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So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go? - C C - Aug 24, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/08/eclipse-tourism/537684/
EXCERPT: “I think I can speak for the rest of the city staff in that we wish there were a way we could host one of these once a year.”
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RE: So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go? - Magical Realist - Aug 27, 2017
They used to celebrate a solar event every year called the Winter Solistice. Look what that turned into!
RE: So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go? - elte - Aug 28, 2017
I just found out there was a quick double eclipse of the sun on the day of the Great American Eclipse.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170828.html
The 2024 eclipse will be more spectacular for a lot of people than the Great American Eclipse was. However, April tends to be stormier and cloudier, though. That could obscure a lot of people's view of that next eclipse in 2024 in the USA.
RE: So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go? - Secular Sanity - Aug 29, 2017
Very cool! It almost looks fake.
RE: So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go? - Zinjanthropos - Aug 29, 2017
Out here in the country it got to looking like peering through tinted glass. My wife was reading something that said crickets have been known to chirp during an eclipse and almost as if on cue, they started. That was the highlight, other than my pinhole cardboard box projector was a hit with the neighbourhood. I followed a YouTube video and had success making one.
RE: So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go? - elte - Aug 29, 2017
That was similar to how the people at the library liked the eclipse image projection from one side of my binoculars onto a white envelope.
At 90% sun blockage, I didn't notice any changes in wildlife behavior, but the next one could be different when the moon will block about 99.85% of the sun here at peak eclipse.
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Thank you Secular Sanity.