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Post by greghopper on Apr 9, 2024 6:22:10 GMT -5
I had a blast, I put a pork shoulder on at midnight, checked the fire every 2 hrs. Got done just in time. We had family and friends over to watch. I'm really glad I took the day off, time well spent. A lot of folks came together and enjoyed the moment…… Personally, I didn't see the “screaming kids and yelling drunks” location is everything I guess.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Apr 9, 2024 6:23:41 GMT -5
I had a blast, I put a pork shoulder on at midnight, checked the fire every 2 hrs. Got done just in time. We had family and friends over to watch. I'm really glad I took the day off, time well spent. A lot of folks came together and enjoyed the moment…… Personally, I didn't see the “screaming kids and yelling drunks” location is everything I guess. Yeah me neither.
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Post by genesis273 on Apr 9, 2024 6:27:07 GMT -5
Traffic was absolutely insane through Jasper County yesterday. I65, 231, SR 49 and a couple of our county roads that parallel I65. A ton of south bound traffic in the morning into the afternoon then they all came back north.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Apr 9, 2024 6:27:21 GMT -5
My wife and I took a break and said yep, just another one. Then I went back working the bees.
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Post by steiny on Apr 9, 2024 7:30:46 GMT -5
I thought the whole thing was a bit over hyped, over rated.
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Post by parson on Apr 9, 2024 10:13:44 GMT -5
"The heavens declare the glory of God..." I thought that, at totality, it was amazing!
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 9, 2024 10:28:16 GMT -5
"The heavens declare the glory of God..." I thought that, at totality, it was amazing! AMEN!
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Post by jtkelly on Apr 9, 2024 13:16:44 GMT -5
Marked safe from blindness. So far.
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Post by M4Madness on Apr 9, 2024 16:29:21 GMT -5
I thought the whole thing was a bit over hyped, over rated. Were you in the totality zone? If not, I can understand your point. For eclipses, it's 100% or bust.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 9, 2024 17:00:26 GMT -5
Marked safe from blindness. So far.
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Post by Pinoc on Apr 9, 2024 18:21:41 GMT -5
I will have to say that was one of the most impressive things I have ever seen.
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Post by duff on Apr 9, 2024 19:52:52 GMT -5
Lawrance county post eclipse bbq...it was out of this world.
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Post by freedomhunter on Apr 10, 2024 3:39:37 GMT -5
We just wore two pairs of dark sunglasses and looked through the limo tint at the rear view mirror in our accord no worries
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Post by saltydog on Apr 10, 2024 5:07:12 GMT -5
My daughter in law is the town planner for Mooresville, so My wife and I were volun told to drive the shuttles from the park to town, they had a huge street fair in town and then bouncy houses for the kids along with a couple concerts at the park. So for 3 days we were shuttle drivers, met some nice folks, they were from states and countries such as France, Montana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Fla, Illinois, New York. the couple from New York had call home to family and said they didn't get to see it due to the clouds. The most interesting guest was the Cosmic Professor Ph.D. from Michigan, he's one that eats breath's this astrological stuff. Over all it was fun Oh yeah that Eclipse was awesome !
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Post by astronankin on Apr 10, 2024 10:26:09 GMT -5
We were going over to Eastern Indiana but ended up noting the weather looked a little more clear near Vincennes, so we ended up right on the center line of just over 4 minutes long and a few miles north of Vincennes. Purdue Ag Southwest. No one regretted it. There were three other small groups as well. I did a little outreach and talked with those who hadn't seen an eclipse before, as well as letting everyone look through the club solar telescope that I borrowed for the trip and take pictures if they wanted. I took lots of photos from beginning to end. Wanted to document it. Only thing I didn't take a picture of was the incredible red ring of prominences around the Moon's black disk during totality as seen in the solar scope. That was amazing. Comet wasn't visible, due to a cloud right where it was. So cool seeing Jupiter, the eclipse, then Venus spread so far out along the sky. Only Saturn and Mars I didn't see because they were closer to the horizon than I thought. 4 minutes.... plenty of time to check out the sights, enjoy the eclipse, and search for the comet. I was able to do or attempt everything I wanted to do in totality and still had time to look at the 360 degree sunrise and stare at the eclipse. The only thing not so impressive about this was that the corona was a lot smaller and had less going on in it than the 2017 eclipse did. Which is odd because the Sun is a little more active now than it was then. It was fun watching the progression of the eclipse through the solar scope and making sure the thing stayed on track for the few minutes of totality. The solar sensor is designed to track the sun using amounts of sunlight, so to track the sun during totality I put a black eyepiece cap over it at about 50% partial in order for the tracking to go into default mode. That worked. I hardly had to touch the controls. My brother also took images with his camera but apparently only one came out good. We looked for the crescent suns (only sort of saw it projected onto other people with my sun blocker that a fellow WVAS club member had 3D printed), and for the shadow bands on a mostly white sheet. Only my youngest brother actually saw those. I also didn't see the solar system in 3D like I did in 2017, mainly due to the planets being farther from the Sun. In 2017 there were planets and stars literally kissing the corona, so close to the sun that theoretically they were not visible except during the eclipse. When I thought about the inner planet's orbits in comparison to the Earth, Sun, and Moon, and the relationships of the Sun and the Moon and the Earth, all of a sudden something clicked in my brain and I actually saw the universe in 3D for real for about a minute, and every time I looked up at totality. No such feeling this time other than the spread-outness of the solar system.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 10, 2024 14:03:46 GMT -5
Recycle your eclipse glasses
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Post by jtkelly on Apr 10, 2024 20:25:59 GMT -5
Recycle your eclipse glasses ECLIPSE GLASSES USA, LLC PO BOX 50571 PROVO, UT 84605 Uh , I'll just pass on the free ones they sent me.
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