Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will cross the U.S. on Saturday: Here's how to see it

Getting popcorn ready for when Saban turns into a werewolf and starts barking at the moon during the eclipse.

 

Super cool stuff. It's too bad I'm not in the path.

 

It won't affect the games any more than cloud cover unless they're close to the path of annularity and at the right time. Total nothing burger.

 

Reminds me of the line from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," when one of the characters makes this comment about his wife: "Never fall in love during a total eclipse."

 

They can last up to 6 or 7 minutes. In a sane world, you'd be able to go from the first "schwing" to the final pounding of the gavel in that amount of time.

 

The ring of fire will at least touch all of the following national park sites. Monument Valley and a lot of other Navajo sites will also get the full effect. They'll have to be double exposures, but there'll be some amazing pictures coming out of this.

- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
- Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
- Canyonlands National Park
- Natural Bridges National Monument
- Rainbow Bridge National Monument
- Navajo National Monument
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Hovenweep National Monument
- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- Chaco Culture National Historic Park
- Valles Calderas National Preserve
- Bandelier National Monument
- Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
- Pecos National Historic Park
- El Malpais National Monument
- Petroglyph National Monument
- Gran Quivera National Monument

Here's a fantastic flyover graphic showing the path of annularity across the U.S. and how the shadow slows down as it approaches maximum eclipse.

October 14, 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse — Great American Eclipse

 

It'll still be as good as in 2017 during the total eclipse. In fact, it'll be even better because it will be a 'ring of fire'. I don't have my glasses so I'll view it with my back to it and watch how it settles over the leaves in the trees. No way am I risking blindness by even a quick glance with sun glasses. Solar retinopathy is no joke.

 

I figured this was just another ‘climate change’ thread.

 

Walked out the pool in Vegas this am, and was like"do I have my sunglasses on?", then remembered this thread.

The end.

Cool story, right?

Back to drinking and donking off chips

 

Good luck!

 

My son took this in Gainesville.

 

We knew it was coming, yet Saturday morning when we went outside to feed the goldfish in the pond we were briefly stunned at how dim the light was for mid-morning. Then realized we were in the middle of the eclipse. The morning light was dimmed as it is in the late afternoon before dusk, but shadows were vivid and crisp as they are any cloudless morning in much brighter sunshine. It was if the sunshine was on a dimmer switch.

It was an exciting day. An eclipse in the morning with a Blue Angels air show performance silmultaneously happening in the skies over the Grand Valley. There was another later in the afternoon. We drove up Easter Hill behind the house to view it. The hill is the highest point in the valley between the 7000 ft Colorado National Monument west of us, the 11,000 ft Grand Mesa to our east, and the Bookcliff range north of us. We parked the car in an area being excavated for new home construction and had an unimpeded view of the entire valley - a stretch of some 25 miles. It was a fabulous spot to watch the Angels do their amazing aerial stunts.

The pilots used the mountains to 'hide' themselves then come out at strategic moments to fly into their stunning formations. One of them interviewed said the unique geography of the Grand Valley makes it one of their favorite places to perform.

 

We bought a solar filter and looked at it through my son's telescope ... it was pretty cool to see. I'm almost 50 and this is the first time I've seen the sun that much eclipsed.

There will be a total eclipse across most of Florida in 2045 and accross north Florida in 2052, so hopefully me and the planet make it that long.

 

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2024Apr08T.GIF

 

seems like in DFW area we are right in line for it.