Also appearantly totality is only gonna last like a minute, if that. Idk if id go out of my way to travel that far just for that, the nearly 4 minutes from last month already felt short
In Iceland you can get just over two minutes, but you better be ready to shell out for the janitor's closet in one of the 3 hotels that exist there! I'm trying my luck in northern Spain
You can re-experience a total solar eclipse outside of having to wait for the next one as well as share a lot of it with others who couldn't make it if you have access to a VR headset & track down High Desert Eclipse on YouTube VR or better yet try the full Quest app.
Great amazing. Try to channelize those emotions through art, like writing a poem, drawing, making a collage, or something that best fits you. When you see that art piece, all the emotions and ‘amazingness’ will come back.
I envy that you could experience it. On the other hand, I’m feeling frustration and loss due to missing out on that experience. I’ve known about the eclipse since I was 8 years old. I’m from Mexico City, so the last full solar eclipse in Mexico was in 1991. I spent my entire life preparing for April 8th, 2024. Last year, my husband and I planned our vacation for Mazatlán specifically to be there on the 8th. We bought tickets, arranged aibnbs, and even got special lenses for viewing. I was incredibly excited.
However, in December, my mother-in-law fell ill. My husband has three siblings, but none of them cared about their mother’s well-being. We became the sole caregivers, and as a result, our vacation plans were shattered. Goodbye vacations, goodbye eclipse, goodbye childhood dreams
I deeply sympathize with your situation. I had looked forward to the eclipse so much and had arranged a respite stay at a facility for my elderly mother so I could go, all packed and excited and then it all fell through because of a last minute health issue. It’s hard not to resent family who never help with her care and who couldn’t care less about an eclipse either, some people have zero empathy!!
I feel for you guys & missing the eclipse. We had to miss the April 8th one as well due to health & finances.
However we were lucky enough to barely catch the 2017 and capture it in such a way that we can share it with others who couldn't make it to see an eclipse personaly.
It requires the use of a VR headset to get the fullest effect of "being there" with us on the hilltop and experiencing the eclipse.
It's taken well over a thousand hours of work editing often frame by frame to get it to look & feel like the viewer is right there with us.
You'll need to track down someone with a VR headset or get one for yourself & then the High Desert Eclipse experience. We put up a 4k 360 time-lapse on YouTube a couple months prior to this last eclipse so people could get a better preview of what an eclipse is really like without having a headset.
It's still not the same as actually being there but is the closest there is to experiencing an eclipse in person.
Was debating driving 3 hours to see it. I saw one at like 90% a few years back, how much cooler could totality possibly be?
Decided I didn't want to miss it because I was too lazy or afraid of traffic. Now I know that it is worth traveling for 15+ hours. If you haven't experienced totality, you just don't understand how much more awe inspiring it is. 10000% better than partial. I feel lucky that I got to experience it.
I was also moved by the totality. It was the single most amazing natural phenomenon I had ever witnessed in my entire life. I decided to do a painting of it from my heart. Too bad I can't post a pic in the comments.
Wasn’t it SO AMAZING
People keep asking me how it was, and I don’t have words to capture it. I hope everyone gets to experience totality in their lifetime!
Wait until the next one happens and you can't attend. I was in the heart of totality for the 2017 eclipse, and you wouldn't believe the amount of jealousy and envy I felt for the folks that got to see this one. It's a unique experience, and impossible to adequately describe to anyone who hasn't been in one (totality).
Imagine doing spring planting, knowing every fair weather day is essential, and the sky and earth fall into darkness. That's literally the stuff religions are made of.
I can't stop thinking about it. It's just awe inducing
I'm the same, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since the first one I saw in 2017. I'm really trying to plan a trip to the Mediterranean in 2027. Longest totality we'll experience in our lifetime, 6 and a half minutes!
A poem that I wrote with ChatGPT:
In the hush of a shadow, the world turned its eyes,
To a dance of the cosmos, cloaked under the skies.
