Ok for anyone who's last minuting it on the eclipse and needs a project!

Below are all borrowed source materials for making simple pinhole type observers. I don't know how many folks using the BBS/fsxNET are going to be where they can see it but here's I'll be on the fringe of totality. I want to say the last time that happened was in the mid 90's. Ironically when I was first using BBS systems!



https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14391/

How to Make a Box Pinhole Projector
Released Wednesday, August 16, 2023

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera/


How to make a pinhole projector for solar eclipse

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has provided a step-by-step guide for how to make a pinhole projector.

Materials you'll need: 2 pieces of white card stock, aluminum foil, tape, pin/paper clip or pencil.

1. Cut a 1-inch to 2-inch square or rectangular hole in the middle of one of your pieces of white card stock.

2. Tape a piece of aluminum foil over the hole that you cut in the card stock.

3. Flip the card stock over and use your pin, paper clip or pencil to poke a small hole in the aluminum foil.

4. Place the other piece of card stock on the ground and hold the piece with aluminum foil above it. Next, stand with the sun behind you and view the projected image on the card stock that's on the ground.
How to make a shoebox eclipse viewer

If you want to take it up another level, you could make a similar projector/viewer for the eclipse with a shoebox or cereal box. NASA has provided

instructions for this as well.

Materials you'll need: Cereal or shoe box, scissors, aluminum foil, pencil, push

pin, tape, white piece of paper.

1. Trace one end of the box on the white sheet of paper.

2. Use the scissors to cut the shape you just traced.

3. Place the paper shape inside the box on the same end you had traced.

4. Cut two square holes on the opposite end of the box, with one on the left and

another on the right.

5. Cover one of the square holes with aluminum foil and use tape to keep it in place.

6. Use the push pin to make a hole in the center of the aluminum foil.

7. To use the viewer, stand with your back to the sun and look through the square hole until you see the sun projected onto the paper.


When is the total solar eclipse?

Entering the U.S. through Texas, the solar eclipse will begin its partial eclipse phase at around 12:20 pm in CDT in Dallas on Monday, April 8, according

to NASA.

Totality is set to begin around 1:40 p.m. CDT until 1:44 p.m. CDT in Dallas, Texas, before completely ending at 3 p.m. CDT.

The eclipse will approach the east coast at around 1:59 p.m. EDT, in Cleveland,

Ohio. Totality will begin at 3:13 p.m. and end at 3:17 p.m. EDT.

In Maine, the eclipse will begin at 2:22 p.m. EDT, with totality beginning at 3:32 p.m. EDT and ending at 3:34 p.m. EDT.

The eclipse will exit through Newfoundland, Canada at 5:16 p.m. NDT.

When the eclipse begins and how long it'll last depends on where you are in reference to the path of totality. For some, the eclipse could be as long as four minutes.

For more information on specific eclipse times in your city, check out Eclipse2024.org

WTOL contributed to this report.

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Hello n2qfd!

observers. I don't know how many folks using the BBS/fsxNET are going to
be where they can see it but here's I'll be on the fringe of totality.

I'm in the fringe area too, but 97% coverage is expected.
Totallity is expected at about 3:20 EDT to 3:25 EDT, roughly
the same time as for Elmira NY.

However.. the forecast is "mainly cloudy".

I've built my viewer:
https://ibb.co/377p8mr
https://ibb.co/C7z6H5X


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There's nothing like NY weather to mess up a good thing is there Ogg!

I grew up in the southern tier and every meteor shower, aurora, eclipse, even satellite fly overs! I loves them putting a BBS/APRS on MIR and the ISS at least you could hear it go over!

Hope it's good all the same there,

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observers. I don't know how many folks using the BBS/fsxNET are going be where they can see it but here's I'll be on the fringe of totality.

I'm in the fringe area too, but 97% coverage is expected.
Totallity is expected at about 3:20 EDT to 3:25 EDT, roughly
the same time as for Elmira NY.

I don't specifically understand what sets this eclipse out from the rest? Why is the whole country shutting down things?

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Re: 4APRIL24 Solar Eclipse
By: niter3 to Ogg on Mon Apr 08 2024 11:36 am

I don't specifically understand what sets this eclipse out from the rest? Why is the whole country shutting down things?

I don't really understand that either, but it's going to be a total elipse in some areas, which is a rare thing. There are people traveling to see it in totality.

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On 08 Apr 2024, Nightfox said the following...

I don't really understand that either, but it's going to be a total
elipse in some areas, which is a rare thing. There are people traveling to see it in totality.

We were in the path of totality for today's eclipse. It was cloudy but luckily there was a break in the clouds and we got to see the ring from my own back yard.

The last total solar eclipse in my city was January 24, 1925. After today's eclipse the next one will be October 26, 2144.


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I don't really understand that either, but it's going to be a total
elipse in some areas, which is a rare thing. There are people traveling to see it in totality.

From my findings it appears this one is very large and a lot more people can see it.

We looked at it with the kids. Boring as usual. :D

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Re: 4APRIL24 Solar Eclipse
By: niter3 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 08 2024 04:51 pm

We looked at it with the kids. Boring as usual. :D

An event as rare as this is boring? :P

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An event as rare as this is boring? :P

Maybe I don't understand the severity of it, but I seen an eclipse in the early 90's...

