Bump for 2024 Solar Eclipse.
Plan now is for San Antonio. Have friends there. Wife would have gone, but The Boss moved his concert to 4/7.
Try to hit Austin for the night life and food.
I was planning to go to my wife’s sisters place this weekend for the “ring of fire” eclipse but that doesn’t look like it is going to happen. They are in the direct path. I’m at about at 90% so it will be noticeable I’ll have to get some pics of it. I did travel to the last one a few years ago and have some fun pics of it on the ground.
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I was wondering why the local grocer had a display of evlipse glasses, which will be mandatory for an annular eclipse.
Will make note of if the time, and find my glasses.
Now I’m wishing I had worked out a plan to go to SIL’s house for the eclipse this Saturday. Weather service just issued a cloud cover forecast and where I am it is 60% chance of clouds while where I would have gone it is only 28%.
An area slightly NW of San Antonio is in the direct path of the annular eclipse this week and the 2024 eclipse
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I’m headed to southern Illinois for the April eclipse, for family reasons.
I was impressed at how quickly the hotels in the path of totality filled up (and the ones that didn’t are very, very expensive).
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We got some cool eclipse glasses from the Natural History Museum. Only 70% total here but should be fun anyway
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Found some eclipse glasses yesterday. Unfortunately cloud coverage turned out to be more like 80-90%. Did get a couple small openings and saw the shadow of the moon. Probably less than 10 minutes during the whole 2.5 hours.
Well, you saw the moon.
Pretty impressive here.
We got lucky with perfect weather and got a good view of the eclipse. Super cool. We made a pinhole camera to show the kids how lucky they are to have the awesome glasses. They worked great!
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It looked pretty decent here. I wasn’t able to get out for the maximum coverage (about 85% covered), but was out about 5 minutes after. We had one pair of glasses we could find from 2017, and I made a pinhole camera.
BTW - this was cool and all, and I’m sure it was slightly cooler if you were in a spot to see the ring (my brother was able to), but it completely pales in comparison to the total eclipse in 2017 - we went to Idaho and saw it from my in-law’s back yard. The most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. I wish we could make a trip in 2024 to see the next one.
I would bet a complete annular eclipse would be about as far right as the total, but just slightly higher than the partial.
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Anyone want to share a picture?
This is more space news than astronomy news:
Have they done a study to assure that the mice can actually get pregnant in space?
I think the astronauts are volunteering for human trials on that.
Again, which way is up? Cause, the fallopian tube…
I remember reading something by Heinlein that included a birth in space. Manipulating artificial gravity was involved; I believe an analogy was made to spitting out a watermelon seed, as the baby was delivered into a catcher’s mitt.
Given the limits of current technology, maybe a spinning bed to generate centrifugal force would be helpful?
I don’t think you really need a “down” for internal stuff, although it helps. What with all the muscles and what not.
Yeah, isn’t it mostly up once she stands?