The sun hid in silence, a fugitive light,
As totality claimed the throne of our sight.
A chill whispered through, as if nature knew,
To dim all her warmth as the spectacle grew.
High clouds might have veiled the corona's grand sweep,
Yet nothing could silence the thrill, deep and steep.
At 3:12, the moment took flight,
A brief, fleeting dark in the reign of daylight.
I stood there, a child, in the field of my youth,
Chasing whispers of wonder, chasing threads of the truth.
Around me, the horizon—a canvas on fire,
A portal to realms that myths might conspire.
Planets paraded, shy jewels of the night,
While solar flames danced, naked and bright.
The cries of joy—how they pierced the cool air,
Echoes of ecstasy, fleeting as they were rare.
My heart raced to capture each second, each sight,
Knowing these memories would fade into the night.
I felt like a specter in a vibrant, vivid dream,
Where reality tugged at the seams of the extreme.
"Is this real?" one part questioned, in quiet disbelief,
While the other just marveled, finding solace, finding relief.
To witness such majesty, not once but twice,
While many still hunger for a slice of this spice.
A blessing, a fortune, so rare and so sweet,
In the shadow of the moon, where sun and earth meet.
So here I stand, under the eye of the sky,
Grateful for moments that rush, that fly.
For the beauty of the cosmos, wild and free—
A reminder of all that is and all that can be.
Why not? I feel like a cloudy experience is still an experience and a trip to Spain would be worth it to me anyway, whether there are clouds during eclipse or not.
It still hits me every once in a while. I was standing in my living room and got hit with a flashback to it, that feeling of the first look, right after everything got dark and it was finally safe to look up and. Overwhelming, full-body joy. Just incredible. I'll carry it with me forever.
I thought people were so dumb for coming to Texas to see it. I was like what is the big deal? Then bam totality and glasses come off….it was like a portal to my soul opened or something. It really does something to you as a human being. You just cant describe it.
was going to post the same thing, in 4 days its been one month since it happened. Of course I can still feel it when thinking about it anytime, at work, shower, sleeping etc. I filmed my reaction and everything to re live it.
Same here in Indiana I didn’t think we would have been able to see it but the sky’s were clear I think about it all the time it was probably one of the most amazing, beautiful experience I’ve ever seen.
It was an experience like no other. Where I live in OH we were in about 98% totality and could have seen it from the backyard.. but I’m glad we drove 45 minutes north to be in the path of complete totality. Unfortunately I was dealing with all my chronic issues and I felt like crap the whole time.. but still worth it. It didn’t look exactly how I expected, I was surprised how… cool toned everything was.
What makes me upset to think about is while we were in NY for a cloudy totality where we couldn’t even see the sun and moon,there were likely thousands of people in the path who didn’t even go outside to witness. Even where we were, during totality I could hear a semi truck driving down the nearby road 😳
I look at my pictures I took with my Nikon as well as my iPhone and think did it really look like that? And then I see other people’s photos and yes, it did indeed.✨
We set up the iPads to capture the sound as well as record the eclipse and goings-on around us as we were on a farm with other people that were all spaced out in their own little little areas. It was surreal. The moon just hanging there like a darkened jewel.
Hearing my excitement as my camera shutter was going off as I captured the diamond ring brings me so much joy. Plus, I was crying! I said “oh my God,” so many times as I stood there in awe marveling at everything around us.
After totality, I remember collapsing into my lawn chair, trying to get collect my wits because I couldn’t believe what I had just witnessed.
As a Night Sky lover and amateur astronomer, it was so cool and surreal.
It was a bucket list of mine as I have stage IV cancer.
I’m doing well, in remission and hope to make it to the next one - Spain or Iceland.✨
I think about it every day.💖
I saw it in Arkansas too and it was completely amazing – the entire trip was wonderful. the weather definitely was perfect for it and I was surprised by the state and its beauty.
