/sci/ - Science & Math

Since the dawn of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.

>>9109738
>They took away the Vox video

Shit man now that is what I call a bold move. Good on you man. But when the (((other guy))) founds out you deleted his thread you will probably get your modding privileges revoked. But let it be known that you are a cool guy.

>>9109747

i will be boofing moxy, possibly i will make the 4 hour drive to the edge of mark twain.
but i will probably just walk up in the hills with 90% totality and see observe what the critters do.
think ill go to one of my squats and observe for a couple of days before
not sure what putting a psychedelic triptamine up my asshole will do to my field biology skills, thats part of the fun.

>>9109752
why would you sticky this of all things?

Will welder's goggles be sufficient?

>>9109757
Yes, with shade # 12 or higher. Shade 13 is ideal but difficult to find.

It's times like this where I wish I was located in the US.

>>9109755
Because otherwise we'd be hip deep in eclipse threads by Monday.

>>9109757
Google "projecting eclipse with binoculars" or "pinhole camera eclipse" for another way to view before totality. hen total, you can look at the coronal display directly.

Great... It's only hitting "literally who" fly-over states. Such a shame.

How much will I be able to catch in NYC? Seems like a bummer.

>>9109762
Times like this I wish my mother wasn't dependent on me so I can go see it.

>see mod sticky on /sci/
>it's about the fucking solar eclipse

I mean, I get it it's a pretty cool thing, but is this really the only time you people remember our board exists?

anyway, you should add a list of countries that will have vision of the partial eclipse to the OP, since I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else than wikipedia and some people may be unaware that they'll be able to see it too

>>9109785
There's gonna be a lot of solar eclipse discussion in the coming days. Why not have a sticky?

>>9109787
I'm not mad about the thread for the eclipse, I'm mad that it's the first sticky we've had in years (probably since 2013) and that they only seem to remember we exist to discuss their IFLScience-tier event

>>9109767
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>>9109738
just a reminder, if you live in these cities that there will be a huge influx of people. Remember to keep extra water in your car, as you may be stuck in traffic for hours. Your city may run out of basic necessities like food. You should be prepared for eclipse induced cannibalism. Residents are also encouraged to keep at least 10 days worth of ammunition in the event of attack by lizard men or the emergence of lovecraftian horrors.

>>9109791
>a fucking solar eclipse
>ifl-tier
Step away from the computer. Take a deep breath. And go outside for a few minutes you contrarian faggot.

>>9109811
>ammunition
>against Eldrich horrors
lol

Does anyone else find it strange that the moon and the sun are of just the right sizes and are at just the right distances away so that the moon can eclipse the sun in totality?

Please tell me there's a better reasoning behind this beyond pure coincidence before I go off the deep end.

IF YOU BELIEVE

>>9109834
>Does anyone else find it strange that the moon and the sun are of just the right sizes and are at just the right distances away so that the moon can eclipse the sun in totality?
They aren't, generally. You do realize the distance between the Earth, moon, and sun varies all the time right? And the rare instance in which they are certain distances apart is called a solar eclipse.

>>9109770
Here you go...

>>9109850
And, because why not, you can go ahead and get ready for the next "once in a lifetime" eclipse in the US.

>>9109845
Well, no. That's not what I mean.

The Sun's distance from Earth is about 400 times the Moon's distance, and the Sun's diameter is about 400 times the Moon's diameter.

I'm not making any conclusions or anything. It's just interesting.

>>9109850
75% totality in nyc is still worth watching no?

>>9109850
>in the worst part of America full of Trump supporters
Why...

>>9109860
literally every line you can draw across the united states looks like this

>>9109845
But that's, you know, wrong.

An eclipse happens when they line up.

If the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, you get a lunar eclipse. Which can only happen at the full moon, but does not happen every full mom because the Moon's orbit is not on the exact same plane as the Earth's orbit.

If the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, you get a solar eclipse. These can be partial, if the Moon only blocks a part of the Sun as seen from Earth, or Total, if the Moon blocks the whole solar disk. You also get annular eclipses when the Moon is in the furthest part of it's orbit and so is too small, visually, to block the whole disk of the sun -- it leaves a ring of sunlight all around the Moon, and you can't se the corona.

>>9109855
It'll be noticeable, yes. Look into the binoculars hack mentioned in >>9109765 Also, if you are in an area where you can see sunlight dappled through the leaves of a tree, you get a cool effect when the gaps between leaves creates a bunch of little pinhole-cameras, and projects a bunch of crescent sun images on the ground.

>>9109860
>deleted my post
LMAO BUTTHURT TR*MP SUPPORTER MODS

I saw the one in '79, will be in place to see this one if the "chance of afternoon thunderstorms" doesn't take us out.

>>9109867
>But that's, you know, wrong.
>An eclipse happens when they line up.
And what did I say that contradicts that, moron?

fuck me I wanna see this shit, next one is in 48 years

>>9109895
The next total eclipse to hit the U.S. will be in 2024.

>>9109738
>Traffic: Expect nightmare-ish traffic conditions as you get closer to and especially within the path of totality.
is this just an alarmist description or may this actually occur?
i'm halfway through planning to road-trip to TN with some friends but i don't want this level of annoyance

>>9109854
>The Sun's distance from Earth is about 400 times the Moon's distance
This distance changes every day.

>>9109855
>An eclipse happens when they line up.
A total eclipse only happens when they line up AND are the correct distances from each other.

>>9109897
This, see >>9109852

>>9109897
oh shit nigger I was wrong
Good. If I miss this one I can see the next one.

>>9109890
You said "the rare instances when they are a certain distance apart is called a solar eclipse."

This is incorrect.

It's when the line up that makes an eclipse, when they line up in the right order that you get a solar eclipse. You could then add that when they line up, in the correct order and then are the right distance apart, you get a total solar eclipse.

But without the alignment, the distance will never be right to make a solar (or lunar) eclipse.

>>9109901
But not by lots, compared to the overall distances involved. The Moon and the Sun are, more or less, the same size as seen in the sky

Because the relative distances change just enough, you do get annular eclipses, which are interesting but not as interesting as total solar eclipses, since you don't get the coronal display.

The fact that, at this moment in cosmic time, they are the correct distance apart for their size that we get some total solar eclipses, and the Moon can sometimes pass completely into Earth's umbra. the darker part of the shadow.

>>9109905
>It's when the line up that makes an eclipse
Again, how is lining up mutually exclusive with being the correct distance apart? You do realize that the distances between three points determines their relative positions, right?

>>9109812
Not all of us are young babies.

>>9109924
Get off of 4chan and into your grave, grandpa

>>9109815
How else are you going to kill yourself quickly and easily?

>>9109953
XD

>>9109791
What other threads/events do you think deserved a sticky here?
Ill wait.

Bostin in ebin dredd :D

>tfw booked have a room booked in St. Joseph

>>9109969
Not him, but "gender is in a spectrum" deserved a sticky, just to contain the shitposting if for no other reason

>>9109749
why is Vox bad?

(((>>9109991)))

>>9109815
>>9109953
No you misunderstand, the ammunition is for shooting other people so they get consumed by Eldritch horrors, while you run away.

>>9109738
Who gives a shit about watching eclipses? It has nothing to do with science or math. Unsticky this garbage thread

>tfw will be in Alaska next week
could not be farther from the eclipse

Live in metro Atlanta; trying to figure out if I should head north to Cleveland, TN or northeast to Greenville, SC.

