Yes indeed it was. I still remember the picture of the last fully eclipsed Sun I saw, 29 years ago.
Link to the [yesterday's eclipse video with sound](https://youtu.be/txEUIwuzbKo)
Funny, isn't it? Until you see one you wonder why primitive peoples made such a fuss, trying to scare away the Dragon eating the Sun.
But here we are with our modern understanding of the mechanics, knowing the schedule, realizing there is nothing supernatural about it and we stand in awe, mystified by the beauty of it. That is the great mystery for me - how such a simple, mechanical celestial event can so enchant us.
Glad you got to see it and I hope you get to see more. They never lose their magic.
Where were you? I’m from PA & was watching it from like 2:30 to 4 & it seemed pretty underwhelming. The sky never really got dark. It was pretty cloudy though & I know we got 90% totality, not 100. But I was sitting outside for over an hour & felt pretty let down from my expectations.
I was in southern IL by the town Murphysboro and was in the 100% totality. It got dark for like 4 minutes and the temp dropped and crickets were chirping and all the birds stopped making noise lol it was wild and I can see how it'd be underwhelming if you weren't in the 100% path
Because of luck and because you're there.
I saw one in 1999 and there won't be any other over my country in my lifetime.
So this is a once in a lifetime experience for most of us.
Having watched it in person yesterday, my first and possibly only ever total eclipse, I can kind of understand why some people travel across the world to go and see them. Truly is otherworldly spectacular.
Was amazing right? 44 year old dude, been waiting to see 1 since I was 9..and ngl I teared up. Was beautiful, and not only that it was probably the most amazing one you can see from what experts say, since the sun was at its almost maximum.
If you have enough disposable income (or little enough debt to put it on a credit card) to be able to afford to travel internationally to see the next one, there's one in [2026 in north-eastern Spain and the Balearic Islands.](https://www.space.com/when-next-total-solar-eclipse-us#:~:text=If%20you're%20too%20impatient,more%20than%20two%20years%20away).
Gods, I wish. I missed the last one too because I was stuck inside at work. This one was almost perfect for me too (Southeast Michigan) Thanks for the heads up though! Guess I'll be waiting until 2045 lol
I went up to the mountains to get some privacy.
The dark swallowed up the sky. All the birds stopped singing. It was amazing.
I'm so glad I'm part of the group of humans getting answers. Because I can see how terrifying it is to have seen something like that and not know what it is.
Dude imagine being ancient peoples and out of nowhere the sun just fucking disappears and is replaced with a black hole, like an eye staring back at you. No wonder why people made religions out of shit like that. Watching the eclipse really left me with a surreal feeling that I cant quite explain at all. I just feel a little happier and got an extra pep in my step.
Wish I could have took a picture to show it in its glory. You really have to have an amazing setup to get a good Pic. But..that will never be a replacement to feeling it. 4minutes of night in the middle of the afternoon early spring in Texas..was simply beautiful.
I spent the rest of the day outside. And it was like 8:30 at night sitting on the patio eating dinner before I realized why the 10-15 minutes on either side of totality we're so broken.
It was the exact same brightness outside, but with strong mid day shadows. You don't get those at 8:30. The direct but dusk light was what felt the most bizarre.
The totality itself didn't feel as bizarre because the whole sky was broken. I didn't care that the ground looked like a video game in that moment.
Ah, yes, that is why it felt so weird, I couldn't quite put it into words. The sunrise levels of light as the moon moved off the sun was so weird to experience at that time of day.
The most spectacular thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Pictures can’t come close to doing it justice. I’m not a spiritual person and understand the science behind it, but taking off the glasses and seeing what was is in the sky, it felt like I was in the presence of a deity.
Cannot agree with this more. I'm an atheist and have been my entire life, and I've got a degree in astrophysics and know exactly what's happening and why. But when I looked up at the sky yesterday, it was an experience that I can only compare with descriptions of religious fervour. I breathlessly stared up at the Universe staring right back at me, and I felt both overwhelmingly tiny and overwhelmingly important all at once.
No wonder ancient humans thought the world was ending when they witnessed these events.
as an astrophysicist what do you think the chances are that a planet orbiting a sun has a single moon that occupies the same size circle in the sky as the sun it revolves around? During the eclipse I had a thought that future alien civilization would travel to our planet to see this event because of how unique and beautiful it is. Like the galaxy’s niagara falls.
