Start looking for a boondocking site: eclipse (Aug 21 2017)

Our yard? Actually, it looks like we are about 30 miles south of the center line.
- East of Madras in the high desert. Great star watching too. But in August it will be pretty warm out there.
- Jef. Park (backpack in about 7 miles to a awesome alpine basin at the foot of Mt. Jefferson) Might be huckleberries then too. Also, good star gazing.
- The Oregon Coast. Might have fog or low clouds that time of year.
- Pine Mt. Observatory (won't be total, but I have no doubt there will be lots of star parties up there. Sun River Observatory too.

Thanks for posting. We were at Bryce Canyon back in May 2012 for the annular solar eclipse. A total eclipse will be even better. Based on the path, it looks like a good excuse for an August visit to Grand Teton, our favorite place.

I plan on being in Wyoming for this one.

Already have a nice spot picked out .....:)

This should be an easy one barring the weather. My wife, son (3 at the time), and I flew to Cabo San Lucas for the '91 eclipse. This one will be within a couple hours drive from our son's place in CO. Unfortunately, he's scheduled to be on deployment in '17. I'll Skype it to him. :D

LS

We're probably going to do my sister's house near Corvallis, OR and right in the middle of the path of totality. One of my kids lives in Beaverton and the other in Portland so they can also come down to "aunties" to see it through our hydrogen-alpha scope and other solar viewing goodies.

I wonder why you'd say a "boondocking site" for a solar eclipse? It's in the daytime so it's not as if you have to get away from city lights or the dome of light from a metropolitan area. All you really need is a relatively open horizon and clear skies.

Astro, you are right that it is visible in the daytime. But since it is an eclipse, it is also a new moon, which means that the stars at night are at their best. So that is why I want a boondocking site where I have completely dark skies and also a good vantage for the eclipse -- hopefully on a mountain top, where we can see the moon's shadow moving across the landscape. (That is what I have heard, anyway -- I have never actually seen an eclipse.)

profdant139 wrote:
(That is what I have heard, anyway -- I have never actually seen an eclipse.)

TGIF! Here's some Eclipse's for you see. :B Total Eclipse

profdant139 wrote:
Astro, you are right that it is visible in the daytime. But since it is an eclipse, it is also a new moon, which means that the stars at night are at their best. So that is why I want a boondocking site where I have completely dark skies and also a good vantage for the eclipse -- hopefully on a mountain top, where we can see the moon's shadow moving across the landscape. (That is what I have heard, anyway -- I have never actually seen an eclipse.)

What about Joshua Tree NP. Maybe Grand Canyon North Rim?

Patrick, the path of totality is very narrow -- both of those places are too far south.

As we are well out of the path of totality, I have elected to take our coach and bivouac at a location that will provide a quick escape to the east or west to find better weather at the right moment.

Matt