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Total Solar Eclipse
Purkinje Effect during the 2024 total solar eclipse (Moose River/Jackman, Maine area)—April 8, 2024. Under this phenomenon, peak luminance shifts toward the blue end of the color spectrum. One can visibly see this shift at the Moon’s border.
Slowly, surely, as we sat [on the summit of Pike’s Peak in Colorado] watching, the moon crept on. The light of the Sun grew pale and gray. All yellow rays seemed to fade out of it, and the face of nature and of man took on a ghastly pallor. Two or three minutes before the totality of the eclipse the whole landscape before us was bathed in this cold white light. Then the gloom began to shroud the mountain tops—peak after peak was lost in shadow, and when it reached the plain it seemed to become a solid, palpable body of darkness, rising up in a great wall—not creeping, but rushing on with might and power… The face of the Sun was veiled. The heavens were dark…
—Mrs. Aubrey H. Smith’s description of the July 29, 1878 total solar eclipse
More than a century later, my observation bore remarkable similarity to the above account. By 2 pm EDT, as the onset of the solar eclipse neared, all of the earlier high clouds that had made passage across the sky had vanished. The sky had become perfectly clear in all directions. A gusty breeze had increased in strength.
At 2:18:55 pm, the Moon began cross the plane of the Sun and the eclipse got underway. The temperature began to fall and the wind picked up. Within a few minutes of Totality, the Sunlight grew noticeably dimmer.
Totality commenced at 3:29:50 pm. It was as if one turned off a light at night, instantly plunging oneself into darkness. The gathered people immediately fell silent, creating the impression that the Sun’s light had been the source of their energy. The previously stiff breeze seemed to die off. The temperature grew noticeably cooler from the loss of solar insolation and rapid onset of strong radiational cooling. The air was stripped of its remaining warmth.
Even as the crowd was connected in the experience, the reality that the Earth is little more than a speck in the seemingly endless ocean of an ever-expanding Universe became apparent. One was powerfully reminded that human society for all of its achievements and ambitions is still very small on a Cosmic scale.
During the mid-afternoon darkness, celebratory fireworks were launched in the distance. Although out-of-sight, their sound reverberated across the landscape.
As the total eclipse continued, it seemed that the passage of time itself had been suspended. One need not feel rushed to take in the celestial show. A giant prominence was visible near the bottom of the Moon’s shadow where its silhouette gave way to the white glow of the Sun’s corona.
For 3 minutes and 26.7 seconds, the Moon eclipsed the entirety of the Sun. Once the Sun burst free from behind the retreating Moon’s shadow, the gathered people erupted in applause. The brief but dazzling astronomical performance would leave lifelong memories.
Slowly, surely, as we sat [on the summit of Pike’s Peak in Colorado] watching, the moon crept on. The light of the Sun grew pale and gray. All yellow rays seemed to fade out of it, and the face of nature and of man took on a ghastly pallor. Two or three minutes before the totality of the eclipse the whole landscape before us was bathed in this cold white light. Then the gloom began to shroud the mountain tops—peak after peak was lost in shadow, and when it reached the plain it seemed to become a solid, palpable body of darkness, rising up in a great wall—not creeping, but rushing on with might and power… The face of the Sun was veiled. The heavens were dark…
—Mrs. Aubrey H. Smith’s description of the July 29, 1878 total solar eclipse
More than a century later, my observation bore remarkable similarity to the above account. By 2 pm EDT, as the onset of the solar eclipse neared, all of the earlier high clouds that had made passage across the sky had vanished. The sky had become perfectly clear in all directions. A gusty breeze had increased in strength.
At 2:18:55 pm, the Moon began cross the plane of the Sun and the eclipse got underway. The temperature began to fall and the wind picked up. Within a few minutes of Totality, the Sunlight grew noticeably dimmer.
Totality commenced at 3:29:50 pm. It was as if one turned off a light at night, instantly plunging oneself into darkness. The gathered people immediately fell silent, creating the impression that the Sun’s light had been the source of their energy. The previously stiff breeze seemed to die off. The temperature grew noticeably cooler from the loss of solar insolation and rapid onset of strong radiational cooling. The air was stripped of its remaining warmth.
Even as the crowd was connected in the experience, the reality that the Earth is little more than a speck in the seemingly endless ocean of an ever-expanding Universe became apparent. One was powerfully reminded that human society for all of its achievements and ambitions is still very small on a Cosmic scale.
During the mid-afternoon darkness, celebratory fireworks were launched in the distance. Although out-of-sight, their sound reverberated across the landscape.
As the total eclipse continued, it seemed that the passage of time itself had been suspended. One need not feel rushed to take in the celestial show. A giant prominence was visible near the bottom of the Moon’s shadow where its silhouette gave way to the white glow of the Sun’s corona.
For 3 minutes and 26.7 seconds, the Moon eclipsed the entirety of the Sun. Once the Sun burst free from behind the retreating Moon’s shadow, the gathered people erupted in applause. The brief but dazzling astronomical performance would leave lifelong memories.
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Don Sutherland club has replied to Vodd clubEdna Edenkoben club has replied to Ko Hummel clubUnfortunately, I've never experienced a solar eclipse myself, but Mrs. Aubrey H. Smith's description and yours allow me to empathize with the impressions of the people who were eyewitnesses. Thank you for that.
Thanks
I remember from one time I got to see one how everyone naturally falls silent. The awe of being here and being connected so deeply to the universe seems to land on one all at once.
So glad you made it to a place with clear skies.
Don Sutherland club has replied to raingirl clubraingirl club has replied to Don Sutherland clubWhich computer model did you use? (And indeed, science is remarkable!!)
Don Sutherland club has replied to Diane Putnam clubApplauding the moon and the sun, i.e. astronomical ineluctability, seems to me slightly superfluous. But I understand it, as Laura does, in the light of our re-connection to the universe - and to nature - that we miss so much (the term reliance seems so right to me).
Your impressions and their subjective and societal basis are of essential richness.
And what can I say about your photos, whose detail and expressiveness are more than edifying...
belle semaine Don ! Amitiés♫
Thanks for sharing it, dear Don!
All the best.
TOZ
A wonderful and interesting picture, which I like very much!
Unfortunately I couldn't go to America to see this, but I remember the one in England at the end of last century.. but before the digital age!
Best Wishes, a nice weekend, and stay safe!!
Peter
I remember a total solar eclipse here in Bavaria and the cold caused by the cut of thermic radiation - even birds stopped singing
Three times I was able to experience a total solar eclipse (in good weather ;-) ... always impressive
Freundliche Grüße und eine gute Woche
Erich
I have witnessed three ... in Siberia in 1981, in Indonesia in 1983 and in Hungary/Europe in 1999, each of them a wonderful experience!
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