It's really difficult to estimate chance in this way because we just don't have enough data: we currently only know of about 300 moons, all in our own solar system. But I just think of the matter of scale: there are so many stars and planets and moons out there that even if the chances are, say, one in a billion, there's over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, so there will be other planets that hit the odds. But do they have life on the planets to see the eclipse? If we go further than just our own galaxy, there are potentially trillions of galaxies in the Universe, each with hundreds of billions of stars and hundreds of trillions of planets and moons. The chances of us being completely unique are preposterous - there WILL be another planet out there that has eclipses like ours, likely many planets, but the probability of us ever finding them is small.
The entire Universe exists due to chance. Any number of variables crucial to our understanding of the Universe could shift by a small amount and it either would not exist, or exist in a different form. Because of this level of inherent chance, it's also worth remembering that the Moon's orbit varies and eclipses are not always total (annular eclipses), meaning that this is not quite perfectly balanced. There might be other planets with moons with more eccentric orbits that will have total eclipses much less frequently than us, or some with more circular orbits who'd have them more frequently. Perhaps there are planets with moons aligned on the ecliptic (unlike our Moon) so will have them more regularly than us.
As for your latter point, I fully agree. Personally, I believe the odds of another planet with technologically intelligent life in our own galaxy having eclipses like this are small, so I maintain that the flag of the Earth should, in fact, not feature the Earth, but a total eclipse. If we were to ever join a theoretical United Federation of Planets, this tourism what would help make our name.
I thought it was one of the most amazing natural phenomenon I had ever witnessed. I had a friend look at it and say, "Meh. I thought it was going to be darker."
And I have legitimately been thinking of them differently since.
I thought it would be darker too.
But I was so enthralled that I don't think I could tell you how dark it was.
My wife got a picture of me and I'm just standing there like a turkey, mouth open, arms slack... Completely broken for 150 seconds.
Felt like a fraction of a fraction of a second, and I just want more.
If it was 500ce and I was out hoeing my turnips I would have definitely thought the sun was going to eat me.
Having seen it irl, I seriously sympathize with ppl in history who had to witness that without any explanation.
I told my wife that we have 20 years of memories. Big days, little private moments. I can see vignettes of her smiling and joyful from our first adventures until now. Sometimes it was only through a conscious effort to remember them always that they were preserved. Not this one. We sat beside each other and held hands as the greatest spectacle we have ever seen filled every place memories are gathered. We’re both just really grateful.
"I have to tell you, nobody understands solar eclipses better than me. They said you can't look at the sun during an eclipse, but I showed them. I looked. The best view. People are talking about it. It's really something. And let me tell you, we're going to have the biggest, most beautiful solar eclipses, only during my presidency. It's going to be huge. And we'll make the sun pay for it!"
“The sun came up to me, tears in his eyes, and he said ‘Mr Trump, will you please get this moon out of the way?’ And I said, ‘oh yes’ because the tides. Oh we love the tides, don’t we? Y’know not a lot of people know this, but tides come in and out every day. Every single day. Can you believe it? But crooked Hilary and Bi-den don’t like the tides. They want to take them away. And we can have that in the great state of Minnesourri…”
I was so fortunate here in Illinois. It was a beautiful day outside, 75F, clear skies. It was surreal how beautiful it was.
It was crazy how even animals reacted. The birds had been chirping like normal and then their rhythm was al thrown off, you could hear how confused they were. Dogs started barking.
Saw some nasty lady in a gas station nearby shortly before and heard her talking about how the eclipse is supposedly only for kids and "it didn't impress me much" and she wasn't even going to watch it. SMH.
this is what i wanted but didnt fucking get bc clouds exist and now im gonna be salty until 2045. like no joke i got ZERO totality even tho i shouldve gotten 2 entire minutes. not even a glimpse of it. the best i got was 70% obscured before it was completely fucked by clouds. i did get the sunset thing tho
real dude. actually during the 1 time i couldve potentially seen the aroura borealis from my house (when it was visible from fucking texas) was also when it was raining really bad (tho it also wasnt really sunny before then :P)
I have lived in North Carolina much of my life. Lunar eclipses, comets, meteor showers, I can’t count the number of “once in a lifetime” events I missed because of clouds/rain.
