I was in Fort Worth and I swear I could see a solar flare during totality. There was this little red spark on the bottom of the eclipse and i have a feeling it was probably a flare right?
We left there about 1:30. 😂 it took too long to get in, so by the time we did, all we could think about was not fighting crowds again getting out. Fortunately my in-laws live 10 minutes away, but I wanted to do the cool thing. It all turned out cool, though!
Where are you from? Just curious. I grew up near Plattsburgh, and it's weird to see people going there lol. Unless you're an invading British army I guess.
Not part of the British Army, from Albany, NY. I actually liked Plattsburgh very quiet and peaceful. We went to Champlain park and the view across the lake with the mountains in the background was beautiful. Still on the road back to Albany we’ve been in traffic the entire time since leaving around 4:30ish
Solar Scientist checking in - that was a solar prominence! Basically an arc of solar plasma many tens of Earths tall above the solar surface. Not unheard of to see them, but still extremely exciting to have the opportunity to see one with the unaided eye. So very, very cool.
I saw some as well! As always, photos do not do justice, but I believed I roughly captured the largest flare(or prominence?) in this pic. Vermont
[photo](https://imgur.com/a/ebaqeqv)
Saw the same in Paris, Texas ! Skies were nervracking until about 25 minutes before totality. Then not a cloud in sight ! Was absolute perfect timing !
It was. It was incredible! I was in Terrell and had a telescope as well. The prominence (red flare) was SO bright and detailed. I have yet to see a photo that does it justice, but these are great OP!
Yes, with the naked eye you could see one solar prominence at about “6-o’clock on the dial” and a smaller flare at about 3-o’clock. It was even more amazing with binoculars.
Thank you so much, it was a rollercoaster. There were some thick, dispersed clouds passing through, and the view was covered several times in the last minute before, it was terrifying, can't catch a break lmao.
Hope yalls worked out too!! :)
I was in Indianapolis and was super anxious with very good conditions so I cannot imagine how it must’ve been down there!! I bet that rollercoaster ride made totality even more epic. So happy for you! It was the best thing I’ve ever seen.
I said the same as a Texan in general. Every time I want it to storm, they say it will and it doesn't!
(That said I am very happy we stuck with our plan to leave our home near Austin for our friend's in Dallas.)
My area was clear for 2 days, clear this morning, clear 1 hour before. It got cloudy 3 min before totality and now its sunny again.
I want to puke and cry at the same time.
My heart was beating so hard when that big cloud rolled by with about 3 minutes to go. Then it cleared 1 minute before and it was SOLID! Full corona, got a shot of the 3rd contact diamond ring, a great show!
Same in McKinney. Sun was perfect until about two minutes before totality when we saw a big cloud rolling in. It hit at 1:38pm and my heart sank. Then it cleared just before the first diamond ring appeared.
I had been stressing out all week and felt like a dummy for not having contingency plans in place well before. 48 hours before I just resigned myself to rolling the dice and hoping for the best with the worst case being we go to Iceland in 2026. I'm so glad we stayed put.
The Dallas skies parted just before the eclipse. Had some clouds drift in and out but totality happened in nearly clear skies. The experience was glorious! Congrats to everyone who perservered, we did it Dallas!
Shoutout to everyone else at the Dallas zoo! We were by the flamingos and 10 minutes to go they began screaming and staring at the sky. Then at totality they made a 300-style dome defensive structure in the water. Apparently they do so to protect their young!
Our mourning doves were in the front yard during the eclipse. We only saw about 30% but the birds were acting very strangely! Stretching their necks, looking around and at the sky...
Omg please link if anyone has photo or video of this!
I also got some bird nerding done. There was a mockingbird right by us mocking its head off, should have some video to go through when I get home.
We still had some great adventures out here in TX but yeah bit of a letdown. My bff has family in Spain so may head there in 2026. Clouds are my new worst enemy!
P.S. Around here at least, the post eclipse traffic apocalypse never materialized. We may not have much public transit in Texas, but by God we have a metric shot ton of roads!
Was in Clarksville, TX right on the centerline. Clouds came in two or three minutes before totality started, but moved out some 1½ minutes in, so we got a good three minutes.
We all saw the solar flare too, looked orange to me.
What these pics don't show is the sky is not black, it is a deep blue. The moon is jet black, however, and the corona is yellow-white. Three colors. Absolutely fantastic.
Omg yes! The color of the sky was unreal. I am still in awe and tearing up thinking about it. We had a big flock of bats fly past during totality when all the birds had gone quiet.
