Eclipse

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Mon Aug 21, 17 11:17 pm

We had 92 % here in Colorado, could have driven north for a few hours with all the crowds, but we had work and opted to just catch it here, it was interesting to see it get dark, lights turned on ,the air temp dropped dramatically , and all in all it was fun just glad we didn't drive north as the roads are full of cars, all this for just a few minutes of darkness, oh well fun while it lasted , got some pics ,the reflections and shadows were fun the see,but a little to much hype for me glad it is over

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Aug 22, 17 7:48 am

We had an eclipse here a few years ago, it was all very underwelming! It was cloudy anyway of course and just got slightly gloomier for a bit and that was it. Obviously it's a bit more of a spectacle if you live somewhere that actually sees some sunshine on a daily basis!
We've actually seen so little sunshine this summer I'm beginning to think the government have sold it off to foreign investers...

mad machs · Post by **mad machs** » Tue Aug 22, 17 8:05 am

Blue wrote: We've actually seen so little sunshine this summer I'm beginning to think the government have sold it off to foreign investers...

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Tue Aug 22, 17 8:50 am

Blue wrote:We had an eclipse here a few years ago, it was all very underwelming! It was cloudy anyway of course and just got slightly gloomier for a bit and that was it. Obviously it's a bit more of a spectacle if you live somewhere that actually sees some sunshine on a daily basis!
We've actually seen so little sunshine this summer I'm beginning to think the government have sold it off to foreign investers...

18 years ago Blue. 1...8.... YEARS.

I drove down to france for it and saw the whole thing. It was pretty cool.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Aug 22, 17 8:58 am

Yes I suppose it was, time flies! I was stood in a Sainsburys car park in Huddersfield trying to work out where in the sky the sun actually was.....

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Tue Aug 22, 17 1:53 pm

Not sure if it was the most recent but I remember standing outside when I worked in Luton, near the airport. looking thru a small piece of welding goggle glass that was being passed around.
Andrew was at junior school age (now 23

) but was at home, looking at the image of the sun on a piece of paper while the sun shone thru a colander... or so I was told later by her indoors.
Must have been between 1998 - 2000

I think there have been other eclipses here since but they were less total and/or more cloudy so more of a non-event...

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Tue Aug 22, 17 2:53 pm

Blue wrote:We had an eclipse here a few years ago, it was all very underwelming! It was cloudy anyway of course and just got slightly gloomier for a bit and that was it. Obviously it's a bit more of a spectacle if you live somewhere that actually sees some sunshine on a daily basis!
We've actually seen so little sunshine this summer I'm beginning to think the government have sold it off to foreign investers...

AND a certain current prez was in on it some how some way

ScottyDave · Post by **ScottyDave** » Tue Aug 22, 17 6:25 pm

morgan wrote:
Blue wrote:We had an eclipse here a few years ago, it was all very underwelming! It was cloudy anyway of course and just got slightly gloomier for a bit and that was it. Obviously it's a bit more of a spectacle if you live somewhere that actually sees some sunshine on a daily basis!
We've actually seen so little sunshine this summer I'm beginning to think the government have sold it off to foreign investers...
18 years ago Blue. 1...8.... YEARS.

I drove down to france for it and saw the whole thing. It was pretty cool.

Well I was living in the Outer Hebrides then for that one...

It started getting duller, I thought it was going to rain and took the washing in off the line

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Aug 22, 17 6:31 pm

That reminds me of what Spike Milligan said, "The day war was declared, next door panicked immediately and took the washing in".....

ScottyDave · Post by **ScottyDave** » Tue Aug 22, 17 6:35 pm

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Tue Aug 22, 17 11:57 pm

db · Post by db » Wed Aug 23, 17 8:34 am

I went to St Austell for our eclipse, it was quite eerie to actually see the darkness come, you could get the same effect by slowly turning the dimmer switch down in your mum and dads front room. Although you wouldn't hear lots of people going "Ooooh!"
I rode there on my recently purchased Fireblade in 4 1/2 hours. I caught my mates up who's set off 3 hours before me. I sold it not long after before my luck ran out...

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Thu Aug 24, 17 4:27 am

db wrote:I went to St Austell for our eclipse, it was quite eerie to actually see the darkness come, you could get the same effect by slowly turning the dimmer switch down in your mum and dads front room. Although you wouldn't hear lots of people going "Ooooh!"
I rode there on my recently purchased Fireblade in 4 1/2 hours. I caught my mates up who's set off 3 hours before me. I sold it not long after before my luck ran out...

ya know, I have a lot of mates that said this was not very dark (and no wave of shadow)or not as dark as they said it would be,as I mentioned before it got a little darker here, like before a t storm or dusk, but we really noticed the temperature change, it was very dramatic and kind of nice (for 2 mins or so) it went from 32 c, down to 22c , and then back up...I wish I had a dimmer switch like that