That was my first thought the first time I saw a full eclipse. It’s just indescribably awing, ethereal… the lighting change, the mood, the animals reacting, everything. I’d have worshipped that shit too if I saw that in ancient times. I’ve been lucky enough to see two in my life, hoping to at least see a 3rd in my lifetime
Never experienced a full, but even partials can feel “off”. It’s the same sense when the weather’s about to get ugly. Nothing’s obvious, but the lighting, creature sounds, and even the wind isn’t right. And the wind does change during enough of an eclipse, since it’s like dusk cooling.
This was one of the first things that struck me today. Without eclipse shades, the sun looked normal brightness even at 90% but you could obviously feel that its heat output had greatly diminished suddenly.
Partial eclipse is cool, but total is qualitatively different. A shadow sweeps over you and you can now look at the sun, as a ring of light, the corona dancing around it. In contrast to auroras, it’s munch more vivid in person than in photos or videos. It’s absolutely breathtaking and I think more people would travel to see it if they realized.
Yes, the photo was taken yesterday on the twelfth of August in Galicia, what you see is the solar corona, with a smartphone camera, it was taken by a friend with whom I went to see the phenomenon and I think he has an iPhone 16, it is not a professional camera and where we saw it the eclipse lasted 28s, no one is a professional or amateur photographer, so we didn’t mess around with the settings, it was taken in automatic mode
Full totality is really hard to describe and impossible to forget
It’s breathtaking; one understands why the sun was worshipped in ancient times.
That was my first thought the first time I saw a full eclipse. It’s just indescribably awing, ethereal… the lighting change, the mood, the animals reacting, everything. I’d have worshipped that shit too if I saw that in ancient times. I’ve been lucky enough to see two in my life, hoping to at least see a 3rd in my lifetime
Never experienced a full, but even partials can feel “off”. It’s the same sense when the weather’s about to get ugly. Nothing’s obvious, but the lighting, creature sounds, and even the wind isn’t right. And the wind does change during enough of an eclipse, since it’s like dusk cooling.
This was one of the first things that struck me today. Without eclipse shades, the sun looked normal brightness even at 90% but you could obviously feel that its heat output had greatly diminished suddenly.
Partial eclipse is cool, but total is qualitatively different. A shadow sweeps over you and you can now look at the sun, as a ring of light, the corona dancing around it. In contrast to auroras, it’s munch more vivid in person than in photos or videos. It’s absolutely breathtaking and I think more people would travel to see it if they realized.
Even this picture doesn’t do it justice. It gets way darker outside than that picture shows, and kind of all of a sudden.
This is an annular eclipse, not the same as a total eclipse.
Annular eclipses are never safe to view without eye protection because the moon isn’t close enough earth at that time, to fully block the sun.
No, if the picture was taken on the 12th of august 2026, then it was a total eclipse. The camera was just not good enough to properly capture it.
Yes, the photo was taken yesterday on the twelfth of August in Galicia, what you see is the solar corona, with a smartphone camera, it was taken by a friend with whom I went to see the phenomenon and I think he has an iPhone 16, it is not a professional camera and where we saw it the eclipse lasted 28s, no one is a professional or amateur photographer, so we didn’t mess around with the settings, it was taken in automatic mode
1986?
Those bronzies are going for the gratis skin cancer, what a deal!
The pic above could have been taken on any Mediterranean beach this weekend, full of Germans and English as red as crabs.
Where I was it was 90% covered and the lighting got really weird. Cameras couldn’t really capture it.
Exactly. The shadows start looking weird, too
It was a dim light, yet sharp shadows. It was so odd. We had a bit of cloud cover, but even then the darkness was very noticeable.
when we got it, i didn’t expect the sky to be dark for hours. the partial eclipses i’d seen were over in 15-30 minutes.