2017 Total Solar Eclipse
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Topic: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Posted By: Wood River Pod
Subject: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 9:18am
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RPod Community, I found this great website that details the path of the August 21 solar eclipse. Get in you pod and head to a closest location that will offer a spectacular show. We are lucky here in Idaho, the path runs across the state with some of the best viewing up in the Stanley basin in the beautiful Sawtooth mountains. Enjoy! Wood River Pod http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm - http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm ------------- Smith's in Hailey Early 2017 179 HRE http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9134&PN=1&title=wood-river-179-mods - Wood River Mods |
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Posted By: Pete Brayton
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 9:27am
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We will be at Glendo State Park in Wyoming on the centerline...can't wait. This will be only my second total solar eclipse, first was in Mexico in 1991; saw the annular eclipse at Lake Powell in 2012 and several partials. If you are planning to see this eclipse you'd better start making reservations now...if you can get them! ------------- 2021 Rpod 196 2013 Ford 150 V8 |
Posted By: Kokopod
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 1:28pm
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We're lucky. Our son and daughter-in-law own 39 acres of land in Wyoming along its path. The whole family is going to camp out there and enjoy it together. Hotels in Casper, Wy have been sold out for months. ------------- 2017 Jayco Melbourne 24k 2013 Premier 19FBPR Formerly-2013 R-pod 177HRE 2011 Dodge Durango Love a good road trip |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 2:00pm
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I would really like to be there to see it but I will have to view a partial. I will be on another once-in-a-lifetime adventure for me and my siblings. We will be on an Alaska cruise during the eclipse. Perhaps as a consolation prize, we will see aurora borealis instead.
------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: birderdiane526
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 4:55pm
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StephenH, your plans sound great! Not a bad alternative to the eclipse! ------------- Diane and Michael 2016 179 "PIP" (PODDING IN PARADISE) 2007 Toyota Tundra BLOG:Podding in Paradise, birderdiane526.blogspot.com |
Posted By: birderdiane526
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 5:03pm
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Thanks for the link! We might miss out as our plans have us in Canada. But, who knows!! We full-time and our plans often change, spur of the moment! ------------- Diane and Michael 2016 179 "PIP" (PODDING IN PARADISE) 2007 Toyota Tundra BLOG:Podding in Paradise, birderdiane526.blogspot.com |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2017 at 6:19pm
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I ordered some of the eclipse viewing "glasses" from the web site, sufficient for us, my siblings and their families, plus a couple of extras. If we can't see the total eclipse, we can at least see the partial one. I plan to surprise them with the viewing glasses on the trip. ------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: alan7170
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2017 at 10:53pm
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Pete, Funny thing...my first total solar eclipse was La Paz, 1991. I live in AZ and saw the 2012 annular... This will be my second total, near cascade, Idaho... Alan |
Posted By: SciTchr
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2017 at 8:32pm
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Good Evening All, I just bought a used 2014 R-Pod 171. Love it! I need to search for the leak that is inflating the flooring, and the door lock needs replacing, but it generally seems sound and everyone tells me it's cute. It is R-Escape Pod. The Eclipse: I was teaching physics when we had the excellent good fortune to have a beautiful day in Syracuse, NY to view the solar eclipse several years ago. I made a GIANT telephoto pinhole projector for my students to view with. The pinhole was in a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil at the end of roughly 12 feet of heavy cardboard carpet tube. The other end was inserted into a well fitted hole in a cardboard box. White paper made up the screen we projected onto. Students viewed through the corner of the box that I removed. It was hard to hold the tube steady ... If I do it again, I'll lean it on a car or tall stepladder. BUT the image of the eclipse was wonderful!!!
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Posted By: Martinmyer
Date Posted: 02 May 2017 at 6:14am
| I would like to see the solar eclipse when I can already use my second hand rpod next month. I'm thinking of going in some rv or camping parks so we can clearly see the sky during this amazing phenomenon. |
Posted By: grand beaver
Date Posted: 02 May 2017 at 11:24am
At least out here in Oregon if you have not made reservations already it is way to late to get a spot now. They are expecting huge crowds everywhere in the path of totality (?) and recently hundreds of camping spots (I use that spots term loosely) were sucked up with hours of being posted online. I fully expect gridlock on the major highways across the mountain passes on the day after. That is going to be one weekend we will be just day trippers without the pod and headed to Cascade Locks for the annual PCT days event. 
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