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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:35:24 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:35:26 PM EDT

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Mostly cloudy. Can't see shit.

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Same here in JAX.

Just looks like any other cloudy day.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:36:22 PM EDT

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As dark as it is outside, you'd think it was cloudy. But nope.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:36:59 PM EDT

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I see'nt it.

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:37:04 PM EDT

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Central MO

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:37:05 PM EDT

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Little Rock here, I thought it would get darker, it barely dimmed outside and we were around the 90% band. Weak sauce, bro.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:37:29 PM EDT

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We had 55 seconds of totality at our place. Pretty darn cool. Temperature dropped 10 degrees or so - it felt like we were standing next to an air conditioner. It got dimmer and dimmer and then got pretty darn dark. A bit brighter than walking around on a full moon, but it was that indistinct light you get at dusk, where it just gets kinda hard to see everything. Coyotes started howling. Chickens went inside. Neighbors started shooting guns. The sun looked awesome - killer corona - way better than any photo can communicate.

My favorite part was just as the sun started peeking out, when we were still looking up without glasses, and it was like a tiny brilliant diamond.

10 minutes later we were inside hoping to see tv news of traffic jams for our sick pleasure. Wife was instagramming video of me wearing glasses, pretending to do rave/hippy dancing for our 10 yr old son, to a live version of Deodato's Also Sprach Zarathustra. That was probably the best part.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:37:36 PM EDT

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Pretty cloudy here, gave way for a couple peeks. Got about as dark as when a midday thunderstorm rolls through

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:38:54 PM EDT

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It got pretty damn dark

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:40:08 PM EDT

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Sunny almost up to the point of maximum eclipse for northern Iowa and then the clouds rolled in. Can't see shit.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:41:33 PM EDT

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Nashville.

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:41:35 PM EDT

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We had 97% but never got darker than if storm clouds were rolling in.

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:42:26 PM EDT

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Little Rock here, I thought it would get darker, it barely dimmed outside and we were around the 90% band. Weak sauce, bro.

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Yep, and I am in KY where it's 96%.

It's because all these pics you see it looks pitch black, because the filters used to capture the image. When, in reality. it's about equivalent to a shady day.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:44:13 PM EDT

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I used a welders helmet here, and it was just as effective as those shitty glasses, but with better optical quality.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:44:20 PM EDT

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Yep, and I am in KY where it's 96%.

It's because all these pics you see it looks pitch black, because the filters used to capture the image. When, in reality. it's about equivalent to a shady day.

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Little Rock here, I thought it would get darker, it barely dimmed outside and we were around the 90% band. Weak sauce, bro.

Yep, and I am in KY where it's 96%.

It's because all these pics you see it looks pitch black, because the filters used to capture the image. When, in reality. it's about equivalent to a shady day.

At 99% it kicked on various automated lights around here.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:44:25 PM EDT

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It's pretty damned dark here right now. I looked through someone's glasses and it was about 3/4 coverage. Crickets started.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:44:28 PM EDT

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About 30 miles from Cola Warrior location. You could tell it darkened and the shadows from trees pretty much went away.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:44:29 PM EDT

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93%. Pics taken at the peak. Heavy cloud cover

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:45:32 PM EDT

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130pm. Pretty cool experience. Mosquitoes came out, street lights turned on, some flowers closed, birds flew to trees and we heard owls.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:45:40 PM EDT

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I made a cereal box viewer.....NASA approved I'll have you know.

Peak here (87%) was at a 2:40.....And it's gone.

The viewer worked well enough but damn, I thought I'd never get through that box of cereal.

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:45:46 PM EDT

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Pin hole camera from a cereal box worked for me

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:46:06 PM EDT

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The eclipse was awesome! Here's a quick edit from one of my shots.

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Eclipse 2017 by Andrew Marjama, on Flickr

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:46:27 PM EDT

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Trump and Melania were outside the WH watching it right now.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:46:42 PM EDT

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The mask was set to 13, no blindness here.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:46:59 PM EDT

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I'm gonna save my eclipse glasses for the next one!

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:47:40 PM EDT

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Best potato shot I could get.

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:47:55 PM EDT

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The eclipse was awesome! Here's a quick edit from one of my shots.

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Wow! Stunning!

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:47:59 PM EDT

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Way over hyped.
It may have been better in totality zones but we were supposedly at 94% and it looked a little cloudy and a few degrees cooler.
It gets much darker here several times a year during thunderstorms.
A big meh here.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:49:35 PM EDT

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That's what I did. Stepped outside for a moment and flipped my lens over to shade 14. Didn't have my phone on me, but this was my view

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:50:24 PM EDT

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In a word; amazing....

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Company sent me out of state, but only an hour from totality. Caught two minutes of it in Nebraska.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:50:56 PM EDT

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Little Rock here, I thought it would get darker, it barely dimmed outside and we were around the 90% band. Weak sauce, bro.

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Been telling people for months now, even 99% is nothing. Should have come to totality

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:51:39 PM EDT

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Little Rock here, I thought it would get darker, it barely dimmed outside and we were around the 90% band. Weak sauce, bro.

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Been telling people for months now, even 99% is nothing. Should have come to totality

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:51:39 PM EDT

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AS hot and humid as it's been here today I welcome less sunshine!!!!

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:51:45 PM EDT

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Hard to see, but it quit raining here outside Pensacola and this is what we could see

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:52:02 PM EDT

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My eclipse expirence:

Being between contact supplies didnt help.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:52:28 PM EDT

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Peak coverage at my location in SE Michigan

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:52:54 PM EDT

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100% in Greenville....probably one of the coolest things I have ever been through. Taking off the glasses for 2 minutes was amazing.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:52:59 PM EDT

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Been telling people for months now, even 99% is nothing. Should have come to totality

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Not so worried about it. Wasn't going to travel 6+ hours to get to totality and totality will to me in 2024.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:53:27 PM EDT

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My contribution

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Posted: 8/21/2017 2:53:56 PM EDT

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This is pretty cool. The ISS transiting a partial eclipse.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:54:22 PM EDT

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It just peaked here a few mins ago. I have to say, that was pretty freaking awesome. I cannot imagine how such an event would have screwed with ancient cultures. Glad I was able to see it 100% from the comfort of my front porch.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:54:50 PM EDT

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Was almost 98% here. Roosters crowed lol

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:54:58 PM EDT

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Here in TX it got slightly darker and a little cooler. Looked about like the previous photo that made the sun look like a crescent. Still pretty neat to watch. They bought glasses for all the kids at my sons school so they got to see it as well.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:55:31 PM EDT

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Peak coverage at my location in SE Michigan

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This.

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:55:49 PM EDT

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The eclipse was awesome! Here's a quick edit from one of my shots.

More to come later!

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4375/36671891236_0cbb525816_h.jpg Eclipse 2017 by Andrew Marjama, on Flickr

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That's one of the best pics I've seen yet

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:55:50 PM EDT

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in the 80% area here... I learned that 20% of the sun is still a lot of f'n light.

total bust for me

Posted: 8/21/2017 2:55:52 PM EDT

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It just peaked here a few mins ago. I have to say, that was pretty freaking awesome. I cannot imagine how such an event would have screwed with ancient cultures. Glad I was able to see it 100% from the comfort of my front porch.

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@hootiewho awesome experience....pictures can't describe what just happened