ECLIPSE DAY APRIL 8, 2024

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Eclipse day, April 8, 2024

The eclipse began in this part of the Alleghenies around 2p.m in the afternoon. Peaking at around 90% at around 3:15p.m and ending shortly near 4:30 pm. While not in the totality zone, it was still a cool experience to observe.

Observing location, next to Cranesville Swamp.

The Swamp off to the left in the picture above
A slightly closer look

  The day that began on the cloudy side with even a few showers, looked pretty bleak for eclipse viewing throughout the morning. Modeling was showing the potential for 90%-100% low cloudiness at the time. However and thankfully mother nature had other plans and skies began to break around a hour and a half before the onset of eclipse time.

  At 2pm, passing clouds still existed, but it did not ruin the viewing experience.

Just prior to the beginning at 2pm
The beginning starting in the lower right quadrant
And slowly worked it’s way over the next hour and 15 minutes to peak at 90% +/-…

Let’s watch

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Zooming in a bit
Clouds rolling across. This did at times make any viewing impossible. Short lived cloudy period though
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At 4:30pm it had ended

Some spur of the moment creative pics during

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And some while viewing without a eclipse glasses lense.

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These made possible by the clouds filtering the brightness
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The landscaped dimmed, but no where near total darkness like a total eclipse. There was a slight eerie feel. Temps dropped about 5-6° through the peak of the event. Refer back to the prior post for that info. In this link:

April 8, 2024

Then the skies brightened

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The cows continued to eat

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The dogs chilling

And that’s how the eclipse went down over the Cranesville Swamp area

A brief video of some the images pieced together

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A brief distant video

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