Total Solar Eclipse coming to NY: April 8, 2024

[TonyC]

Is it safe to look with the naked eye when it goes total?

Yes, because it's only as bright as a full moon.

The coolest natural phenomenon I ever saw was a massive meteor shower in Glacier National Park. ........ We were seeing something like 100 a minute.

6,000 per hour! that would be very impressive. Annual showers like Perseids in august, Geminids in Dec., etc. are typically more like 100 per hour.

The November Leonids can be much more, but unfortunately only over a 2-3 year period every 33 years. I saw them at a rate of 1500-2000 per hour at 5,000 feet on the Angeles Crest in 2001.

I recall those Leonid predictions were strongest only at certain longitudes. Perhaps something unusual in that regard occurred at Glacier NP.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Tony, what is your plan for this event

 

[Harvey]

Yes, because it's only as bright as a full moon.

Tell about this.

You wear glasses during partial and then fling them off!?

 

[tirolski]

Tony, what is your plan for this event

Tony said he’s booked to go to Durango, Mexico in an earlier post. (dang middle of it)
He also discusses weather and eclipses.

Total Solar Eclipse coming to NY: April 8, 2024

this is a partial , i think you will be fine... Folks call that "the ring of fire”. Looks kinda like a diamond ring.

nyskiblog.com

The interactive map he linked is useful.

Off Oswego in the Middle of Lake Ontario, where the ’24 eclipse centerline goes thru near here, is where the boarder for Canada and USA makes it’s angle to the NNE.

Ya can’t see shore out there but folks go near there for salmon & steelhead cause the water column is more stable than closer to shores. It eats fuel getting to the “blue zone". Gotta be one of the least crowded places in NY & kinda like Adirondack wilderness but without the jungle.

 

[TonyC]

You wear glasses during partial and then fling them off!?

Yes. That also means it is unsafe to look at the sun without the glasses anytime during the eclipse at Gore.

 

[Campgottagopee]

F-it
I'm going all out rebel and heading to the Gore eclipse party!

 

[D.B. Cooper]

....unsafe to look at the sun without the glasses anytime.........

There is no way I'm trusting my eyesight to a pair of $3 glasses that were probably made by some Chinese kid. I'll set up my camera on the tripod and record it.

 

[Andy_ROC]

Staying home. I'm comfortably near the centerline of maximum totality. Big question is will we see it? Dang lake effect clouds especially this time of year.

 

[TonyC]

Some of you should read the 2017 testimonials from skiers on TGR, like this one. There are about 5 pages of testimonials on TGR.

The reference post I can't find was from someone who said a partial eclipse was like one inch new snow and a total eclipse was like 30 inches. And the reference I posted said,

I'd put the Solar eclipse about 1 foot higher on that scale.

TGR people are skiers, not astronomers, and often a cynical bunch, so maybe those testimonials will convince some of you that a little effort will be worth your time and trouble. Skiers exert that effort all the time to chase powder.

I'm going all out rebel and heading to the Gore eclipse party!

Enjoy your one inch day!

 

[TonyC]

Big question is will we see it? Dang lake effect clouds

Being clouded out is like maybe a 3-inch day. Thus the effort of looking at weather forecasts 2-3 days out is important. Again, this is something skiers do all the time.