Total Solar Eclipse 2017

[sheepherder]

Sunday paper had a couple column inches about the eclipse. Seems NASA will launch a plane to observe the total eclipse in Oregon. But it can't follow the eclipse across the nation - because the shadow will be traveling at 2,400 mph...

The US is only about that wide...So the event will only last slightly over 3 hours [I think], from sliver to sliver...With the totality only two and a half minutes long...

There's a public park [no trees] near me, three football filelds long where I walk my dogs...I was thinking of watching it there...If it's overcast/cloudy/raining [it's rained every day for the last ten days] I'll watch on TV...

The map shows the totality occurring at ~2:30pm EDT at my location. I'm thinking of taking my welding helmet lens with me to watch it. They're fairly cheap for a 2" x 4" lens.