• Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
    171·
    6 days ago

    It’s uncanny and special for someone to be looking the other way during an eclipse.

    It’s so short and a rare enough even that would make earth a tourist hotspot for extraterrestrials if there ever was interplanetary tourism.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      It’s uncanny and special for someone to be looking the other way during an eclipse.

      During the two minutes of totality I tried really hard to take in as much as I possibly could. The light was very weird the entire time and because I wasn’t looking at the sun and moon when it happened, I saw the weird wavey shadow things as totality ended. Absolutely incredible experience and I highly recommend everyone experience it at least once in their life!

    • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Unless it was an annular eclipse, or it was a total eclipse and they weren’t in the path of totality. Then this is all they would see. Regardless without eclipse glasses you shouldn’t look at either eclipse at all.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I witnessed a partial one, with eclipse glasses. Still I didn’t have the time or observational talent to notice the effect on the shadows

    • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      You only see this during the partial stage of the eclipse, not during totality, which can last a long time.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        I witnessed a partial eclipse, didn’t notice the shadow effect. I might pay attention next time…