Harvey-
Nice shots! I agree they did an excellent job of planning and running things at
the school during the eclipse. I talked to many other people there that felt
the same way. Where exactly were you camped on the fields?
Eric
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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 5:13:24 PM
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Subject: [SAS] Re: Eclipse
Eric,
We were at the Long Cr School also. When I started scouting a year ago, I
thought no one would know about this little logging town that has lost it's
mill. ... The population quadrupled, with 150% of the local population on the
school grounds. (http://www.easternoregoneclipse.com/about-us.html) The school
and the community had things well planned for an event that had every right to
go to chaos.
It took us four hours longer to get home than it did to go down there.
Umatilla County (Pendleton) was well organized on Hwy 395, but getting to
Washington on I-82 OR on US-730 was bad.
I had a list of photos to take when total hit, but was so blown away that I
didn't get a third through it. The shortest 1' 59" ever!
Here a couple that I've put together.
Harvey Brown
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a
gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and
think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our
perspective tends to be. - Douglas Adams
Neil deGrasse Tyson<https://www.facebook.com/neildegrassetyson>: "The good
thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Strang, Eric
<estrang@xxxxxxx<mailto:estrang@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi all-
I ended up spending the weekend in Long Creek, Oregon, a tiny town of 200
people 90 miles south of Pendleton. We camped out on the athletic fields of the
school with nice green grass. They kept the gym open so we had restrooms
including showers, also hot meals in the cafeteria, and some guest speakers
during the day. Met some really cool people and overall just had a great time.
Probably 200 plus people camping there so we basically doubled the town's
population! The eclipse was by [cid:818a6d50-3562-4f85-b4d8-0d60659e7bd7]
far the greatest spectacle I've ever seen in all my years of doing astronomy.
The drive back was not as fun as the traffic was horrible, nearly all the way
to the Tri-Cities. Image taken with a 400mm ED lens.
Eric