Eclipse 2024

[Nighthawks]

Best Total Solar Eclipse I’ve seen. I was already hooked, but now I’m take up eclipse chasing as a hobby.

From the Emerald Princess off the coast of Mazatlan this morning.

[MassWholeBimmer]

Google search now trending... "My eyes hurt"...

[Gemini562]

[LuisBoston]

I was right under the center of the path of totality in Mansonville, QC

Pics are only from an iPhone.

[LuisBoston]

Solar panels also show the eclipse in eastern MA

[dreamingat30fps]

Having now seen it in person I will say none of the pics I've ever seen really capture what it looks like in real life.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by MassWholeBimmer

Google search now trending... "My eyes hurt"...

I thought you were kidding here. But it's a real thing. *Huge* spike in Google searches for those exact terms. But why is Georgia at the top? They were nowhere near the path.

Searches for “my eyes hurt” have skyrocketed in these 25 states, with the top three states NOT in the path of totality on April 9, 2024:

1. Georgia - 4,006%
2. New Jersey - 3,121%
3. Florida - 2,747%
4. New York - 2,606%
5. Illinois - 2,046%
6. Massachusetts - 1,843%
7. Ohio - 1,820%
8. Missouri - 1,780%
9. Connecticut - 1,589%
10. Arizona - 1,350%
11. Virginia - 1,312%
12. North Carolina - 1,289%
13. Michigan - 1,281%
14. Indiana - 1,054%
15. Nevada - 1,005%
16. Pennsylvania - 892%
17. California - 867%
18. Alabama - 625%
19. Iowa - 622%
20. Maryland - 559%
21. Texas - 358%
22. Oklahoma - 352%
23. Delaware - 307%
24. Mississippi - 290%
25. Tennessee - 225%

[MassWholeBimmer]

Amazed that us older folks can still see.... Didn't have social media and 24x7 news channels constantly reminding us not to look at the sun during the eclipse...as occured leading up to Mondays eclipse, as when I was a youngster.

Last eclipse, when i was young. Good Ole mom said .. you look at the sun you'll go blind, not like blind when you look at your father's girlie magazines..
I mean it, you'll go bling...

no social media, just mom..

[vreihen16]

...and lots of 35mm photo negatives to make your own eclipse glasses.....

[M_Six]

I can't believe the traffic folks are willing to sit through sometimes. There had to be less popular places to go see the eclipse. We found a small town with just a handful of people watching the eclipse. This is eclipse traffic in Vermont.

[dreamingat30fps]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I can't believe the traffic folks are willing to sit through sometimes. There had to be less popular places to go see the eclipse. We found a small town with just a handful of people watching the eclipse. This is eclipse traffic in Vermont.

We were worried about this as we were just outside Dallas. No issues at all. I felt like towards the weekend there were more people on the streets, but no traffic jams like that or anything.

We got to the park early at 9am thinking there would be a line. Nothing. I do think the park limits capacity since you have to pre purchase a day pass, but we left maybe an hour or so after totality and no traffic leaving either.

Guess everyone went to Vermont.