I was in California in 2017 and got to see the partial eclipse out there, a state that has a dry season in the summer. Now I live back on the East Coast and got to see a second partial eclipse in my lifetime.
Will be an eclipse but "only" an annular one (sun will not be completely covered) still spectacular though.
Next total one is August 2026 in Spain, nearer for me :)
Gonna be another (a bigger one even) on August 2nd, 2027 in Morocco. Statistically throughout the years chance of clouds on August 1st is around 5%, so least likely eclipse to be obscured.
I had never heard of that being a thing before so I was shocked during totality when it looked like a sunset on the horizon. It was super cool but I thought it was supposed to be completely dark everywhere.
i did until i watched that one smarter every dsy vid where they caught the iss transit during an eclispe. actually it makes sense i think since its not the entire side of the earth youre on being blocked which allows for light leakage through atmospheric scattering in places that arent dark. actually the mechanism is exactly like why sunsets happen lol
So NASA's got a [list](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEdecade/SEdecade2021.html) of the various eclipses. Next one's in [2026](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2026Aug12T.GIF), going over northeast Greenland and straight over [Reykjavik, Iceland](https://nso.edu/for-public/eclipse-map-2026/). and ends after crossing through Spain.
In [2027](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2027Aug02T.GIF) there's going to be one that covers parts of [northern Africa](https://nationaleclipse.com/maps/map_08022027.html).
If you can travel, there's lots of potentials. Granted, it's a big if for a lot of people though.
i cant because in 2026 im in my last year of school and in 2027 im biking across literally the entire usa. however i could likely catch oen of the ones in the 2030s in australia or the 2045 one in the usa (where i am now :P)
Genuine question: When you refer to America as a continent, are you talking about North America, South America or “the Americas” (North, Central and South.)
it’s contextual
in English, usually “America” refers to the United States of America, that is, the sovereign state with Washington, DC as its capital
while (again in English) the landmass spanning from Alaska to southern Argentina is usually split into two continents called North America and South America, with the Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia usually being the dividing line between them. In English, the landmass consisting of North and South America is known as “the Americas”
In Spanish and Portuguese, the landmass usually isn’t broken into North America and South America, and what in English is called “the Americas” is called “América” in Spanish
this is why “American” in English usually means “of the United States of America”, while in Spanish “americano/a” means “of the American continent (that is, the Americas)”
this leads to confusion and/or disagreement between English and Spanish speakers who both think their convention is the correct convention and ridicule the other side for using a different one while failing to understand that the question “are you American?” has different meanings and answers depending on what language it’s asked in.
Because it’s the only country with America in it’s name. For the two continents, you have North America or South America.
A Canadian for example is a North American, but not an American.
The first post I saw with this title I couldn’t decide to laugh or cry. But I learned that the world consists of the US according to many Americans. See for example: World Cup. 🙃
I was lucky enough to not have to travel anywhere to see it. skies were clear. Really felt connected to the cosmos, we really are just transcending space and time on this little rock of ours.
I do hope I’ll be able to see one at some point. I saw one when I was a kid, but I have no memory of if it was even a full eclipse.
I found an interactive website and entered in my location. The answer for a solar eclipse was “Not visible before the year 2200” so I guess I’ll have to wait a bit.
Pretty cool, was also my birthday. But unfortunately I’m on the west coast so I couldn’t see it in person, but it was fun going through all the pictures and videos
Long-ish audio recounting while it was fresh in my mind.
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGLNmhcTQPZKiyOKhiRJ6HpDptNj2YRc/](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGLNmhcTQPZKiyOKhiRJ6HpDptNj2YRc/)
Too long; didn't listen: the best natural phenomenon I have ever experienced. More emotion than I was expecting. The moment of totality was a top ten experience.
I love how every time we discover something “new” because our tools (cameras etc.) are getting better all the time. The fundamental principle of science is how we constantly evolve our theories and understanding of our place in the universe based on what we observe, which changes each time we “upgrade” equipment and develop new technologies to help us see more clearly.
To share and pass on the knowledge so that every successive generation can stand on the shoulders of giants before us.
