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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