Not as satisfying as seeing it in person, which after 60 years of trying I did.
Wonderful. Did you travel somewhere to watch? Or did the totality path go right over you?
I drove to Oregon to watch the 2017 eclipse and it was an amazing event. It was even more cool for me because I found my way to a remote hilltop on the John Day River in Central Oregon and there were about 30 other people from all over the States and Europe that somehow managed to find their way to the same spot. It wasn’t mentioned anywhere as a great viewing spot, but it was the best ever!
Agreed... I didn’t need a contrail or airplane to enjoy that eclipse of the sun. A huge black hole surrounded by burning orange and yellow fire, the site of Jupiter to the upper left and Venus to the lower right and the sheer excitement of that 2 minutes and 17 seconds was enough for me.
My only disappointment... Not being able to view that celestial event for hours on end. Way too short for such an amazing experience.
All in all I’ve been lucky... I’ve seen the Northern Lights when they were clearly visible for several weeks in the spring and summer of 1978, creating an actual cone from which they spectacularly emanated, the nearly live television images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 breaking up and exploding on Jupiter’s surface in July of 1994, watching the Hale-Bopp comet by naked eye in 1997, and now a full eclipse of the sun for 2 minutes and 17 seconds... The one I could not do without... That total eclipse. It was short, but completely astounding and memorable.
Yep did the same it was AWSOME for a nerd
Eclipse = 2 hour Coachella for nerds.