What was the eclipse like? (house, college, beach)

[jimsmith022968]

Was there a noticeable change in the brightness level during the eclipse? Did anyone drive north to see the annular phase ("ring of fire")?

[ImRandy]

Yes, the brightness of the landscape dropped quite a bit.

[Huckleberry3911948]

i saw it here, pin hole method. most of it was gone. very low light level and great fall in intensity of the sun.

[DMenscha]

I used my welding helmet to watch it, we had about a 90% coverage here. The most fascinating thing was the shadows of a japanese maple on the side of the house looked like hundreds of little eclipses.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

80+ % at my location. It got pretty dark. It was a wooded area, the little bits of sunlight shining through the trees projected many images of the eclipse on the ground, quite trippy actually.

I used the pin hole method and a solar filter. It was interesting to me that even though we were only in the partial zone, you could definitely tell it was annular in the zone of totality from the relative shapes of the sun and the moon at the 80+ % point.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by DMenscha

I used my welding helmet to watch it, we had about a 90% coverage here. The most fascinating thing was the shadows of a japanese maple on the side of the house looked like hundreds of little eclipses.

Great photo.

[rah]

I was kind of underwhelmed. I was hanging out on ocean beach in SF during the entire peak eclipse time (6:15-6:45), and then some, and while I did notice a drop in levels of light it wasn't by a crazy amount or anything. Things got a little bit dimmer...kind of the same difference between normal 6pm light levels, and the amount of light you'd get a couple hours later, before sunset.

Maybe it would have been more strange/trippy/noticeable for me if it happened in the middle of the day instead of occurring relatively close to sunset already.

[bigdumbgod]

Looked like a burning crescent moon, points up. God's Toenail, alight.

[04kL4nD]

I was driving back from Yosemite and it was pretty trippy to me. The trees looked like an instagram photo or something

[Gentoo]

Here by Mills College it was interesting. The light dimmed but because the sun was higher in the sky than normal for the light level, the shadows looked weird for that reason and the sky had a purplish hue.