>>9110111
You could be antipodal to the eclipse

>>9109738
Bros, I have my shitty telescope ready with aluminum foil over the pens and a pinhole punched in it

>>9109898
I'm guessing it'll be like the 4th of July fireworks displays they do in my city. A bunch of people across the river in the next county park their cars on the side of the highway and watch the fireworks and then get back in their cars and try to get back onto the highway. Always a mess. I kinda doubt there will be people stuck "for days" in traffic though. There'll probably be some morons trying to look at it whilst driving and will kill themselves and others in some fiery crashes as well.

moved to Columbia MO for school two weeks ago. didn't even know about the eclipse when I decided to go.
feels goodman.

InnerSS map: this shows a zoom on the inner solar system, and the solid lines show ten-day tracks for each of the bodies.

During totality you get to see the inner solar system in its entirety for just a brief moment. Here's a star chart so you can familiarize yourself with the eclipsed sky and prepare where to look for what so you don't fumble in stupid awe at the time.
In Idaho (where I'll be) the Sun will be SE by E. Facing that direction:
Mercury will be just below the eclipse, and
Mars will be just above the eclipse (if it's not too dim to see, does it look orange?), and
Venus higher up, above Mars.
Not sure if you'll see Regulus (a bright star), but here's an interesting note: a very similar eclipse configuration in 1914 seen from Crimea allowed astronomers to measure the offset of Regulus's position, thus confirming a prediction of relativity's model that there's a bending of space by gravity (the Sun's gravity in this case).
Jupiter may be just rising. It's very bright, and may very well be visible at eclipse. We are moving away from it.

Relative to the Sun, Mercury is moving upwards and will pass to the right of the Sun (inferior conjunction on the 26th). If it passed in front of the Sun, we'd have a "transit of Mercury."
Mars is moving upward as we catch up to it on the inside track. We lap Mars (opposition) is a year away. On the map, it shows Mars moving down. It really is, but more slowly than the Sun. So it is increasing separation and is why I said "up" earlier.
Venus is decently far from the Sun, but is closing in on it - greatest western elongation was over a month ago. It is moving away from us and down on its way to the far side of the Sun in January (superior conjunction).
The winter hexagon will be high up in the southwest, so look for lots of bright stars. Sirius is the brightest star (next to the Sun) in the sky. It'll be about halfway up the sky just right of south.

>>9110149
Things to look for and monitor as totality approaches:
Will you see the shadow approach from the west, and/or disappear to the east?
If it's hazy or cloudy, can you see the shadow on the clouds?
Listen - does it get quiet (except for others around you whooping it up)?
During totality, you can look directly at the Sun's corona without dark glasses. Hold your hand/fist up at arm's length so you can quantify the size and remember in the future.
How much of the sky reveals stars? Do yu see any? Too many to count?
Do you see the band of lit sky all around you?

EclipseMap: rotate the map so the direction you face is at the bottom. The center is straight up. As you turn to look another direction, rotate the map. The dashed line is the ecliptic - the path of the Sun among the stars (AKA the orbital plane of the Earth).

Is it possible for an eclipse to be so big that the sun gets sucked in?

>tfw you live in europe

>missing first two days of classes to see the eclipse in Wyoming with my family

ehh I'll just miss the handing out of the syllabuses so whatever

there's a possibility of a massive earthquake?

>>9110174
What if the Yellowstone Caldera erupts during the eclipse?

To all you morons asking "how does i view solar eclipse safely???". Just take your phone, open the camera, block the sun with your phone, and observe the eclipse via the screen. You will get a better view than the morons using dark glasses, and you have the added bonus of being able to record and watch at the same time.

>>9110195
That'd be some epic ass apocalyptic type shit right there

>>9110204
I'd rather get a welding helmet lens.

>>9109738
toasting in epic bread

>>9110102
This, fuck all the people who are going to get together and enjoy this, i'm just gonna chill home alone and probably completely forget it's happening UNTIL I TURN INTO A WEREWOLF awooooo

>>9110113
I'd go to Cleveland. The other two seem sketchy on the weather.

I'll be driving to Casper, Wyoming unless weather turns for the worse.
I'm actually curious and a bit excited about the crowds. I'm planning tons of extra time and bringing lots of supplies.

>>9109738

It's good fun but the OP is overselling the event's tourism attractiveness and overall cosmic importance for some reason.

>>9109884

Hello old one, tell us your stories plx

>>9110206
>Welding helmet lens

This guy knows what's up.

Nasa recommends shade 14 lenses or higher, which by now will likely be sold out across North America.

Luckily, you can stack multiple lenses and add their shade values together; you just need to subtract 1 shade from the resulting shade value.

So two layers of shade 8 lenses would be
[math](8 + 8) - 1 = Shade 15[/math]

>>9110446
Since this is /sci/, I have to ask: where this -1 comes from?

>>9109850
>>9109852

>tfw in Arizona, fuck my life.

Imagine all the people who will be having sex after seeing the eclipse.

>>9110525

Really gets the feel neurons firing.

>>9110539

Really gets the feels flowing.

>>9109969
Things like CRISPR, Nobel prizes,
EM drive, supposed Dyson sphere...
All the overdone temporary memes, for
containment, and things that deserved
more attention.
Maybe an IQ, frog and gorilla sticky?

>>9109923
I could explain it to you again, but I can't understand it for you.

>>9110151
>>9110149

Nice.

Here's another image that may be helpful.

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/august-21-2017-solar-eclipse-4-planets-bright-stars

>>9109738

shit thread, swaglord

>>9110174
There is always the possibility of a massive earthquake.

>>9110355
>OP is overselling the event's tourism attractiveness

Depends on where along the track you are.

Lots of folks are expected to head for Oregon to catch the earliest glimpse of the eclipse, and California is populous and relatively close. Based on hotel and campsite reservations, some small towns along the route are expecting their population to triple for the day, and these are towns with one gas station, bad cell phone coverage and maybe a diner to get a meal. Add some shitty roadfs, in you'll get some interesting times there.

Other spots along the route are more remote from population centers, or are in towns with better infrastructure, where it won;t be such an issue..

>>9110377
Well, first he Earth cooled, and then there were dinosaurs...

But seeing the eclipse was pretty neat. We drove with another family into South Carolina with a 2 1/2 inch refractor telescope that had a solar projection screen, and set up along the path of totality out in the middle of freaking nowhere. We watched the disk of the sun getting blocked out by the moon, and as totality approached and it started to get noticeably dark, the birds started roosting, cows headed for the barn, roosters began to crow...

Seeing the corona blazing around the edges of the moon was amazing, and we saw "Bailey's Beads," where flecks of sunlight shine through passes of mountain ranges along the edge of the lunar disk.

Pictures I took with a small Instamatic camera were disappointing, of course, and just showed a tiny ring in the middle of a black field. I hope to better this time... headed back to SC, as it turns out.

>>9110102
what are you talking about? einstein's theories were verified with the aid of scientists waiting for eclipses.

there were some scientists who went to russia and were arrested as spies because they went to do research during a total eclipse

fuck you mean this isn't science you dumbass fuck?

pic related: my captcha aka you

>>9110677
And here's some science-related stuff going on during the upcoming eclipse.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/chasing-the-total-solar-eclipse-from-nasa-s-wb-57f-jets

>>9109738
>Crowd standing on a cloudy beach cheering the eclipse.
>People across Britain listening to the eclipse on the radio

Now the list of things I have seen contains everything.

Will I be able to see part of it in middle Europe?