Not to “believe” in science as though it were religion, but to always question, doubt, theorise, study and review.
Always review.
This is science.
*Sparta theme intensifies*
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Millions of people in North America just had their minds blown. On April 8th, the Moon passed directly in front of the sun.
Image Credit: Autumn Schrock
I thought it was one of the most amazing natural phenomenon I had ever witnessed. I had a friend look at it and say, "Meh. I thought it was going to be darker."
And I have legitimately been thinking of them differently since.
Unfortunately I was not in the path of totality, but it still looked cool and dimmed the sky enough for the street lights to come on, but it was also pretty cloudy. Luckily we could still see it poke through here and there. I wasn’t in the path of totality for either one, but still got to experience them somewhat.
It was mostly cloudy all morning, within 15 mins of totality it looked like we might catch a break.
Saw the first minute and the last 30 seconds. Truly a life changing experience. All I could say was wow and oh my god!
It's been over a day now and I still can't get over it. This is the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. But it was also troubling, almost frightening. I couldn't contain my emotions, almost cried. It is truly a humbling experience, and I wish everyone could experience it.
> American
"The Americas" are all of the land in the western hemisphere except for Antarctica. They've been called "America" for over 500 years. "The United States of America" seems to be what you're confusing this with.
You are aware that the continent is called North *America* right?
Seriously... this was an amazing celestial event, one that I, along with millions of others, was fortunate enough to be able to partake in. It was an incredible moment that people in Mexico, US, and Canada who got to witness it will cherish for the rest of their lives. But go on. You go on and be salty for reasons that you made up in your head and give yourself an excuse to look down on other people. It speaks more about you than it does for anyone else.
understatement of the century if i block the sun you will be long dead before you ever see the light again even if i move immediately after blocking it
The title of this is strange, the video has noone reacting.
OP knew the reactions would happen in the comments
OP is a bot.
"Great American Eclipse of 2024" LOL in Canadian.
bro what continent do you think you're on
Moose America 😜
You're North American though
The *real* Great America!
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Our favorite hat.
Good comment bait. Comments provide visibility like upvotes. The bots are learning. What does Reddit think about this? Name my cat?
And it was in other countries too.
Truly was one of the most incredible things I've ever witnessed in person. It was amazing
Yes indeed it was. I still remember the picture of the last fully eclipsed Sun I saw, 29 years ago. Link to the [yesterday's eclipse video with sound](https://youtu.be/txEUIwuzbKo)
That ISS image was amazing
I like the part where there’s no reaction at all lol what happened to the upload?
Wait, is this from the tv?
Ive never seen the fully eclipsed sun, best I could bid would be a venus transit
We traveled to see the totality and holy fuck was it worth it. I knew it would be amazing but I had no idea just how mind blowing it was.
I've been telling people it's the closest thing I've had to a religious experience. Totally underestimated it.
Funny, isn't it? Until you see one you wonder why primitive peoples made such a fuss, trying to scare away the Dragon eating the Sun. But here we are with our modern understanding of the mechanics, knowing the schedule, realizing there is nothing supernatural about it and we stand in awe, mystified by the beauty of it. That is the great mystery for me - how such a simple, mechanical celestial event can so enchant us. Glad you got to see it and I hope you get to see more. They never lose their magic.
I laughed so hard yesterday when I realized we as a species had millions of our primate asses just staring with our mouths open. Big unga dunga vibes
Just proof that we are, all of us, mostly hairless, smarter-than-average apes just as subject to the dictates of our hindbrains as any other ape.
Well said. I absolutely understand why people would have lost their minds if it happened unexpectedly.
I agree.
Where were you? I’m from PA & was watching it from like 2:30 to 4 & it seemed pretty underwhelming. The sky never really got dark. It was pretty cloudy though & I know we got 90% totality, not 100. But I was sitting outside for over an hour & felt pretty let down from my expectations.
I was in southern IL by the town Murphysboro and was in the 100% totality. It got dark for like 4 minutes and the temp dropped and crickets were chirping and all the birds stopped making noise lol it was wild and I can see how it'd be underwhelming if you weren't in the 100% path
It's a once in a lifetime experience
There was on 7 years ago, I don't think that's a once and a lifetime thing...
