Total Eclipse

How many of you have been out looking at the eclipse today?  Does anyone know if there are any coins to commemorate it?

We live nearby: it wasn't total but close & got very dark here (about 3:20 our time or 25 minutes ago). 

I don't know of any coins but I just picked up this note recently from 1999 Romania.  Here's mine (my scanner got all weird so the colour is a bit off on the reverse, not quite so blue but more like the front):

I can remember this Turkish one N#13412 

Other ones (LINK)

I am currently in Hamilton, southern Ontario, and went to a store to get raspberries but, ironically, they come from Niagara Falls and they cancelled today's delivery: the traffic was crazy there because of the eclipse. So I stayed in the parking lot and waited for the eclipse, and an employee saw me and gave me an extra pair of glasses.

Without the glasses, it's like nothing is happening, even if the Sun is covered at 80% or more. But then we got a perfect eclipse with a perfect halo. It was truly amazing. My pictures do not do justice in any way to the spectacular sight.

The first picture was taken when the Sun was covered at close to 90%. You wouldn't know it. Then with the halo, I was not equipped to filter out the halo's brightness, but the Sun was entirely covered with a black circle, except for the bright orange halo. At that very moment, too, the sky was clear of any clouds in that very spot.

99% here near Louisville Kentucky.  It never got dark, but was like wearing sunglasses for a time.  Gave a weird feeling like something wasn't right.  We have many birds here, and some did begin to quiet down and roost for a short time.  Could not look at the sun even at 99% without the glasses.  The glasses gave the best and most interesting views, as a phone camera really didn't show anything.  A few phone images showed a relic of what was really going on if the phone angled correctly.  I could not get a successful image through the glasses.  My pinhole box experiment wasn't particularly exciting.

Relic at lower left, sun upper right:

Three pinholes, center is smallest hole, top and bottom are same size and slightly larger heavy duty sewing pin. Larger holes (1mm+) did not show anything of interest:

Normal photo, can't even tell:

I experienced the 1999 eclipse that went over Europe and had a strange sense of relief when it was over.  Maybe just the aftermath of the anticipation and experience itself.

Managed to find this afterwards…

N#21664 

I travelled from home to get a couple extra minutes of totality to Put In Bay. Amazing experience from a unique place.

Greek device for predicting the eclipse re-created with Legos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=158&v=RLPVCJjTNgk&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMzY4NDIsMzY4NDIsMzY4NDIsMjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

Unfortunately Toronto was clouded out. But we have sunny skies now.. belatedly

Got about 20 seconds of totality here. Was pretty cool. Not total darkness because the streetlights turned on, but pretty nice to witness. Wifey even gave me an eclipse kiss.

We spent a long day in the car to reach the path of totality but absolutely worth it. A total eclipse is something everyone should see at least once.

AgIsSilver

We spent a long day in the car to reach the path of totality but absolutely worth it. A total eclipse is something everyone should see at least once.

Everyone talks about “seeing it” but I felt like Camerinvs even in totality: that you don't see much (unless you have the glasses). It is more of a physical phenomenon that must be experience: the cold, the lights going on, dogs barking & people stopping their cars to watch it. It somehow gets to you on a primitive level (like the world stops for 1 minute).  

My cousins living in northern Mexico and the North East US sent me plenty of photos of the eclipse.

The last time I personally saw an eclipse was the last major one for the U.K. 20th March 2015, I was at primary school at the time we went out and I can recall it going quite dark to the point where a murder (flock of crows) nesting in nearby trees went quite for the duration.

Serial_Number_8

AgIsSilver

We spent a long day in the car to reach the path of totality but absolutely worth it. A total eclipse is something everyone should see at least once.

Everyone talks about “seeing it” but I felt like Camerinvs even in totality: that you don't see much (unless you have the glasses). It is more of a physical phenomenon that must be experience: the cold, the lights going on, dogs barking & people stopping their cars to watch it. It somehow gets to you on a primitive level (like the world stops for 1 minute).  

Oh, I'm telling you, for something like 30 seconds, it was an amazing spectacle without the glasses. Before and after, without the glasses, there would have been nothing to see even if you dared looking directly. My experience is almost exactly what you see on this montage. My guess is that without the right filter, at less than 99% coverage there's virtually nothing to see.

And it's nothing like this:

LDC63

How many of you have been out looking at the eclipse today?  Does anyone know if there are any coins to commemorate it?

https://www.amazon.com/Total-Solar-Eclipse-Challenge-Coin/dp/B0B2DXN6GH 

N#400774 

 I have this, which a member earlier gave a link for: 

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic16996.html#p126787 

A Romanian coin from 1999 for an eclipse

N#8992

Allegedly my area had “75%” blockage of the sun, but it really was hard to tell.  The light dimmed a little but it never had the look of 75% blockage.

I sat outside to see it. We had about 98% to 99% totality. National News showed a lot of good coverage, so I was satisfied with what I saw.

Serial_Number_8

AgIsSilver

We spent a long day in the car to reach the path of totality but absolutely worth it. A total eclipse is something everyone should see at least once.

Everyone talks about “seeing it” but I felt like Camerinvs even in totality: that you don't see much (unless you have the glasses). It is more of a physical phenomenon that must be experience: the cold, the lights going on, dogs barking & people stopping their cars to watch it. It somehow gets to you on a primitive level (like the world stops for 1 minute).  

Oh absolutely. The several minutes of totality were surreal. The whole world around me stopped in awe. The packed Steak ‘n Shake I was at minutes before had completely cleared out and everyone stood in silence (except for several poor employees who had to remain inside). The whole event, not just what you could see in the sky, made it like nothing I've ever experienced. 

LDC63

I experienced the 1999 eclipse that went over Europe and had a strange sense of relief when it was over.  Maybe just the aftermath of the anticipation and experience itself.

Just when this eclipse happened, I was with my whole family on an island in Greece - Corfu, the whole time I was filming the sun with a tripod camera with a filter.  All the birds fell silent.  The beauty of lying on the beach and observing this phenomenon to the sound of the sea waves.  we landlocked people are fascinated.  Hello. 

 Ivan

One last thing on this… I remembered today that the group Tangerine Dream had an album with a solar eclipse on the cover. I posted it in a thread on favorite musicians when it was possible to add a link to a thumbnail. I don't think we can do it now.