So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go?

**C C** · Aug 24, 2017 10:44 PM

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...sm/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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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Aug 27, 2017 08:50 PM by Magical Realist.)

They used to celebrate a solar event every year called the Winter Solistice. Look what that turned into!

**elte** · Aug 28, 2017 05:49 AM

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.

**Secular Sanity** · Aug 29, 2017 02:54 PM

Very cool! It almost looks fake.

**Zinjanthropos** · Aug 29, 2017 05:51 PM

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.

**elte** · (This post was last modified: Aug 29, 2017 09:01 PM by elte.)

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.