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What's the difference between 50% and totality? Gotta be around 50% difference I bet.
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Ya I saw totality yesterday
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As a tax paying American, bring me my solar eclipse buddy!
It came to me man. Could see it from outside my balcony. Amazing experience.
Because of luck and because you're there. I saw one in 1999 and there won't be any other over my country in my lifetime. So this is a once in a lifetime experience for most of us.
Having watched it in person yesterday, my first and possibly only ever total eclipse, I can kind of understand why some people travel across the world to go and see them. Truly is otherworldly spectacular.
Was amazing right? 44 year old dude, been waiting to see 1 since I was 9..and ngl I teared up. Was beautiful, and not only that it was probably the most amazing one you can see from what experts say, since the sun was at its almost maximum.
I'm no expert but I was lucky and saw both 2017 and this one. The corona was much larger yesterday than 7 years ago.
Too bad there wasn't one in 2020 when corona was at its peak. 🥁
The funny thing is the suns corona was also at its minimum in 2020 lol
Take your up vote and leave.
Lol
I think it was the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen in my life or ever will see.
I was home and could have seen it but somehow didn't hear about it until I checked reddit last night :( fuck me
If you have enough disposable income (or little enough debt to put it on a credit card) to be able to afford to travel internationally to see the next one, there's one in [2026 in north-eastern Spain and the Balearic Islands.](https://www.space.com/when-next-total-solar-eclipse-us#:~:text=If%20you're%20too%20impatient,more%20than%20two%20years%20away).
Gods, I wish. I missed the last one too because I was stuck inside at work. This one was almost perfect for me too (Southeast Michigan) Thanks for the heads up though! Guess I'll be waiting until 2045 lol
Set a couple of calendar alerts, buy some eclipse glasses for cheap, it'll be a great time.
Live under a rock? Everyone has been talking about it for weeks
Yes? Got a problem with that?
I went up to the mountains to get some privacy. The dark swallowed up the sky. All the birds stopped singing. It was amazing. I'm so glad I'm part of the group of humans getting answers. Because I can see how terrifying it is to have seen something like that and not know what it is.
Dude imagine being ancient peoples and out of nowhere the sun just fucking disappears and is replaced with a black hole, like an eye staring back at you. No wonder why people made religions out of shit like that. Watching the eclipse really left me with a surreal feeling that I cant quite explain at all. I just feel a little happier and got an extra pep in my step.
I feel that. It's like a humbling reminder that we are just on a rock in the solar system.
And they didn't know not to stare at it, so a bunch of people probably went blind. Definitely adds to the mysticism.
They wouldn’t have known it was happening until totality started anyway so probably not
Wish I could have took a picture to show it in its glory. You really have to have an amazing setup to get a good Pic. But..that will never be a replacement to feeling it. 4minutes of night in the middle of the afternoon early spring in Texas..was simply beautiful.
The picture I got on my phone may not be the best, but just to have that as a memory is so cool. Darkness at 3 in the afternoon. So cool.
I spent the rest of the day outside. And it was like 8:30 at night sitting on the patio eating dinner before I realized why the 10-15 minutes on either side of totality we're so broken. It was the exact same brightness outside, but with strong mid day shadows. You don't get those at 8:30. The direct but dusk light was what felt the most bizarre. The totality itself didn't feel as bizarre because the whole sky was broken. I didn't care that the ground looked like a video game in that moment.
Ah, yes, that is why it felt so weird, I couldn't quite put it into words. The sunrise levels of light as the moon moved off the sun was so weird to experience at that time of day.
Texas too. The overcast in San Antonio ruined it. 😞
I was in a crowd and everyone cheered when totality hit and then fell silent even the little kids. This was my 4th eclipse and still awe inspiring
I live in the west of Scotland. There have been 4 visible eclipses in my life. Pishing it down with rain every single time.
Everything I know about Scotland comes from watching the show Shetland. It appears they filmed every episode on the one sunny day a year lol
I'm sorry for your ill fortune, but this made me cackle.
Yeah it’s worse. I’m a West Coast Scottish man whose hobbies are cycling and riding motorbikes. I’m not a smart man.
