Partial Eclipse of the Sun or 97% of it, at any rate.

[shadowkat]

Against all odds, I managed to actually view the eclipse.





So much for that photography career I'd planned.

FM had an extra-pair of glasses. So, I helped her see it in the conference room - then bored of contorting ourselves, we decided to go downstairs and watch it from the sidewalk outside of our building, with a gaggle of tourists, bus passengers, homeless people, and co-workers.

We didn't see the total eclipse from NYC, just about 97% of one. So it went down to a partial sliver on one side. Got cold, but not dark. Not really. And it was overcast at various points, so every once and a while the sun would appear to disappear, but it actually hadn't.

Around 3:30pm, even though you could still see it - we got bored and went inside.

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....and the cosmic dance continues

[cjlasky7]

Pretty much the same experience on my end. One of our staffers had a spare pair of glasses, and we all took turns viewing the eclipse. Sky was mostly clear in my section of Brooklyn, and I got a nice view of the moon covering about half the sun's disk.

No virgins were sacrificed to bring the sun back, so I got bored and went back inside.

Re: ....and the cosmic dance continues

[shadowkat]

It was pretty much clear for the most part or for most of the eclipse where I was, it would peak in and out of the clouds. (Amusing that the further north you went, the more cloud cover, but the more eclipse.)

A little disturbing that you needed virgins to be sacrificed for entertainment? ;-) (Tee hee)

Yeah, we got bored too and went back inside. It was actually more fun in 2017 looking at in the shadows of trees, but we didn't have enough clear blue sky for that to work well yesterday.

[brittdreams]

97% is still pretty cool!

[shadowkat]

It was definitely cooler than the one we saw in 2017 which was more like 50%?.

[brittdreams]

That makes sense. I think I was like 85 or 90% in 2017 but still enjoyed the 70ish% I had this time.

[shadowkat]

I think it's doing it again in Mexico around August? They were telling people to send their glasses to the kids in Mexico City on various FB neighborhood pages.

In any event? It's cool. I found it to be very surreal.

[brittdreams]

Yea, but I think it's a partial eclipse. I found myself looking up a bunch of eclipse stuff last night and there's a total lunar eclipse coming up so that should be cool.