Houzz Call: Share Your Eclipse Party Photos!
Are you in the path of totality? Please post pictures and tell us how you're viewing from your home or neighborhood
The last time the path of a total solar eclipse crossed the United States from coast to coast was 1918. It’s happening again Aug. 21, and if you’re lucky enough to live in its path this year, you’ll have a front-row seat at what may be the celestial event of the century.
We’re talking to you, residents of Madras, Oregon; Lincoln, Nebraska; Paducah, Kentucky; Columbia, South Carolina; and many points between. What are you doing for the eclipse? Are you setting up chairs in your yard and mixing a special eclipse beverage? Is your neighborhood throwing a block party? Or are you joining the traffic to attend a friend’s viewing party in a nearby town? Please post pictures, along with your location, and tell us about it in the Comments at the end of this story.
We’re talking to you, residents of Madras, Oregon; Lincoln, Nebraska; Paducah, Kentucky; Columbia, South Carolina; and many points between. What are you doing for the eclipse? Are you setting up chairs in your yard and mixing a special eclipse beverage? Is your neighborhood throwing a block party? Or are you joining the traffic to attend a friend’s viewing party in a nearby town? Please post pictures, along with your location, and tell us about it in the Comments at the end of this story.
Remember that you shouldn’t look directly at the eclipse without eclipse glasses or viewing through handheld solar viewers. Do not view the eclipse through binoculars, a telescope or a camera either, unless it’s a pinhole camera or has a special solar filter. Visit nasa.gov for more safety guidelines and tips on how to avoid buying counterfeit eclipse glasses.
Margaret Wright and Josh Garcia are ready for viewing the eclipse in Charleston, South Carolina.
Margaret Wright and Josh Garcia are ready for viewing the eclipse in Charleston, South Carolina.
The sky is pictured moments before a total eclipse in Africa. Photo from Great American Eclipse
Playlist suggestions:
Playlist suggestions:
- Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden
- Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Elton John and George Michael
- Steal My Sunshine, Len
- Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler
- Can’t Fight the Moonlight, LeAnn Rimes
- Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone, Bill Withers
- Moondance, Van Morrison
Share With the Houzz Community
Will you be watching the eclipse at your house, or at the home of a relative or friend? Please post pictures, along with your location, and tell us about your viewing activities in the Comments below. And if you have your eclipse-viewing glasses (and we hope you do), please model them for us. Your stories and photos could be part of an article on Houzz.
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Will you be watching the eclipse at your house, or at the home of a relative or friend? Please post pictures, along with your location, and tell us about your viewing activities in the Comments below. And if you have your eclipse-viewing glasses (and we hope you do), please model them for us. Your stories and photos could be part of an article on Houzz.
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Where and When
In case you haven’t had time to figure out how close you are to the 70-mile-wide path of totality, the website Great American Eclipse shows you where you need to be, when you need to be there and how long it’s going to take you to get there.
Everyone in North America will be able to see at least a partial eclipse. According to NASA, some of the best viewing cities for the total solar eclipse will be Madras, Oregon; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lincoln, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carbondale, Illinois; Paducah, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Clayton, Georgia; and Columbia, South Carolina.
See the best places for viewing