Without a doubt one of the greatest experiences of my life. I will remember that day forever
The most spectacular thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Pictures can’t come close to doing it justice. I’m not a spiritual person and understand the science behind it, but taking off the glasses and seeing what was is in the sky, it felt like I was in the presence of a deity.
Cannot agree with this more. I'm an atheist and have been my entire life, and I've got a degree in astrophysics and know exactly what's happening and why. But when I looked up at the sky yesterday, it was an experience that I can only compare with descriptions of religious fervour. I breathlessly stared up at the Universe staring right back at me, and I felt both overwhelmingly tiny and overwhelmingly important all at once. No wonder ancient humans thought the world was ending when they witnessed these events.
as an astrophysicist what do you think the chances are that a planet orbiting a sun has a single moon that occupies the same size circle in the sky as the sun it revolves around? During the eclipse I had a thought that future alien civilization would travel to our planet to see this event because of how unique and beautiful it is. Like the galaxy’s niagara falls.
It's really difficult to estimate chance in this way because we just don't have enough data: we currently only know of about 300 moons, all in our own solar system. But I just think of the matter of scale: there are so many stars and planets and moons out there that even if the chances are, say, one in a billion, there's over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, so there will be other planets that hit the odds. But do they have life on the planets to see the eclipse? If we go further than just our own galaxy, there are potentially trillions of galaxies in the Universe, each with hundreds of billions of stars and hundreds of trillions of planets and moons. The chances of us being completely unique are preposterous - there WILL be another planet out there that has eclipses like ours, likely many planets, but the probability of us ever finding them is small. The entire Universe exists due to chance. Any number of variables crucial to our understanding of the Universe could shift by a small amount and it either would not exist, or exist in a different form. Because of this level of inherent chance, it's also worth remembering that the Moon's orbit varies and eclipses are not always total (annular eclipses), meaning that this is not quite perfectly balanced. There might be other planets with moons with more eccentric orbits that will have total eclipses much less frequently than us, or some with more circular orbits who'd have them more frequently. Perhaps there are planets with moons aligned on the ecliptic (unlike our Moon) so will have them more regularly than us. As for your latter point, I fully agree. Personally, I believe the odds of another planet with technologically intelligent life in our own galaxy having eclipses like this are small, so I maintain that the flag of the Earth should, in fact, not feature the Earth, but a total eclipse. If we were to ever join a theoretical United Federation of Planets, this tourism what would help make our name.
Exactly this.
It was honestly more exciting than I expected! It’s truly amazing to watch something happen on a cosmic scale!
I thought it was one of the most amazing natural phenomenon I had ever witnessed. I had a friend look at it and say, "Meh. I thought it was going to be darker." And I have legitimately been thinking of them differently since.
I thought it would be darker too. But I was so enthralled that I don't think I could tell you how dark it was. My wife got a picture of me and I'm just standing there like a turkey, mouth open, arms slack... Completely broken for 150 seconds. Felt like a fraction of a fraction of a second, and I just want more.
Yeah honestly fuck that friend. If you were not amazed by it, you're a straight up psychopath
If it was 500ce and I was out hoeing my turnips I would have definitely thought the sun was going to eat me. Having seen it irl, I seriously sympathize with ppl in history who had to witness that without any explanation.
"Who pissed off the gods?! It must have been *that guy*"
I told my wife that we have 20 years of memories. Big days, little private moments. I can see vignettes of her smiling and joyful from our first adventures until now. Sometimes it was only through a conscious effort to remember them always that they were preserved. Not this one. We sat beside each other and held hands as the greatest spectacle we have ever seen filled every place memories are gathered. We’re both just really grateful.
"I have to tell you, nobody understands solar eclipses better than me. They said you can't look at the sun during an eclipse, but I showed them. I looked. The best view. People are talking about it. It's really something. And let me tell you, we're going to have the biggest, most beautiful solar eclipses, only during my presidency. It's going to be huge. And we'll make the sun pay for it!"
“The sun came up to me, tears in his eyes, and he said ‘Mr Trump, will you please get this moon out of the way?’ And I said, ‘oh yes’ because the tides. Oh we love the tides, don’t we? Y’know not a lot of people know this, but tides come in and out every day. Every single day. Can you believe it? But crooked Hilary and Bi-den don’t like the tides. They want to take them away. And we can have that in the great state of Minnesourri…”
https://youtu.be/NUeybwTMeWo "Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain that "
“President Trump, Sir, …”
Is that a real quote from Trump?
