I have no cool pics myself, but good friends of ours went to an Ohio wildlife refuge on Lake Erie to experience totality. They were in Kentucky for the one seven years ago and they said nature was a much better place to be. The horizon let them see the “sunset.” #SolarEclipse#eclipse2024#April2024#Today
#eclipse2024#photography almost didn’t happen for us as it was quite cloudy this morning in Dallas. But just as the total eclipse happened, all clouds cleared. #happy
I looked into the heart of the sun. I saw a 360 degree sunset. I saw the mountains of the moon. I saw stars during the day and Venus shining beside the sun and the moon.
A few moments before totality everything got still. The mourning doves and insects went quiet. The light wasn’t like a sunset, it didn’t have that angle to it. It was just grey and ghostly. The high clouds made the light very white and grey, making you feel like you were in a shadow world. #Eclipse#Vermont#Eclipse2024 1/2
I can barely explain what I experienced during totality. It was far more emotional that I realized to stand in the shadow of the moon and stare up like that, looking at the sun. I wandered around in a daze, looking at everything.
Afterwards I felt hungover, confused. I still do.
I’ve read about how people say total solar eclipses are life altering. I never knew why.
Interesting NOVA episode about eclipses, including how far back the Babylonians realized there was a pattern and cycles of eclipses, and how Edmund Halley used new discoveries about gravity to perfect calculations of where and when you could see them...