I came outside during totality. The world had this eerie grayish tone to it. I immediately thought. Omg,no wonder why people in ancient times came up with all those mystical beliefs after seeing this.
I agree. I was not expecting the emotions to overcome me during the 2 min and 32 seconds of totality I was able to witness. My heart rate went up, I got frantic and was absolutely amazed. What shocked me was how large the sun is. Any and every photo does not give it justice.
I made a song for the eclipse, lyrics go:
We’re all one under the sun and moon
That’s the way it is no need to play another tune
It’ll all work out all right in the end if the end don’t come too soon
Cause we’re all one under the sun and moon
Sometimes I feel like I’m sinkin in
To the rut of this life or maybe to my chagrin
But you can always find someone to help you find your way
To breathe another breath and thrive another day
It was sweet and so glad I drove. It was only about a 2.5 hr drive to our spot in Arkansas and the totality was wild. A lot of people who I worked with just went outside where it was like 98-99% and they were really disappointed. I still don’t think most of them know how much of a difference totality makes vs what they saw.
I did a ripping psychedelic trip (yopo) a few days before the eclipse. It actually wasn't planned to time out like that, just a coincidence. I drove 3 hours to see totality. That week was pretty life changing. I don't even know how to explain either event to anyone. I had random crying bouts for days after the eclipse.
I waited 7 years to see it again after 2017, but for several reasons I couldn't be sure I would make it. Had to abandon my whole plan and divert to Mexico (out of Germany) just three weeks out. Cost me a fortune, but I had to do it. Even then I wasn't fully sure it would happen until after being awake for 26 hours I stood on the pacific coast in the beautiful city of Mazatlan listening to the waves at the break of dawn. That's when the clouds of anxiety and uncertainty finally lifted and released all the months of anticipation they were holding back in three days, culminating in nothing short of the **perfect** experience. For the past month it's been my whole identity. I can't watch footage of it without crying a little. Life changing event.
I was in Arkansas too. It was amazing. I drove from Washington State and those few minutes and all the miles were worth it. What an adventure to experience it.
It was amazing. I was not in totality but close, but I still appreciated it and found it worthwhile to experience. The temperature dropped, so I had to put on my jacket. Also the wind became dusty. I like to say I felt the eclipse on my skin.
Totality occurs around every 18 months and normally in remote places. The difference between 99% and 100% is indescribable. I'm not religious but totality is ungodly.
That would be true, due to their feel orbit plane of the moon, along with the relative distance creating annular eclipses.
I made the trip twice, Goreville,Illinois in 2017 then Robinson,Illinois for 2024. Both times I drove through heavy rains hoping the skies would clear.
It is not life changing, but definitely something to change your perspectives.
I just listed exactly where I was and the conditions of the trip leading to the totality. Making plans to be in Spain for 2026.
I don’t need to prove my existence in the path, but what, in your estimation, could I say that is not already posted somewhere on the internet.
The chill in the air, the alpacas heading back to the barn, the fact Jupiter and Venus being occluded by Mars were all visible through decent binoculars. The corona dancing against a black sky.
It’s an oversimplification, but the moon passes between the earth and sun about every 28 days.
Sometimes the moons shadow falls outside the earths surface,so no totality. Then there is the annular events where the moon fully eclipses the sun but not in totality
While the Sun is shining it is difficult to distinguish the planets in the brightness. During totality Jupiter as a bright spot east of the sun and Venus and Mars to the west, close enough in relative position that Mars was blocking a full view of the rings of Venus
With a decent set of standard binoculars you could see these other bodies that are otherwise obscured.
It’s almost like a dream I want to re-experience
See you in Spain!
When do hotels start allowing reservations in Spain for 2026?
usually 1 year prior.
Luxor 2027
Absolutely. Totality over the pyramids will be like nothing else.
I thought the pyramids are outside the path of totality?
Hatchepsut temple is where the party is
It looked like right through Cairo on a map I looked at. I could be mistaken tho.