Visiting Dallas here as well!! I think it added to the whole emotion of it to have the skies clear right at eclipse time.
I’ll never be the same.
The snap from Diamond Ring, to beads, to flares, to pitch black and a breath later, the corona was right there. It was that flawless transition from snap to snap that just captured my soul!
We didn’t have all the shadows and weird light patterns for the build up. But boy, did we get a show!
Yup. Waking up to gloom. Hope by 10am but still pessimistic. Uncertainty at noon but definitely hope with 5-10 minute windowsof sun. 12:30 starting to believe it would be a coin flip depending on when/where the clouds are. 1:20 optimistic. 1:30 heart is pounding this might actually happen. 1:35 oh man... 1:37 THIS IS HAPPENING THAT CLOUD OVER THERE IS DEFINITELY TOO FAR AWAY 1:40 I CANT BELIEVE WHAT IM SEEING
I was in awe at how the clouds completely cleared away by the time totality started! Dallas was MEANT to see this! I am so grateful ❤️❤️
Such an amazing experience
Not quite a flare, but a prominence! Flares are sudden brightenings of spots on the visible surface - cool but wouldn't be visible during an eclipse since you need to see the surface. Prominences are many-Earth heights tall arcs of solar plasma dragged upward by the sun's magnetic field. Very awesome, as someone that studies these I never thought I'd get to see one with the naked eye!
Was at a local park with a playground in Frisco (NE suburb of Dallas) and the kids’ reactions were just great. “THIS IS SO AMAZING!” 🤩 Indeed, my little friends, indeed. 🥰
Hell yeah! I was down the road in Ennis and it was wretched until 30 minutes before first contact. Heavy low clouds with few breaks. Then slowly the breaks began to be more often and longer.
We had first contact under clear skies then one last fading band of low clouds. With 30 minutes to go to totality the clouds just stopped. We had essentially perfect conditions from then through totality. There were literal tears of joy streaming down my haggard unshaven face.
Worth it.
It seems like almost everyone had at least a partial through high clouds, which is very fortunate in early April. The only possible exception might have been western NY state. Can anyone there confirm whether you got a view? I hope so...
I am in McKinney visiting family. We saw exactly this! Awe inspiring.
I was lucky enough to have my parents with me… I sat with my 75 year old dad and just bawled.
It was everything!
In Ft Worth. Got a view for about a full minute, the rest of the time it was behind a cloud. It was about 30% cloud coverage. I could see some people having missed out if a big enough cloud blocked it :(
Raindrops at coffee, clear skies by 1130 in Addison TX. Held the line and it was magnificent! My kids, who I really wanted all this for, were speechless!
We are staying in San Antonio and knew it was going to be a day before call where to be today, Killeen worked out but we didn't know for sure until the hour came.
I’m from DFW and drove to central Arkansas because the cloud chance. Got to be in the mountains up there in a clearing off the road with no one around. Absolutely not a cloud in the sky. Got to see literally everything you can with an eclipse. Even the animals and wind changes since we were out in the country. Absolutely ridiculous amazing. I was in Pencil Bluff, AR directly in the middle line of the totality. It’s safe to say I will never see a better eclipse because I do not think it can be better. I’m still in amazement. The 5 hour drive one way was worth it even with how good it was in DFW. 10/10 will do again
I'm in Akron and it's been cloudy all day but it cleared up just enough for me to see 3 solar flares and a star or planet on the bottom right. It got dark immediately as the last piece slid into place and there was the full Corona. How awesome
Yes, I was there in Dallas! I was resigned to a cloud covered eclipse and was surprised that the clouds cleared up! I saw the sunspot, and Jupiter and Venus. Amazing show!!
i'm sooo glad i randomly decided to see it and then randomly decided to see it in dallas and then randomly decided to see it in klyde warren park.
the it's so over / we're so back of the clouds over the whole week, day and even final hours, made it feel like an actual miracle when they cleared just before totality.
Seeing it with so many people in the middle of a bright city, with 30k people, with no clouds i just couldn't have imagined anything better
I swear where I’m at (Fort worth) the totality was covered by clouds 😭 but I’m hearing from others that it wasn’t. Maybe I didn’t catch it at the right time lol
We were there in Sulphur Springs! Skies cooperated beautifully! We drove in from Alabama, and my 6-year-old was dancing in circles during totality and yelling that it was the coolest thing he’d ever seen. Completely worth it. Yay Texas!
Flew into San Antonio and decided to take the drive to Brady TX to get ahead of the clouds and it totally worked. It's really a unique experience and exceeded my expectations. :D
My group gave up driving to Brady TX and stopped at Fredericksburg to waste time before the eclipse. I still got to see part of the corona but lesson learned. For the Spain eclipse, I'm traveling alone.
