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What Time Is the Eclipse Where I Live? | The Procrastinator's Guide to Viewing the Solar Eclipse

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8-21-17

 

The total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 lasts less than a minute in some places, while a partial eclipse can be visible for an hour or more.

Everyone in the USA will be able to see at least a partial eclipse, weather permitting, but when is the best time to watch?

The short answer is that it depends on where you live.

The celestial show will start will start in Oregon at 9:05 a.m. PT, reaching totality at 10:17 a.m. PT. The last glimpse of the moon’s shadow will fade out near Charleston, S.C. at 4:10 p.m. ET.

The view will be the best for those lucky enough to be in the “path of totality” which crosses these 12 states: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Here is a list of the best times to watch the total eclipse in your city:


The procrastinator’s guide to viewing the solar eclipse

You snooze, you lose, folks. Stores across the country began running out of eclipse glasses last week, so you may be out of luck. Check the list below for where the glasses are being sold and send a prayer to the eclipse gods that some are still available.

How to view the eclipse without glasses

If you fail to procure eclipse glasses, all is not lost. You can make a do-it-yourself eclipse viewer out of a cardboard box, aluminum foil, tape and white paper. The contraption allows you to safely view the eclipse. You’ll just have to wear the box on your head. There’s also a more simplified version that only requires a card, a blank piece of paper and thumb tack.

How to take photos, videos, time-lapses

If you’re shooting with a smartphone, you don’t technically need any extra equipment, and you can do some pretty cool things with that wider shot, such as a time-lapse. But if you’re serious about photography and plan to shoot close-ups of the sun, you’ll need a solar filter for your camera to avoid damaging its lens. You will also want to pick up a tripod since it’s going to get very dark, very quickly during totality. And don’t forget your zoom lens to get a closeup of the eclipsed sun. If you’re shooting a wide shot of the scene with your smartphone or GoPro, you don’t need a solar filter. Regardless of whether you’re shooting with a smartphone or professional camera, don’t forget to capture the spectacle around you as tens to hundreds of thousands of eclipse glasses-wearing watchers look up to the sky all at once.

Location, location, location

The total solar eclipse will move across portions of 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina. The path of totality follows just a tiny sliver 67 miles wide as it runs from coast to coast. If you’re outside the zone, you will only see a partial eclipse. Here’s an interactive map where you can plug in your zip code and see how much of the eclipse you will see and when the event will occur where you are located.

Don’t be late: Check the time

Totality begins in Oregon at 10:16 a.m. PT. It ends in Charleston at 2:48 p.m. ET. That’s only about 90 minutes for the eclipse to cross the entire country. In between the coasts, the eclipse will pass through Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina. Wherever you go to watch, don’t be late. The total solar eclipse, when day turns into eerie night, only lasts 2-3 minutes in any given location.

Can’t make it to the path of totality? Here’s how to watch

If you’re not one of the masses headed to Oregon, Idaho, Kentucky, South Carolina or any of the other areas within the “path of totality,” there’s always TV, online and apps. The USA TODAY network will showcase the eclipse live from several locations on the path of totality, beginning in Newport, Ore., on Monday at 9 a.m. PT. USA TODAY will also livestream from locations across the entire path of totality from Oregon to South Carolina on Instagram

Weather could mar the view in some spots

Most of the nation should see fairly quiet weather along the path of totality, with interior portions of the West — from central Oregon, through Idaho to eastern Wyoming — expected to have the clearest skies. One caveat in those spots: occasional smoky skies from wildfires. And some clouds are possible along the Oregon coast. Southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, western Kentucky and most of Tennessee look to largely luck out with clear skies. A few clouds and scattered showers could obscure the view in portions of Nebraska and Missouri, but a complete washout isn’t likely. South Carolina may offer some of the worst viewing weather, especially near the coast, where mostly cloudy skies are in the forecast with the potential for showers and thunderstorms into early afternoon. 

Hotels, campsites, other lodging: Sorry, Charlie, ain’t gonna happen

I’m not laughing with you, I am laughing at you. If you didn’t book yet, you’re almost guaranteed to be out of luck. Attempting to find lodging now is likely a wasted effort. Go ahead and try if you like, but you’ll have better luck begging to stay with a friend. Though, they may be filled to the brim, too. Your other option is a day trip in your car, but finding parking in the path of totality could be difficult and you need to allow extra time. This commute is going to be a bear.

