It’ll be at maximum blockage between 6:25 and 6:30.
Don’t look directly at it! Poke a hole into a piece of paper, and hold it up to allow the beam from sun, through the hole, onto another piece of paper or flat surface.
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May 20, 2012 at 4:23 pm
AG
Sweet. This is where having eclipse glasses pays off. A pinhole projector with cloudy skies is worthless. As long as the clouds aren’t too thick, the eclipse is clearly visible through the eclipse glasses. The cloud cover is variable in NoHum near the beach right now, but every few minutes a break in the cloud thickness offers a great view.
May 20, 2012 at 6:12 pm
grouchy
I sat with my back to the sun watching shadows on front wall of the house. The shadows almost entirely disappeared between 6:26 and 6:30 and then came back sharply after 6:30. It’s also partially overcast, of course, and some of the overcast is thicker than other parts, but… I like to think I saw something eclipsoid.
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE Aug 21, 2017 in Salem OR. Be there! Gives me something to live for….
May 20, 2012 at 6:17 pm
grouchy
Yo, Eric, remind your blogclock we’re on daylight time now. My post time is shown as 6:12 p.m., when according to my device here I posted it at 7:12. Are you trying to destroy my credibility?
May 20, 2012 at 8:44 pm
trippy
whoa..that was like soos kweeeeull myann like wow wee wow wow
May 21, 2012 at 8:10 am
Dave Kirby
Had a lot of folks call the store looking for glasses. Then a guy came in and showed me a pair. When I realized the lenses were mylar I took a sheet of it that we had in the stock room and found that looking through two layers of it worked great. Viewing from the road behind Bear Butte was excellent.
May 21, 2012 at 8:18 am
Eric Kirk
grouchy – sorry about that, but WordPress doesn’t change for Daylight Savings. Not my call.
Dave – A friend of mine brought some of those glasses, and left some for us for the next solar eclipse, which is in 2018. Of course, they’ll get lost in some drawer, and probably no way I’ll find them when I need them again.
May 21, 2012 at 8:29 am
erniebranscomb
Anybody with an arc-welding helmet already has a “Viewing hood”.
May 21, 2012 at 8:42 am
Anonymous
3ml black plastic over sun glasses. My partner and I watched the entire eclipse. We did see the ring of fire from our vantage point. Awesome.
May 21, 2012 at 8:46 am
Eric Kirk
Those work really well visually, but you’re still not supposed to stare too long with them. At least that’s what my seventh grade shop teacher said.
May 21, 2012 at 9:40 am
Mitch
There were a lot of places warning that anything less than #14 welders glass was insufficient.
I figure better safe than sorry.
May 21, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Kim
You can check out a photo of last night’s eclipse as seen from my backyard in Redway. It is on the SFGATE site.
http://www.sfgate.com/readerphotos/photo/?plckPhotoID=7f87a5b0-5bf3-43fd-8e8e-61f45c5ee0ae&plckGalleryID=42a83a42-a59b-43e0-acad-e0cbea8f8926
May 21, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Eric Kirk
Take a look at this photo!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Astronomy-and-Astrophysics/133913376632647