Eclipse glasses?

[Bomber 1,092]

Anybody having luck getting those solar eclipse viewing glasses? I can't find them for sale anywhere.

Walmart said they've been sold out for week and everywhere else I went didn't have them.

 

[Krdshrk 3,877]

I bought mine online - There's an approved list online.  B&H sells them.  May have a couple extras if needed.

[1LtCAP 4,264]

i'll ber checking it out through an old school welding helmet.......

[10X 3,301]

Warby Parker (their brick and mortar stores) advertised that they would be giving them away.  I've no idea for how long.   Some local libraries are also handing them out.

We still had ours, along with a camera filter and cheap eclipse binoculars,  from the 2017 total eclipse.

[leahcim 680]

I'm getting my orange blockers ready

[Displaced Texan 11,754]

We are in the path of totality here in Georgetown, but I think it’s gonna be a bust, cloudy out today. 
 

Metric assloads of people traveled down here to view it, and I think they will be disappointed. 

[silverado427 10,735]

[Displaced Texan 11,754]

5 minutes ago, silverado427 said:

The local news has been harping on everyone to stock up before the eclipse.

 

I find it…silly, although it’s pretty crowded down here. 

[High Exposure 5,664]

Took the wife and kid up to Lake Champlain (South Hero, VT) for a few days to see the eclipse from the totality zone. It is so nice and calm here. The weather is crisp (going to be 61 today, but we had snow flurries on Saturday) and clear. We booked our place last spring - so we got a cheap rate. Got our glasses when we booked our cottage.

Hope everyone enjoys it and stays safe!

[Displaced Texan 11,754]

28 minutes ago, High Exposure said:

Took the wife and kid up to Lake Champlain (South Hero, VT) for a few days to see the eclipse from the totality zone. It is so nice and calm here. The weather is crisp (going to be 61 today, but we had snow flurries on Saturday) and clear. We booked our place last spring - so we got a cheap rate. Got our glasses when we booked our cottage.

Hope everyone enjoys it and stays safe!

Enjoy it, and get some pics! It’s gonna be a bust here 

[leahcim 680]

1 hour ago, Displaced Texan said:

We are in the path of totality here in Georgetown, but I think it’s gonna be a bust, cloudy out today. 
 

Metric assloads of people traveled down here to view it, and I think they will be disappointed. 

Oh I think this is gonna be worse than Y2K, and many of us remember what an apocalypse that was

[Scorpio64 5,157]

This just in.  The eclipse will cross the US-Mexico border at around 13:33 CDST and make it's way up and across the country towards Canada.  At approximately 15:12 EDST it will enter New York state, where it will receive a prepaid debit card, an additional EBT card, free phone,  free legal representation, free health care, and free education.  Well, free to the eclipse at least.  You and I are the suckers paying for it.

[silverado427 10,735]

LOL

 

https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1777325834438631783

[silverado427 10,735]

[Displaced Texan 11,754]

Clouds cleared for a little bit, and we managed to see the totality. 
 

 

[High Exposure 5,664]

Ok. That was awesome!

[Bklynracer 1,265]

Great photo, here in Bergen county had cloud cover, got little darker, if I didn’t know there was an eclipse going on, would’ve thought  rain was coming, now still cloud cover, little brighter.

[gfl216 226]

[Krdshrk 3,877]

8 hours ago, High Exposure said:

Took the wife and kid up to Lake Champlain (South Hero, VT) for a few days to see the eclipse from the totality zone. It is so nice and calm here. The weather is crisp (going to be 61 today, but we had snow flurries on Saturday) and clear. We booked our place last spring - so we got a cheap rate. Got our glasses when we booked our cottage.

Hope everyone enjoys it and stays safe!

I grew up up there.  It's definitely nice and calm... and nothing to do.

[Bomber 1,092]

5 hours ago, Bklynracer said:

Great photo, here in Bergen county had cloud cover, got little darker, if I didn’t know there was an eclipse going on, would’ve thought  rain was coming, now still cloud cover, little brighter.

Yeah, kind of underwhelming, cloud coverage didn't help but there were some breaks.

Note to self for next eclipse: if not in the path of totality don't bother.  

[High Exposure 5,664]

Photo of the totality my wife took with her SLR:

There was some bright pink/ruby light at about 7 o'clock that was really cool. You can see a hint of it in the photo.
 

Moment of totality looking West (From the VT side towards Plattsburgh NY) over Lake Champlain:

If you zoom in, you can see Venus at 5 o’clock a little less than halfway between the eclipse and the mountains.

[silverado427 10,735]

[45Doll 5,878]

The peak here was supposed to be around 2:25. So sure enough, about 2:15 a cloud deck rolled in that obscured all but about one minute of it.

Never fails here for astronomical events. Every time.

[brucin 923]

Cindy and I watched from Indian Lake NY with some friends. Quite impressive. Here's a shot I took.

[Displaced Texan 11,754]

[Xtors 333]

https://babylonbee.com/news/stock-market-analysis-eclipse-glasses---sell-sell-sell

[voyager9 3,434]

11 minutes ago, Xtors said:

https://babylonbee.com/news/stock-market-analysis-eclipse-glasses---sell-sell-sell

Simpsons did it.  

[45Doll 5,878]

Did eclipse glasses adequately block this view?

Ballsy: Mexican media outlet gets trolled into airing video of a man’s testicles thinking they were showing the eclipse... - Revolver News

[Displaced Texan 11,754]

38 minutes ago, 45Doll said:

Did eclipse glasses adequately block this view?

Ballsy: Mexican media outlet gets trolled into airing video of a man’s testicles thinking they were showing the eclipse... - Revolver News

Ha!! 
 

My buddy sent me the video, and I had the same reaction! 
 

He’s a former Navy Corpsman, so he has a more twisted sense of humor than I do. 

[10X 3,301]

This is a late trip report, as I avoid posting trip plans to social media until after I'm home.

We planned to drive to upstate NY. The forecast wasn't great, but it looked like the best odds were to get as far east as we had time for, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario.  We ended up at the delightful town of Sodus Bay.   In town we enjoyed a brewed-just-for-the-occasion black lager called Totality, then set up at a primo spot right on the beach.   But, the overcast arrived well before the eclipse.  We saw nothing of the sun, though of course it got much darker for 3 1/2 minutes.

We hedged our bets by spending the day before in Ithaca; It had been 20 years since I had a chance to wander around my grad school alma mater, then the day after we had planned a trip to Niagara Falls--my wife had never been there.   

So the trip worked out ok, but if I were to post my best eclipse photo, it might be this, taken under blue skies the next day: