Eclipse Today

**blackcat4866** · 08-22-2017

We're not exactly in the path (about 200 miles too far north), and it was cloudy, but ... the clouds worked in my favor. Ordinarily the sun would be too bright to look into, but when the clouds were just the right opacity they acted like a filter, clearly showing a black disk across the orb of the sun.

I only got 2 or 3 moments of perfect filtering, but it was worth it.

**jonhiker** · 08-22-2017

Originally Posted by theengel

For those of you who are lucky enough to see the eclipse today, here's a little something.

Remember the old trick of making a hole in the paper and seeing the shape of the sun on the ground? Well just find a tree at the crucial moment. The trees have leaves, which have thousands of holes in them. If you look under a tree during the eclipse, you'll see a thousand little crescent moons on the ground in the tree's shadow.

We were in the area where we got like a 99% of the eclipse. And yes, the shadow of the tree leaves looked like a bunch of crescent moons, it was a cool effect.

I got my glasses at the corp hq of a local retailer. They were selling them for 1.00. We had sunny skies and a fun crowd.

**mikadonovan** · 08-22-2017

Although there were no clouds blocking the sun at the time of the eclipse, at my location we were supposed to get 92% coverage. I thought it would get pretty dark with only 8% of normal sunlight. I was wrong. It darkened up a little bit, but the sunshine was still pretty bright. Hugely anticlimactic.