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The Fridge / Re: 2024 Solar Eclipse
« on: April 14, 2024, 10:30:55 AM »
I had seen the 2017 eclipse by taking a 2 day drive down from Alberta to Idaho with my brothers, which was my first eclipse viewing. It was an incredible experience, and that trip was what got me into photography. After that I knew of the 2020 eclipse in Southern Argentina and the next US one in 2024.
In a way, things happened to line up perfectly for viewing this one. I happened to be on a break from my Mechanical Engineering degree that I started back in 2020, where I'm basically working as an intern for various jobs for a year before going back to finish my 4th year. One of my brothers also happened to be living in Texas and was right on the edge of totality.
The weather on the day of the eclipse was quite sketchy in Texas, with cloud coverage basically stretching across the whole path of totality, so we didn't plan where to go to see it until the morning of the event. Thankfully we found a decent spot on a quiet hill in a small town and had 4 minutes of totality with mostly clear skies.
I currently have my eyes on a possibility of checking out the 2026 eclipse in Iceland and northern Spain, as I will have graduated by then. There's also various eclipses in the 2030s in Australia and New Zealand that I might want to check out, seeing as I will be 54 when the next eclipse passes over North America in 2044, where it will pass over much of Alberta.
In a way, things happened to line up perfectly for viewing this one. I happened to be on a break from my Mechanical Engineering degree that I started back in 2020, where I'm basically working as an intern for various jobs for a year before going back to finish my 4th year. One of my brothers also happened to be living in Texas and was right on the edge of totality.
The weather on the day of the eclipse was quite sketchy in Texas, with cloud coverage basically stretching across the whole path of totality, so we didn't plan where to go to see it until the morning of the event. Thankfully we found a decent spot on a quiet hill in a small town and had 4 minutes of totality with mostly clear skies.
I currently have my eyes on a possibility of checking out the 2026 eclipse in Iceland and northern Spain, as I will have graduated by then. There's also various eclipses in the 2030s in Australia and New Zealand that I might want to check out, seeing as I will be 54 when the next eclipse passes over North America in 2044, where it will pass over much of Alberta.