NFRC- Anyone seeing the eclipse? We start our beach week that day at

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charley

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the SC line that the eclipse leaves the US. Have plans to go to Charleston the night before and then head up the coast for the totality maximum, we hope. VERY excited.

 
We plan to be in Tennessee at totality and are very excited!

Celebrating our 39th anniversary with a eclipse road trip! Colleen

 
We are pulling a big road trip up to Idaho for the Eclipse. . .

We will be leaving Southern California to stay in Pocatello and drive in very early the day of the eclipse (maybe) Idaho falls or Roberts, ID or Rigby, ID. The two last towns are very small and so, I hope, should be not so crowded to watch the eclipse. Idaho Falls is in the path of totality and Rigby and Roberts are very close to the center of the totality path, and so should have a slightly longer eclipse length.

I made reservations last November to stat in Pocatello for the eclipse; I could not find anything in Idaho Falls, period. Those are my most expensive hotel room prices on our trip. BUT the prices now, if you can find a room, are outrageous.

I am really looking forward to this phenomenal phenomenon and this trip.

 
We will see it from our beach vacation spot

in NJ. Not totality, but close enough.

We were invited to both Oregon and SC for viewing, but already had booked the beach vacation with family.

 
Is everyone ready for the traffic apocalypse they are predicting? I'm going up several days early

In hopes of missing it or at least part of it. We are preparing to camp in my friends SUVwe are driving up in, in case the traffic gets that bad. I've been reading they're dispatching out government disaster recovery teams and all kinds of things trying to be prepared. My friends sister who lives in the town we are going to said they've talked about all kinds of traffic and shortage problems as they are expecting hundreds of thousands of people to come into their town.

 
Flying back from a vacation trip to Maine and then the next day driving from the DC

area to Charleston to visit our son and daughter-in-law to get a view of the eclipse. My husband is a solar physicist, so he is very interested in being there. We will probably have to make the trip back in 2 days instead of the usual one-day 8 hr. drive.

 
Planning to use pinhole box projector

to view the eclipse progression. We did this last time using a shoebox with great results. We'll use a longer box this time so the image will be larger. Or maybe follow the NASA instructions for a pinhole camera smileys/wink.gif

We are most interested in viewing the impending dark and shadows created. Still remember the leaf shadows on our driveway the last time.

And there will be excellent photos to look at after the event. Colleen

NASA pinhole camera
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera/

Pinhole card projector - Simplest w/2 sheets card stock
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/make-pinhole-projector.html

Pinhole box projector
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/box-pinhole-projector.html

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera/

 
Great map of eclipse path and maximum totality in your US location

I like this Google map of the pathway from Xavier Jubier which gives start and finish times for the partial eclipse as well as times for the total eclipse. Zoom into the map and click on where you expect to be for your unique data including times and percentage of totality you will experience in your location.

Where we are staying, a little over 2 hours away from the eclipse center, will experience 97.5% at maximum totality. If it looks like a "traffic apocalypse" is occurring, we will be satisfied with 97%. At home, 8 hours away, we would see 83%. Colleen

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html

 
The pinhole is fun--we did it with our kids at one in the 70's but

the glasses will also be so wonderful to see it with.
I took pictures of a lunar eclipse at the beach a few years ago and it is really so neat to see happen

 
UT (universal time) - 5 hours + 1 hour = ESTw/DS

From NASA explanation
"Like most other astronomical calculations, eclipse predictions are usually presented in terms of Universal Time. In order to convert eclipse predictions from UT to local time, you need to know what time zone you are in. For North Americans, the conversion from UT to local time is as follows:

Atlantic Standard Time (AST) = UT - 4 hours
Eastern Standard Time (EST) = UT - 5 hours
Central Standard Time (CST) = UT - 6 hours
Mountain Standard Time (MST) = UT - 7 hours
Pacific Standard Time (PST) = UT - 8 hours

If Daylight Saving Time is in effect in the time zone, you must ADD one hour to the above standard times."

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/TimeZone.html

 
A neat idea in the Times to record the moment is to set up a camera (Iphone) on a tripod

and direct it at your family/group and start recording a video about 5 minutes before totality.

 
Somewhere on the net is a map showing the eclipse path and the numbers of people

within a "short" drive of where interstates cross, for example. I think at Columbia, SC where 77 and 20 cross, and near 85 the number is 20 million!! Of course, that is "possible".
Our retirement community is taking 3 buses to Columbia for the event!

 
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