Solar Eclipse 2017

**rideit** · 08-21-2017, 12:46 PM

I concur.

**GoldMember** · 08-21-2017, 12:47 PM

The fuck am I supposed to do with all these bananas?

Banana bread.... Duh!

**Danno** · 08-21-2017, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by KQ

21 Delicious Recipes To Make With Overripe Bananas

KQ is providing relevant recipes, all is right with the TGR world.

**Game Over** · 08-21-2017, 12:52 PM

We made it just north of Corvallis, stopped 3 minutes before it happened, watched...we were heading south maybe 3 minutes after it was over. Got held up for maybe 10 minutes on 99 before we could get on Old River rd. and pass everyone on the back roads.

**alias_rice** · 08-21-2017, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by hatchgreenchile

Yeah, the shadows and highlights @ 92% were interesting , but I thought it get a little darker. Very anti-climatic.

I will not miss totality in 2024.

My experience as well. Kinda meh. The temp drop was nice though.

**uglymoney** · 08-21-2017, 12:56 PM

91.5 percent with clouds with the eclipse piercing them a bit. Really meh just as I expected. Human eye has way too much dynamic range. My aussie was nervous though. He went under the deck when I walked out into the yard and stayed close to me on the deck. I consumed an Eclipse Ale imported from the Snake River Brewery. That was kinda cool.

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**Game Over** · 08-21-2017, 01:01 PM

**nutmegchoi** · 08-21-2017, 01:01 PM

Partial @71% in New York.

**MontuckyFried** · 08-21-2017, 01:03 PM

Pretty cool! Saw it from Big Sky. Got dark and quite cool. Not 100% but close enough to be a really fun experience from the comfort of my back deck on a hillside where I had the perfect aspect to view it from.

**JimmyCarter** · 08-21-2017, 01:08 PM

**splat** · 08-21-2017, 01:10 PM

I'm cornfused.....usually we see the side of the moon facing the earth when it's lit by the sun being behind us at night.
But during the eclipse, the side toward us becomes the dark side of the moon? If the moon doesn't rotate, does the sun shine on the usually dark side of the moon we never see during an eclipse like this. I played the whole Pink Floyd album and I'm still baffled.

**guroo270** · 08-21-2017, 01:12 PM

Just walked back 200 yards from where I watched totality. I feel bad for people that just got the partial experience. With the glasses on until it disappeared, then take them off and boom! Spectacularness. It was quite a sight. Wasn't even interested in watching it wane after that. It did look like all of my surroundings had a 1981 filter on them during partiality which was cool. Like an episode of wonder years minus the yellow hummer in the lot.

**Game Over** · 08-21-2017, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by splat

I'm cornfused.....usually we see the side of the moon facing the earth when it's lit by the sun being behind us at night.
But during the eclipse, the side toward us becomes the dark side of the moon? If the moon doesn't rotate, does the sun shine on the usually dark side of the moon we never see during an eclipse like this. I played the whole Pink Floyd album and I'm still baffled.

Yea same side is facing us. It's just like a super extreme crescent

so much that it does not even show up

**Rideski** · 08-21-2017, 01:28 PM

Is what you make it I guess. Low 90's here and I had a blast. Then again I'm the guy that walks around photographing the moon at midnight.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
-Floyd

**Ottime** · 08-21-2017, 01:31 PM

Saw 72% near Santa Cruz. Was good making a pinhole camera with my son. It worked well as you put your entire head inside. View with glasses was better. Glad we did not bother driving up to Shasta (close to 90%) based on what I'm reading here. Would have like to see totality, but life and timing did not allow. Still was pretty cool. My son was stoked.