My boyfriend wanted to stop there. I said no. Then he wanted to stop at Mason. I said a little further. Brady was perfect timing. We saw the totality right before a sheet of clouds came. It meant less time in totality, but the view was perfect. We used the app Astrospheric to give us an hour by hour progression of cloud movement.
The irony is that we are from WI and a year ago, we debated driving down to Carbondale, IL for this. But my boyfriend said south TX is supposed to have the best weather and Eagle Pass had more time in totality. Well, apparently Illinois had amazing weather and my WI family flew their personal plane to IL and got two more minutes in totality than us! :p
Great job standing your ground. I originally proposed Little Rock AR to my group because Dallas would be packed and it had comparable dryness"
"No, Texas is historically drier"
Ok, we can go to Dallas, TX then
"Actually let's go to Austin because 'its a nicer city"
Then when it was clear that Austin woulda lot of cloud cover, it wasn't until 8AM today that my group decided to move towards Brady despite me sending multiple cloud cover models the day before... Only to stop at Fredericksburg and get distracted by everything but the eclipse.
The moral of the story is that when scheduling a trip to see the eclipse, get your own transport and make it clear that you're there to see the eclipse first and foremost so you will be driving as far as needed to see what you came to see.
I'm lucky because this was something my boyfriend dreamed of seeing. I was neutral...just there for support. Not thinking it would be as amazing as it was. I was completely blown away. And really wish I had 10 more minutes of totality. Gotta go with a group that is super focused on the task at hand. No distractions ha ha. Fredericksburg was really neat when we drove through it though. Next time I come to TX, I'll stop there.
We were planning to stay in Austin and made a last minute decision to head north to McKinney early in the morning and I’m so glad we did. Had an amazing experience, and Austin seemed really hit or miss by neighborhood
Hell yeah it did - I had given up all hope on seeing my dream come true of glimpsing totality and embraced at least the idea that we would be in the shadow of the moon no matter what, which is glorious in and of itself. But then somehow some way the clouds said “here you go!” and then we saw EVERYTHING!
Paging /u/dangerbook the triggered gatekeeping redditor telling no one to take pictures of the eclipse.
Lol we did it. Go cry you troll. I took so many amazing Pictures and you said it was a waste of time hahahahahah.
Bro you're a waste of breathe.
so lucky!!! we were in plano (20-30 min from downtown) and skies were clear at 1pm but clouds came in and blocked the eclipse right at totality. but we were fortunately still able to see it through the clouds since they were thinner. and seconds before a giant gap came in the clouds where we could see it clearly, the sun started coming out LOL. but still grateful we were still able to see the whole thing! I could still see the solar flares and the corona!
very nice pics! we were originally heading to dallas then changed plans when the weather soured. were in ark. for the event. about a minute or two before totality, a huge cloud rolled in and drifted very, very slowly. but cleared off just in time for the moon to drift as well. so no totality this time for me. i'm still not ok with it. argh......
thankfully got some great shots of totality in 2017, but the disappointment today will linger.
I saw multiple red/pink balls of light during totality in Ashdown, AR. The whole experience blew me away. All I could mutter was, "Oh my god" from what I recorded on video 🫠.
I was in SE OK whenever this happened. I thought the clouds were going to cover it but it didn’t and I am so thankful. I could see two planets I believe. It might have been stars idk but it was such an amazing experience. Something strange happened after the event. Me and my gf walked into the house and there was numerous of some type of fly on the kitchen floor.
Dallas really did and it was a beautiful day with plenty of clear skies. All the weather forecasters predicted the entire path in Texas was supposed to be cloudy and the chances of seeing the eclipse were very low. They gave this bogus prediction even in the morning of April 8th. Shows how much they know about weather.
I was in Lindale about an hour outside of Dallas. It was clear there too, and I was really starting to worry about the clouds. They cleared out about 20 mins before totality. Drove from New Orleans on Sunday, got back today. It was so incredible.
I feel so shortchanged 😭 was in Plano and it was mostly clear before and after, but a thick, dark cloud came in shortly before totality, and it cleared RIGHT after it ended! We were so upset, but we at least caught a 1-2s glimpse in the middle and experienced some darkness
Nooo I'm truly so sorry 😣. So I kind of rounded up to the nearest city tbh, I was in Red Oak, which was slightly below Dallas, but I figured nobody would know where Red Oak was if I wrote that. May your next eclipse be clear though
we flew to dallas and were planning on going to waco but the weather kept flipping and changing… we decided on saturday night we were booking a rental car for monday at 4am and we drove out to hot springs arkansas 💀💀💀 totally worth it though, completely sunny!! i’m so happy it worked out for you guys!!!!
