Well, overcast here at times, but still pretty amazing.
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We were fortunate to have a nice sunny day in Maine. I didnât get any good pictures of the partial, but here are some of totality.
The second one shows one of the planets, but not sure which one. We only got about 90 seconds of totality, so didnât have time to take many pictures, but it was still a very neat experience. The way the light all around us looked just before totality was something Iâd never seen before â the sky was bluer, but everything seemed slightly âoffâ â it was weird but cool.
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Even at 87% totality where I was here in Kansas it was a quite remarkable âtwilight effectâ - enough that kids were excited to be out on the slab (missing class) - but yeah - enjoying eclipse stuff. We had fun looking at all the âcrescent shadowsâ underneath trees and made with our own hands and bodies as makeshift âpinholeâ cameras on the pavement.
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Venus. We were able to see it also in a few breaks in the clouds. Pretty neat experience.
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My high schooler was fascinated with how near totality and totality (96%ish in MI) affected her photophobia due to albinism. She came out of the school in wonder; âI can see things really well.â We used our NerdCool NASA glasses quite a lot, but we spent a lot of time walking from the high school to the middle school and back, while she took in details she canât normally see like the texture of the sidewalk and trees, details on buildings from a distance (like the front entrance or the multi-color brick work). About 10 minutes after totality the spell was ending. THe glare was back.
Intersection of many disciplines in one afternoon.
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We headed to Vermont and saw 90 seconds of totality. 10 hours and 30 minutes of driving for 1 min and 30 seconds of totality. Every second of it was worth it. If there was another one this weekend that required sitting in 20 hours of traffic I would be on the road now. We were supposed to get 3 minutes of totality but were already 2 hrs later and 60 miles short of our original destination. We stopped to pee, get a drink and use the bathroom which turned out to be a long trip. There were 3 family restrooms in this gas station but over 30 people in line. It was swamped up there. We ended watching the whole eclipse from a field behind the gas station with about 30-40 other people.
I donât know if you can actually witness anything more spectacular than a total solar eclipse. I havenât seen a single picture anywhere by anyone that really does any justice to what my eyes actual saw and what I experienced out there. My wife was blown away as well. I am seriously talking to her about panning vacations around upcoming eclipses around the world (where money permits).
Seeing a disk block the sun is neat and all, but at the end of the day itâs totality or bust.
Vinnie
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Thatâs awesome. Yeah, I can see why there are tour buses that follow these things everywhere. It would be neat to do if we had the money. I was a bit bummed that we missed the whole experience of seeing it with a group of people, since we were in the driveway of some relatives, so there were a few of us, but getting to do it in a large crowd must be awesome. We did beat the worst of the traffic though, so thereâs a silver lining.
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Amen to all of the above â it was an awesome experience here in southern Ontario.
I was in a quiet spot, and one recommendation I heard from a naturalist was to pay close attention to the wildlife. So I did; the birds got eerily silent as totality approached, then there was a chorus like at sunrise as it grew bright again.
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Thatâs how I remember the eclipses Iâve seen. Itâs got something to do with the fact that weâre still getting light from the sun, but itâs from the outer layers and not the whole star.
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During the eclipse a bunch of us watched from our back porch lots of birds that would normally be flitting about landed in the tulip magnolia tree and just sat there. I thought that the occasional little âchirpâ noises sounded uneasy.
I wish I had video of how the birds hopped from branch to branch as the light came back and then they all burst into the air.
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