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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:14:04 -0500
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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.