How much do flights like these cost?
You couldn't buy a ticket, invite and media only.
Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet
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#82I was on this flight, and it was incredible! AMA
What was it like EXITING totality? Was it like God said, let there be light?
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#83Re: Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet
#84Did people really call it the Great American Eclipse? I hadn't seen that phrase before this.
Yep, I think it was a Twitter trending topic.
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#85another cool one is the 70's one using the Concorde: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8qwk/the-concor...
Love that plane looks futuristic, reminds me of that scene from 2001: Space Odyssey
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#86Here is a picture I took after messing with the aperture and having quite a long lense https://i.stack.imgur.com/YvyJB.jpg from Robinsville NC. I swear you can see stars in there but could be wrong.
Mercury was visible to the naked eye, but I didn’t see much else. Was not really looking for stars though. Nice shot, btw.
Where I was watching (the "day tripper" area at Solartown in Madras, Oregon) there was one bright point source reasonably near the Sun which I assume was Mercury [1]. Overall the sky was brighter than I expected, and if there were stars visible there were not many of them.
There was also some idiot's drone buzzing above us, with red lights on two of its opposite arms and green lights on the other two arms.
[1] or rather, I assume it was the same planet you saw.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's just not factually true, as well - I fly on Alaska all the time and pick a seat each flight. Usually you get your choice from a restricted list on purchase and then can pick from a more open list on check-in.
Except... it happened to me. Maybe because I bought through American Airlines, since it was AA operated by Alaska.
For future reference, you can look up Alaska iterinary by AA e-ticket number and change seats directly on Alaskas website. I've done it a number of times
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mercury was visible to the naked eye, but I didn’t see much else. Was not really looking for stars though. Nice shot, btw.
Where I was watching (the "day tripper" area at Solartown in Madras, Oregon) there was one bright point source reasonably near the Sun which I assume was Mercury [1]. Overall the sky was brighter than I expected, and if there were stars visible there were not many of them. There was also some idiot's drone buzzing above us, with red lights on two of its opposite arms and green lights on the other two arms. [1] or rat…
That was Venus. not Mercury.
Re: Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet
#89Here is a picture I took after messing with the aperture and having quite a long lense https://i.stack.imgur.com/YvyJB.jpg from Robinsville NC. I swear you can see stars in there but could be wrong.
Mercury was visible to the naked eye, but I didn’t see much else. Was not really looking for stars though. Nice shot, btw.
Venus was the only planet (or star) that stood out.