04-08-2024, 05:57 AM
(04-08-2024, 04:54 AM)kalianna Wrote: More like 1971! I once saw an eclipse with 75% of the sun obscured. Had I not known it was happening I wouldnʻt even have noticed it. It looked like a cloudy day. And then thereʻs those pesky clouds around here... Iʻm sleeping in.
I've experienced one total eclipse and a couple of partials. The partials are easy to miss. They are sorta of neat if you can actually see the eclipse but usually the clouds don't cooperate. I saw one that happened right before sunset, I drove to the west coast to get the full view and miraculously the event was unobscured, and the huge orange setting sun had a huge bite taken out of it, but if it was cloudy I'm not sure I would have noticed a difference.
The total eclipse was super cool. Plus I was a kid and a space nerd. Unfortunately the clouds made viewing the actual eclipse only possible on TV and oddly enough that's what most people did- they stayed indoors and watched the eclipse on television. I think it was broadcast on 3 of the 5 channels. I went outside to enjoy it. The sun was mostly obscured by the clouds but I could see the bright disk getting overtaken until it disappeared. The street lights turned on, the crickets started chirping, for all intents and purposes it was just like night time, and before that could get boring, it was over.