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Weather cooperating, Shasta should have a good view of the eclipse at around 1:27 on Sunday, May 20. There may be a lot of Lemurians disguised as climbers on the summit that day. I'm taking a north side route to avoid some of the south side zaniness. Anyone else thinking about doing an eclipse tour?

Nasa has an interactive map. Zoom to Norcal and click on shasta (or anywhere) for details.

Here's a neat animation.

This is so cool. I think I need to take a road trip that weekend.

Hmmmm, hadn't occurred to me, but sounds like a splendid idea! If someone knows a bit about photography (not me) it could make for a killer TR. Right around the dates I was shooting for getting up there, too...

Can't make it to Shasta so I'll head out to Mesquite for the total eclipse effect.
Safe and (almost) free way to view the eclipse when your local observatory has run out of mylar glasses.
You can use binoculars to project an image of the sun.

http://spaceweather.com/sunspots/doityourself.html

Nice eclipse.....Tons of people showed at Bunny Flat. I'm pretty sure I heard a few Lumurians preparing for Sunday when I was putting my jacket on and pissing into the Konwakiton Glacier shrund on Saturday.

A little off center and a little overcast, but visible in Kodiak at least.

Beautiful photo!!

Once again, great photo philip.ak.

It was overcast at my location (Crater Lake).

I'm based in LA and had to work on Monday so I just drove out to the AZ/UT border to a small town called Littlefield. No splitboarding but here is what I saw.
I pulled over along the highway and set up around 5pm. By 5:30 it had started and a perfect stranger named Steve (who lives in D.C. and was in Vegas for "business over the weekend") just happened drive by slowly. I flagged him down and we took pictures together with each other's cameras.
It wasn't as dramatic as legend has it. That's because it was an annular (not a total eclipse). We'll save that date for 2017 in Idahoe!

My basic setup. Binoculars and poster board.


Moment of truth!


From a different angle


Look at the tiny eclipse crescents all the shadows!

Bigger shadows


About as stoked as I can be, not boarding.

Looks like you found a great location HansGLudwig. Great photos, what's the deal with the swirly one? That's the eclipse projecting through the clouds?

Collectively, the leaves of the shrub (or any tree canopy) act as pinhole lenses. All the tiny specks of sunlight which pass through the canopy normally look like specks of sunlight. During an eclipse they end up looking like crescents in the shadow.

Pinhole lens (Imagine the tree in the picture is the sun IRL and the pinhole is the gap between the leaves of a tree IRL)


The phenomenon is best under a tree but trees are hard to come by in the desert. (So I'm borrowing wikipedia's picture)