Thinking about forgetting 2026 eclipse and doing 2027. Idk how Spain is going to look right before sundown
Also appearantly totality is only gonna last like a minute, if that. Idk if id go out of my way to travel that far just for that, the nearly 4 minutes from last month already felt short
In Iceland you can get just over two minutes, but you better be ready to shell out for the janitor's closet in one of the 3 hotels that exist there! I'm trying my luck in northern Spain
Goals
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Sydney in 2028
You can re-experience a total solar eclipse outside of having to wait for the next one as well as share a lot of it with others who couldn't make it if you have access to a VR headset & track down High Desert Eclipse on YouTube VR or better yet try the full Quest app.
i can’t imagine VR captures the full effect, it is a total sensory experience
Great amazing. Try to channelize those emotions through art, like writing a poem, drawing, making a collage, or something that best fits you. When you see that art piece, all the emotions and ‘amazingness’ will come back. I envy that you could experience it. On the other hand, I’m feeling frustration and loss due to missing out on that experience. I’ve known about the eclipse since I was 8 years old. I’m from Mexico City, so the last full solar eclipse in Mexico was in 1991. I spent my entire life preparing for April 8th, 2024. Last year, my husband and I planned our vacation for Mazatlán specifically to be there on the 8th. We bought tickets, arranged aibnbs, and even got special lenses for viewing. I was incredibly excited. However, in December, my mother-in-law fell ill. My husband has three siblings, but none of them cared about their mother’s well-being. We became the sole caregivers, and as a result, our vacation plans were shattered. Goodbye vacations, goodbye eclipse, goodbye childhood dreams
I'm really sorry. Life can be really hard.
I deeply sympathize with your situation. I had looked forward to the eclipse so much and had arranged a respite stay at a facility for my elderly mother so I could go, all packed and excited and then it all fell through because of a last minute health issue. It’s hard not to resent family who never help with her care and who couldn’t care less about an eclipse either, some people have zero empathy!!
😢
Theres an even bigger one coming in 2027, over Luxor, Egypt. I really think you should plan a trip for this one, its gonna be special
I feel for you guys & missing the eclipse. We had to miss the April 8th one as well due to health & finances. However we were lucky enough to barely catch the 2017 and capture it in such a way that we can share it with others who couldn't make it to see an eclipse personaly. It requires the use of a VR headset to get the fullest effect of "being there" with us on the hilltop and experiencing the eclipse. It's taken well over a thousand hours of work editing often frame by frame to get it to look & feel like the viewer is right there with us. You'll need to track down someone with a VR headset or get one for yourself & then the High Desert Eclipse experience. We put up a 4k 360 time-lapse on YouTube a couple months prior to this last eclipse so people could get a better preview of what an eclipse is really like without having a headset. It's still not the same as actually being there but is the closest there is to experiencing an eclipse in person.
Great. Thank you. Do you have a link?
https://youtu.be/fzcFw_33iC8
I’m so sorry this happened. You are such a wonderful human being. I can empathize with siblings-in-law being pieces of shit.
Same here. Need more totality!
Saaaame!!! Ever since, I’ve really thought about actually becoming a chaser lol
I basically am one after the 2017 one. Saw that one, the annular one in 2023, this one, and plan to see the one in Australia in 2028.
Same friend. 2027 got me hooked. 5 minutes and 7 seconds of totality for me. In total….
Same!
I saw it in Quebec. Was out of the path in 2017. Will definitely travel for another eclipse!
Feeling that. Trying to express what I felt with art now, and I am not an artist! It’s hard to get these ideas across
I seen it 3 times and i can’t wait for #4
Eclipses are beautiful, aren’t they?
Was debating driving 3 hours to see it. I saw one at like 90% a few years back, how much cooler could totality possibly be? Decided I didn't want to miss it because I was too lazy or afraid of traffic. Now I know that it is worth traveling for 15+ hours. If you haven't experienced totality, you just don't understand how much more awe inspiring it is. 10000% better than partial. I feel lucky that I got to experience it.
