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I think this is a good idea. Anything good enough for welding should be good enough for a silly little sunshine. Maybe? I could also wear sunglasses. SUNglasses? I actually have welding goggles, and a welding helmet. If I wear both, it will be completely dark.
Two out of three of our local libraries have glasses, but it's on a first-come first-serve basis, so I imagine we won't get any & parking will be tough.
Just saw the best business sign in front of a stone landscape outfit.... Closed Monday due to one big ass rock.
The library I worked in until yesterday is having an eclipse program Monday. They did get a single box of NASA glasses but the decision was not to hand them out, but have them only for people at the program. Otherwise they would have disappeared in an hour last week.
Yeah, that's exactly what's going on with our library. You have to submit to their instructional talk & stay put at the library. However, they weren't clever enough to start a sign-up sheet, so it will just be everyone clamoring to get there early enough to get some glasses & then hang out there waiting for the action to start. The more I consider it, the more I think I will just go for lunch in a restaurant window & graze their buffet while the sun goes out.
My glasses are the Amazon bogus ones, so my plan was to go somewhere and take macro photos of things with interesting shadows. Now that the traffic apocalypse has not (yet?) appeared, I am frustrated with my decision to not go to totality. But I don't have glasses. So I think I'll stay here and figure out some sort of crime spree while everyone is distracted.
I just arrived at the campsite in southern Illinois and it's 97 F and very humid. Looks like thunderstorms are popping up, too.
Forecast for tomorrow is iffy. Looks like partly to mostly cloudy all along the eclipse path for a couple hundred miles east to west. Sure hope we get a good window.
Forecast for tomorrow is iffy. Looks like partly to mostly cloudy all along the eclipse path for a couple hundred miles east to west. Sure hope we get a good window.
Just to be sure as I am going to be in the midst of the awesome event to two small children.... Once we are in totality, we can remove our glasses and watch the Bailey's Beads without risk of damaging eyesight.... Is that correct?
I've heard that with camera gear, you can remove the eclipse filters during totality.
But don't know if that's the case for your eyes.
Personally I would not take the chance, and especially with little children who might pull off their glasses at the wrong time.
I'm going to totally block the eyepiece for my dominant eye, and only be looking with one eye.
I've already got floaters in both eyes. I don't need any more spots in my vision.
I think this entire event would be better if NASA, et al. kept it a secret. Just randomly put a black hole over the sun on the weather forecast graphic for the next day and let people panic.
I was a kid during the heady NASA days of landing on the moon. All kids were taken with astronomy and all things space related back then. I had forgotten over the years what that youthful excitement felt like. I feel like that kid today.
The kids eclipse glasses. Check out those heavy "mods".
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