>>9110648
I really look forward to you explaining how the distances between three points does not determine a unique triangle. i.e. if three points A,B,C along a line have distances a,b,c from each other, there is not some other configuration of the points with the same respective distances a,b,c between them which does not lie along a line.

>>9110648
>>9110887
Ahiwhile I'm waiting, I'll provide a proof of what you must disprove. If A,B,C lie along a line in that order, let us call a the distance between A and B, b the distance between B and C, and c, the distance between A and C.

Then c = a + b since they lie along a line

By the Triangle Inequality, we know that a triangle cannot be created with sides a+b less than or equal to c. Thus any points with c = a+b must lie along a line or not exist at all. QED.

>>9110620
>CRISPR, EM Drive, Dyson Sphere
>>>/x/

>>9109738

>tfw living in salem

fucking KEEP OUT OF MY CITY REEEE

What did he mean by this?

>>9110902

>>9110620
fuck that. the only thread that maybe should also be stickied is the fall classes one.

or maybe a sticky consciousness thread that drops you in /trash/ after you try to post in it

>>9110981
Use your words like a big boy.

I think at this point the mods would do as well to prune all the shit out of this thread, lock it, and leave the posts that give some info on eclipses and how to watch them for the off-worlders to read when they come here looking for advice on how to look at an eclipse. as well

Where to find free glasses in the UK?

>>9111062
Are there even free glasses offered anywhere
I'm just going to look at it through pinhole in aluminum foil in front of my telescope with a camera on the end

>>9109738

>>9109738
Fuck that shit, I'll just watch a recording on youtube.

August 21st is my first day of classes, not missing that for some shitty solar event

>>9111172
>being a faggot
must be an engineer

>tfw canadafag and only 70% sun-coverage here

>>9111172
Lol you must be going to some Humpty Dumpty school for them not to have known about such a major event and plan accordingly.

I'm super curious if the crowd predictions will be as bad as they say it will. Thoughts?

>>9111197
Hope not. I'm driving up the day before to he safe, but driving back so I can go to work the next day. We'll see, but I'd rather not have to call my boss and tell him I'm stuck on the highway

>>9111140
>tfw going to St. Joseph
>tfw forecast shows chance of clouds

I enjoy sucking dicks and their balls.

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/weather.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/17/total-solar-eclipse-weather-forecast-as-of-aug-17/
https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/solar-eclipse-weather-forecast-august-2017
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/eclipse-travel-forecast-storms-may-cause-delays-in-southern-eastern-us/70002476
https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/eclipse.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4597164/NOAA-reveals-cloudiness-map-historic-2017-Eclipse.html
NOAA reveals interactive 'cloudiness' map This map shows the likelihood of being able to view the August 21, 2017, solar eclipse, based on historical cloudiness data from the NOAA NCEI 10-year hourly climate normals dataset.
https://ncsu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6771e9f10f904b7b8afa6cc99c4c7e7a

>>9111197
It's going to vary hugely.

Was reading a news article from Oregon where some little piss-ant burg with one gas station, one diner spotty cell service and basically one road into town thought, a few years ago, that adverttising as being a great place to see the eclipse would be a Great Idea. Based on requests for information about campsites and hotel rooms, they are afraid the population of the town my more than double on Monday, with little infrastructure to cope with it. Overall, based on hotel and campsite bookings, the population of Oregon may increase by 25% on Monday, with all of that increase (and much of the normal population) trying to get into the zone of totality.

Columbia, SC, may also be a zoo.

Other places. not your first or last chance to see the eclipse and further from population centers, may be pretty quiet.

Read somewhere yesterday that about 11 million people live in the zone of totality, estimates for how many people will come into the zone Monday range from 1 to 7 million -- not spread out evenly, but clumped where Interstates come in and some hotels are available.

My hunch is other than a few places that advertised "come see us!" but lack the resources to deal with anybody coming, it will be crowded a bit here and there, but not too bad. Expect backups on the Interstates trying to get in or out, do not leave it to the last minute to get where you want to be, and plan on sitting in some traffic on the way home.

>>9111172

>missing a once in a lifetime event for syllabus day

why the fuck this thread in night mode

>>9111379
Total eclipse

>>9111391
of the heart

>>9111184
Still worth it, that's a fantastic partial eclipse.

>>9111052
I think the issue with your argument with the other gentlemen is due to a lack of terminology. I believe he meant to imply that only when the moon is close enough to the earth do we have a total solar eclipse. If the moon is too far away then we only have an annular solar eclipse.

>>9111263
I feel a bit anxious about it desu. Here in Arizona no one cares about it, let alone only a few people that actually know about it. And I've been asking people about it for the last two months. My plan is to drive up to Casper, Wyoming. My worry is that the entire city of Denver is going to flock up there as well and I'll be caught completely off guard. I'm planning on going as prepared as possible, but the numbers expected are frightening.

Part of me thinks that the majority of the American population doesn't give a shit about such things because they either don't understand how amazing it will be or they simply have no interest in anything other than pop culture; thus a very small turnout mostly consisting of science buffs and astrologists.

Another part of me worries that everyone will finally be hearing about it via social media when the weekend begins and make a last minute trip and turn all roadways into parking lots.

My personal prediction is that the morning of the eclipse will be a gridlock and secretly I smile at the idea of the last minute planners getting fucked in traffic.

what brand of glasses did you order?

>>9111430
>I believe he meant to imply that only when the moon is close enough to the earth do we have a total solar eclipse.
That's what I said.

>If the moon is too far away then we only have an annular solar eclipse.
That's also what I said.

>>9110169
you're gonna get dropped

>>9111534
Then we agree! We're all learning together, and I believe that this eclipse will attract a massive new following to the sciences and even /sci/ for that matter.

>>9111549
He can take classes next year, but you can never replicate this eclipse.

I can't even imagine the pain and suffering of being stuck in a classroom when you know a total eclipse is occurring.

>>9111517
The best part is that solar viewer won't even arrive in time.

>>9111549
I can't imagine a professor would drop a student just because he's going to see the eclipse

Not him, but I've already told my professor that I won't be there at the first day of class, and he's cool with it

You guys should check out this video from the one that happened a few years ago in Svalbard. It's worth the length

>>9111595
lmao forgot link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlJ2_924tU

>>9111599
That's awesome. Gave me chills.

>>9111420
Guess there's nothing we can do, then...

>>9109852
>2024

>>9111743
We'll all be dead by then. Thanks Obama!

>>9111552
We did agree, you just claimed I was wrong for some reason: >>9109867

Stupid question here:

I bought some eclipse viewing glasses off amazon. Supposedly ISO certified. They arrived, then I get an email from amazon telling me they aren't actually certified. Is it worth the risk? They're really fucking dark. When I put them on, I can't see shit.

>>9111847
Proper glasses can still work even if they aren't ISO certified. If you put them on, you should be able to see NOTHING but the Sun. Literally, nothing else. Just the Sun.

>>9109785
Would you rather have to wade through dozens of solar eclipse threads that people would probably start over the next few days? It's a containment thread.

>>9111292
>once in a lifetime
>what is 2024???

Going to be viewing it with shade 12 welding lenses. NASA says it should be good enough, and I couldn't find anything higher nor could I find any of those glasses anywhere near me. I'll be relaxing my eyes every now and then, never focusing on one spot of the sun. Hopefully I don't end up regretting this.

>>9111555
What do you mean you can never replicate this eclipse? There is going to be over the US in 7 years

>>9112089
Each total solar eclipse is different due to solar wind activity and how the moon covers the sun.