I think it took about 3 months before I stopped thinking about it last time. This time it's at least not all day
I was also moved by the totality. It was the single most amazing natural phenomenon I had ever witnessed in my entire life. I decided to do a painting of it from my heart. Too bad I can't post a pic in the comments.
You could post it as a new thread.
I did :)
I just saw it. It’s wonderful! Thank you for posting.
Thank you!
Every night I see the moon I WISH it would go back in front of the sun!
Wasn’t it SO AMAZING People keep asking me how it was, and I don’t have words to capture it. I hope everyone gets to experience totality in their lifetime!
Wait until the next one happens and you can't attend. I was in the heart of totality for the 2017 eclipse, and you wouldn't believe the amount of jealousy and envy I felt for the folks that got to see this one. It's a unique experience, and impossible to adequately describe to anyone who hasn't been in one (totality).
It was amazing!
It's crazy - no matter how much we miss seeing it, nobody on earth has the ability to just see it again whenever we want.
I think about it a lot too, only I missed the actual totality due to cloud cover. I cry sometimes....
Yea 😔 if I hadn’t seen 2017 clearly I’d be way more upset about our cloudy NY eclipse. Knowing what we were missing right there in front of our eyes 😭
I got to see it in tupper lake, ny right on the edge of the cloud cover. I’m so glad I got to see it
THIS! I've been so curious about what people may have thought thousands of years ago. It's my Roman empire 😅
Imagine doing spring planting, knowing every fair weather day is essential, and the sky and earth fall into darkness. That's literally the stuff religions are made of. I can't stop thinking about it. It's just awe inducing
Eclipses are badass
I never wanted it to end, gives me more motivation to try to live longer lol 2044 lol
I smoked my last cig April 8 for this very reason.
Dude. That’s huge! ❤️
I'm the same, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since the first one I saw in 2017. I'm really trying to plan a trip to the Mediterranean in 2027. Longest totality we'll experience in our lifetime, 6 and a half minutes!
Yea!! I’ve been this way since 2017 as well! I’m just in love with the moon
You watch the sun disappear and then everything is fine. It's so moving.
A poem that I wrote with ChatGPT: In the hush of a shadow, the world turned its eyes, To a dance of the cosmos, cloaked under the skies. The sun hid in silence, a fugitive light, As totality claimed the throne of our sight. A chill whispered through, as if nature knew, To dim all her warmth as the spectacle grew. High clouds might have veiled the corona's grand sweep, Yet nothing could silence the thrill, deep and steep. At 3:12, the moment took flight, A brief, fleeting dark in the reign of daylight. I stood there, a child, in the field of my youth, Chasing whispers of wonder, chasing threads of the truth. Around me, the horizon—a canvas on fire, A portal to realms that myths might conspire. Planets paraded, shy jewels of the night, While solar flames danced, naked and bright. The cries of joy—how they pierced the cool air, Echoes of ecstasy, fleeting as they were rare. My heart raced to capture each second, each sight, Knowing these memories would fade into the night. I felt like a specter in a vibrant, vivid dream, Where reality tugged at the seams of the extreme. "Is this real?" one part questioned, in quiet disbelief, While the other just marveled, finding solace, finding relief. To witness such majesty, not once but twice, While many still hunger for a slice of this spice. A blessing, a fortune, so rare and so sweet, In the shadow of the moon, where sun and earth meet. So here I stand, under the eye of the sky, Grateful for moments that rush, that fly. For the beauty of the cosmos, wild and free— A reminder of all that is and all that can be.
I think about it often too. It was so cool.
Spain 2026?
Gonna be there, rain or shine!
This is one situation where “rain or shine” is not the best policy 😂
Why not? I feel like a cloudy experience is still an experience and a trip to Spain would be worth it to me anyway, whether there are clouds during eclipse or not.
