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Lorenzo

Trad climber
Portland Oregon
Jul 26, 2017 - 05:56pm PT
I just booked for a baseball game at the Salem-Kaiser Volcanos scheduled for 9:00 AM which include a game halt for totality, beer, and a view on the big screen if you are too chickenshit to actually look at the sun.

Opticians all over Portland are offering free viewing glasses.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jul 30, 2017 - 05:50pm PT
Going to McDaniel's ranch in eastern Oregon!

Occupy the Totality!
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 9, 2017 - 07:01am PT
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/

...

"Odd. No one is in denial of America’s Aug 21 total solar eclipse. Like Climate Change, methods & tools of science predict it."

Neil deGrasse Tyson
skywalker1

Trad climber
co
Aug 9, 2017 - 09:11am PT
That piece of writing is beautiful! Planning my camping trip up in Wyldoming. Found a room in Casper at some generic Inn. $2500 for Sunday night! I will be camping and I can't friggin wait! 1st totality.

S...
dirt claud

Social climber
san diego,ca
Aug 9, 2017 - 01:44pm PT
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 9, 2017 - 02:21pm PT
Mostly trying to figure out how to avoid all the eclipsers up this way...
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2017 - 02:42pm PT
Join us 40 miles north of John Day! I really don't think we're gonna
have to fight for a spot. ;-)

I just finished my observatory!
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Aug 9, 2017 - 02:44pm PT
I am heading to Nebraska, but I will be mobile if it is cloudy. I took off for three days long ago.
i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Aug 9, 2017 - 02:45pm PT
http://time.com/4882923/total-solar-eclipse-map-places-view/
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 9, 2017 - 03:31pm PT
Reilly, John Day looks like a great location. That hwy 26 could provide some mobility in the event of local t-storms.

Today's cloud cover and forecast...
https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:97845.1.99999

Nasa's interactive map...
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html

"Binoculars will provide a spectacular view of the solar corona and are much easier to use than a telescope."
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2017 - 12:54pm PT
Ensconced 20 mikes north of John Day. Reports of insane crowds and gas shortages in Bend and Madras - MEH! It is heaven on earth here!


Got stopped twice yesterday within an hour for doing 80 in a 65 zone and the nice officers just said "Slow down and drive safely." I LOVE OREGON!
stevep

Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
Aug 18, 2017 - 01:00pm PT
Yes, a friend in Bend said it's nuts. You may have made the correct call..eastern Oregon appears to have the highest likelihood of good weather in the whole country.

Not looking forward to the crowds when I head up to Idaho this weekend.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 19, 2017 - 08:22am PT
Reilly, looks like clear skies for you as well. Nice!

We're over at Strawberry Mountain, at 9,000-plus feet.

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html

As we get ready for our once-in-a-lifetime ecliptic experience, here Titan's shadow falls on Saturn, creating an eclipse for anyone residing there...




Happy viewing!
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Aug 19, 2017 - 08:31am PT
Reilly....good ole John Day. Angela and I went thru there last month on our packrafting/climbing trip. We stopped at the laundromat to wash clothes. There was a group of people there that looked like the second coming of the Manson clan.
Pretty out of the way place, not surprised you're virtually alone.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2017 - 12:39pm PT
People are starting to show up but not too bad. The low riders aren't gonna make it up the road we're on. :-)

Jim, did you stop here?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 19, 2017 - 12:52pm PT
http://www.opb.org/news/article/sisters-oregon-milli-fire-evacuation-expand/?google_editors_picks=true


Christopher Viney, a materials science and engineering professor [UC Merced] who moonlights as an accomplished photographer, has advice for shutterbugs in search of the perfect eclipse photo. Viney recommends using a very dense neutral-density filter to shoot the eclipse. This prevents overexposure while also protecting the camera.

“An 18-stop filter with an optical density of around 5.4 will allow for an exposure that captures the edge of the moon’s shadow within the shutter speed range of a standard camera,” Viney said.

But Viney warns against looking directly at the eclipse, even through a camera fitted with a lens filter.

“People make the mistake of thinking something good enough to protect the camera is enough to protect your eyes. That’s not true,” Viney said. “What’s on the camera only protects the camera.”
ec

climber
ca
Aug 20, 2017 - 02:56pm PT
Madras, no problem, if ya got here early with a full tank of gas. However, the planners did not acquire the right amount of buses for event shuttles. 3 hour wait each way.



We refused to join in...
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Aug 20, 2017 - 06:31pm PT
It seems more than a coincidence that the moon is at the perfect distance and has the exact diameter to block exactly the suns diameter!? Is it known how this is achieved? Is the moons orbit determined by both the earths and the suns gravitational pull?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 20, 2017 - 06:58pm PT
Wow, look at that smoke. Apparently
from the Sister area fire. Thanks ec. I
wish you blue skies!

I wonder how things look from Trout Creek
this evening?
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Aug 20, 2017 - 09:24pm PT
What's the goldilocks size? That widdling away seems to be an effect that happens when any irregular shaped piece of mass enters into a orbit. Thus producing a sphere?

I'm provoked by the ratio of sizes between the three..

I hope the space station is stationed to get a wonderful pic?

Really wish we could get a pic from outside our orbits tho! Don't we have camera's on Mars??
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