http://www.eclipse2017.org/eclipse2017_main.htm

I am thinking of heading to South Carolina to view this eclipse. It has taken me a while to convince Laurie (my +1) that this trip is worthwhile. Now I'd like to begin planning and was wondering if anyone else has the same intent?

I am located near Baltimore and would be riding down to Columbia---maybe Charleston to witness this spectacle.

Is anyone else considering an Eclipse Cruise?

 

A suggestion, for whatever it is worth. The College of Charleston has an observatory, and they do run public events (according to their website). It might behoove you to perhaps email them regarding your plan, in my experience "star folks" love to share.

 

We are traveling to Oregon to see it, probably the Astoria Airport, which has the best chance of good weather. We chase solar eclipses. We've seen total and annular eclipses in Roundup, Montana, Cabo San Lucas, Santa Catalina Island, Aruba, Munich, south of Puerto Vallarta, and St. George, Utah. Here are some pics from our St. George annular eclipse trip in 2012:

 

Unlike The Raptor, I have NEVER seen a total eclipse of the sun. Seen a few partials and several total lunar eclipses. But this is on my bucket list.

Fortunately...
a. My son, daughter-in-law, and grandson live in Nashville, which is in the path of totality and
b. It's on Sandy's birthday.

So, yeah, we will probably be visiting our grandson that day.

 

Oh, you're so vain!

 

He's where he should be, all the time.

 

He's where he should be, all the time.
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And when you're not you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and...

 

Thanks for posting this. We just might make some August 2017 travel plans to see this. I would like to learn more about the camera and telescope set up. (And how you fit it all into the S!)

 

Check out Meade and Celestron telescopes. Pictured is a Schmidt-Cassegrain. Looks like an 8 or maybe a 10". With 8-10" you can start to break out the Cassini division in Saturn's rings and walk the focus up and down the moon's craters.

Cassegrains "compress" the light path so you have a more compact tube compared to a Newtonian reflector which is the classic long tube you often see. Less expensive but more of a hassle. That was my first.

Have fun.

 

It must be the July 11, 1991 eclipse I remember fondly. I was picking my two kids up from preschool in Acton, California and I looked on the ground at the filtered light shining down through the trees. It was the oddest and most interesting thing! Normally filtered light looks like little circles on the ground but in this case it was little crescents. It seemed magical to me.