Be prepared for traffic jams

Millions of people across the country and the world are descending on cities in the path of the eclipse. And many of these towns are downright tiny. This is not going to end well for the ability to easily putt around from place to place in your car. Parking is also likely to be a problem. You’ve been warned.

Let the apps answer all your questions

With more than 100 solar eclipse apps available — many of them free — you’re sure to find all the info you need, including exact times, weather and scientific facts. The best apps we found are the Smithsonian’s Eclipse 2017 and Eclipse Safari, which offer science history, and best practices for wearing your eclipse glasses during the time of totality, respectively.

Your wireless connection might not work

Eclipse selfies might not happen on the fly. When big crowds congregate and try to use the wireless networks at the same time — you know, like during the greatest eclipse in U.S. history — traffic jams resulting in online bottlenecks surely follow. AT&T, Verizon and Sprint plan to deploy “Cell on Wheels,” mobile trucks for extra network coverage, in locations expected to take a heavy hit, such as Madras, Ore., and Hopkinsville, Ky. USA TODAY’s Talking Tech column offers some tips to get around the blockages.

 

Dangers may lurk out in the wilderness

A wildfire already canceled the eclipse for those hoping to view the celestial event on a large swatch of land surrounding Oregon’s second tallest mountain. Tens of thousands of backpackers planned to visit the Jefferson and Detroit Lake areas because they are smack in the middle of the eclipse’s path of totality. Some even had reservations to camp in the wilderness. Then a wildfire sent that plan up in flames. There’s concern beyond the potential for flames with thousands of people fighting for just a few open campsites, along with flip-flop wearing hikers attempting to climb dangerous mountains

Street lights could dim your view

It’s not something you’d think about, but for city dwellers, street lights may be a serious distraction from the rare astronomical event. Any light pollution will affect seeing the corona — which is easily visible during a total solar eclipse — especially for people interested in doing photography or astronomy. For casual viewers, the darkness during a total solar eclipse is comparable to a night with full moon. If you want to get a good look at the moon, you wouldn’t want to stand near a street light.

School’s either out for the eclipse or your kid is learning a lot

Many schools across the country will be closed regardless because of summer vacation. But school districts across the southern U.S. typically open earlier, forcing them to make a decision: Keep students in school or let them stay home. Several school districts in the South have announced classrooms will be closed Monday for the eclipse, while others are incorporating the event into their curriculum. But some districts are so afraid kids will look at the sun and damage their eyes that they’re keeping them indoors. Science teachers aren’t happy about that.

Source USA Today



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    • Sucking Chest Wound

      Found it REALLY hard to get viewing glasses here in New Zealand….you wouldn’t believe.
      Got some popcorn, bacon and and bourbon, threw down a blanket, put on my brand new glasses and turned on the TV.
      taking the day off was Worth every penny.
      Wow…it was like I was there. Got a bit burnt though…or maybe that was the claret speaking because I didn’t have any cola for a mixer.
      Srsly, I love roughing it in the great indoors.

    • saucepan

      In the area I live in? It was only at 88%. Screw that. I watched the total eclipse on youtube. It was so-so. Honestly? You’ve seen one total eclipse, you’ve seen ‘em all.

      • Boo

        No glasses … just looked up for a quick peek as it was exiting from the Sun’s surface and spent the next 10 minutes sporting two spots in front of my eyes. No worries.

