KAT4DISNEY
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- Mar 17, 2008
We're actually leaving Saturday for our Eclipse trip! The dogs will go with us since it's going to be so "scary" for the animals. We have to head north so am going to spend a couple of nights in Yellowstone too. Not certain what we're getting ourselves into in finding a viewing area but we're going for the path of totality. Bought our glasses over a month ago when they were still very reasonable and have filters for the cameras although I expect that the internet will be flooded with shots much better than I'll do. Mostly planning on just taking it in from a country road in Idaho. Now fingers crossed for clear skies.
I have memories from grade school of doing the pinhole thing for the total eclipse in 1979 but was southern MN so not the path of totality. After that I knew I'd never bother with that route again! Sorry but I can draw that picture on a piece of paper anytime I want.
The glasses are so dark that you wouldn't see anything with them on when the moon was fulling blocking the sun. It's apparently going to be quite dark.
I have memories from grade school of doing the pinhole thing for the total eclipse in 1979 but was southern MN so not the path of totality. After that I knew I'd never bother with that route again! Sorry but I can draw that picture on a piece of paper anytime I want.
People around here are getting very excited about the eclipse since St. Louis is in the path of eclipse totality. Here's a great link from NASA that let's you click on it to get the data about what you can expect in any given area.
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html
I have to admit, I'm not all that fired up about it. But it is interesting to me that during the time of total eclipse, they're telling everyone that they can take their glasses off!
Sorry, but with only five senses I can't afford to take chances on losing one of them!
The glasses are so dark that you wouldn't see anything with them on when the moon was fulling blocking the sun. It's apparently going to be quite dark.
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