Fangirl Three wrote:

I was working this out last night. If I take a long walk to the other side of town where there's a west-facing view, about 8pm I could in theory see a very partial partial eclipse. If it isn't cloudy.

The sun will only be about 5 degrees above the horizon though.

It was cloudy.

cosmictanya wrote:

total eclipse incoming! siren he says.

Partial eclipse could be visible the link says.

Have you recently been employed as a tabloid headline writer?

Well, I meant in North America specifically as seen on TV all evening; our own little "eclipse" was just a bonus.

I watched some of the footage on the BBC and Sky News and it was quite interesting, if a little samey after a while.

Though it was annoying that reporters in each location shone bright camera lights on the people they were speaking to when it went dark! Let them enjoy the 4 minutes of random darkness in the middle of the day!! Others spectators were seen doing selfie videos and shining their phone's lights on themselves. Honestly.

I was recalling my own experience of the 1999 UK eclipse. I went out into the back garden and my brother who was back home at the time got the binoculars and did that whole backwards thing and shone the eclipse onto a piece of paper, which worked as we saw the shadow of the little bite taken out of the sun.

I seem to remember it was a sunny day and when it happened it only went a bit dull where we were in the West Midlands - pretty much like an overcast day, but just for a few minutes, and didn't go completely dark unlike Cornwall.

I saw the 1999 one using eclipse glasses, it was great. The Sun was like a fiery crescent moon.

And the landscape did go very dim.

I also observed the 2004 transit of Venus, also with glasses, and the 2016 transit of Mercury via projection with my telescope.

Ooh, forgot to mench, I also once observed Venus occulted by the Moon. I didn't even know it was due to occur - I just happened to be looking at the Moon, and then Venus slowly appeared from behind the dark edge.

I haven't seen any of those things. It's always cloudy, for me, when things are happening in the sky.

Butterfield wrote:

I watched some of the footage on the BBC and Sky News and it was quite interesting, if a little samey after a while.

Though it was annoying that reporters in each location shone bright camera lights on the people they were speaking to when it went dark! Let them enjoy the 4 minutes of random darkness in the middle of the day!! Others spectators were seen doing selfie videos and shining their phone's lights on themselves. Honestly.

These people don’t deserve an eclipse.

I went to Cornwall to look at some cloud during the 1999 eclipse but I did get to see one properly in Turkey in 2006 and an "Annular" eclipse from Spain in 2005.
I did have plans to go to Dallas for this one but, well, didn't...

https://abc7.com/danielle-cherakiyah-johnson-posted-about-eclipse-apocalypse-on-social-media-in-days-leading-up-to-woodland-hills-murder-suicide/14643496/

Murdered her boyfriend, fled, threw her two children out of her car onto the freeway, one miraculously survived, one not surprisingly died, then she crashed into a tree and killed herself.

She saw the eclipse as time for ‘spiritual warfare’. A popular YouTube astrologer with 100,000 followers.

Zarniwoop wrote:

I went to Cornwall to look at some cloud during the 1999 eclipse but I did get to see one properly in Turkey in 2006 and an "Annular" eclipse from Spain in 2005.
I did have plans to go to Dallas for this one but, well, didn't...

There's one in Spain in a couple of years, if you're following them around,