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tackleberry2219 t1_j23n16m wrote

Why can’t I ever hear about these things BEFORE they happen?

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pastey83 t1_j23nb14 wrote

Some times that's worse. I knew about it in advance: 100% cloud cover...

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Ok-disaster2022 t1_j23xgo2 wrote

Dude I live right in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse. At least I know when it will be cloudy a couple years from now

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Huachinangoo t1_j24ywxe wrote

Oh man. I lived right on the edge of totality during the last eclipse. There is a town about an hour away that was dead in the center. Hotels were booked solid over a year in advance. People came from all over the world. It got completely rained out.

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crazylikeaf0x t1_j24z3tx wrote

Edge of Totality is definitely the name of my band.

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Wants_to_be_accepted t1_j24zp7r wrote

Funny it's the name of my sex tape.

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Joeva8me t1_j2514ig wrote

Funny, I thought it was “one is the loneliest number”

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SpiffyBlizzard t1_j25bid3 wrote

We were dead center in Western Neb and it was perfectly clear. Most incredible experience of my life outside of the birth of my child.

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coolreg214 t1_j26bcea wrote

They should have offered a rain check and scheduled it for another day!

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dc551589 t1_j262lmm wrote

Yeah, I’m in the northeast US and I’m 100% committed to seeing totality in 2024 (weather permitting lol).

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altitudearts t1_j27hkp7 wrote

If you’re in the Midwest, you may want to head to Texas or Mexico. Clouds, right?

We got a place east of Dallas for that auspicious day. Hoping for clear skies.

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beef-o-lipso t1_j23snkx wrote

Local forecast for the night of the Geminid is the same for me. I need a new hobby.

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WrongJohnSilver t1_j24ebzc wrote

When's the best time to witness a meteor shower?

January, between 1 and 3 am. In the bitter, cloudy cold.

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beef-o-lipso t1_j25jrgv wrote

You know it. Bundle up in half your clothes, grab a hot non-alcoholic drink (alcohol lowers body temp), get a lawn chair, and enjoy the show.

Brag to your friends the next day about your commitment. :-)

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CDBSB t1_j27x0tn wrote

Yeah, but the alcoholic drinks make the showers more fun. 😉

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pastey83 t1_j23u9mi wrote

I frequently look at my telescope and think, should have bought a piano 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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ImpossibleMachine3 t1_j24w4p4 wrote

I know how you feel. My wife got me a brand new telescope for my birthday this year. A couple of weeks later I read about the "last lunar eclipse on the east coast of the US for years" and it was happening at a time and place I'd be able to see it! With my new telescope! I got up around 4am, checked out the sky - full moon, clear sky, absolutely beautiful. Another hour until the eclipse... So I used the bathroom, went back inside.

When it was time for the eclipse,... Completely overcast. And it stayed that way until dawn. Ugh.

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albene t1_j23u83m wrote

I didn’t know about it in advance but I don’t feel so bad since there was cloud cover for me too

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CokeDiesel4 t1_j24e0qw wrote

One time there was supposed to be a rocket launch I could see from my house which hasn't happened in decades and they cancelled it due to weather and moved it somewhere else.

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QuimmLord t1_j25f20i wrote

Or the phenomenons happen at like 3:57am when I’m dead asleep and don’t feel like going out in 20° weather

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pastey83 t1_j25gm59 wrote

My summer was like that, all the actual clear nights had shit going on in the wee hours. And in several cases I slept on my couch in the failed hope of "staying up"

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PersnickityPenguin t1_j26pce2 wrote

Its been raining here for like a week straight, but the article did say this last happened in june…

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wave_327 t1_j295dgz wrote

Same here. At least I got to see the Moon and Jupiter close together

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Foreign_Astronaut t1_j254w9p wrote

Saaaaame. I have also never seen a lunar eclipse in person, such is my luck with cloud cover.

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bunnyrut t1_j25chg1 wrote

That had been every sky event in the past 20 years for me. I feel like I am cursed.

Amazing meteor shower? Overcast. Comet? Raining. Lunar eclipse? Sorry, it's cloudy tonight. Solar eclipse? Lol, cloudy again.

Wanna see all the planets in the sky with your naked eye? Syke!

I'll just look at all the awesome pictures everyone else is taking.

