#I also didn't wear sunscreeen and got a bit moonburnt
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I don't know how to describe the moment of totality starting. All of the lights around us, including the ones lighting the statue I rested against, had turned on 60 seconds beforehand. The sun still, still shined down on us, but it was dark out, like an ending sunset with the ball of fire still hanging above us instead of falling behind the trees.
And then the thin strip of orange I viewed through my eclipse glasses vanished. Yet I still could not look to the sky without them. For a few seconds, the rays still shined down around the gluttonous moon and upon us. But as I glanced up and away and up and away, I glimpsed the outline of the moon beside the dim, blinding sun as it moved the last few miles through space to reveal the sky's splendor.
#solar eclipse#eclipse#April 8th 2024#4/8/2024#I also didn't wear sunscreeen and got a bit moonburnt#oops#It was beautiful#The corona of the sun glowed around the moon at totality#The sky closest to the moon and sun was dark#but the horizon still shone in an orangeish-blue light#like the side of sunset where the sun is falling#but all around us#upon further research what I described in the post above may have been the diamond ring effect
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