Posted on 08/25/2017 1:10:27 AM PDT by cba123
The white light image doesnt do it justice but thats what it looked like. The shadow is so dark contrasting with the super bright corona. Perfectly sized objects perfectly positioned in space, making it possible for humans to stare at the sun! Vivid sharpness. Darkness during the day!
Yeah, it was pretty cool!
I saw a few bright stars in Rexburg ID.
Sky was fairly dark.
Corona was bright.
Horizon 360° was pink, shading to dim blue above.
Hundreds within earshot cheered and applauded when it was over!
More importantly, learn to rap in Braille and do the world a great service.
I have some horrible “white culture” news for this fool. Celestial navigation has always involved observing the altitude of the sun. Many early navigators had their eyesight seriously impaired by directly observing it without protection. Thus, indirect methods of observing ti were developed or direct methods and devices, like sextants, were developed that protected navigators’ vision by including solar filters. There’s also the fact that a proper solar filter only admits .001% of the sun’s light. Most of these discoveries were made by white people, so he was naturally exempt from that “white science.”.
From where I was standing it was total nighttime darkness. Most eyes were on the totality event and not looking for stars but I did see some of the larger ones. The strangest part for me was the night bugs. They were extremely loud and confused. Security lights all popped on all of a sudden. When it was getting darker to start with it was gradual but when it got close to the total eclipse it fell dark extremely fast and got light just as fast. It wasn’t a natural sunset or sunrise like normal. During the totality it even seemed darker to me than a normal night darkness for some reason. It was like the darkness you have when there is no moon. The whole thing was kind of creepy but fascinating at the same time. I’m in a rural area so out nights are very dark except during the full moon. It was that dark.
Thanks for that excellent first-hand report.
Must have been a truly incredible experience to witness a totality eclipse.
As for the typically dark sky area you are in, I had said on here before the event that, if I could manage it, I would look to view the eclipse from a really dark night sky area, with the expectation of seeing more stars during totality, making it an even more amazing experience.
If you ever get the chance to see one, even if you have to travel to see it, do it. It’s a once in a lifetime event for most people. I’m in Athens TN. Athens was smack dab in the middle for the totality. We had people here from all over the world. The city only has 14,000 people and there were 10,000 in one of the parks. Our little airport was full. They were here from Egypt, France, England, and many other far away places to see two or three minutes of a total eclipse. I live on a farm out in the country and even our side roads were full of parked vehicles.
Now he’s Joey Badeye$$
Lol! Lucky you, to be mere minutes from a prime spot for viewing genuine totality.
I’ve lived in New York City all but one year of my nearly 60. Outside of that I lived in dark sky Upstate NY, in farm country. However, my late father was from Tennessee (Maryville/Knoxville). He met my late mom in NY’s Central Park while he was on leave from the Navy back in the late 40s.
I know Knoxville and Maryville well. Athens is about half way between Knoxville and Chattanooga. Our local hotels and motels were booked completely up a year before the eclipse.
I have never been to New York. I’d probably get arrested up there. LOL
I, too,observed full totality from a boat anchored on Watts Bar Lake at a,point about two miles above Watts Bar Dam. The most striking part of this extraordinary event was when the sun emerged from behind the moon with a sudden flash. It was great to have a totally clear sky.
If I drove there from Knoxville, where I live, I’d have to be careful to make sure a certain object wasn’t in my vehicle’s glove compartment.
Same here! It’s never good to show up in New York City with Tennessee tags and possibly an NRA sticker on the vehicle. :-) When you have spent your entire life in a state like TN, it’s common to see people openly carrying in public and almost everybody has a gun in the vehicle or on their person. We’d be locked up up there forever!
It just occurred to me that here in TN I never see rifle racks in trucks. Are they permitted? When I lived in Alaska, everyone had an “Easy Rider Rifle Rack” in the back windows of their trucks.
Most places they are just an invitation for someone to steal your gun. Or for the DNR to pull you over and see if they are loaded.
Not sure if they are still allowed or not but most people stopped putting them on a rack because criminals were breaking into their trucks to steal them. When I was in high school, all the boys had them and had the rifles in them, even at school. How times have changed!
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