OVERCAST!

[kentauros]

Thread for everyone to check in that can't see The Fucking Moon due to it being too cloudy or completely overcast in your local region. (Houston had been overcast all day, and drizzling some.)

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. I'm in Houston too! n/t

[cantbeserious]

2. Syracuse NY - Beautiful

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[kentauros]

4. Beautifully overcast?

[cantbeserious]

12. Beautifully Clear

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[kentauros]

14. Ah.

Well then, may I direct you to one of the many thousands of threads around here for those that are viewing the eclipse unencumbered, unlike this one

[TexasTowelie]

3. No eclipse in Wharton, Texas either tonight.

[Ron Obvious]

5. Believe it or not, not a cloud in the sky here in Seattle.

I'm not bringing that up to rub it in, but only to rub it in.

I'm about to go outside for a good look at the lunar spectacle in a minute.

[kentauros]

6. Don't forget your spectacles then!

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Hey… this was a thread for losers...

What the fuck are you doing here?

[Ron Obvious]

20. Cheer up!

The next one is only 18 years away!

It was exactly as advertised too: rusty red. It's over now, but I can still see the full moon through our skylights.

[MrMickeysMom]

7. Fucking A, kentauros...

We has a sad …

A tease now and then, plus I had to ask my neighbor to turn off his (obnoxious) front lawn light post.

Well… the beer was good…

[kentauros]

9. Plus, we can make fun of

The Fucking Moon

[we can do it]

10. Gasses covered in sprinkles here!

[ashling]

11. Not here

In fact, this is the first astronomical event that I have had good weather for in ages. Always cloudy during meteor showers.

[panader0]

13. Clear here but I'm having trouble holding my binoculars steady.

[enlightenment]

15. Partial clouds in Las Vegas

made it mostly no go . . . disappointing, but not nearly as disappointing as realizing that people are photoshopping images to make up for the fact that they couldn't get a clear view of the event.

I stood outside and watched what I could. It was dark (not dusk) by the time the moon reached anything remotely "orangey" - and that mostly obscured by clouds. It was also high in the sky and - had I chosen to do so - was a size that I could have covered with a poker chip held in front of it (so, smallish).

It did NOT look like THIS at any point in the evening:

[kentauros]

16. That's unfortunate that people are faking photos of it.

Seems like a dumb thing to do.

Still, you did get to see something I didn't even bother going out; it still hasn't cleared off. You can see where the moon is in the sky, but only by the light from it. The clouds even seem denser than they were earlier in the evening.

[enlightenment]

17. It was, unfortunately,

not very impressive since the clouds not only obscured but diffused the light so much that it was like looking through the bottom of a bottle. Fuzzy and double-imaged.

Or that was my eyes. Either way, not nearly as exciting as the hype leading up to it!

Still, I'm sorry you didn't get to see a thing.

[kentauros]

18. Thank you :)

I'm fine with not seeing it. I've gotten to see some pretty cool astronomical events, such as the aftermath of the comet impact with Jupiter, Halley's Comet, and watching Skylab cross the sky at Philmont Scout Ranch

I'm sure there will be other cool things for us to see in the coming years

[Callmecrazy]

24. Um, yeah...

Isn't that picture facing west?
The moon was in the Eastern sky.

[enlightenment]

27. No, that's east.

Probably taken from the top of UMC (the only public hospital in LV and one of the taller buildings in the area the photographer had to be in) looking over the county buildings in the foreground and the north end of the Strip behind that. The hill is Sunrise Mountain.

LV sits in a bowl with hills and smallish mountains surrounding (I'm from Colorado - they all look like hills to me). The only official mountain is Mt Charleston, which is to the west!

[Callmecrazy]

28. I lived there for thirty years...

and left in "09 and had a hand in building all those hotels. That hill looks too small to be Frenchman Peak. Maybe lava butte, but it's too hazy to say for sure. Something just doesn't look right to me. Maybe because that was taken at UMC. It's in the middle of town and I lived at Sahara and Nellis. The mountain range behind Sunrise mountain/Frenchman Peak is throwing me off, I guess. Looks almost like the painted mountains out by Red Rock Canyon. But no sleeping Indian on top.

[handmade34]

19. thanks for the thread...

disappointed not to be home in Vermont where maybe I could have seen it… instead I am working in Houston area (Woodlands tonight) and no amount of driving was going to get me to a place to view the moon

[denbot]

21. Got a peak in my rear view mirror in central Wyoming.

The eclipse had started, but within a few minutes clouds obscured my view.

About 7:05 this evening.

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[femmocrat]

22. That is a great photo!

[bikebloke]

23. Overcast in DC

Lots of other disappointed people in the park, too.

[Callmecrazy]

25. Beautiful here in Fort Lauderdale...

One scuffy little cloud that couldn't hide it. Nice, warm night, too.

[WinkyDink]

26. Eastern PA for me was a bust! Saw a VERY brief slice of eclipse.