Let's also be very clear about opportunity here, you have two chances to see a total solar eclipse until 2045. Two... if one of them is cloudy and you skipped the other because of academics, you fucked up.

>tfw living in eastern Idaho in the path of totality and people are fucking losing their minds
The shit I've had to put up with this last week and the last two months by the people that live here has been worse than the crowds that'll show up on Monday ever could be.

>>9109969
spacex threads

I live in Kentucky. Had a hotel booked a couple of months ago as well as having glasses ordered.

Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

I'm trying to scope out areas around hopkinsville that we can watch without having to get near the city. I think I have found a couple of places. Does anyone else have any places to the southeast of Hopkinsville?

>>9109852
Fuck ya! Texas fag here.

I'm in New Jersey so I'll only see a partial eclipse
Where do I get solar glasses?

Is a solar eclipse potentially more damaging to your eyes? Not to sound like a total retard, but I regularly look in the direction of the sun, not right at it, but it's in my field of view and it's tolerable for a few seconds.

Can someone explain to me using small words how these situations are different?

>>9112622

You can fry your retinas staring at the eclipse, buy the protective glasses

>>9110474
The static fields of the lenses inflect each other.

>>9112629
Would those protective glasses enable you to look directly at the sun on a normal day?

I plan to use a welding helmet, but I'm not sure how to test it ahead of time. Supposedly it has a high enough shade, but I'd like to be sure. Should I just go outside and look up at the sun to see if it will hurt?

>>9112646

Yes, the glasses are made for safe and direct sun viewing whenever you want. It doesn't always hurt when you burn your retinas from looking at the sun and it may take a day for symptoms to appear. This isn't something you want to fuck around with.

>>9109738
Fuck off with this retarded stuff, this isn't math related.

>>9112690
A Total solar eclipse confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity.

>>9112202
Tell us more! I've been curious about how the communities in the path are handling this event.
Tfw 1,000 miles from nearest path of totality, no one gives a shit, and would rather just go to work as usual.

>>9112202
Also, I'm considering visiting Rexburg, Idaho if the weather sours for Casper. Got any advice?

>>9109738
my workplace is actually having an event for us to watch the eclipse.

>upcoming eclipse memeing at work
>coworker asks me if the sun or moon is bigger
>he genuinely does not know
>goes on to ask which planets are closer or further from the sun and if we could live on them

>>9112954
What a retard

i really hope this makes a lot of people interested in science and its not just some Science!™ event that will be forgot in a week

>>9113008
doubt it

>>9113008
The total solar eclipse of 1979 changed the lives of many and inspired many others to become interested in astronomy.

Have no doubt, this will have an impact on our culture.

>>9113025
sorry, but it wont
we had the total eclipse in 1999 or so in germany, everyone watched it, and nowadays the church has more power than then

>>9113034

You mean the mosque

>>9112085
>Implying we'll still believe by 2024.

>>9113034
>False dichotomy detected.

>eclipse sticky on /sci/
>not on /x/

I know /x/ and /sci/ tend to be interchangeable nowadays, but that's outrageous.

>>9109852
Hell yeah, I'm in the path of totality for both of them, GO MISSOURI

well I'm not driving to Nebraska from Texas for this so I'll just wait for the 2024 eclipse.

I live in Hopkinsville AMA

MODS=GODS

Would an 85% eclipse be worth viewing with a welders helmet in Southern Wisconsin?

>>9113360
Oh, it's also battery operated and you can adjust the mask from shade 9-13. Still, is it worth it?

>>9113169
What will you listen to during the eclipse?

>>9109811
Kek

>>9110169
I'll be in Casper with my wife and daughter,

>Tfw partially cloudy forecast

>>9113367
Worth a look, if you got it on hand anyway.

A partial solar eclipse is basically a crescent sun, to look at. 85% sounds like a lot, but it will still be pretty bright.

I wouldn't go BUY such a rig just for this, but if you got it handy, why not?

>>9109738
who the fuck cares about the eclipse. If i gave a fuck about 2 minutes of darkness i'd just go outside right now

How much energy would you need to generate to escape a black hole?

How durable would a structure have to be to survive in a black hole?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Lw5nRYrr0

>>9113596
Yup, I got it handy. Where I live it'll be mostly cloudy to stormy, but hopefully I can drive to a nice area that at least has some sun. Thank you for the advice.

POSTING IN STICKY

>>9109738
Yes, I do like eclipse

>>9109785
well it is a really shit board lol

I'm ready for the sun to get BLACKED.

>>9111847
>I can't see shit.
Well, that's not what they're designed for. Try looking at the Sun.

Are they safe? Well... have you ever looked directly at the Sun before? Done it with sunglasses? Now you've got some glasses that are *so* dark, it's not painful to look at the Sun. Even if they're not "safe," you should be able to look at the Sun for a few good seconds with no ill effect. You'll probably find it's not worh looking at it for any longer. It's a circle with a chunk taken out. It's a circle with a *big* chink taken out. It's a crescent! It's a tiny crescent! Over a few hours. You will not be staring. At totality, you take them off anyway. That's when it gets interesting!

>>9114032
You kiddin?

It has fire and shit, mostly produced by the erratic light produced by the moon reflection, there's even the effect of the gravity over the light, wich it's fucking amazing to watch.

>>9113048
it has almost zero influence.
people are confronted with the reality they already heard of in school books, and the next week normal life goes on. and after two years, it's already forgotten. a singular event has zero society impact.

>>9109738
>Traffic: Expect nightmare-ish traffic conditions as you get closer to and especially within the path of totality. Even in the middle of nowhere like Wyoming, traffic could be gridlocked for hours or even days on end. The state of Oregon is equating the situation to a natural disaster, with many rural as well as city roads at a total standstill. Gas stations may run out of fuel. If you are trying to get to the largest cities such as Salem, Nashville, or Columbia, you should depart wherever you're coming from by Sunday morning at the latest.
R-really? I had plans to leave on Monday morning, drive down to Carbondale, and drive back the same day. Is this unrealistic? Am I gonna get stuck in traffic while a partial eclipse looms overhead?

>>9114137
most people have jobs and wont go to see the eclipse anyway

>>9114151
Most people still leaves a lot of people.

>>9109767
>Being one of the coastniggers that make our country look like vapid narcissists worldwide

Tfw europoor
ITS NOT FUCKING FAIR

>>9114176
It's not like Europe has never had any eclipses

>>9114137
You need to leave at 2:00am and find your spot and camp out. 100,000 people are going to attempt to do the same shit as you.

>>9114137
https://youtu.be/GSuJTcf0z08

>>9114193
That's oregon though, all the californian "people" are swarming oregon like the locusts they are.

Well, you can count me in as a last minute planner.


Live in Denver. Going to fill up on gas and drive up to Casper at 3am on Monday. Surely at 3am I can make to totality

>>9109897
There will also be an annular eclipse a few months earlier in 2023. They will both cross over central Texas. I'm looking forward to some day-trip eclipses.

>>9111062
Do they have Pop Tarts in Anglostan in the crinkly plastic bags?

You can sort of use two layers of bag (one whole bag). It's not as good as proper eclipse glasses but it's actually in the right spec. I used one ten or so years ago during a partial eclipse.

Pinhole projection is good too. Don't forget to notice the shade from trees; all the little spots of light will become crescents during partial eclipse.

This incredibly useful map allows you to look at the Google maps with an overlay of the eclipse track -- zoom in or out as much as you like, and click any spot on the map and get statistics for the eclipse at that spot, including how long it last, exactly when it starts and ends, if you are in the totality track it tells you that same info for totality.

