I don’t know exactly where it’s available worldwide. There is a phone app and you can listen on their website, but I assume there’s a fee. I have a subscription for my car so the phone and web apps are included. I tried to use the phone app to listen to the NFL playoff games while we were in Switzerland last week and the content was blocked…

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I was driving to an event downtown tonite and had the Beatles Channel (18) on in the car. It was kind of just background noise until they decided to play MLT’s version of “Drive My Car” from “Live at the Cavern Club”. That made the trip a whole lot brighter! After a whole lot of road trips I’ve noticed that the shows run in a rotation so it…

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I gave my 2045 to my grandkids last year. I still have a 2080 and a full aperture solar filter for it. That’s what took the photo I posted from 2017. If you’ve also got a 2080 I’ve got a deal for you. I have the mount to put the 2045 on top of the 2080. If you don’t have one and want it, it’s yours for whatever it costs to ship. PM me…

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The rapture people I heard about were saying it was going to happen at the intersection of the 2017 and 2024 eclipses. That would have put it in the southeastern corner of the state of Missouri.

Chris,

No calculations here but it does show up on my weather station. Here’s the temperature, dew point, and the solar radiation meter over the same time period (temperature is in Fahrenheit). You’ll have to do eyeball comparisons on the radiation sensor since I didn’t label that screenshot. It was cloudy here but there still seems to be some effect:

The moon is “missing” because the camera overexposed the image. If you used your phone, it most likely used some form of averaging for the exposure and the the sliver of sun was so bright it washed over the image of the moon. On an iPhone if you bring up the camera and tap on the main subject (or whatever you want as the main subject),…

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Here’s the best I could do today. We only had 94% here but this is right at the maximum. It was too cloudy and rainy here to set up the big ‘scope but the clouds parted just a bit and I managed to grab this with my little travel camera.

Ninety five percent here in Houston. I’ll get the telescope out and take pictures if it clears up, but right now it’s cloudy with a light mist. The closest it looks like there’s a chance to see it (less chance of clouds) is Dallas. That’s probably a 4 hour drive given the number of people that are trying to see the eclipse so it’s a little…

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For the year I was born: “Too Young” by Nat King Cole, but I like the one for the month I was born which was “How High the Moon” by Les Paul and Mary Ford.

Same for Graduation; “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies was for the year, but the one for the month I graduated was much better: “Get Back” by the Beatles w/ Billy Preston.

I agree about “Hallelujah” and what really irks me about it is that it gets played as a Christmas or religious song and when you really listen to it, it’s a breakup song about a failed relationship. Great idea for a song to sing at Christmas!

I cannot stand “The Little Drummer Boy”. If it comes on the radio, it’s off to another station or just turned off.

If I had to pick a Beatles tune to put on my least liked list it would be “Yesterday” – something about it just annoys me to no end.

One of these days I should write this list down since it seems to always get asked and the only 3 that are fixed positions are the top 3…

1) Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield

2) Simon and Garfunkel, Wednesday Morning 3AM

3) Beatles, Rubber Soul

4) Jimmy Hendrix, Electric Ladyland

5) Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin

6) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will…

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Has anyone else watched it? It’s well worth signing up for a month of Disney Plus to see it. The restoration of the film and audio is breathtaking. Eight hours condensed from the 60 hours of film that was shot during the filming of the “Let It Be” film and the Rooftop Concert. The concert itself is the full 42 minutes and uses the…

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This one is early ’80s but I think it’s one of the strongest antiwar songs ever. I’ve posted the German (original) version because it’s a much stronger statement than the English version.