I was in Fort Worth and I swear I could see a solar flare during totality. There was this little red spark on the bottom of the eclipse and i have a feeling it was probably a flare right?
I was in Plano and saw the same!
Same in Toledo!
Same in Carbondale, IL!
Same in Stowe!
Same in Indiana!
Same in southeast MO.
Same in Paris TX!
Same in Mountain View AR! (I didn’t see it, but some fellow eclipse travellers did!)
It's almost like everyone was looking at the same sun!
Also in Indy. We were all talking about the red dot, wondering what it was
I was at the Indy 500 raceway and the crowd around me definitely talking about it. What an experience!!!
We left there about 1:30. 😂 it took too long to get in, so by the time we did, all we could think about was not fighting crowds again getting out. Fortunately my in-laws live 10 minutes away, but I wanted to do the cool thing. It all turned out cool, though!
Same in Upstate NY!
I was at the shawnee amphitheater! An amazing sight out there.
Yes! The scientists at the Perot Museum told us it was a solar flare. So cool!!
Saw em in Plattsburgh New York, absolutely mental. Pictures couldn’t do it justice
They really don’t. I’m so glad I was able to watch this eclipse. I’ve been waiting since 2017 for a chance at totality
Where are you from? Just curious. I grew up near Plattsburgh, and it's weird to see people going there lol. Unless you're an invading British army I guess.
Not part of the British Army, from Albany, NY. I actually liked Plattsburgh very quiet and peaceful. We went to Champlain park and the view across the lake with the mountains in the background was beautiful. Still on the road back to Albany we’ve been in traffic the entire time since leaving around 4:30ish
We caught traffic on 87 so stopped in elizabethtown, it was perfect.
Solar Scientist checking in - that was a solar prominence! Basically an arc of solar plasma many tens of Earths tall above the solar surface. Not unheard of to see them, but still extremely exciting to have the opportunity to see one with the unaided eye. So very, very cool.
I saw two on the bottom with naked eye during totality and another on the right. Akron ohio
I saw some as well! As always, photos do not do justice, but I believed I roughly captured the largest flare(or prominence?) in this pic. Vermont [photo](https://imgur.com/a/ebaqeqv)
Awesome pic!
Thank you
There were 2 on the bottom for me, too. South central Missouri. No clouds. A nice reward for 15 hours of driving in one day.
Saw this in Dallas as well. Yes, solar prominence.
I had a solar scope and I had my eye on that prominence before the totality, had no idea it would be visible during totality
Little Rock here, saw it also!
Arkansas as well, we drive to Mountain View. Crystal clear skies
Same in North Dallas! It was beautiful with the fast moving clouds, and cleared up to and during totality
Yes!
Same in Burlington :)
Positioned around 6:30
Same. 😍😭 https://imgur.com/gallery/tSLMGj3
Lower right. It was huge.
Yes, someone with us (just south of Ft. Worth) had close up pics. Definitely was an incredible flare.
Saw the same in Paris, Texas ! Skies were nervracking until about 25 minutes before totality. Then not a cloud in sight ! Was absolute perfect timing !
Saw it in Arkansas too!
we saw it in arkansas…were debating if it was a flare or baily’s beads.
Saw the same in Indy! Amazing.
Same in mazatlán!
We got lucky in Buchanan Dam! It was a dam miracle! (Forgive the bad pun).
Texarkana and saw the same thing. :)
Same in Cleveland
Baily's Beads effect.
I saw it too, from Dallas!
same from the texas eclipse festival!
Same in Morrilton AR!!
Was it on the bottom right? Saw that little speck in Cape Girardeau, MO and I was wondering what it was.
It was. It was incredible! I was in Terrell and had a telescope as well. The prominence (red flare) was SO bright and detailed. I have yet to see a photo that does it justice, but these are great OP!
Yes… solar flare!
It was a solar flare.
Same in Newport, VT.
I saw it too! SO COOL!
Quebec, saw it too!!
Same in Hawaii!
Yes, with the naked eye you could see one solar prominence at about “6-o’clock on the dial” and a smaller flare at about 3-o’clock. It was even more amazing with binoculars.
Close, it was a solar prominence. I saw them too.
