U.s. eclipse

[lostforgottensoul]

Are you allowed to post these kind of images?

Anthony said (about pictures of art pieces in a musem) that if I took them on my phone, they are now my pictures and I then am allowed to post. So I would say yes.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Wow! Isn't nature amazing? I'm just blown away! Thank you so much for posting them! It was such an exciting event!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Sorry if any are doubled. I took a lot obviously. Here was our sun here in Orlando:

I don't know if there was any covered but I was amazed I could take a picture of the sun this early in the day. So I think it was much dimmer. Kinda sucks we didnt get any coverage but oh well!

Isn't nature amazing?

Yes it is! I LOVE the green one! They are all so different!

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Thank you for the pictures. I have never seen anything like that before in my life.:D

 

[hodge]

Thank you so much for posting these photos, @lostforgottensoul!!

 

[hodge]

I can't find a link yet, but anyone interested might look for this on the CNN website later. A commentator watched the eclipse from a helicopter over Charleston, SC, and she was fascinating (to me,anyway). She studied ancient cultures and talked a lot about how eclipses in the ancient world affected people and influenced major events like wars. It was kind of like being able to sit in on a class. Sorry that I didn't catch her name.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I will check that out. Can you imagine how ancient people must have felt when the sun was blocked out in the middle of the day?

 

[hodge]

That's one of the things she talked about. Especially in a place like Egypt where they believed the sun was a deity.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Can you imagine how ancient people must have felt when the sun was blocked out in the middle of the day?

They actually said on the news cast that the many thought it was a curse or the gods cursing the land with darkness. Makes sense they'd think that.

 

[Changing4Best]

100% Totality was totally AWESOME. I think it was the most fascinating thing I have ever seen in my life, and I have seen 100% totality once before, when I was 8 yrs old. I am now in my mid-60s. I watched it with the protective glasses until I could see nothing. THEN I looked at it with my own eyes. WOW! I was speechless. I still am. God is so awesome. FOr this to have come together the way it did, He had to have done some really heavy figuring. Then again, He is all powerful and can make something like this happen with the snap of His fingers! One girl said we had a GLOW all around the horizon. I wish I had looked at that. I didn't see it! But I believe her.

I did see the planet, I believe it was Jupiter, to the upper left of the sun/moon. That was while it was at totality.

We had great weather and clear skies. I must admit, though, that the sky was kind of eerie both before and after totality and for quite some time each way. I saw a kind of grayness in the sky at those times. We did not have the ability to see the stars though, because the street lights came on! That ruined it a little, but they are automatic and it was not possible for that to be changed.

 

[EveHarrington]

No totality here, just a little less bright at around 80%. Thought it would be darker!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Apparently Flagler Beach saw partal eclipse. Boo! I would of driven there to see even a partial eclipse. Probably will be the only one I would of seen in my lifetime. It was great to see it on tv though. I had never seen any eclipse before. I may not agree with the "god stuff" but I do agree that nature is amazing. Such beauty all around us.