{"id":3398,"date":"2024-04-09T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2024-04-09T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:13:14","slug":"road-trip-2024-eclipse-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip 2024: Eclipse Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2017 I made a road trip with Alpha<\/a> to view an eclipse as it passed over Illinois.\u00a0 (We got tangled in traffic before we reached the path of totality, but it was a good trip overall.)<\/p>\n

When we got home I started planning our next eclipse trip, so that pesky traffic wouldn’t prevent me from seeing totality.\u00a0 Enter the six-year plan leading up to the latest eclipse in 2024, with the path of totality passing over Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n

\"eclipse<\/a>
NASA’s map of the eclipse’s path<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We arrived a couple of days before the eclipse, and left the day after.\u00a0 Traffic would not be a problem this time.\u00a0 We had hotel rooms, cameras, snacks, and chairs.<\/p>\n

The one thing you can’t control is the weather.\u00a0 It was cloudy.<\/p>\n

Most of the path of totality was cloudy, as a matter of fact.\u00a0 A relatively short swath from Vermont to the Atlantic was mostly clear, but the rest of the path had varying levels of poor weather, including some nasty storms.<\/p>\n

We eked by with a mostly cloudy experience, which had a pleasant side-effect: filtering wasn’t required for most of the time.<\/p>\n

\"Approaching<\/a>
The one artificially filtered picture I took. The rest were filtered by the cloud deck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"landscape<\/a>
During peak totality the sun and moon were completely obscured by clouds, so I took a few photos of the landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"solar<\/a>
The clouds thinned out just enough during totality for me to catch a glimpse of what appears to be the corona, just before the moon slid out of the way. It could also just be glow from terrestrial clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"border<\/a>
As totality came to an end, we could momentarily see the border between darkness and light over the Canadian side of Niagara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"sun<\/a>
The clouds add some drama to the scene as the sun slides out from behind the moon again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"more<\/a>
A few minutes post-totality, the moon’s shadow leaves a Cheshire-cat-like visage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2017 I made a road trip with Alpha to view an eclipse as it passed over Illinois.\u00a0 (We got tangled in traffic before we reached the path of totality, but it was a good trip overall.) When we got home I started planning our next eclipse trip, so that pesky traffic wouldn’t prevent … Continue reading “Road Trip 2024: Eclipse Edition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214],"tags":[374,858,375],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel","tag-eclipse","tag-niagara-falls","tag-solar-eclipse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-SO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}