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Hello niter3!

I'm in the fringe area too, but 97% coverage is expected.
Totallity is expected at about 3:20 EDT to 3:25 EDT, roughly
the same time as for Elmira NY.

I don't specifically understand what sets this eclipse out from the rest? Why is the whole country shutting down things?

Which country.. USA? well.. the path of the eclipse route
covered quite a fair bit of the USA. The next TOTAL eclipse
over the USA won't be until 2045.

At best, there was a sliver of a crescent at my location between
3:15 and 3:32 EDT. The sky was very cloudy but the eclipse was
visible from time to time. I have some pictures I should post.

I viewed it in conjunction with a pinhole viewer when the sun
poked through the clouds and it was simply not safe to look
directly at the event. The results were excellent. The whole
far end of the box projected a very large portion of the sky.
The moving clouds provided a greater sense of "real time" as
they passed over the sun.


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Hello Warpslide!

We were in the path of totality for today's eclipse. It
was cloudy but luckily there was a break in the clouds and
we got to see the ring from my own back yard.

Did you capture the moments on camera?

I took a few shots, but my location only provided a thin
crescent of the sun for about 15 minutes as the crescent moved
from the 11 o'oclock position to the 5 o'clock position.

The last total solar eclipse in my city was January 24,
1925. After today's eclipse the next one will be October
26, 2144.

But the next total one isn't that far away if you don't mind a
bit of travel. :D


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Hello niter3!

An event as rare as this is boring? :P

Maybe I don't understand the severity of it, but I seen an eclipse in the early 90's...

Was it a total eclipse? Perhaps an annular and definately
partial is much less interesting.

At totality the darkness suddenly changes from nothing to the
bright corona from the sun behind the moon and lasts for a few
minutes. That change can be amazing to witness.

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At best, there was a sliver of a crescent at my location between
3:15 and 3:32 EDT. The sky was very cloudy but the eclipse was
visible from time to time. I have some pictures I should post.

It was the same here.

I viewed it in conjunction with a pinhole viewer when the sun
poked through the clouds and it was simply not safe to look
directly at the event. The results were excellent. The whole
far end of the box projected a very large portion of the sky.
The moving clouds provided a greater sense of "real time" as
they passed over the sun.

I just used a pair of certified 3d looking glasses. :D

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We were in the path of totality for today's eclipse. It was cloudy
but luckily there was a break in the clouds and we got to see the ring
from my own back yard.

The last total solar eclipse in my city was January 24, 1925. After
today's
eclipse the next one will be October 26, 2144.

It is a once in a lifetime event. That said, we in parts of North
America have had the rare treat of being able to view one twice in a
lifetime, and twice within 10 years time. A few places in Illinois were actually in totallity for both of them.

As you pointed out, that is what makes it special.


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Nightfox wrote to niter3 <=-

I don't specifically understand what sets this eclipse out from the rest? Why is the whole country shutting down things?

I don't really understand that either, but it's going to be a total
elipse in some areas, which is a rare thing. There are people
traveling to see it in totality.

Having Arkansas declare a state of emergency for a tourist event and
discouraging local tourism was, interesting to say the least -
especially since they were one of a couple of states in the path of
totality.



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Sadly Cinci was not under a total eclipse - but my neck of the woods got about 99.6% occlusion at the maximum, which was still nice. It's a shame that the next time we'll get one in is the 3340s... anyone know how the time machine work's coming along?

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All clouds here too...

It's my second one actually. I was skipping class in high school in 1994 the last time we had a partial in this area. Same orange storm like light. Dark enough for the lights to come on, but I couldn't see it. We're not allowed nice things above 1200' AGL in this part of NY!
My wife was in Albany and was able to see it some and I read that folks in Lake Placid in the Adirondacks were able to see it though.

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On 09 Apr 2024, n2qfd said the following...

All clouds here too..

Cloud Layer wasn't an issue thankfully, though we did get scammed out of 20 USD for two glasses.

It's my second one actually. I was skipping class in high school in 1994 the last time we had a partial in this area. Same orange storm like n2> light. Dark enough for the lights to come on, but I couldn't see it.

We had a brief moment during the totality where some of the street lights started to kick on - it was neat to see how the world just.. got darker - though I would have loved to see how it'd look in full totality, though.

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Having Arkansas declare a state of emergency for a tourist event and
discouraging local tourism was, interesting to say the least -
especially since they were one of a couple of states in the path of
totality.

I wondered why the Weather Channel eclipse coverage only included a
camera view from Arkansas and, unlike TX, IL, IN, OH, NY, and Maine,
didn't have any local event coverage. Now I guess I know. ;)

They may have been going by the experience of some of the other
smaller neighbor states from the 2017 eclipse and decided they didn't
have the infrastructure to handle such a mass migration event.


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Nodoka Hanamura wrote to n2qfd <=-

On 09 Apr 2024, n2qfd said the following...

All clouds here too..

Cloud Layer wasn't an issue thankfully, though we did get scammed out
of 20 USD for two glasses.

I did the old-school trick of sooting up an old UV filter with a
candle. We were only around 45% here.



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