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https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-who-what-where-when-and-how

Total Solar Eclipse: Who? What? Where? When? and How?

On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totalitycan see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun's disk.

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Image Credit: Rick Fienberg, TravelQuest International and Wilderness Travel
Figure 1- In this series of still from 2013, the eclipse sequence runs from right to left. The center image shows totality; on either side are the 2nd contact (right) and 3rd contact (left diamond rings that mark the beginning and end of totality respectively).

Who Can See It?

Lots of people! Everyone in the contiguous United States, in fact, everyone in North America plus parts of South America, Africa, and Europe will see at least a partial solar eclipse, while the thin path of totality will pass through portions of 14 states.

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Image Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
Figure 2- This map shows the globe view of the path of totality for the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. You can find more information at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4518

What is It?

This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.

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Figure 3 – Diagram showing the Earth-sun-moon geometry of a total solar eclipse. Not to scale: If drawn to scale, the Moon would be 30 Earth diameters away. The sun would be 400 times that distance.

Where Can You See It?

You can see a partial eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun, anywhere in North America (see “Who can see it?”). To see a total eclipse, where the moon fully covers the sun for a short few minutes, you must be in the path of totality. The path of totality is a relatively thin ribbon, around 70 miles wide, that will cross the U.S. from West to East. The first point of contact will be at Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 a.m. PDT. Totality begins there at 10:16 a.m. PDT.

Over the next hour and a half, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. The total eclipse will end near Charleston, South Carolina at 2:48 p.m. EDT. From there the lunar shadow leaves the United States at 4:09 EDT. Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds.

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Figure 4 - A map of the United States showing the path of totality for the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.

When Can You See It?

Times for partial and total phases of the eclipse vary depending on your location. This interactive eclipse map(link is external) will show you times for the partial and total eclipse anywhere in the world.

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How Can You See It?

You never want to look directly at the sun without appropriate protection except during totality. That could severely hurt your eyes. However, there are many ways to safely view an eclipse of the sun including direct viewing – which requires some type of filtering device and indirect viewing where you project an image of the sun onto a screen. Both methods should produce clear images of the partial phase of an eclipse. Click here for eclipse viewing techniques and safety.

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Figure 5 - Check with local science museums, schools and astronomy clubs for eclipse glasses—or purchase an ISO 12312-2 compliant pair of these special shades!

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Figure 6 - This list describes when to wear your glasses and when you can safely look at the eclipse, only during totality!
 

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So many dumbasses are going to hurt themselves looking without proper eye protection.

And how many nutjobs will run amok?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/will-2017-solar-eclipse-cause-secret-planet-called-nibiru-destroy/

Will 2017 solar eclipse cause secret planet 'Nibiru' to destroy Earth next month? (No, but conspiracy theorists think so)
Eleanor Muffitt

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Conspiracy theorists around the world are claiming that a planet will collide with Earth this September - and that the coming solar eclipse will signal the apocalypse's beginning.

David Meade, author of 'Planet X – The 2017 Arrival', asserts the planet Nibiru (also known as Planet X) will crash into our own on 23 September 2017.

Earlier this year Meade asserted that Nibiru would crash into Earth in October, however he has now moved the date forward a few weeks.

The Great American Eclipse - the total solar eclipse which will enshroud parts of the US in complete darkness on 21 August - now apparently indicates the planet's arrival.
 

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I am too late for the party as far as getting the proper eye protection goes. I live about 100 miles from the path of total eclipse, so looking at it at all without protection is a danger. I'm bummed....
 

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I am too late for the party as far as getting the proper eye protection goes. I live about 100 miles from the path of total eclipse, so looking at it at all without protection is a danger. I'm bummed....

Get some from Amazon.
 

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I will look...everywhere else I've looked they have been sold out.
You can get the $1 cardstock frame "glasses" from Walmart or Kroger. Same cheesy frames the 3D glasses for the movies had years ago though the plastic lens is extremely dark. Or use a welders mask. I don't know about the autocorrecting welders masks....I'm going to use the old style......have to evict the spiders from it.:LOL:
 

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You can get the $1 cardstock frame "glasses" from Walmart or Kroger. Same cheesy frames the 3D glasses for the movies had years ago though the plastic lens is extremely dark. Or use a welders mask. I don't know about the autocorrecting welders masks....I'm going to use the old style......have to evict the spiders from it.:LOL:
I hope you are right (Walmart).I'm headed there today!
 

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Guys, I'm like super busy that day. Any chance we can get this thing postponed until Tuesday?