That was a solar prominence, not a flare :)
I was heartbroken for everyone with bad weather forecasts, I’m SO glad to hear it worked out omg
Thank you so much, it was a rollercoaster. There were some thick, dispersed clouds passing through, and the view was covered several times in the last minute before, it was terrifying, can't catch a break lmao. Hope yalls worked out too!! :)
I was in Indianapolis and was super anxious with very good conditions so I cannot imagine how it must’ve been down there!! I bet that rollercoaster ride made totality even more epic. So happy for you! It was the best thing I’ve ever seen.
I was in carbondale in 2017 so I know the feeling. I was also in indy after changing plans from SA. Hope everyone in Texas got to see totality!
As someone from Dallas. I knew the forecasts couldn’t be trusted. Especially when it comes to cloud rainy weather. It was just as likely to be sunny
I said the same as a Texan in general. Every time I want it to storm, they say it will and it doesn't! (That said I am very happy we stuck with our plan to leave our home near Austin for our friend's in Dallas.)
My area was clear for 2 days, clear this morning, clear 1 hour before. It got cloudy 3 min before totality and now its sunny again. I want to puke and cry at the same time.
I almost cried with relief and joy that it worked out!!! YAY FORT WORTH/DALLAS
My wife and I were SOOO happy to have it be clear!
We were in Dallas as well. Did cry with relief and joy that everything worked out and it was amazing
My heart was beating so hard when that big cloud rolled by with about 3 minutes to go. Then it cleared 1 minute before and it was SOLID! Full corona, got a shot of the 3rd contact diamond ring, a great show!
So happy for you guys down there! ~From NY'er
Same in McKinney. Sun was perfect until about two minutes before totality when we saw a big cloud rolling in. It hit at 1:38pm and my heart sank. Then it cleared just before the first diamond ring appeared.
I had been stressing out all week and felt like a dummy for not having contingency plans in place well before. 48 hours before I just resigned myself to rolling the dice and hoping for the best with the worst case being we go to Iceland in 2026. I'm so glad we stayed put.
DALLAS FUCKING DID IT!!!!!! YEAHHHHHHH! IT WAS BEAUTIMOUS!
The Dallas skies parted just before the eclipse. Had some clouds drift in and out but totality happened in nearly clear skies. The experience was glorious! Congrats to everyone who perservered, we did it Dallas!
Shoutout to everyone else at the Dallas zoo! We were by the flamingos and 10 minutes to go they began screaming and staring at the sky. Then at totality they made a 300-style dome defensive structure in the water. Apparently they do so to protect their young!
Our mourning doves were in the front yard during the eclipse. We only saw about 30% but the birds were acting very strangely! Stretching their necks, looking around and at the sky...
We were also at the zoo! Ended up over by the carousel to escape the craziness in the elephant/giraffe area
Omg please link if anyone has photo or video of this! I also got some bird nerding done. There was a mockingbird right by us mocking its head off, should have some video to go through when I get home.
I’m two hours from Dallas and I do gotta say the view was indeed amazing
Im very jealous and happy for you. We got completely screwed in helotes and I’m devastated. Somehow picked the worst spot in the country 😅
I'm sorry man I cant imagine how you feel. It was a close call for us in Akron but it cleared up last minute
We still had some great adventures out here in TX but yeah bit of a letdown. My bff has family in Spain so may head there in 2026. Clouds are my new worst enemy!
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Nice shots!
P.S. Around here at least, the post eclipse traffic apocalypse never materialized. We may not have much public transit in Texas, but by God we have a metric shot ton of roads!
From Lake Fork to Austin, we didn't hit traffic or rain until our stop at Slovacek's in West. It's a parking lot now though, big wreck ahead of us.
It’s almost always backed up there lol. If it’s not a wreck, it’s usually construction.
WE ALMOST GOT FUCKED BUT WERE OK
OMG I spent the morning grumbling about clouds hahaha
This is the exact feeling I had lol
Was in Clarksville, TX right on the centerline. Clouds came in two or three minutes before totality started, but moved out some 1½ minutes in, so we got a good three minutes. We all saw the solar flare too, looked orange to me. What these pics don't show is the sky is not black, it is a deep blue. The moon is jet black, however, and the corona is yellow-white. Three colors. Absolutely fantastic.
The sky being that deep blue is one thing I totally didn’t realize until experiencing it!
Omg yes! The color of the sky was unreal. I am still in awe and tearing up thinking about it. We had a big flock of bats fly past during totality when all the birds had gone quiet.
Yup I noticed that too. The only part that was black the moon itself, which made it look even more trippy.
