Remind me in a year please

imagine watching it atop katahdin

Monday, April 8 if anyone wants the date

Given how cloudy Maine typically is in April, I’m not getting my hopes too high.

Buy your tickets now.

They're already planning for the Millinockeclipse. I think I RSVP'd that I'm going to the Facebook event almost a year ago. 😂

weeps in Southern Maine

Just drive north. The state isn't that big.

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Remindme! 1 year

The experience is probably pretty wild even if you can't see it. The change in lighting is surreal.

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I mean, it kinda is. Tip to tip Maine isn't all that much shorter than Florida, and, at least with no traffic, it'd be quicker and shorter to drive from the southern tip of Maine to Philadelphia than it would to drive to the northern tip.

That's not where you'd have to go to see the eclipse of course, but I dunno I felt like being pedantic. Insomnia will do that.

My plan is Greenville. Hope to have a solar telescope by then.

Burlington looks like the sweet spot.

There's no probably about it. The day turns to night. You can feel the temperature just drop. It's something not to miss if you can help it.

Remindme! 1 year

> at least with no traffic,

And when there is an Earth shattering apocalypse this will be relevant. Until then, traffic will always exist between here and Philly.

Rad. I really like Millinocket. Great place to live if you can swing it. Hard place to get a job.

I used Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as the southernmost point of reference. I then looked up directions with Google Maps to Philadelphia. That trip would roughly be 358 miles long and take 5 hours and 48 minutes.

I used the same point of reference, but this time I looked up directions to Fort Kent. That trip would roughly be 363 miles long and take 5 hours and 45 minutes.

I dunno, this is kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I'd be willing to spend a few hours in a car for that.

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My wife’s family has a camp in moosehead. Seems like a perfect place

I went down to GA to see it in 2017, and honestly, the beauty of these things is that it doesn't matter that much where you see it, as long as you're in the area of totality. It's amazing regardless.

We just found a random town with a village green in the totality band, and set up a blanket on the grass.

I would recommend not overthinking the venue, and I would actively avoid any place that's going to be particularly slammed/crowded, but I do suggest seeing it around other people--and I say that as someone who generally prefers solitude when taking in natural phenomena.

My favorite memory from the 2017 eclipse was that second when the sunlight completely dimmed, and there was this audible gasp from the few hundred people in the park, followed by this crescendo of a hooting cheer.

There was something really fundamentally human about that, and it stuck with me.

The freeway traffic getting back to Atlanta was horrible, but it was well worth it for the experience.

Yup it's the day after my birthday.

Historically, there's about a 60% chance of it being mostly cloudy, a 10% chance of it being partly cloudy, and a 30% chance of it being clear.

Plattsburgh, NY is right on the middle line. I went to college there. I think 2024 might be the time for me to go visit some old friends.

Been planning to head up to the county since 2017.

That being said, it'll probably be cloudy that day.

i drove down to the smokies in Tennessee to see it! so worth it. can’t wait to see it again