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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere are multiple partial eclipses on my living room floor!
Small holes in the blind are projecting the sun on the floor.
About 1/3 of the disk is obscured.
I'm in Maine so we won't get totality.
But this is cool
edit - It's about half now!
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There are multiple partial eclipses on my living room floor! (Original Post)
jpak
Aug 2017
OP
I didn't know about it until a couple days ago. Was looking for it today and very happy
suffragette
Aug 2017
#9
I took a picture of hundreds of 93% eclipses on the ground under my maple tree.
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2017
#3
suffragette
(12,232 posts)1. I saw the effect on tree shadows.
Hundreds of little crescents.
Beautiful.
jpak
(41,758 posts)2. I saw an "total" annular eclipse in the eighties
Saw the same effect - weird.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)9. I didn't know about it until a couple days ago. Was looking for it today and very happy
to see it.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)3. I took a picture of hundreds of 93% eclipses on the ground under my maple tree.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)4. i think Mainers get the full eclipse in 2024
assuming all of you weren't raptured during this one...
jpak
(41,758 posts)6. yup - hope I'm still around for that one
We had one in 1964 but it was a cloudy day...
July
(4,750 posts)5. I got them inside, too!
And quite a few under my street tree and front steps!
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)7. Here in Chadron Nebraska we had 90%
or thereabouts, and we had crescent eclipses on our driveway through tree leaves. Beautiful!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)8. This was really fun!
I needed a day like this.
Takes you out of yourself.