    • goastdale

      2Thess 2:10..because they received not THE LOVE of the truth, that they might be saved. 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:………………..123’s of true Christianity v popular & damnable heresies…………#1 “ONE” not triune: ……PART 4 & 5 HOW MANY GODS ARE THERE FOR THE ONE GOD TO TALK TO?? Who was Jesus praying to??!?…. The real question should be … How does having multiple different persons keep this one God/being/entity from praying to himself?! (The trinitarian “schizophrenic” “god-head”) The Trinitarians want to have their cake and eat it too as the saying goes. On the one hand they need to say they only worship one indivisible God being/ entity but on the other hand they feel the need for some reason to keep Jesus or God from praying and talking to himself by dividing him up into different persons!?! It never occurs to them that that since there is only one indivisible God to pray too and Jesus is that indivisible God come in the flesh
      that he would need to talk to himself as to show us how to live, suffer, pray
      and die for our/ flesh) benefit not his!?!….. So while Trinitarians are quick
      to complain that God was not talking to himself at Christ baptism or in Gen
      “let us” they ignore the logical demands of their own theology! If Jesus is the
      ONE GOD in flesh and the Father is the SAME ONE GOD in heaven then
      Trinitarianism demands THE ONE GOD is talking to HIMSELF the same “being”!
      Claiming that God is multiple different persons as the reason for why God is
      not talking to himself (because God is three different “selfs”) only
      demonstrates that what they really worship is in fact not a ONE GOD who talks
      to himself but three different god “selfs”/ and they all talk to each other!
      When they speak about who God was talking and praying to, they are quick to say
      “the other person, NOT HIMSELF!” But if you ask them how many gods do they pray
      to then they will say “ONLY ONE”!?! They expect you to believe that those three
      different persons are THE ONE GOD-BEING” which is like calling three different
      cars “THE ONE VEHICLE” (they are text book examples of prov 26:12)
      Mark 12:28…Which is the first commandment of all?
      29. …Hear, O Israel; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 30. And ………..this is the
      first commandment….. 31. And the second is….. IF YOU CAN’T GET THIS “FIRST OF
      ALL COMMANDMENTS” RIGHT, ALL THE REST OF YOUR “FAITH” AND PREACHING ON LOVE
      & SIN IS MOOT

      PART 6: THE ANTI CHRIST….WHERE?
      WHERE?….EVERYWHERE!!! …..IT”S YOU O TRINITARIAN!
      “WHO” it was (what person) that came “IN THE
      FLESH”, IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ANT-CHRIST”! Even
      Islam claims Jesus was the Jewish messiah/Christ who was to come in the flesh)
      they all deny “WHO” it was (what person) that came (to be the Christ) in the
      flesh!?!…….To deny the father is to deny the son because they are one and the
      same person that came in the flesh!
      JOHN 14: 8-20 ….Note Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a
      child is born, unto us a son is given: …: and his name shall be called
      Wonderful, Counseller, … the everlasting Father ….The son, father/Holy Spirit
      are all the same person, NOT like two different persons working together even
      as “one flesh” ….The “oneness” between Christ and the father is not comparable
      to a man & his wife, for only a fool would say “When you have seen me you
      have seen my wife, how sayest thou then, Shew us your wife?” Notice they asked
      to see THE FATHER and the response was Jn 14:9 ..“HAVE I BEEN SO LONG time with
      you, and yet hast THOU NOT KNOW ME, Philip…..Now image some fool trying to
      claim that statement if you asked to see his wife!?!!? You want to see the
      FATHER but have I been with you but you don’t know me!?!?!
      Jn 14 continued….…………..17. Even THE SPIRIT OF
      TRUTH; (Jn 14:6 I AM the way, THE TRUTH,) whom the world cannot receive, .. for
      HE DEWLLETH WITH YOU, (present tense/standing next to them in the flesh) and
      SHALL BE IN YOU… (future tense “In them”) 18. I will not leave you comfortless:
      I WILL COME TO YOU (future tense “In them”) Jesus himself here makes the point that the same person who
      was the HOLY SPIRIT that would come was standing next to them but lets them
      know “I will come to you again to be Inside of you”
      The whole point to Gal 3:20.a mediator is NOT A
      MEDIATOR OF ONE, (HEIS) but GOD IS ONE. (HEIS) again, point blank, identifies
      the number of persons of God! The “but” points out the contrast between
      multiple persons in a mediation party v the “one” of God. God is not like a
      mediation party with multiple different persons. …..”the express image of his
      person” ( the person of God; singular not plural).Any attempt to lay claim
      otherwise is willful ignorance and delusional nonsense
      TRINITARIANS CONFESS JESUS /THEY ARE NOT POLYTHEIST
      BUT ARE MONOTHEIST LIKE A LIAR & THIEF WHO “CONFESS” THEY DO NOT LIE OR
      STEAL The simple fact is that just because you confess or deny that you are in
      an adulterous relationship and denounce all forms of adultery has nothing to do
      with whether or not it is in fact adulterous! .. …A rose by any other name is
      still just a rose AND calling it a water lily does not change the definition of
      what a water Lilly or a rose is either!…No, Trinitarians confess & preach
      literally …”ANOTHER JESUS” 2 Cor 11:4
      - Like a thief in your house caught stealing your
      things insisting he was not there stealing “I CONFESS I am NOT stealing”. You
      just do not “properly understand” what he is doing/saying. Further, since you
      never had a “proper understanding” of what he is doing/saying you have no
      business accusing him since you do not even know what you are talking about in
      the first place. It is with and in your own ignorance that you base your “false
      accusations” & “ad homonym attacks” against him…… Ridiculous of course it
      is ……2Thess 2:11; Titus 1:16; 2Tim 3:5;
      …… should have given you a hint, harking back to
      Satan in The garden…God said you will die…Satan comes along and states no you
      will be more WISE……today .God said He is one; but Satan’s children come along
      and say no three is more WISE and humble in the face of God’s grandeur only “a
      mystery” that can be understood “in faith”. God uses head and right arm to
      explain the distinctions between father and son.. However, the Trinitarian
      heretics say to the effect: “NO, that is just a figure of speech, or that is
      not what God really means. What God is really saying is that God is three
      different persons”. Fools, hypocrites and blind guides, God said he was One and
      by your traditions and vain imaginations have taken the words of God and made
      them of no effect, refashioning God into your image!
      You can download the complete FREE book from

