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The difference between even 99.99999% and 100% is literally night and day. Anything less than 100% totality and you cannot look without proper eye protection. It will still be hundreds of times brighter than in total eclipse. You will NOT get the corona, you will NOT see "Baily's beads," you will NOT have almost any of the phenomena related to eclipses.
Spoke to a few eclipse chasers and they put it this way to me. "It's like going to the Super Bowl but watching from the parking lot" or "You get 5 out of 6 numbers the lottery."
So yes, you may be able to see the shadow of the moon crossing the sun with correct glasses but you will not have the life changing experience that EVERY person I have spoken to that been in totality speaks of.
ok I think I'm going to go and just sleep in my car.
I think it might damage the camera. Not the lens, though. Google it. I would like to take some photos, but I got overwhelmed with all the info out there.
that makes two of us. I will actually only do the back way! Not telling my route
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Originally Posted by SFspiderman
We’re still debating plans, and may make it a last minute call based on weather. If we go, it’ll just be a day trip heading toward Columbia or Charleston. I’d think leaving by 7 or 8 AM should give enough time. If things bottle up on the roads, we may bail out to back roads and if it ends up really bad we’ll just get as close as we can to the path of totality when the time comes.
Spoke to a few eclipse chasers and they put it this way to me. "It's like going to the Super Bowl but watching from the parking lot" or "You get 5 out of 6 numbers the lottery."
So yes, you may be able to see the shadow of the moon crossing the sun with correct glasses but you will not have the life changing experience that EVERY person I have spoken to that been in totality speaks of.
Hmmm, I can live without it I'm pretty sure. I gave birth to 3 kids including a set of twins....that will have to do for life changing events. The suckage of getting stuck in traffic outweighs any possible benefit for me.
No one who really cares about the game would go to the Superbowl anyway LOL.
PS Amazon has eclipse glasses for those of you who expect to wake up a completely different person on the 22nd than you were on the 21st.
No one who really cares about the game would go to the Superbowl anyway LOL.
*College Football/Basketball Championship Game if you're a fan of Team X (drove down to Tampa just to be in the area of the stadium when Clemson played this year haha, couldn't justify paying a couple grand for tickets)
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