(stole that one from some dumb*ss on Facebook who thought it should be moved to the weekend)
 

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Don't worry if you miss it.. there will be another total eclipse in July 2019..but you have to travel to South America
 

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I'm disappointed....First day at University for the Fall term is August 21st.
 

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https://www.cnet.com/how-to/6-weird-things-that-happen-during-an-eclipse/

Total solar eclipse 2017: 6 bizarre things that will happen
Things get a little weird during an eclipse. Here are six things to look for.
by Alina Bradford

While there are many superstitions about eclipses, there are also a lot of weird things that happen during an eclipse that are completely real -- and super cool. Here are six incredible things to look for during the eclipse on August 21.

1. Animals getting confused
"A totally eclipsed sun is 10,000 times fainter than one that is 99 percent covered by the moon," Meg Pickett, professor of physics at Lawrence University, told me. The change in light during an eclipse makes the temperature drop suddenly, which makes animals think that night is coming.

As the total eclipse begins, animals begin their evening songs and behavior, such as crickets chirping. As the eclipse ends, the animals think that morning is coming. If you're in the country, you'll be able to hear roosters crow.

2. Stars and planets in the middle of the day
During the eclipse, the sky will get so dark that stars will look just as bright as they would during the evening. If you live close to the total eclipse zone, you'll even be able to see planets like Jupiter and Venus easily.

3. Shadow bands
Right before a total eclipse, little snake-like shadows will appear to slither across the ground. According to NASA, scientists aren't completely sure why shadow bands happen. Many scientists believe that they are caused by light from the eclipse being focused and refocused through cells of air in the atmosphere.

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Shadow bands are a rare sight during the eclipse, but you may be able to see them with the right equipment, timing and location. The most important part is the color of the ground. You can see the bands best on light colors. Some people lay a large white sheet on the ground. You may also spot them by looking at concrete, sand, snow or ice.

"In 2015, I saw the eclipse in Svalbard, just 800 miles from the North Pole," said Mark Bender, a longtime eclipse chaser who has followed eclipses from Norway to Australia, and the director of the documentary series "Eclipse Across America." "I was standing on a landscape covered with ice -- just like an enormous white sheet. And there they were! It's all about being at the right place at the right time."

4. Bailey's beads
Bailey's beads are pearls of sunlight shining through the valleys and mountains of the moon, explained Pickett. You'll see them around the edges of the moon as it passes over the sun.

"The beads may look reddish in color, exposing the upper atmosphere of the sun, the chromosphere, or 'Sphere of Color,'" said Pickett.

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5. Corona rainbows
Corona rainbows happens when the air is full of water molecules. "During the eclipse in 1999, I was watching in Cornwall, England," said Bender. "It was a completely overcast and rainy day. Leading up to the eclipse, you couldn't see the sun at all. Three minutes before totality, the sun started to peek though, and with one minute to go, clouds dissipated and the entire sky opened up. We lucked out, but the best was yet to come.

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"Even though the rain had stopped, there was still so much water vapor in the air. When the sun eclipsed, the corona was full of tiny rainbows! Imagine seeing the stunning corona in full color! I have never seen that since, but anything is possible. You just don't know how it will play out."

6. 360-degree sunset
During totality, or when the sun is completely covered by the moon, you can see what looks like a sunset -- in every direction -- around the horizon.

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When he was 15 in July 1963, NASA researcher and Dickinson College Professor of physics and astronomy Robert Boyle witnessed his first solar eclipse in Bangor, Maine. "When totality arrived, I was amazed at how dark it got," Boyle said. "The silence that descended around us was as profound as it was unexpected. The birds stopped chirping. The air grew still. And all around the horizon where the clouds left a little gap of sky, there was a crimson band of light as if sunset was a 360-degree phenomenon."

The strange 360-sunset effect happens, Boyle says, because the sun is still shining outside the path of totality.
 

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Something else wacky that is happening in the County I live in...

All parents of children who attend public school here in Seminole County have just been notified that they can keep their kids at home the day of the eclipse.

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Something else wacky that is happening in the County I live in...

All parents of children who attend public school here in Seminole County have just been notified that they can keep their kids at home the day of the eclipse.

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Thats so Floriduh.
 
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Something else wacky that is happening in the County I live in...

All parents of children who attend public school here in Seminole County have just been notified that they can keep their kids at home the day of the eclipse.

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Its Nibiru. They said this eclipse was going to cause interferences though. So don't be surprised if your Directv dish isn't working.