Have you ever watched a solar eclipse?

[Zebra]

I have seen one in 1999

If you have seen one, how was it like?

 

[Chuz Life]

I have seen one in 1999

If you have seen one, how was it like?

I've seen two in my lifetime.


In both cases, there was so much buildup of excitement and anticipation for just a minute or so of temperature drop, polarized light, trying to safely see the aurora and then the moment fades as the eclipse itself does.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I have seen one in 1999

If you have seen one, how was it like?

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There was one back in '79 or '80. I had just arrived early to work and was doing all my tasks to get set up for the day's work. It got significantly darker, but I was not located in a place where I experienced a total eclipse. Same with the one we had in 2017 (?), but again, we were out of the path of totality, so we just experienced eerie darkness .

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[fncceo]

Have you ever watched a solar eclipse?​

Yes …

 

[toobfreak]

I have seen one in 1999
If you have seen one, how was it like?

I've seen two partial, two total. I saw one up near Erie, Pa / Cleveland Ohio last year, then again the one in 2017 down in Kentucky / Tennessee. The partials I watched from my backyard.

It gets quiet and it cools off rapidly and noticeably, maybe as much as 10°F, then the stars come out. You see shimmering gossamer curtains and threads of light around the eclipsed Sun.

It lasts only 2-4 minutes, then you wonder why you just spent hundreds of dollars and days planning/work/travel all just for that.

During the partials, you might not even know anything was going on, but the light outside takes on a slightly dimmer cast and grows decidedly more yellow out. Not sure why.

 

[Winco]

Yes …

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You are clever, I'll give you that.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I think it was 2 years ago, here in Southern Indiana we were exactly in the perfect viewing area.
I did not expect to feel emotion with it. A - LOT of people said this.
When you are directly in line with it - it last for several minutes and the aura is incredible.
It is surreal, otherworldly.
Again - at maximum angle, it gets almost completely dark and windy. The sudden temperature drop created wind.

It looks this impressive when you are in the sliver of perfect viewing

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I have seen one in 1999

If you have seen one, how was it like?

Got slightly less bright for a short time. Saw three. The first in February 1979, one in August 2017, and the most recent one, October 2023. It does get suddenly cooler during the warmer months. I was in northern Illinois for the first one.

 

[toobfreak]

I did not expect to feel emotion with it. A - LOT of people said this.

Now think what the ancients must have felt; is it any wonder they often went to war or executed their kings over a solar eclipse?

When you are directly in line with it - it last for several minutes and the aura is incredible.

Actually, duration depends not on being in line with it, but how tangential your position on the track path is with the angle of the Sun. The shadow of the Moon moves slowest when the sun angle is tangential, and much faster before and after. And it is called the corona, not an aura. What is seen in your photo is the million-degree "atmosphere" (corona) of the Sun, the magnetosphere sending out billions of tons of solar particles.

It looks this impressive when you are in the sliver of perfect viewing

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

I have seen one in 1999

If you have seen one, how was it like?

Trump did. No eye protection. Idiot

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

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There was one back in '79 or '80. I had just arrived early to work and was doing all my tasks to get set up for the day's work. It got significantly darker, but I was not located in a place where I experienced a total eclipse. Same with the one we had in 2017 (?), but again, we were out of the path of totality, so we just experienced eerie darkness .

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working at the abortion clinic of course. She was good. Flushed baby parts down the toilet and drain

 

[bluzman61]

I've never watched (seen) one. I don't really plan on watching one in the future.

 

[toobfreak]

I've never watched (seen) one. I don't really plan on watching one in the future.

I once observed sunspots on the surface of the Sun seen through binoculars naked eye with no filters nor special eye protection but with no eye damage.

Hint: The sun can be looked at directly even through binoculars without harming your eyes if you know just how to do it right, but I'm not going to say more because if you don't know what you are doing, you can end up blind.

 

[toobfreak]

I've never watched (seen) one. I don't really plan on watching one in the future.

Just go out and stand in the Sunlight while considering that the sunlight you feel on your skin is actually just the waste byproduct of hydrogen when it was heated, crushed, and converted into helium about ten million years ago, taking all that time to work its way to the surface before taking the approximately 8 1/2 minutes to get from the Sun to hit your body as photons of Sunlight.

 

[Muhammed]

I have seen one in 1999

If you have seen one, how was it like?

Here we had a total eclipse in April of last year. I've seen other solar eclipses over the years but not like that one.

 

[The Duke]

Storm clouds eclipsed the sun today. It was dark twilight at 11AM. Dark.

 

[whitehall]

The sun has been up there for a billion zillion years and the weather channel warns us not to look at it or go freaking blind.

 

[toobfreak]

I once observed sunspots on the surface of the Sun seen through binoculars naked eye with no filters nor special eye protection but with no eye damage. Hint: The sun can be looked at directly even through binoculars without harming your eyes if you know just how to do it right, but I'm not going to say more because if you don't know what you are doing, you can end up blind.

Too funny. I got a "Fake News" claim from the resident bozo Tory, a man who thinks everything he doesn't understand is because the /other/ guy is confused.

But the bozo hasn't even the temerity to ask me HOW. He just "knows" (must be a psychic, too).

 

[toobfreak]

The sun has been up there for a billion zillion years

About 4.6 billion.

and the weather channel warns us not to look at it or go freaking blind.

Car user manuals also used to tell you how to set the dwell on your distributor and how to set your spark gap, now they tell the user not to drink the radiator fluid.

 

[Muhammed]

The sun has been up there for a billion zillion years and the weather channel warns us not to look at it or go freaking blind.

Why didn't Trump go blind? Superpowers? Magic? A miracle?


How do TDS afflicted morons explain that?