Will maybe logjam on Monday, but use it for your planning.

Clear skies, /trv/lers!


http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html

>>9114642
Cross posted from /trv/, also clear skies to /sci/entists.

>>9114566
If you do this, be a bit cautious -- because poptart wrappers are not designed for optical use, the consistency of the metallic coating on the wrappers is not great. This is a case of "you are probably fine, but if not you won't know it until you wake up blind the next day."

To my mind, "probably OK" is to low a standard to risk my eyesight, your mileage may varyon that. The pinhole camera trick is absolutely safe, as is using binoculars to project an image, (DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN THROUGH THE BINOCULARS)

>>9114697
Yeah, I wouldn't use them with little kids around, because the kids would want to do it too, and then fuck up by not paying attention or horsing around. Also, they aren't exactly designed to fit well over the face, so if you're not careful, they could get bumped out of the path between eyes and sun.

I'm still not sure why he would want some in the UK though, I don't think there is even going to be a sliver of partial there.

>>9114754
In the northern part of the UK, just before sundown, there will be a TINY nick out in the disk of the sun. Good news there is, as the sun is setting it is often filtered enough by the atmosphere to look at without artificial filters. The bad news is, it is often behind clouds, and the bit of the sun being eclipsed is truly tiny.

See map at >>9114642

>tfw Europeasant

>>9109757
need to be level 12 or darker.

>>9109901
you're being a faggot on purpose, stop it.

>>9114844
No, dumbass. The earth, moon, and sun can only form eclipses but being the correct distances from each other. Lining up is only incidental to that.

Hey so my eclipse glasses don't completely cover my peripheral vision. Is this okay?

>>9115018
should be okay as long as the sun doesn't run around and flank you... or you don't turn your head away while looking into the sun

Am I pretty much fucked in terms of getting glasses at this point? I'm in the SFV of the LA area, gonna head to utah either tmrw or monday (if I can't get glasses) for a road trip, anywhere between here and there anyone know I could get solar glasses at?

>>9114792
You get one in 2026, try to stay alive...

>>9115084
Some hardware stores had the in display stands, don;t know why hardware stores in particular. Look for them further rather than closer to the center line, and possibly you'll have better luck in smaller towns than big ones.

Barring that, look into projecting the partial eclipse phase as mentioned here: >>9109765

If you are where it is total, WHEN it is total you can look directly at it safely.

Weather forecast for east coast starting to deteriorate...

all eclipse glasses are sold out. what's better substitute for glasses. Floppy disk or else?

>>9111204
I really don't want 4channers in my town.

>>9115161
Apologies ahead of time for taking a fat shit right on your front yard while staring at the sky and blasting Pink Floyd from my shitty boombox

>>9115101
>tfw partly cloudy

>>9115146
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/binoculars-telescope-projector.html

https://www.space.com/15995-safe-sun-projector-binoculars.html

>>9115146
basically i'm using my phone

>>9109767
And we'd rather (((you))) stay home

On our way to Casper. Both lanes closed. Big accident. Lots of helicopters going overhead

So, this I guess best place place to ask on /sci/.
But would a Type II Kardashev civilization build a around a star a monument for shits and giggles?
Like, would they have the will and resources to keep a system in eternal twilight to for the sake of a millennias old meme; I mean?

>>9109852
while I live on that path i may not necessarily still live there 7 years from now,.

>>9109867
What happens when the sun is between the earth and moon tho?

>>9115255
Because they placed the swarm beyond the home planet

What hapoens if the weather is lousy?

>>9110304
Denver fag? I was thinking I'd go NE on 76 and just past the corner of CO hit an unlikely looking highway. Probably won't bother though, kids are a little young to get it so we'll probably just do pin hole at home like I did in 79.

>>9111137
Everybody is giving them away around me, I mean grease monkey an oil change place is giving hundreds out daily. Problem is every place that's giving out 200 is flooded by 1000 people hours before the giveaway.

>>9115289
u die

Ok I came to ask a serious /sci/ question. People are saying you can safely watch the whole thing reflected in a bucket of water. I can't seem to find anything that says this is not safe, however my gut is going wtf a lot of people are going to fry their eyeballs listening to this shit. Couldn't find any major source saying it was ok either. Everything I remember about water is refraction not reflection.

So what is the /sci/ answer? Is it safe to watch the eclipse directly as a reflection in water?

>>9115360

The glare from the sun reflected off windows doesn't fry your eyes, should be safe.

>>91152Then that's on you, you had your chance.

>>9115308
Unless you have weather controlling super powers, you miss it.

Shit happens, better luck next time.

>>9115360
No idea, but seems dumb. Water reflects UV, so you'll not want to stare at it for long, at least.

Why do something that sounds like something an idiot would do, do this: >>9115192

>>9115368
How much time do you spend staring at the sun being reflected off windows?

>>9115360
It is not safe.

https://astronomynow.com/2015/03/18/eclipse-dos-and-donts/

I note a British newspaper is listing this as a safe way to watch the eclipse. I hope nobody believes them, but if anybody goes blind after following that advice, I hope you sue the shit out of those morons.

>>9115326
with give-away glasses, they seem more likely than others to be cheap fake pieces of crap.

Gasses with a strong enough filter effect will make it impossible to see almost anything other than the sun -- if you see room lights with a test-look through your glasses this evening they are unsafe fakes.

If you look at the sun with them, and it is brighter than a charcoal near the end od steak-grilling time, you have some fakes and they are not safe.

Decent glasses will show the sun as a easy-to]look-at orange (probably) object in a black sky.

>>9109757
>Will welder's goggles be sufficient?
Maybe. you need greater than shade 12, which is pretty tough to find with goggles. goggles are generally 6-10 or so because they arent made for heavy welding.

Im using my weld mask to watch the eclipse with a shade 12.

gonna be pretty cool laying down in the quad at uni with my welding mask on for a half hour or so

>>9115456
Or if you can see any light except the sun (e.g.household lights)

>>9114980
>>9114980
>No, dumbass.

by all means keep being a faggot then, faggot.

>>9115456
>>9115477
lol whatever guys, your faggots.

im watching the eclipse in my polarized shaded Oakleys i got while serving in Iraq

>>9112646
The shade number of the lens must be visible by law.

That being said, there is very little chance your lens is shade 14. Have fun with the blindness

>>9115477
>shade 12

You're going to regret the fuck out of not going up to at least shade 14 mah nigga.

On the plus side, if enough dipshits cook their rods and cones, maybe the amount of shitposting on /sci/ will decrease

>>9115537
could only find shade 12 on amazon in 4 1/4 x 2 without having to purchase a pack.

also, I will be around 90% totality when I see it

So this is pretty much how I'm going to view it

>>9115548
show us what it looks like while pointing at the sun

>>9115547
>Wow anon you went permanently partially blind from watching the eclipse with the wrong kind of lens?
>Yeah, but I saved $20 on amazon

>>9115551

>>9115569
PURPLE UFO PURPLE UFO

>>9115548
wouldn't the eclipse totally fuck up the lens?

Maybe this is a dumb question, but is it okay to wear my prescription eyeglasses in combination with my eclipse glasses?

>>9115585
from what I read so long as you dont use the zoom option without a filter a camera phone will be fine,
I pointed this at a full sun with no ill effect so it seems to be the case,
either way this is an old phone so dont really care if the camera gets damaged.

>>9115590
Provided the eclipse glasses are ISO certified, you can put whatever the fuck you want between your eyes and them

>>9115569
taped filter over the hole for more clarity

>>9115590
You're supposed to. Just make sure the eclipse glasses are over the glasses.

