It all makes sense now.
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It was an awesome day in Ohio. Fourteen of us camping together for a few days. Lots of good food, campfires, and conversation. Weāre staying 2 more nights, we were the anchor and weāre exhausted.
A couple people went home tonight, the 2 and a half hour drive took over 5 hours with the crazy traffic.
These were an old Nikon and a Pixel 6 Pro.
First contact and last contact.
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Amazing!!
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looks like a drawing, a japanese illustration woodblock print. love it.
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LOL!
A video from Montreal that I canāt watch because I live near Montreal. 
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There were two experienced eclipse chasers with all the right gear at our viewing spot in southern Illinois. When they gave their photos a preliminary look at the end, both said it was a solar flare.
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We got about a minute of totality on Sinking Creek in southern MO. Just amazing.
Did anyone else notice the weird shadows after about 80%?
ETA: @anon15383236 sure did
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We were specifically watching for them. They were quite noticeable right before totality
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The Marta Bus eclipsing the implosion of the GA dome is never not funnyā¦ Glad it got a new lease on life as an explanation for the recent eclipse!
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I wish there was some way to capture the eerie quality of the light in the penumbra as we approached totality - especially the impression that the ambient light was being sucked away by a vacuum in the 10-20 seconds before. No photo or video can replicate it.
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I drove from Eastern MD to Willard, OH (picked out by checking the centerline of the path on the NASA map) on the morning of the eclipse, about a 7hr drive with no problems at all. The drive back took 10 hours of gawdawful traffic and Google Maps routing drivers off-road onto single-lane switchbacks for many miles, making a very long day. The 3ā54" of totality made itā¦ ahemā¦ totally worth the trip.
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The trouble now is that I think eclipses are like heroin (Iām only partly joking - I think there are probably similar effects on brain chemistry resulting from a sense of numinous awe) and after this first taste of totality Iām hooked. Iāma be chasing that dragonās tail for a looong time. Any else feel weirdly deflated after it was over?
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I had suffered a similar experience during the 2017 eclipse. We went down to a town Philadelphia, Tennessee and it took us over double the time to drive back to Philadelphia, PA
This year we stayed with family in Columbus, OH and drove an hour north just to avoid some clouds and see it at a scenic lake. We delayed our departure a day and only suffered a minimal bit of traffic after the event this time with the reduced drive. Today is the regular 8 hour drive home which wouldāve been way longer I bet.
Sooo worth it, both times! As everyone has said, total eclipse pales to the descriptions, impossible to fully articulate the utter splendiferous coolness
And yes, there was a bit of odd sadness after the experience; such a high point from the totality to the less exciting wane of the eclipse. That anticipation led to such a goose-bumped highā¦
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[When the Moon Obscures the Sun, How Does Life on Earth Respond? | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Magazine]
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I feel the same way. Thereās such a heightened excitement during the eclipse that of course the moment after, when itās gone, just canāt compare. But that moment, like you said, is so hard to articulate. Itās such a beautiful moment that I want to sit in it longer to see if I can find a way to fully describe it.
My wife is now describing me as an eclipse chaser because Iāve already suggested flying out to see the next one in 2 years. Iāve seen totality twice and itās not enough. Like the beauty of the eclipse, I canāt fully articulate what it is I want to get out of seeing another eclipse. The closest I can get is that itās one of the few moments Iāve experienced in life where weāve collectively accepted that this is a moment we can pause and appreciate. Weāre told to take time to live in the moment or to stop and smell the roses, but the actuality of that (at least in American culture) is the sentiment is bullshit. Always keep moving, be productive, donāt be a lazy ass. But a moment as big as an eclipse is something we agree upon. I feel like Iām chasing moments where itās not just me appreciating that there are things in life worth stopping for.
ETA: correcting errors made by autocorrect
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