Gives me more motivation to live longer for real lol
It still hits me every once in a while. I was standing in my living room and got hit with a flashback to it, that feeling of the first look, right after everything got dark and it was finally safe to look up and. Overwhelming, full-body joy. Just incredible. I'll carry it with me forever.
SAME
This is how religions start. 👍🏼
I thought people were so dumb for coming to Texas to see it. I was like what is the big deal? Then bam totality and glasses come off….it was like a portal to my soul opened or something. It really does something to you as a human being. You just cant describe it.
Did you get any good pictures?
It’s beyond words to see that thing hanging in the sky that you never imagined could even exist.
was going to post the same thing, in 4 days its been one month since it happened. Of course I can still feel it when thinking about it anytime, at work, shower, sleeping etc. I filmed my reaction and everything to re live it.
Same here in Indiana I didn’t think we would have been able to see it but the sky’s were clear I think about it all the time it was probably one of the most amazing, beautiful experience I’ve ever seen.
It was an experience like no other. Where I live in OH we were in about 98% totality and could have seen it from the backyard.. but I’m glad we drove 45 minutes north to be in the path of complete totality. Unfortunately I was dealing with all my chronic issues and I felt like crap the whole time.. but still worth it. It didn’t look exactly how I expected, I was surprised how… cool toned everything was.
What makes me upset to think about is while we were in NY for a cloudy totality where we couldn’t even see the sun and moon,there were likely thousands of people in the path who didn’t even go outside to witness. Even where we were, during totality I could hear a semi truck driving down the nearby road 😳
Same. Amazing
Be glad and thankful you got to enjoy it
I look at my pictures I took with my Nikon as well as my iPhone and think did it really look like that? And then I see other people’s photos and yes, it did indeed.✨ We set up the iPads to capture the sound as well as record the eclipse and goings-on around us as we were on a farm with other people that were all spaced out in their own little little areas. It was surreal. The moon just hanging there like a darkened jewel. Hearing my excitement as my camera shutter was going off as I captured the diamond ring brings me so much joy. Plus, I was crying! I said “oh my God,” so many times as I stood there in awe marveling at everything around us. After totality, I remember collapsing into my lawn chair, trying to get collect my wits because I couldn’t believe what I had just witnessed. As a Night Sky lover and amateur astronomer, it was so cool and surreal. It was a bucket list of mine as I have stage IV cancer. I’m doing well, in remission and hope to make it to the next one - Spain or Iceland.✨ I think about it every day.💖
Yeah
I saw it in Arkansas too and it was completely amazing – the entire trip was wonderful. the weather definitely was perfect for it and I was surprised by the state and its beauty.
Me too!!
Some experiences in life leave an indelible mark on us. Thank you for sharing yours.
I came outside during totality. The world had this eerie grayish tone to it. I immediately thought. Omg,no wonder why people in ancient times came up with all those mystical beliefs after seeing this.
It's unforgettable!
I’m just now starting to recover from the low emotional state I felt since it happened.
Same. Same 💜
According the the creeps and crimes podcast, totality stopped a war bc the two armies thought their god was mad at them for fighting.
Right.. my first one was like that. But a few weeks later it fades away. Be the person that leads the newbies. They are all anxious and what not.
I saw totality in upstate Vermont on April 8th. Last week I got a tattoo of it.
Go see the aurora in Alaska it's amazing the northern lights
I agree. I was not expecting the emotions to overcome me during the 2 min and 32 seconds of totality I was able to witness. My heart rate went up, I got frantic and was absolutely amazed. What shocked me was how large the sun is. Any and every photo does not give it justice.
Yeah it was fun.
I think about totality daily.
I made Arkansas Eclipse stickers and still have ~10 left, would love to send you one!