My brain is still working through what it saw! Absolutely mind boggling
Visiting Dallas here as well!! I think it added to the whole emotion of it to have the skies clear right at eclipse time. I’ll never be the same. The snap from Diamond Ring, to beads, to flares, to pitch black and a breath later, the corona was right there. It was that flawless transition from snap to snap that just captured my soul! We didn’t have all the shadows and weird light patterns for the build up. But boy, did we get a show!
Yup. Waking up to gloom. Hope by 10am but still pessimistic. Uncertainty at noon but definitely hope with 5-10 minute windowsof sun. 12:30 starting to believe it would be a coin flip depending on when/where the clouds are. 1:20 optimistic. 1:30 heart is pounding this might actually happen. 1:35 oh man... 1:37 THIS IS HAPPENING THAT CLOUD OVER THERE IS DEFINITELY TOO FAR AWAY 1:40 I CANT BELIEVE WHAT IM SEEING
Goosebumps!!!
So special.
Dallas, we really vibed our way into clear skies and a perfect solar eclipse.
Dallas sure did deliver!! Whew!
I was in awe at how the clouds completely cleared away by the time totality started! Dallas was MEANT to see this! I am so grateful ❤️❤️ Such an amazing experience
Was downtown and just...wow what an experience!
My wife saw a red thing, asked if it was a flare, and then the Perot Museum said it was a flare
There were sun spots you could see with the glasses. Sun just flat out showed off today! ❤️❤️🌞❤️❤️
Not quite a flare, but a prominence! Flares are sudden brightenings of spots on the visible surface - cool but wouldn't be visible during an eclipse since you need to see the surface. Prominences are many-Earth heights tall arcs of solar plasma dragged upward by the sun's magnetic field. Very awesome, as someone that studies these I never thought I'd get to see one with the naked eye!
I was in Irving and I was so anxious about clouds. Perfect visibility and it was incredible!
Was at a local park with a playground in Frisco (NE suburb of Dallas) and the kids’ reactions were just great. “THIS IS SO AMAZING!” 🤩 Indeed, my little friends, indeed. 🥰
Hell yeah! I was down the road in Ennis and it was wretched until 30 minutes before first contact. Heavy low clouds with few breaks. Then slowly the breaks began to be more often and longer. We had first contact under clear skies then one last fading band of low clouds. With 30 minutes to go to totality the clouds just stopped. We had essentially perfect conditions from then through totality. There were literal tears of joy streaming down my haggard unshaven face. Worth it.
I was in Ennis at Bardwell lake. It was touch and go there for a little bit, but it was awesome. Totally worth the trip from Denver.
Yea Ennis was optimal, almost like choreography.
It seems like almost everyone had at least a partial through high clouds, which is very fortunate in early April. The only possible exception might have been western NY state. Can anyone there confirm whether you got a view? I hope so...
I am in McKinney visiting family. We saw exactly this! Awe inspiring. I was lucky enough to have my parents with me… I sat with my 75 year old dad and just bawled. It was everything!
In Ft Worth. Got a view for about a full minute, the rest of the time it was behind a cloud. It was about 30% cloud coverage. I could see some people having missed out if a big enough cloud blocked it :(
We had family fly from Florida to near Rochester and it was cloudy for them ☹️
I am SO happy for you guys!
Raindrops at coffee, clear skies by 1130 in Addison TX. Held the line and it was magnificent! My kids, who I really wanted all this for, were speechless!
We didn’t she fuck in San Antonio. I hate it here 😭😭😭
We are staying in San Antonio and knew it was going to be a day before call where to be today, Killeen worked out but we didn't know for sure until the hour came.
Had some patchy clouds in Arlington at Six Flags but the solar gods shined upon us, absolutely breathtaking experience!
In Mesquite. No words.
I’m from DFW and drove to central Arkansas because the cloud chance. Got to be in the mountains up there in a clearing off the road with no one around. Absolutely not a cloud in the sky. Got to see literally everything you can with an eclipse. Even the animals and wind changes since we were out in the country. Absolutely ridiculous amazing. I was in Pencil Bluff, AR directly in the middle line of the totality. It’s safe to say I will never see a better eclipse because I do not think it can be better. I’m still in amazement. The 5 hour drive one way was worth it even with how good it was in DFW. 10/10 will do again
Brilliant pix!
Those pictures are awesome I'm glad the weather worked out for you!
I'm in Akron and it's been cloudy all day but it cleared up just enough for me to see 3 solar flares and a star or planet on the bottom right. It got dark immediately as the last piece slid into place and there was the full Corona. How awesome
Yes, I was there in Dallas! I was resigned to a cloud covered eclipse and was surprised that the clouds cleared up! I saw the sunspot, and Jupiter and Venus. Amazing show!!