>>9114151
>tfw when I'm going on a business trip to SC, flying out there tomorrow
lucky me

Why are all you fucks freaking out about getting the perfect ultra strong ~pure black~ glasses for the eclipse, as if looking anywhere near the sky when the sun is up will make you immediately go blind? Shit, I spent my entire childhood staring at the sun, and my eyesight isn't shot. As long as you look just to the side of the eclipse before totality, there's no need for glasses.

>>9115289
Well the sun is bigger than the distance between the earth and the moon.. So the answer is you become the sun

>>9115629
You can permanently damage your eyes in 20 seconds during an eclipse and you won't know until the next day. I don't know about you but when I look at a tit want to see the nipple, not just a blur in the middle for the rest of my life.

>>9115591
A digital zoom does not effect the light passing through the lens in any way.

If you want to increases the chances the camera survives, don't point it at the sun for very long. Just short periods like a minute or 2. Then let the camera cool off by pointing it at anything else or covering it with something solid. Alternatively, using any kind of thin filter, or proper filter at all will help. Even sun glasses will help improve the chances the camera survives longer. Don't risk sun glasses on your eyes but why not use it for camera if you already plan on using it anyway

>>9115629
>human eyes are tuned to be most sensitive to the sun's brightest wavelengths

>makes the solar disk too bright to look at for more than a second

>stops us from being able to go full retard and look at the it long enough for the IR and UV to permanently fuck our shit up

>Partial eclipse happens, blocks a sufficient amount of visible light so we can directly observe the partial solar disk for way longer than we normally could comfortably

>still enough UV and IR to JUST your eyeball juice

>A generation of blind retards is born

Yeah you can glance at it, but you'll fuck it up and look too long

>>9115596
very nice anon

>>9115585
The sun during an eclipse is just the sun -- only partially or fully blocked by the moon, which makes the light coming from it to your lens a bit less.

The eclipse will not fuck up your phone/eye/camera, the sun will. If your camera phone can handle the sun when it is not in eclipse, it can handle it during the eclipse. With one proviso: You don't normally point your phone/camera/eye straight at the sun for minutes at a time.

The danger during an eclipse largely comes from people suddenly wanting to actually LOOK at the sun, pay attention to it, stare at it. Or point a lens at it.

Lots of folks are going to burn out their camera sensors Monday...

>>9115146
Floppy disk is worse than pop tart wrappers.

http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/filters.html

>>9115289
Space 1999 happens.

>>9115308
You demand a refund from the sun.

>>9115585
Not the lens, the imager. It's basically going to get the same level of burn as your eyes would, the main difference is you can throw it away and get a new one.

>>9115768
>Lots of folks are going to burn out their camera sensors Monday...
Gonna be all smug when I hear about it.

>Forecast suddenly switched from great to poor for St. Louis and the surrounding area

Fly in and hope, or try to drive to east TN?

I'm not going to travel, is a partial Solar Eclipse still worth looking at?

>>9115836
It's as not much to look at, but if you live in most parts of America you might as well just tilt your neck and take a glance at it

>mathematical dead center passing a mile from the house
>57% chance of cloud cover
F u c k

>>9115836
I don't think it's nearly as amazing to see 50% partial vs totality, but it is still interesting to see crescent shadows on the ground.

>>9115844
it's just above 70% from where I live
2024 is when I'll travel

>>9115844
I saw a 90% coverage a couple years ago, the sun was still bright as fuck, it just felt like an eery twilight kind of. Totality is a different beast entirely from what I've heard.

well /sci/, I made it to Casper. Pretty hectic here already. Lots of police and overflow parking areas.

If anyone wants any Casper tips if you're coming tomorrow / Monday I'll help as best I can.

So will a canada bro need as much eye protection? I want to look at it but I feel like I'm already too late.

>>9115949
please don't go blind

get level 14 welder glass if you can. and lots of schools and libraries have loads of glasses to hand out

>>9114015
because it keeps getting raided

Anyway, this post will be archived and will be preserved as one of the rare stickies, so im posting to memorialize myself.

heres an image to be able to identify myself

This evening I drove from Portland, OR to corvallis, trying to beat the traffic. So far, no bottlenecks that I could see, just gas prices jacked up higher than normal. I'll be sheltering in place until the traffic dies down on Tuesday. We're campong in the back yard of a friend-of a friend.

>>9115862
How was the traffic getting there? You reckon everyone planning to drive there on Monday is just gonna see a partial eclipse as they're stuck on the road?

Serious question here, I'm too late on getting any protective eyewear to watch the eclipse. Would using a mirror to pointed at the sun be good enough to protect me? Also I find it hard to believe that staring at the sun for literally 3 seconds can hurt your eyes much, I mean who hasn't looked up at the sun?

>>9116021
I think the problem is that the day becomes dark and then your eyes adjust and then the rays all concentrate at once BTFOing your retina anally

>>9116021
It may be hard to do in such a short time, but you can adjust your eyes to look at the sun by looking at it briefly and then for longer and longer periods of time. Your eyes will get used to the sun's brightness to the point where you can look at it for about 10 or 20 seconds at a time.

Damn. I thought about leaving for a friend's place in Carbondale very early Monday morning but if I'll be stuck in traffic for hours on top of what is normally a 6.5 hour drive from Milwaukee forget it. I'll deal with 87% coverage and just wait for the next one in 7 years.

>>9116029
for me it what was supposed to be a 8 hour drive to Tennessee became 10 with how much traffic we had yesterday

>>9116030
Shit. I'd rather witness a partial eclipse at home than witness a slightly less partial eclipse on the highway.

I'll just have to wait until next time. I would have left earlier, like Saturday, but I work all weekend. At least I'll have Monday off.

>>9116033
I have to go into work on Monday afternoon. I'm alotting 3 hours for a 30 minute drive. Is it enough?

I'll take all the required supplies: water, gas, food, condoms, toilet paper, and smokes as currency when society breaks down. Anything else I need?

When is the next total solar eclipse?
I don't live in a flyover state.

>>9116106

Coastcucks BTFO

>>9116073
Depending on where you are.
I think the next one in the USA (after monday) will be in 2024

>>9116021
>trusting your eyes to the opinions of /sci/ posters

>>9116026
>the day becomes dark

>believing in eclipses
go back to /x/

>>9115178
Be sure to wear your sunglasses.

>>9115852
It is. I've seen a couple of partials, an annular and a total eclipse. The total eclipse is another beast entirely.

Still, if you are someplace where what you get is a partial, why NOT check it out? Ticket prices are very reasonable.

>>9115959
Or look up-thread for links on how to project the image. ut yeah, eve in Canada it is a Bad Idea to spend any time looking directly at the sun.

>>9116008
Likely so.

>>9116021
Glanced at? Yeah, we all have. LOOKED at, no, you don't do that because it will fry your fucking eyes.

>>9116027
This is a lie.

>>9116021
>using a mirror

As bad as looking at the sun. There IS a way to use a mirror. Cover the mirror w

>>9116464
Posted too fast somehow...

Cover the mirror with a sheet of paper or other opaque stuff, with a small hole in the center. Adjust the mirror so that the thin beam of light shines on a light-colored surface, projecting an image of the sun. It's a variation of the pinhole camera method mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

You are not looking into the beam of light, you look at the image projected on the wall or where-ever.

Note that the sun moves -- you may have to adjust your mirror a bit as the eclipse moves along.

