I'm gonna do my eclipse experience as a quasi-gig report, bc I think that form fits
me and some friends had originally planned a ttrpg session tonight (before we knew there would be an eclipse) but that uh.. didn't happen
none of us actually got glasses in time (they were sold out everywhere) but I did make a camera obscura
a local telescope was going to be opened to the public to watch the eclipse through, so we were planning to go to that
HOWEVER
when we arrived (after a pretty good dinner at the hospital) there were so many people
like so so so many
I can't stress how many people there were
so we left again to the building where a friend ives, bc she did have glasses
this building has a big lawn in the right direction and we went outside with half a dozen people to watch there
my camera obscura worked much better than expected!!
the group next to us saw us passing around one (1) pair of glasses for 7 people and gave us a spare set they had!
the more it progressed the more people came to watch on the lawn and it was honestly a very nice community feeling
one more set of glasses arrived, people brought grapes, we got a colander and made images of the sun that way, it was all a lot of fun
there's trees on this lawn, so whenever people got the glasses they did this little wiggle to find a spot where there were no leafs blocking the sight
the entire group moved slowly in the path of the sun actually, it was quite fun to watch
our group were among the first to arrive and the last to leave and it was great
on top of that we managed to find a replacement date for our ttrpg session only two weeks away????? this was honestly the wildest thing about the whole evening