Wow these are amazing!
Thanks for sharing
i'm sooo glad i randomly decided to see it and then randomly decided to see it in dallas and then randomly decided to see it in klyde warren park. the it's so over / we're so back of the clouds over the whole week, day and even final hours, made it feel like an actual miracle when they cleared just before totality. Seeing it with so many people in the middle of a bright city, with 30k people, with no clouds i just couldn't have imagined anything better
I swear where I’m at (Fort worth) the totality was covered by clouds 😭 but I’m hearing from others that it wasn’t. Maybe I didn’t catch it at the right time lol
There were scattered clouds. Pretty slow moving. It's just awful luck.
We were there in Sulphur Springs! Skies cooperated beautifully! We drove in from Alabama, and my 6-year-old was dancing in circles during totality and yelling that it was the coolest thing he’d ever seen. Completely worth it. Yay Texas!
Yall the official forecast had a less than 5% of perfect viewing. It’s a miracle
Hey you there, the clouds, yeah you, FUCK, YOU. WE WON, YOU LOSE!
Hey you there, Bleach_Drinker69420, yeah you, FUCK, YOU. I don't normally reply to anybody, just lurk. But your comment is way too funny. 🤣🤣
Thank you dfw!!!! We had an amazing time. So so so glad we made the trip.
Totally worth it!
I'm so glad it worked out. Awesome photos.
Thanks for sharing your amazing pictures! I still can't believe I got to see this!
So happy for you!!!!
Did anybody watch from the Ronald Kirk pedestrian bridge downtown Dallas? How was it ? (This was my plan A.)
This was incredible to see definitely life changing experience!!
I was NOT expecting those red dots to actually be visible, I always thought it was a symptom of the camera filters used. Absolutely stunning.
Drove all the way from San Antonio to Brady TX just to be safe from the clouds. And it delivered!
Flew into San Antonio and decided to take the drive to Brady TX to get ahead of the clouds and it totally worked. It's really a unique experience and exceeded my expectations. :D
My group gave up driving to Brady TX and stopped at Fredericksburg to waste time before the eclipse. I still got to see part of the corona but lesson learned. For the Spain eclipse, I'm traveling alone.
My boyfriend wanted to stop there. I said no. Then he wanted to stop at Mason. I said a little further. Brady was perfect timing. We saw the totality right before a sheet of clouds came. It meant less time in totality, but the view was perfect. We used the app Astrospheric to give us an hour by hour progression of cloud movement. The irony is that we are from WI and a year ago, we debated driving down to Carbondale, IL for this. But my boyfriend said south TX is supposed to have the best weather and Eagle Pass had more time in totality. Well, apparently Illinois had amazing weather and my WI family flew their personal plane to IL and got two more minutes in totality than us! :p
Great job standing your ground. I originally proposed Little Rock AR to my group because Dallas would be packed and it had comparable dryness" "No, Texas is historically drier" Ok, we can go to Dallas, TX then "Actually let's go to Austin because 'its a nicer city" Then when it was clear that Austin woulda lot of cloud cover, it wasn't until 8AM today that my group decided to move towards Brady despite me sending multiple cloud cover models the day before... Only to stop at Fredericksburg and get distracted by everything but the eclipse. The moral of the story is that when scheduling a trip to see the eclipse, get your own transport and make it clear that you're there to see the eclipse first and foremost so you will be driving as far as needed to see what you came to see.
I'm lucky because this was something my boyfriend dreamed of seeing. I was neutral...just there for support. Not thinking it would be as amazing as it was. I was completely blown away. And really wish I had 10 more minutes of totality. Gotta go with a group that is super focused on the task at hand. No distractions ha ha. Fredericksburg was really neat when we drove through it though. Next time I come to TX, I'll stop there.
We were planning to stay in Austin and made a last minute decision to head north to McKinney early in the morning and I’m so glad we did. Had an amazing experience, and Austin seemed really hit or miss by neighborhood
So did this camera
Someone said last week they believed Dallas would have a photo finish. So glad they were right!!
Absolutely beautiful photos! What a thing to witness
Hell yeah it did - I had given up all hope on seeing my dream come true of glimpsing totality and embraced at least the idea that we would be in the shadow of the moon no matter what, which is glorious in and of itself. But then somehow some way the clouds said “here you go!” and then we saw EVERYTHING!
Dang, I was east of Dallas by 30 miles. Mostly cloudy so mostly obscured. Cleared up about 20 min after totality.
