Total Solar Eclipse 2024 - Something strange seems to be going around this year's eclipse.

[mlanguishi]

Literally every person I know irl who traveled to see the eclipse got cloud cucked. Sad! Better luck in 20 years!

Do not listen to the cope from cloud cucks. They will try to convince you that their cloud-filled experience was valid and not a complete waste of time, that akshually it's not so bad and they akshually gained so much from not having an unobstructed view of the eclipse. This is nothing but cope. Laugh at the cloud cucks. Laugh at them.

The clouds do ruin it. I was in a 'partly cloudy' area for this one, and I wish it were more clear. But it was still good. when it peaked out from behind the low clouds. 30 min before and after were clear, so I did get cucked some. In April in most of the US it's a toss up of clear/storms.

They were predicting full on storms where I was, turned out to be good enough, running clouds with gaps.

 

[FatalTater]

Honestly pictures and video do not do it justice.

The light getting weirdly dimmer, the air getting cooler, then that moment when the the big orange sun turns black with a cold blue ring around it?

Yeah, I get why ancient people thought something magic was going on.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

So why did I need to stock up on two weeks of supplies? Also, why is everyone retarded? It's just darkness in the middle of the day for a few minutes. People were traveling for hours and weeping in ecstasy. No wonder Democrats always have a steady supply of voters.

You will die alone and miserable.

 

[Wahgonga]

Honestly pictures and video do not do it justice.

The light getting weirdly dimmer, the air getting cooler, then that moment when the the big orange sun turns black with a cold blue ring around it?

Yeah, I get why ancient people thought something magic was going on.

A weather geek friend of mine a couple miles up the road told me that his thermometers registered an 11 degree F drop halfway through totality. There was a definite sudden chill where I was standing.

 

[MadStan]

It was fantastic . Better than 2017. The closer moon made it darker than the 2017 one. We lucked out with almost no cloud cover. It was very special. Over 3 mins of bliss.

 

[Drain Todger]

CERN and NASA summoned a UFO and it blotted out the sun on live TV!

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

The clouds actually made it look better because you could see the moon gradually move across the sun the entire time. The 2017 eclipse wasn't as good because you had to wear special glasses/get one of those lame projectors to see what was actually going on until the light got dim enough. It was really cool seeing the Sun as a flaming red crescent in the sky, and made it nice and cool out.

 

[GoysGoneWild]

Got to a viewing location and saw roughly 2mins, 30 secs of totality. Very cool experience. The light changes as it approaches, giving this grainy light that you will probably never really see anywhere else. If you could see the horizon, it was dark as fuck when totality was approaching and in the other direction as it receded. The crickets and other bugs went apeshit, and since we were in a rural location the cows and roosters were also going nuts.

Totality itself was very cool. The prominence's and the way the light was so purely white, like a liquid or crystal. And then the sun emerges UNCONQUERED.

 

[C114-85EKLS]

Drove out to the New Brunswick coast to catch a beachside view of the eclipse with some based friends I hadn't seen for a while. People watching gave us a lot of pre-show entertainment. You're in this completely out of the way, impoverished, dead-industry rural area with all these fat fuck danger-hairs, bug people and other gunty I-fucking-love-soyence types milling around the place that don't fit in at all. Tragically I have to report that the moon eclipsing the sun wasn't the only moon some of us saw that day.

Temperature drop was pretty steep, we went from walking around in t-shirts to reasonably concerned we might freeze during the eclipse, since the overnight temperature the day before was below freezing and some of us had ditched our jackets in the car. It's really fucky how to the plain eye the sun still looks like it's blasting full power, but no, it's half gone, and it's getting cold. Really makes you appreciate the power and influence of ye olde sun god.
The color shift really is something that you have to see for yourself; it's getting dark like the day's ending but the angle of the light and shadows is all wrong. You don't get the same effect from a photo - it just looks like it was taken under or overexposed, and doesn't give you that same unfalsifiable feeling as seeing it with your own eyes. Curiously, our instincts all wanted to interpret the darkening as a sunset, and the return of the sun as dawn, probably some hardcoded monkey response.

The weather was beyond perfect on the coast. Some very very light cloud cover that got completely pushed out by the effect of the eclipse. By the time totality happened it was entirely clear.

Overall really cool, much recommend but if you're going to drive for hours for it, make sure you have a plan B to have fun if the weather fucking sucks.

Spoiler: Photos

I taped up an eyepiece from those cardboard glasses to my camera and took some pretty nice shots, considering I was shooting freehand and with a basic 18-55 lens. I was certainly not prepared for the frantic exposure adjustment when totality hit though. Haven't properly edited the batch yet but here's a few random quick-crop ones.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Honestly pictures and video do not do it justice.

The light getting weirdly dimmer, the air getting cooler, then that moment when the the big orange sun turns black with a cold blue ring around it?

Yeah, I get why ancient people thought something magic was going on.

Yep, it was fun, had some food and beer with some friends and we had a great time.

It was fantastic . Better than 2017. The closer moon made it darker than the 2017 one. We lucked out with almost no cloud cover. It was very special. Over 3 mins of bliss.

Over 3 minutes is great.

The clouds actually made it look better because you could see the moon gradually move across the sun the entire time. The 2017 eclipse wasn't as good because you had to wear special glasses/get one of those lame projectors to see what was actually going on until the light got dim enough. It was really cool seeing the Sun as a flaming red crescent in the sky, and made it nice and cool out.

Totally agree.

It was great, in Texas we got nearly 4 minutes of totality. Cooled off really fast and I got some.... Decent photos of it with my phone.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

I live in a part of the country where it was overcast both this time and back in 2017. It sucked, because I do remember seeing a partial eclipse back in 1991. The sun looked the same without glasses, but the sky darkened as if someone had drawn a veil over it. It was spooky because it was subtle and had I not known there was an eclipse going on, I might have thought I was going crazy. I was hoping I could get the same experience with the newer eclipses but no dice.

 

[Black Coffee]

Drove over 1500 miles round trip to see it, was clear sky and everything but the traffic going back erased my memories of the eclipse and just got pissed off at the whole trip, but maybe I'm just a miserable cunt. My ETA back home was supposed to be like 3am or something but ended up delayed to 7am so I had to sleep overnight in a shitty rest stop filled with niggers. Never again.