>>9116106
2024, comes up through Mexico into Texas, thence up through Maine and out to sea.

Leaving from Chicago to Carbondale today, can any southern illinoisfags comment on the traffic situation

European here. My sides will be on the moon when you fuckers get cloudy weather tomorrow.

>>9116618
We're projected to have totally clear and sunny skies tomorrow here in Oregon.

>>9115085
Easier said than done.

so on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is direct vision?

When i was little i stared at the sun and played with the red, blue, or green shapes that it made and i dont have any noticeable damage.

>>9116680
about a 4 or 5, but you can get used to it
see >>9116027

>>9116680
11.

The issue is two fold: the event makes idiots look at the sun a lot more than usual for extended periods. Also, as you get closer to the total eclipse, the low ambient light opens your pupils, allowing the still powerful sunshine to wreck your retina like a magnifying glass does ants.

>>9116698
what about shining a flashlight in my eyes to keep the un-dilated

>>9116703
You know what, you may be on to something. Please try this tomorrow and report back.

St. Joseph しゅぱーつ~!

>>9116703
Yeah sure, you'll be fine

zzz fuck.

why didn't i know about this ealrier and why didn't more shops stock solar glasses to take advantage of this

cant find shit anywhere

>>9109738
I'm getting so tired of this. I live right in totality and have to drive three hours back home tonight. It will likely be a 6 hour drive with the traffic.

>>9109738
>"I'm not really interested at all, I mean it's just the sun being blocked"
>"This happens every night when the sun sets!"
>"I don't think it's worth looking at but you guys can have fun *chuckle*"

Okay dad thanks have fun watching TV all day

>>9116461
Well that's what I meant, like if the eclipse is happening and I glance at the sky then continue about my day, then I would believe nothing happens, it's not like I haven't glanced up towards where the sun is before.

I live in New York so I won't be getting the total eclipse. Am I still going to need glasses or something else to look at it directly or am I fine without it?

>>9117150
Glancing at the eclipse is worse than glancing at the sun itself

Your brain and eyes have natural mechanisms to prevent you subconsciously from looking directly at the sun, but with the eclipse, since all the light is in a small isolated sliver, these mechanisms are overridden and you can actually look at the sun directly, even if just for a fraction of a second. This doesn't happen with the normal sun because your brain prevents it.

That's why the eclipse is worse, do not even glance at it even for a second.

>>9117177
even 1/10 of a second?

>>9117172
it's all out by now, build a pinhole viewer.

Ive got my solar view all ready, but sadly ill only being a partial eclipse here in PA. Im gonna be sitting in my local graveyard waiting for the dead to rise, havin a picnic with my girl.

Any validity in people saying that the alignment is going to cause geological disturbances on earth? Yellowstone, or the new madrid fault line, for example.

>>9117203
Bro you can stare as long as you like. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

>>9117111
just sleep in your car. fuck bro. live a little.

>>9117266
About as likely as the dead rising.

>>9117123
wha-.. really?

>>9117002
get a cardboard box, a pair of binoculars, slap'em together and BAM you can watch the eclipse. Im actually pretty amazed by it. I was watching the clouds float across the sun. Ill probably be using this again in the following weeks to see if i can see sunspots.

>>9116618
CLEAR FUCKING MOTHERFUCKER! Then thunderstorms at 2ish in PA.

Drove 9 hours straight, starting at 10pm myself driving 7 hours and my gf driving the remaining two.
In Oregon now staying with friends 15 miles from totality, this better be worth it.

>>9117172
>(((New York)))

Go onto Craigslist goy, I'm sure there will be plenty of friendly merchants willing to sell you a pair

Ill be in bloomington normal at ISU it says I will get .933% Totality.

Will it be noticeable or will the sun still be a dick to me?

I'm in florida, tampa bay here, is it even worth it to pick up a pair of glasses? Can i just look for a few seconds and be fine?

Some jackoff has scalped the whole fucking tampa bay area.

If i just look at it for like 3 seconds will my eyes die

>>9117349
>>9117395
You'll be fine. Didn't you ever look at the sun as a kid? I know I did. Don't worry about it.

>>9116471
hey it also hits southern ontario, quebec and the maritimes

>tfw mostly cloudy forecast tomorrow

44% chance of clouds here, should I risk it or go to 65% chance of no clouds?

can i use tanning goggles to view the eclipse?

>>9117524
Those statistics are lies, every place has a 50% chance of clouds - either the clouds come or they don't

>>9117533
>muh Schrodinger's eclipse

>>9117524
> 44 clouds
> 65 not clouds
> literally 1% difference

Good thing this is not the maths board am I rite?

>>9117545
Reread your post

Made it to Casper, it's chill as fuck. The town seems no more busy than my other weekend.

>>9117432
its a bit dicey where i am, we have a slight chance of clouds and rain

I just drove 300 miles to Carbondale IL to sleep in a wal mart parking lot ama

Still don't understand why people are freaking the fuck out over this.

Place I worked at sells those cheap cardboard and film eclipse glasses. I don't trust those things further than I can throw them. I already fucked up my eyes looking at clouds once that just happened to be really bright.

I'm gonna walk outside just to see how dark it gets and maybe just point the camera at the sun and review it when I get back inside. I honestly don't see why people are spending thousands of dollars to see this thing though. Lunar eclipses are way more fun.

>>9117266
Wut. It isn't like this is the first time the sun and moon have aligned.. So why would something different happen this time?

>>9117608
>Still don't understand why people are freaking the fuck out over this.

Because a total solar eclipse hasn't passed over the entire continental USA like this in 99 years.

>>9117596
I wanted to do that but my mom wouldn't let me.

Guess I'll settle for measly 72% coverage

I'm sitting in south Indianapolis. I'm leaving early in the morning to head to Hopkinsville. 4 hours away and I'm going to give myself 8. Anyone else near my path?

friendly reminder

You can't go blind staring at a full, or partial solar eclipse, that's a myth invented to destroy our natural aura

>>9116461

I actually have directly looked at the sun a few years ago. It was a cloudy day, enough to block everything but the core disk.

I was convinced that it had to be the moon- I imagined that the sun would be quite a bit bigger back then. Parents told me otherwise. After looking at it for about a minute, my eyes started to burn

So far so good. Vision has held steady since then, optometrist imaged my retina and said they look healthy at latest checkup

Definitely not something I'd try again though. I'll be keeping my glasses on until I can see anything tomorrow

>>9117693
Even with glasses on, don't look for more than 30 seconds max. It isn't like much changes minute to minute anyways.

>>9117403
Science does not recognize that portion of an eclipse that happens in Canada.

It's the Law of Science, nothing to do with me...

Fucking Missouri fuck off with your state-wide cloud coverage.

>>9117686
Fuck off, /x/

>>9117278

You may be able to see sunspots, there was a line of three pretty decent sized one going around 2 days ago, that should still be there. I was imaging them with a projections from a 2 inch refractor with minimal magnification -- the eyepiece s so old I'm not sure exactly what it was.

