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Aristus

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2. It was courteous enough to do it at my lunchtime.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 21, 2023, 08:37 AM

Aug 2023

I poked a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and used that as my eclipse observatory. The eclipse shone through the cardboard onto a sheet of paper, and I got to see the phenomenon without burning my eyes out.

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On this day, August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse traversed the continental United States. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2023 OP

Life changing experience. Pinback Aug 2023 #1

same here. Lots of Democrats too. Where were you? yellowdogintexas Aug 2023 #5

Saw it in extreme southwestern N.C. Pinback Aug 2023 #13

Mine was 5 June 2012. roamer65 Aug 2023 #11

It was courteous enough to do it at my lunchtime. Aristus Aug 2023 #2

Where were y'all? nt yellowdogintexas Aug 2023 #6

Tacoma, Washington. Aristus Aug 2023 #8

It was absolutely wonderful! We went to KY to watch it yellowdogintexas Aug 2023 #3

I went to John Day Fossil Beds Oregon to see it. padfun Aug 2023 #4

I was in Western WA AKwannabe Aug 2023 #7

I was doing my scheduled morning puja prayers as the umbra settled over the scene sanatanadharma Aug 2023 #9

8 April 2024. roamer65 Aug 2023 #10

An excuse to visit mother unweird Aug 2023 #12

Saw it with friends in Ravenna, Nebraska, PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2023 #14

And Chump Looked Directly At It Deep State Witch Aug 2023 #15