Regardless of the banter, the eclipse was awesome to watch. My area had about a 98% view.  A once in a life time experience.  It became dark enough that street lights came on. Pretty cool.

Scraped off @S Hovanec's FB page.

 

 

Not a lot of work getting done, lol.

 

 

Those little black blotches are sun spots.

 

Just went outside here in western PA. Looks pretty cool through the proper glasses.

 

Where I live in Kansas City we were supposed to have a bit over a minute of totality.  I stopped work and went out to watch.  Just as it was reaching totality, the clouds came in and then some rain.  The clouds haven't left.  

 

Unfortunately, I am now blind.

 

 

No totality...and partly cloudy...but that made for cool viewing...just enough clouds for ok filter....I expect my eyes to make a full recovery in a few weeks...:)

Pic taken when eclipse was at it's peak, using an iPad app. Simulated thermal imaging.

shows the corona better than normal pic.

I ended up watching it through a colander.  Now my eyes are strained!

Had just over a minute and a half of totality in my area.  It was amazing and I'm thinking I'll have to make the 2 hour drive south to see the next one in 2024.  Totally surreal to see and something everyone should have the chance to see in their lifetime.

14 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

Had just over a minute and a half of totality in my area.  It was amazing and I'm thinking I'll have to make the 2 hour drive south to see the next one in 2024.  Totally surreal to see and something everyone should have the chance to see in their lifetime.

We didn't get totality here, pretty close though. Boss man let us go outside and check it out for about 15 mins or so. Got to see it through those specialized eclipse glasses. It was very cool. A crescent sun is what we saw here in Central Louisiana.

Total just an hour and a half north of us so we did the drive.  We were on a friend's ranch in west central Nebraska, dead in the center of the totality.  I took a bunch of photos of the climax, then we had a fried chicken and watermelon picnic as the light came back.

 

My photo:

 

I thought that I would like the eclipses ,and I did. but the 9 hrs. it took me to cross Kentucky on the way home from bama because everyone decended on Nashville was torcher.i did feel better knowing that there are a whole bunch of people out there that are crazier than me. 

On 8/21/2017 at 1:13 PM, Columbia Craw said:

Regardless of the banter, the eclipse was awesome to watch. My area had about a 98% view.  A once in a life time experience.  It became dark enough that street lights came on. Pretty cool.

 

Yep, same here in Omaha. Clouds got in the way a little, but still very cool. 

Edited August 22, 20178 yr by Chowderhead

I just watched a replay of it on YouTube.  Ahhh, I love modern technology. No glasses, no traffic, no crowds, just me and my computer.