      https://www.scribd.com/doc/305367608/The-Trinity-Heresy

      OR

      https://www.academia.edu/23463667/THE_TRINITY_HERESY

      or

      http://www.globethics.net/gtl/10920799 THE TRINITY HERESY

      #2 SECOND COMING Thou Fool! “I come quickly” so
      “Hold fast

      till i come”… NOT …“in another 2000 yrs I might be coming soon any time now, so
      hold fast”!?! …those that deny the second coming of Christ in the war of AD70
      are practicing a damnable heresy in denying the lord that bought them ( 2Peter
      2:1-2 ;2Tim 4:8/ you cant love an appearing you deny& the context is the
      2nd coming not the first)… Mat 7:23..”I NEVER KNEW YOU” …..Mat 10:33. But whosoever
      shall deny me before men……..sound familiar?…. If I said I am coming to your
      house in this generation when these things happen but no one knows the day or
      hour what fool would think I might be coming in 2000 years latter!?!? ..2 Tim
      4: 4. And

      they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO
      FABLES.

      2Thess 2: 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
      should believe a lie: 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the
      truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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      https://www.scribd.com/doc/305366745/Revelation-the-First-Gospel-of-the-Kingdom

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      http://www.globethics.net/gtl/5455069 Revelation The First
      Gospel of The Kingdom

      or

      https://www.academia.edu/23464127/REVELATION_THE_FIRST_GOSPEL_OF_THE_KINGDOM

      #3 There is a sharp contrast between THREE groups :
      (1) “PREDESTINED DAMNED” who were NEVER written in
      the book of life ………..Rev 17: 8 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF
      LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, …as contrasted …EPH 1: 4. According as
      he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
      (2) “MANY CALLED”= ONLY and ALL SAINTS (those who
      come to Christ) are written in the book of life … Philippians 4:3… ……Rev 21:27;
      (Only saints are Called and elect; Rom 1:6-7 et al) This is THE CHRUCH and ONLY
      these can have their names blotted out of the book of life ….….Heb 12:23 to the
      general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn … WHICH ………are WRITTEN in heaven,
      (3) THE FEW CHOSEN: Those saints who were alive in
      group #2 who are now physically dead. They died “faithful” these are the FEW
      that were chosen faithful…….Rev 3:5. ……; and I

      will not BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, (Ps 69:28) …. These are the
      FEW that are CHOSEN and now that they have died and are saved then “once saved
      THEY CAN NEVER BE LOST”
      Predestination….its true..its all true…download
      here
      https://www.scribd.com/doc/306868420/Most-True-Christians-Go-to-Hell
      http://www.globethics.net/gtl/10920800 Most true Christians
      go to hell
      https://www.academia.edu/25217564/Most_True_Christains_Go_to_Hell

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