborne during an eclipse? Wondering if it's worth it to go flying Monday afternoon. We're not in the path of totality, but it'll be something like 90%. I've heard that watching the terminator line racing across the ground is quite spectacular, but I don't know what it would like like outside the totality.
Taking the Learjet to Nova Scotia.
I think that might be a different eclipse, either a lunar eclipse or a partial solar eclipse. But this upcoming total solar eclipse is a rarity- and a biggie.Meh....I've seen them before. No biggie. I'm not doing anything for this one. We had one over DC a few years ago. Everyone ran out to see it....then back into the office for work.![]()
It was some kind of an eclipse on August 21, 2017....they handed out glasses. It was under rated. All y'all have fun. Now if this is the rapture....I wouldn't miss that for anything.I think that might be a different eclipse, either a lunar eclipse or a partial solar eclipse. But this upcoming total solar eclipse is a rarity- and a biggie.
The last total solar eclipse in DC was in 1970, and there hasn't been a recent one in Maryland. But stick around, there's one in Virginia in 2078 that might include DC. (Chart.)
That's a partial eclipse, which is also happening over a large area with this one, but only in the more narrow zone of totality is it a total eclipse. This one requires a rare combination of orbits plus the right distance of the moon from earth as it passes.It was some kind of an eclipse on August 21, 2017....they handed out glasses. It was under rated. All y'all have fun. Now if this is the rapture....I wouldn't miss that for anything.
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Yup....I didn't travel for that one either. It was a total south of here....in South Carolina.That's a partial eclipse, which is also happening over a large area with this one, but only in the more narrow zone of totality is it a total eclipse. This one requires a rare combination of orbits plus the right distance of the moon from earth as it passes.
Yes, I recall the partial eclipse in 2017. A total eclipse is a very different experience, or so I'm told. Accordingly, I'll be heading somewhere northish in the path of totality.Meh....I've seen them before. No biggie. I'm not doing anything for this one. We had one over DC a few years ago. Everyone ran out to see it....then back into the office for work.![]()