It was out gardening yesterday. I got dark for about two minutes. That was it. The clouds they only block the sun; they rain and snow and block the eclipse for everyone, at least in my neighborhood.
Hard to tell who is more contemptible-- the idiot masses? the idiot media talking heads? the cynical civic leaders claiming that their podunk village was in the path of mf totality, so come spend dollars at their town's convenience store?
People are pathetic. So gullibly desperate to feel like they are a part of something; to feel like they are 'witnessing' something significant; to be able to post on social media that they had a life changing experience.
It was one of those things that lived up to the hype.
I was outside of Austin. Pretty much 100% cloud cover. Every once in a while the sun would be visible through the clouds and with the glasses on you could see it was blocking like 80% of sun and then 90%.
But now how I see they say a 95% eclipse isn’t close to the experience of 100%.
It was gradually getting a little darker but at 90% it’s not that dark out and then all of a sudden right before totality it got dark really quick. Like in a matter of seconds. Under a minute for sure .
But it was 100% cloudy and then all of a sudden it wasn’t just around where the sun was and I can just say what I saw was worth the hype. Words don’t do it justice. Not sure how long we could see it. But just a little ring of light around moon with some red flares visible. Maybe 2 minutes and then it got cloudy again.
My wife wasn’t there and said “so you were just staring at a cloudy sky?” Meanwhile my aunt who was there said “that’s proof there is a god”
Not a perfect analogy, but I can’t describe what it’s like to look into the Grand Canyon but think everyone should see it. and a partial eclipse pails in comparison like Niagara Falls.
I spoke to some people on my flight who saw nothing at totality while in Austin and others and Austin who saw the sun for a little bit like me so very dependent on where you were.
It was one of those things that lived up to the hype.
I was outside of Austin. Pretty much 100% cloud cover. Every once in a while the sun would be visible through the clouds and with the glasses on you could see it was blocking like 80% of sun and then 90%.
But now how I see they say a 95% eclipse isn’t close to the experience of 100%.
It was gradually getting a little darker but at 90% it’s not that dark out and then all of a sudden right before totality it got dark really quick. Like in a matter of seconds. Under a minute for sure .
But it was 100% cloudy and then all of a sudden it wasn’t just around where the sun was and I can just say what I saw was worth the hype. Words don’t do it justice. Not sure how long we could see it. But just a little ring of light around moon with some red flares visible. Maybe 2 minutes and then it got cloudy again.
My wife wasn’t there and said “so you were just staring at a cloudy sky?” Meanwhile my aunt who was there said “that’s proof there is a god”
Not a perfect analogy, but I can’t describe what it’s like to look into the Grand Canyon but think everyone should see it. and a partial eclipse pails in comparison like Niagara Falls.
I spoke to some people on my flight who saw nothing at totality while in Austin and others and Austin who saw the sun for a little bit like me so very dependent on where you were.
Can't really explain how weird/cool it see to see the sun, which has always been really, really bright, suddenly be... black.
It was one of those things that lived up to the hype.
I was outside of Austin. Pretty much 100% cloud cover. Every once in a while the sun would be visible through the clouds and with the glasses on you could see it was blocking like 80% of sun and then 90%.
But now how I see they say a 95% eclipse isn’t close to the experience of 100%.
It was gradually getting a little darker but at 90% it’s not that dark out and then all of a sudden right before totality it got dark really quick. Like in a matter of seconds. Under a minute for sure .
But it was 100% cloudy and then all of a sudden it wasn’t just around where the sun was and I can just say what I saw was worth the hype. Words don’t do it justice. Not sure how long we could see it. But just a little ring of light around moon with some red flares visible. Maybe 2 minutes and then it got cloudy again.
My wife wasn’t there and said “so you were just staring at a cloudy sky?” Meanwhile my aunt who was there said “that’s proof there is a god”
Not a perfect analogy, but I can’t describe what it’s like to look into the Grand Canyon but think everyone should see it. and a partial eclipse pails in comparison like Niagara Falls.
I spoke to some people on my flight who saw nothing at totality while in Austin and others and Austin who saw the sun for a little bit like me so very dependent on where you were.
Glad that you got to experience the magnificent event. Such events; the Grand Canyon; Niagra Falls are awe inspiring.
I was in Burlington Vermont. I saw high clouds coming in and got nervous so I traveled about an hour northeast to the town of Troy on the border of Canada.
We lucked out. Originally when I made arrangements back in November I figured we had about a 30% chance of seeing it. This time of the year in the northeast is consistently covered by clouds.
The light at the time was weird. It felt like I was passing out. I had the glasses and kept looking up. Even at 95% it was still light out like on a foggy / hazy day. I can only compare how it looked to a time when there was a lot of smoke on the atmosphere from a forest fire. It was a lot like that.
When it went to the total eclipse it got dark fast like someone turning off the lights. We had a good view of the mountains to our north. It looked like a sunset with a red and orange on the horizon.
The black disk of the moon completely covered the sun and you could then see the sun’s outer atmosphere with your bare eyes. You don’t need the glasses during totality. We also noticed on the far left bottom a tiny bright spot which turned out to be a solar storm. It was surreal.
After just over three minutes the sun came out the other side and it instantly got bright. We took a look at the mountains to the northeast and you could see the light moving across them.
It was over quickly but that was the most amazing natural phenomenon I have ever witnessed.
It was so hyped, it was almost impossible to live up to it. But it did times 1000.
If you got 95% - 99.95% eclipse you really screwed yourself. For a one hour drive you could have seen something amazingly awesome instead of kinda neat. Photos don't do it justice because the sky looked photoshopped.
The arc of sun got smaller and smaller until everything in the solar glasses was black. You took off your glasses, it looked like an hour after sunset all around--except on the far horizon. In 360 degrees on the horizons it looked like the sun had gone down with very faint dusk like light.
Then you looked up and there was a black circle in the sky that looked like heaven was been shot out the other side of it. Just amazing white light shooting off into space all around the moon, but none in our direction.
Google up some 100% eclipse photos of the moon--you will think they are photoshopped--even if they are that is exactly what it looked like.