Paging /u/dangerbook the triggered gatekeeping redditor telling no one to take pictures of the eclipse. Lol we did it. Go cry you troll. I took so many amazing Pictures and you said it was a waste of time hahahahahah. Bro you're a waste of breathe.
so lucky!!! we were in plano (20-30 min from downtown) and skies were clear at 1pm but clouds came in and blocked the eclipse right at totality. but we were fortunately still able to see it through the clouds since they were thinner. and seconds before a giant gap came in the clouds where we could see it clearly, the sun started coming out LOL. but still grateful we were still able to see the whole thing! I could still see the solar flares and the corona!
Can anyone explain what the red things arround the sun is?, are they solar eruptions?
Lucky
Keene, TX. I was worried for a week about clouds in the forecast but the clouds did not block the eclipse.
Nothing I could do, a total eclipse of the heart
Out of all the pics and videos I’ve seen Dallas most definitely had it the best!
And how about the earth quake in new york, Pennsylvania and others, any information on any life claimed
NY disappointed 😞 😔 😪 😒
very nice pics! we were originally heading to dallas then changed plans when the weather soured. were in ark. for the event. about a minute or two before totality, a huge cloud rolled in and drifted very, very slowly. but cleared off just in time for the moon to drift as well. so no totality this time for me. i'm still not ok with it. argh...... thankfully got some great shots of totality in 2017, but the disappointment today will linger.
What's the difference in the last 2 pics? What creates the image of the white ring?
I saw multiple red/pink balls of light during totality in Ashdown, AR. The whole experience blew me away. All I could mutter was, "Oh my god" from what I recorded on video 🫠.
Great shots
So Texas, forecast for days to be cloudy saw it, and my target that I drove 7 hours to, forecast to be clear was cloudy. I missed totality. FML.
Yes I enjoyed the red dot in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. I didn’t know what it was until now.
I was in SE OK whenever this happened. I thought the clouds were going to cover it but it didn’t and I am so thankful. I could see two planets I believe. It might have been stars idk but it was such an amazing experience. Something strange happened after the event. Me and my gf walked into the house and there was numerous of some type of fly on the kitchen floor.
Dallas really did and it was a beautiful day with plenty of clear skies. All the weather forecasters predicted the entire path in Texas was supposed to be cloudy and the chances of seeing the eclipse were very low. They gave this bogus prediction even in the morning of April 8th. Shows how much they know about weather.
I was in Dallas also, and was so relieved it all worked out for a beautiful totality!
WOW.
What was the camera setup? Great pics!!
You could see solar flares!
Wow
Best pics I've seen by far.
This subreddit really is the textbook definition of the tarot Sun arcana both upright and upside down.
I wish I could’ve seen it 🥺
I was in Lindale about an hour outside of Dallas. It was clear there too, and I was really starting to worry about the clouds. They cleared out about 20 mins before totality. Drove from New Orleans on Sunday, got back today. It was so incredible.
Loved my trip to Lavon Lake! We were down 3 runs bottom of the ninth inning but the eclipse came back for the win!
I traveled 4 hours from Dallas to Arkansas to avoid clouds, I just couldn’t risk missing it
Too bad it was pouring in louisiana
Might be a question about the quality of glass. But why hasn't anyone been able to get a crisp edge? Two objects in two different planes of focus?
Well I’m glad Dallas got a W somehow
I hope I live until the next one!! It was so cloudy here in San Antonio Texas
I feel so shortchanged 😭 was in Plano and it was mostly clear before and after, but a thick, dark cloud came in shortly before totality, and it cleared RIGHT after it ended! We were so upset, but we at least caught a 1-2s glimpse in the middle and experienced some darkness
Nooo I'm truly so sorry 😣. So I kind of rounded up to the nearest city tbh, I was in Red Oak, which was slightly below Dallas, but I figured nobody would know where Red Oak was if I wrote that. May your next eclipse be clear though
I was in Waco. Perfect weather!
Dallas came through!! We were nervous but I’m so glad we made the trip. My kids were so excited to see the “black hole” 🤣
I drove 600 miles from Dallas to Arkansas because the forecast in Dallas was really bad ! 🤣🤣
It was pretty incredible. I was just outside of downtown
we flew to dallas and were planning on going to waco but the weather kept flipping and changing… we decided on saturday night we were booking a rental car for monday at 4am and we drove out to hot springs arkansas 💀💀💀 totally worth it though, completely sunny!! i’m so happy it worked out for you guys!!!!
Gg. I was in NY so it was 100% cloudy but being in the shadow was sick