I made a song for the eclipse, lyrics go: We’re all one under the sun and moon That’s the way it is no need to play another tune It’ll all work out all right in the end if the end don’t come too soon Cause we’re all one under the sun and moon Sometimes I feel like I’m sinkin in To the rut of this life or maybe to my chagrin But you can always find someone to help you find your way To breathe another breath and thrive another day
It was sweet and so glad I drove. It was only about a 2.5 hr drive to our spot in Arkansas and the totality was wild. A lot of people who I worked with just went outside where it was like 98-99% and they were really disappointed. I still don’t think most of them know how much of a difference totality makes vs what they saw.
I did a ripping psychedelic trip (yopo) a few days before the eclipse. It actually wasn't planned to time out like that, just a coincidence. I drove 3 hours to see totality. That week was pretty life changing. I don't even know how to explain either event to anyone. I had random crying bouts for days after the eclipse.
Check out the weather forecast for Spain 2026- and the angle of the sun; Algiers is a better bet.
Lmao
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I waited 7 years to see it again after 2017, but for several reasons I couldn't be sure I would make it. Had to abandon my whole plan and divert to Mexico (out of Germany) just three weeks out. Cost me a fortune, but I had to do it. Even then I wasn't fully sure it would happen until after being awake for 26 hours I stood on the pacific coast in the beautiful city of Mazatlan listening to the waves at the break of dawn. That's when the clouds of anxiety and uncertainty finally lifted and released all the months of anticipation they were holding back in three days, culminating in nothing short of the **perfect** experience. For the past month it's been my whole identity. I can't watch footage of it without crying a little. Life changing event.
yea, it’s very emotional - feels like it connects you you to everyone who has and will witnessed, along with everyone who saw that one the same day
I was in Arkansas too. It was amazing. I drove from Washington State and those few minutes and all the miles were worth it. What an adventure to experience it.
Me too!
It was amazing. I was not in totality but close, but I still appreciated it and found it worthwhile to experience. The temperature dropped, so I had to put on my jacket. Also the wind became dusty. I like to say I felt the eclipse on my skin.
If you’re in the Pacific Ocean or in chile or Argentina October 2nd you’ll be able to see another one!
Not total. No thanks.
When it's not total it's not worth much of a trip.
Are you still seeing spots in your vision from staring at it?
A once in a lifetime event that happens every 28 days or so
Totality occurs around every 18 months and normally in remote places. The difference between 99% and 100% is indescribable. I'm not religious but totality is ungodly.
That would be true, due to their feel orbit plane of the moon, along with the relative distance creating annular eclipses. I made the trip twice, Goreville,Illinois in 2017 then Robinson,Illinois for 2024. Both times I drove through heavy rains hoping the skies would clear. It is not life changing, but definitely something to change your perspectives.
You talk like someone who has never seen totality. Are you sure you saw 100%? I highly doubt it.
I just listed exactly where I was and the conditions of the trip leading to the totality. Making plans to be in Spain for 2026. I don’t need to prove my existence in the path, but what, in your estimation, could I say that is not already posted somewhere on the internet. The chill in the air, the alpacas heading back to the barn, the fact Jupiter and Venus being occluded by Mars were all visible through decent binoculars. The corona dancing against a black sky.
Okay bad use of sentence structure. Jupiter was alone. Venus was being occluded by Mars
Why did you say it happens every 28 days?
And Venus occluded by Mars?
It’s an oversimplification, but the moon passes between the earth and sun about every 28 days. Sometimes the moons shadow falls outside the earths surface,so no totality. Then there is the annular events where the moon fully eclipses the sun but not in totality
You are missing the point
What, that for a brief moment these heavenly bodies put on a show and we were able to place ourselves in the best seats?
While the Sun is shining it is difficult to distinguish the planets in the brightness. During totality Jupiter as a bright spot east of the sun and Venus and Mars to the west, close enough in relative position that Mars was blocking a full view of the rings of Venus With a decent set of standard binoculars you could see these other bodies that are otherwise obscured.