A moon made of sun, the solar eclipse in Idaho

in #eclipse7 years ago (edited)

The twilight dim of the solar eclipse's shadow bands darkened as our Earth rotated our vantage of the sun evermore behind the moon, noticeably dropping the outside temperature. My iPhone's camera was unable to capture the eclipsing image through the eclipse glasses that protected my eyes. Luckily, our car was parked in just a way that we could use the side-view mirror to justly capture the event as the sun's light took the shape of the moon.
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When the camera was pointed directly at the post-eclipse a light ray mimicked the trajectory of a shooting star, falsely portraying an even greater celestial harmony. IMG_0973.PNG Source

Finally, and unjustly, the horizon as captured by the iPhone's camera.
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If you didn't experience the eclipse but are reading this and would like a better sense of what it was like, then imagine being able to control the brightness of the sun just as you control the brightness of your computer/phone screen. It felt exactly as if some omnipotent consciousness was doing just that to our day.

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