Ever seen a total solar eclipse?

We watched the Total solar eclipse of April 2024. It lasted 5 minutes over us.
At about 3 pm, the daylight dimmed to something resembling late evening. Streetlights came on automatically.

Then, the sunlight gradually returned, like somebody slowly turning up a dimmer switch.

A surreal experience. Awe inspiring.

DARKEST @ 4:19 MARK
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Depending on how close to sunset, you may get a decent effect.

Yeah

It was pretty amazing.

Yes. It was interesting.

In 2017 I saw an eclipse. I'll never forget it, an amazing thing to see!

Yes I have, in 2017 and 2024. Don't miss it, you will never forget it. You have eclipse glasses?

Only when someone sat on my face 👀 I definitely saw a moon first 🍑

😗🎶

yes, I took this pic of the one in 2017, it was surreal, I've always read about how dark it got and thus scared ancient people, but it's hard to really imagine until you actually experience it, in the actual path of totality (if you're outside of this, then you still cannot imagine the effect, of it being as dark as night at, say, 3 in the afternnon, with street lamps coming on)


this pic outside, looking down a street, was taken at 1449 / 2:49 PM ... it is never this dark at that time, here at my latitude

Total Eclipse of the Heart?

Yeah, in the late 90s we had one. Make sure to get yourself some proper glasses for viewing it.

Yes I have. Two times that I can recall.
Make sure you get the correct lenses to watch it…
It’s powerful, majestic, moving

Yes, in 1984, staring out the window from my desk in my 4th grade classroom in Virginia.

I think I've seen one in Egypt once but I'm not sure

It had become darker iirc

I was at most 10

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Amazing, although i only saw a partial eclipse twice. It was difficult to get the correct view. I gave photos somewhere.

Not quite total, but pretty close. It was weird because all the birds started roosting and tweeting like it was dusk. A very strange experience!

Yes