planning for this around Hopkinsville KY area. Hopkinsville was charging $150 to park in the grass for the weekend. They said they had one spot remaining as of last week.
Bah, humbug! It'll probably be raining and overcast in my part of the country. Plus, a NASA manager has scheduled a Safety Review for a Soyuz mission to International Space Station for that day. Of all days for me to be needed at work...
I've been in a full eclipse before. I'd say it was similar to Nautical Twilight, which is near full darkness.
The most interesting and unexpected thing to me about that eclipse was that light filtered through the tree leaves as the eclipse was passing into and out of the partial eclipse phase, and the gaps where light shone between tree leaves produced neat little images of a partial eclipse. Thousands of 'em under each tree or shrub...
I experienced a near-total eclipse from the roof of the University of Minnesota physics building when I was at school. It got very dark - but what I remember most was the silence. All of nature went quiet, as did the humans.
Looking forward to this one at Independence Airpark in Oregon!
I experienced a near-total eclipse from the roof of the University of Minnesota physics building when I was at school. It got very dark - but what I remember most was the silence. All of nature went quiet, as did the humans.
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A few VAF'ers did the same in Australia in 2012, filming it too.
From ronoc74's2012 eclipse thread we have his YouTube video shot from his RV-9 when the eclipse passed over Australia as an example. Seems perfectly safe to fly, you always have a visible horizon.
Ha! Ye of little imagination. During the solar eclipse in 1979, faced with the prospect of poor weather in the Pacific Northwest, we rented a Cessna T210 and watched the eclipse from 23000 feet. Ain't no way I'm paying $150 to park for a weekend -- I'll watch the eclipse from the air.
And the FARs don't say anything about being night current with respect to eclipses...
Go to the following website and see the depiction of what the eclipse will look like in the Zip Code you input (time reference too). This is kind of cool!