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lemonade124 t1_j241qps wrote

Weather has nothing to do with knowing in advance

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Salty__Business t1_j250s96 wrote

Whoa, you're telling me that knowledge of a thing doesn't inexplicably alter the outcome? That can't possibly be right...

If you knew about it ahead of time, got excited about it, then couldn't see anything due to clouds, you'd be pretty disappointed. In that case, it would be less disappointing if you hadn't known about it at all.

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Myopic_Cat t1_j23nlhk wrote

Just go out and have a look tonight instead. Planets move a bit across the sky from day to day, but not very quickly. They will be in practically the same positions as yesterday.

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ackermann t1_j255mjh wrote

Yeah, shouldn’t this last a few days, at least? Maybe even a week?

Mercury and Venus are the only ones that move particularly fast. And even they won’t move too far in a day or two.

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Riegel_Haribo t1_j23q8dc wrote

Because this is a non-event event. Venus will be setting right after sunset for the next month, while Mars rises, the events that frame the other planets in the sky - and needing you to go out at just the right time to see both (everything but Venus already being visible for the last half of this year).

Also, Uranus and Neptune are not "visible" to the naked eye, and Mercury is a challenge.

So: Venus in twilight if no trees are in the way. Opposite side of the sky, there's Mars. Between, Jupiter and Saturn.

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KristnSchaalisahorse t1_j25din0 wrote

For those interested in seeing Uranus & Neptune, it’s relatively simple to spot them with a normal pair of binoculars (and a night sky app or star chart for reference).

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ImpossibleMachine3 t1_j24wxnb wrote

I noticed. I sold you that three pack of healing potions at a discount because you saved my kid from those goblins, remember?

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psgrue t1_j250tcv wrote

Couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks

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Kaeligos t1_j25enae wrote

I was also there, I imbued your staff with some runestones I found in a cave after you healed me from my unknown sickness.

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psgrue t1_j25r4gz wrote

Oh you’re too modest. Just slicing the previous owner’s arm off at the shoulder doesn’t make it mine. I swung it like a Louisville Slugger. You made it sing (and fireball). It’s yours now. Keep it.

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duke0fearls t1_j24lqyo wrote

I have yet to see an article like this until after the event… and I literally was just looking at the moon through my scope last night!!! Just didn’t think to look for Uranus and Neptune smh

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doglywolf t1_j24p5no wrote

there are apps and sms notifications you can sign up for for that .

Literally one called space events that you can even tell your location and will notifity you when cool things are coming you would be able to see from your area.

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I used to feel the exact same way like id see news article about something cool that happened YESTERDAY and have this $1200 scope sitting in my closet that i never take out and be mad about it .

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thebookofdewey t1_j258iwq wrote

Yeah, what a stupid article. You could have seen this yesterday, OR the day before. To see it, you would have had to look this direction. Worthless to me now!

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dog_servant t1_j262j2b wrote

Head on over to http://stellarium.org and download it. I've used for about 20 years and it's only gotten better. Pick a place, pick a time, enjoy the night sky!

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PurpleSunCraze t1_j27aagd wrote

If you can see it at all you’re lucky. I live in Las Vegas, if all of these planets exploded I likely still wouldn’t be able to see them.

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danm67 t1_j27wazs wrote

Some distance outside Las Vegas you should be able to see plenty.

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the-vindicator t1_j25mbwq wrote

FYI there will be a total solar eclipse over the eastern United States April 8th 2024

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Olaf_the_Giant t1_j25nk15 wrote

They don’t happen by accident. Google the dates for the next few occurrences and mark them on your calendar so you don’t forget.

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a_cute_epic_axis t1_j266oia wrote

I feel like this is the third time this year this rare event happened or one that is almost the damn same.

Like how every year the (insert name here) meteor shower will be the (insert nonsensical and possibly not even true platitude) of our lifetime. My favorite was one where the claim was something like "there are estimated to be more meteors than any other time in the past" and included a diagram of the sky on where to look, but omitted the full moon that almost perfectly coincided with the apparent source of the meteor shower.

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o0keith0o t1_j26eoa0 wrote

Dont stress, them all being in the visible sky at the same time is cool but not super practical for veiwing them " all at the same time "

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