Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:17:00 +0000 Subject: Re: What Made My Day Today? :-) Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy References: From: % Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 15:17:01 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240408-6, 2024-4-8), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: Lines: 57 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-VFRWl42nl/ZjkA44l+sWG9KwbX4izVKXX91BPc9SrgLfvUlUUsaDWvFH3nvqH9IjEjxWbljIxmzQbg+!WEnh9lK/gTKBaJBIilUAVak8/Fz6vkWroxGrgV8GgXXMu/9bOq99lB56o9pXrWZ+T7oykhlfFOHz X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4696 Physfitfreak wrote: > > > It was great :) > > 5 full minutes of total eclipse. My first time in my life. It had to > come right above me for me to see it, as I wasn't that crazy about it to > travel. > > I was at the parking lot of a grocery store when it began to become > really dim. Then together with a bunch of people we waited till it > comes. Others had paper glasses for it but I could not find my very dark > sunglasses, so I had to just wait till it becomes total, then it lasted > at least 5 minutes! > > Two Mexican little shitters were watching it and going this way and that > way with their paper glasses and getting excited and stuff like, "Del > sol este mucho pequito!" They were just before school age, so they > weren't at that time of the day in school. I bet those in schools had > all sorts of programs arranged for them to observe it. > > There were two exceptional features about this occasion that I noticed. > The perceived diameter of the Moon was larger than that of the Sun, so > duration of total eclipse was pretty long and almost the maximum that it > can get, taking the moods of everything around right into 10 pm at > night, causing store signs and street lights automatically come up. > Another thing was the size of the amazing corona despite the fact that > part of it also was covered by Moon (chromosphere was totally missing of > course - you'd see that in annular eclipses). It was much larger than > the pictures of solar eclipse one finds in books. Sun is near its > maximum and therefore those areas around it have vastly expanded. I > tried to see if I could catch any movements, I saw a few slow movements > but it was by all probability the very thin cloud of various thicknesses > drawing a random movement inside the corona. > > Also it happened when Sun was almost vertically up (1:40 pm DST local > time - 12:40 pm regular time), so much less atmosphere was blocking the > way. > > The intensity of light in the corona was like you were looking at the > regular Moon (no dark glasses needed). But as soon as an intensely > bright dot appeared at a spot on the diameter of the black Moon, I had > to stop seeing the event and walked inside the grocery store. If I had > my very dark sunglasses, I would watch much more before and after the > total phase. > > Also I forgot all about it that I had placed my powerful binocular in > the gloves compartment of the car to use it for this occasion :) The > scene had taken my attention (and breath) totally away. So I missed > using it. People were filming and photographing it, etc. But those stuff > would take my attention away. > > It was still great. > > not totally away , don't tell me , it took these things totally that is so rad