Flew 90 minutes and then drove 8 hours to a sketchy motel in South Carolina, going to have to drive 100 miles inland THROUGH Columbia to get to a viewing place with low or negligible chance of thunderstorms. Ffs traffic is going to be so bad

>>9109738

i have "solar shield" cheap $20 sunglasses i use for driving. are these sufficient to start at the eclipse

I need advice anons

I live in seattle

should I drive down to oregon into the path of totality?

is it worth it?

where should I stay

I NEED ANSWERS

>>9117728
no lol

>>9117732
don't listen to this guy, he's lying

>>9114137
Just drove 9 hours up I-5 to Salem, no major traffic on the way up. I'm expecting my drive back to be horrible though

>>9117730
I can't tell you if it's worth it, but if you do come down, good luck finding a place. I'm just gonna sleep in my car at some chain store parking lot

>>9117596
>300 miles
Pussy shit anon, try 600

>>9117736

got me ;^)

also

>>9117741
>>9117740

so is the eclipse worth it then???? ayyyy

>>9117743
yes

>using any type of eye protection at all

Idiots. This is how Chad will be viewing the eclipse.

>>9117745

so you think I should drive from seattle tonight into the path of totality?

>>9117748
why not?

>>9109738

When it comes to buying shades, so I err on the side of too large? Or really try to find ones that fit perfectly? Are too large shades dangerous because they can let in light through open areas, or are they always more safe?

>>9117726
Driving up 26 from Charleston?

Good luck buddy. Better prep for a good five hours or more.

>live in Columbia MO
>people calling the store I work at constantly asking if we have any glasses left
>literally impossible to go anywhere because of all these people coming from all over the place

They're even shutting down part of the interstate. I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere tomorrow. Really hope it doesn't get cloudy either.

will sunglasses work or am I about to get free lasik courtesy of the sun?

GOD FUCKING FUCK WHY THE FUCK DOES IT HAVE TO BE CLOUDY I WAS FUCKING PLANNING THIS SHIT FOR MONTHS AND ITS CLOUDY HERE AND EVERYWHERE THATS LESS THAN A FOUR HOUR DRIVE FUCKFUCKFUCKFCUK

>>9117761
I'm actually in Florence, outside path of totality

>>9117772
If sunglasses were safe you wouldn't see people with retarded looking eclipse glasses instead.

>>9117781
Oh, 20 is going to be worse then. You can come join me, I'm ten minutes from the interstate and a mile from the center of the path. Bring beer.

>>9117795
I'm traveling with family and I don't have complete control over destination, but otherwise I would. I'm probably going to leave around 7 tomorrow to account for traffic

>>9117815
Honestly I'd say 6:00 just to play it safe. Florence to Columbia normally takes about an hour and a half with normal traffic, and you want to go up towards Greenville to get a better sun chance? Definitely leave early.

>>9109738
Hi aerolite

>>9117879
kek

Anyone else camped at the east Casper Walmart?

I do not understand this eclipse glass shit. I've looked at the sun before. Why does the moon's shadow suddenly make it blinding?

How's the traffic/crowd at Hopkinsville, KY?

It's the closest total eclipse for me. Where I live is 96-97%. I'd like to see it completely, but it's about a 4 hours drive to Hopkinsville. I'm worried the traffic might be too bad and I would end up missing it.

Would I be better off to just view the 96-97% close by?

>>9117903
t. blindfag

>>9117918
Never got blinds spots or anything. Guess most people have shit tier eyes

>>9117903
Stare at the sun for 1.5 hours and bad shit happens.

>>9117903
I'm sure most people have been stupid enough to look at the sun before, but we always look away instantly since that shit hurts. If you don't look away after even glancing at the sun, you're fucking impaired

>>9117917
I'm heading to 79 outside of allensville. Hopefully no one will be there

>>9117936
You'll be fine

>>9109738
this has nothing to do with science or math you retarded cunts

even this jackass gets it https://xkcd.com/1877/

>>9117944
That's what I'm hoping. I just hope I don't have trouble just sitting on the side of the road.

How much will commiefornia see?

I live in Eugene, OR ~50 miles from the totality region but I have made zero plans. I'm guessing it'll be impossible to make a one day trip of it? I really don't want to spend 10 hours in my car.

>>9117961
Where in CA? Around Sac gets like 75% I think? iirc NASA has an interactive map for this

>>9117970
Traffic is nonexistent right now.
Pack 3 days worth of food, clothes, and toiletries, and there.
Go. Leave now.

>>9117970
>50 miles
>ten hours
What the fuck? Fucking drive out somewhere in totality, that's hardly an hour drive. If you go now or sometime really fucking early in the morning, you'll avoid the traffic.

>>9117974
Wait I think I finally get >>9109850.

>>9117730
Hotels and camp sites have been booked solid here since early this year. Come if you want but I-5 immediately south of Portland is a parking lot by 2 PM on a normal day. Good luck getting to Salem.

How did the ancient Mayans and Egyptians look at eclipses if they didn't have the fancy NASA glasses? Those cultures were really big about eclipses.

I've got a question for any Salemfags in here. Am I fine sleeping in my car in downtown?

>>9117980

If I go now that's at least 13 hours in my car

>>9118005
For 50 fucking miles?

>>9118009

I would have to sleep in the car

>>9117647
>The total eclipse of the sun of August 21, 2017 will be the most-observed solar eclipse to date. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States since 1979.

???

From >>9110652's site.

>>9118011
So? I'm doing that, I drove 9 hours up here

>>9118004
If you don't mind waking up with a missing kidney, sure.

I live in Jefferson County, MO
Is that within the 100% totality zone

>>9118019
I just don't want to wake up with a cop's dick 6 inches up my ass for being parked downtown for so long, and for sleeping here. I can't exactly contest any tickets I get

>>9118020

>>9118019
>>9118022
Also, I don't really want to find a Walmart to sleep by, I think that would be more shady

>>9118029
There's always Safeway. It literally has safe in the name.

>>9118032
True, but I'm already downtown and by a park. Maybe in a parking garage?

>look at flashlight
>look back at sun
??? You cannot refute this

>>9118042
Conspiracy theorist get out

Athens, GA resident here. Dilemma:

>Morning classes end at 11AM.
>Place I planned on watching at is 1 hour away, near Elberton, GA,
>Next class after 11AM is at 3:30PM

So my understanding is that the Eclipse will occur around 2:35PM. There's no way I'd be able to see it and drive by in time for class. In fact, based on how crowded every where in the Totality Zone, I might not be able to leave at 11 (and arrive at 12) and find a decent place to view.

What would /sci/ do? Skip all classes tomorrow? Is the Eclipse worth it? It's very close to me and it seems like kind of a once in a lifetime chance.

My classes have two-three absences built in, so I wouldn't be docked a a grade or something, but I'm the type to save that shit for emergencies.

I don't know - help me decide.

>>9118046
are you at UGA? most classes I know of are canceled for it, and there's also a viewing at the stadium with glasses provided tomorrow.

>>9118020
same, i swear to god if its fucking cloudy

>>9118048
I am at UGA - I saw the viewing thing as the stadium, but it would only be a partial, wouldn't it?

And, no, all my classes are still in session. I think it's because none of them actually fall during the eclipse and most professors probably assume we're not gonna leave town to see it.

No! This can't be happening! I'm in charge here!
AHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>9118038
Park in a hotel parking lot

>>9118050
>>9118046
Here. Thanks for reminding me, >>9118048, of the Stanford event. I knew about it, but I looked into it.

No, Athens is not in the Totality Zone... but Athens will be 99.1% total. So I'm sure I'll be just fine, haha.

So yay. Don't gotta miss classes, and I get the experience. Gonna be fun.

>>9118057
*Sanford. You can tell I don't care much about football, haha. In fact, I've been a student here for two years and this will be the first time I've ever been in Sanford Stadium.

That's probably really sad.

>>9118058
I'm a freshman here starting this year and I only went to one football game in all of high school (and it was in my senior year too)

>>9118056
There's no way those aren't full, but I'll give it a shot