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Have you ever seen a full solar ellipse?

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Posted - April 4, 2017
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  • 6124
    Yes.  Years and years ago during school.  We made those viewers, squares with pin pricks in them, to see it.
      April 4, 2017 6:17 AM MDT
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  • No, just partial ones. It was the strangest thing. The lighting became all weird for a brief moment as if I were on a different planet. 
      April 4, 2017 9:43 AM MDT
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  • 283
    No, but hope to later this year. I have seen some close to a full though.
      April 4, 2017 9:58 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    Assuming the sun is orbiting some more massive body (eg: the center of our galaxy), I would assume the orbit is elliptic. but I certainly have not seen it.
      April 4, 2017 11:03 AM MDT
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  • 44647
    All orbits are elliptical.
      April 4, 2017 12:05 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Think so.. i was a little kid back then.. at school.. may have seen another... hard to remember lol memory not as good as it once was
      April 4, 2017 3:46 PM MDT
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  • 44647
    I was hoping you would answer this. (Read the question again.)
      April 5, 2017 8:11 AM MDT
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  • 6124
    So, you purposefully used the two "l"s and left out the "c?"  I thought it was just a typo.  Most of us aren't Randy ya know. ;-) This post was edited by Harry at April 5, 2017 6:10 PM MDT
      April 5, 2017 12:41 PM MDT
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  • 44647
    Of course...I am surprised Randy didn't catch it.
      April 5, 2017 3:53 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    I was in Atlanta for the eclipse in 1985. I forget what they call it. It was the kind that is almost total but you can still see the corona and it is the most incredible TWINKLE! It only lasted a second.
      April 4, 2017 7:45 PM MDT
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  • 44647
    I remember that one. I took the day off to go to an Army base to observe it, but it was cloudy. My wife recorded it.
      April 5, 2017 8:09 AM MDT
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  • 53520
    No, but I've seen:

    a tilde-death-do-us-part,

    a don't fire untilde you see the whites of their eyes,

    an untilde the end of time,

    a sailor manning the tillder of a ship.


    (Don't mind me: I rarely pay much attention to ellipses.)

    This post was edited by Randy D at April 5, 2017 6:03 PM MDT
      April 5, 2017 11:38 AM MDT
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  • 44647
    Grrr.
      April 5, 2017 3:55 PM MDT
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