"Following the totality". .....

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Vheck out PBS, NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/eclipse-over-america.html


On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:55 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
> Were you able to get to a viewing place for the total eclipse? My wife and I
> had reservations at a motel in Oregon to see the whole shebang (I don’t
> recall EVER typing that word before, etymology “Unknown”) and drove up that
> way Saturday planning to stay around Redding that night. We didn’t think we
> needed a reservation hundreds of miles south of the total eclipse path. We
> were wrong. Nothing available anywhere. The option was to sleep in our car
> over night or head back south. So we started back tracking, stopping at
> every motel, but there was no vacancy anyplace along I5 north of Sacramento.
> So we just went back home, a 585 mile useless round trip.
>
> The thin cloud cover we frequently get in the summers here burnt off by 9:30
> so we got a good view of a solar crescent and were able to share our glasses
> with neighbors and passerby's. My grandson was in Charleston. I hope it was
> clear there.
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Remember that wonderful vision of 'anarchic' sharing in Against The Day, the
> T--shirt pile?
>
> People in groups sharing eclipse glasses with those who were there without
> them,
> was the deepest human meaning of today for me.
>
>
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