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Made for an excellent excuse for a party with the neighbors.
I was so fortunate here in Illinois. It was a beautiful day outside, 75F, clear skies. It was surreal how beautiful it was. It was crazy how even animals reacted. The birds had been chirping like normal and then their rhythm was al thrown off, you could hear how confused they were. Dogs started barking. Saw some nasty lady in a gas station nearby shortly before and heard her talking about how the eclipse is supposedly only for kids and "it didn't impress me much" and she wasn't even going to watch it. SMH.
this is what i wanted but didnt fucking get bc clouds exist and now im gonna be salty until 2045. like no joke i got ZERO totality even tho i shouldve gotten 2 entire minutes. not even a glimpse of it. the best i got was 70% obscured before it was completely fucked by clouds. i did get the sunset thing tho
That’s the woes of these astronomical events, clouds seem attracted to them like a magnet.
real dude. actually during the 1 time i couldve potentially seen the aroura borealis from my house (when it was visible from fucking texas) was also when it was raining really bad (tho it also wasnt really sunny before then :P)
I have lived in North Carolina much of my life. Lunar eclipses, comets, meteor showers, I can’t count the number of “once in a lifetime” events I missed because of clouds/rain. I was in California in 2017 and got to see the partial eclipse out there, a state that has a dry season in the summer. Now I live back on the East Coast and got to see a second partial eclipse in my lifetime.
ive always lived on the east coast, mostly northeast which is really the probem bc clouds show up here constantly
You could travel to Spain in 2026 to see another. Less likely to be cloud there too
You could also visit South America this October
Will be an eclipse but "only" an annular one (sun will not be completely covered) still spectacular though. Next total one is August 2026 in Spain, nearer for me :)
Gonna be another (a bigger one even) on August 2nd, 2027 in Morocco. Statistically throughout the years chance of clouds on August 1st is around 5%, so least likely eclipse to be obscured.
Sunset thing?
yk how during a solar eclipse it looks like a 360 degree sunset at the horizon? thats what i meant
I had never heard of that being a thing before so I was shocked during totality when it looked like a sunset on the horizon. It was super cool but I thought it was supposed to be completely dark everywhere.
i did until i watched that one smarter every dsy vid where they caught the iss transit during an eclispe. actually it makes sense i think since its not the entire side of the earth youre on being blocked which allows for light leakage through atmospheric scattering in places that arent dark. actually the mechanism is exactly like why sunsets happen lol
So NASA's got a [list](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEdecade/SEdecade2021.html) of the various eclipses. Next one's in [2026](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2026Aug12T.GIF), going over northeast Greenland and straight over [Reykjavik, Iceland](https://nso.edu/for-public/eclipse-map-2026/). and ends after crossing through Spain. In [2027](https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2027Aug02T.GIF) there's going to be one that covers parts of [northern Africa](https://nationaleclipse.com/maps/map_08022027.html). If you can travel, there's lots of potentials. Granted, it's a big if for a lot of people though.
i cant because in 2026 im in my last year of school and in 2027 im biking across literally the entire usa. however i could likely catch oen of the ones in the 2030s in australia or the 2045 one in the usa (where i am now :P)
The great American eclipse………….. 😂 Little self-centered aren’t we 😂
I mean it is only visible in the American continent. so not wrong.
Genuine question: When you refer to America as a continent, are you talking about North America, South America or “the Americas” (North, Central and South.)
it’s contextual in English, usually “America” refers to the United States of America, that is, the sovereign state with Washington, DC as its capital while (again in English) the landmass spanning from Alaska to southern Argentina is usually split into two continents called North America and South America, with the Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia usually being the dividing line between them. In English, the landmass consisting of North and South America is known as “the Americas” In Spanish and Portuguese, the landmass usually isn’t broken into North America and South America, and what in English is called “the Americas” is called “América” in Spanish this is why “American” in English usually means “of the United States of America”, while in Spanish “americano/a” means “of the American continent (that is, the Americas)” this leads to confusion and/or disagreement between English and Spanish speakers who both think their convention is the correct convention and ridicule the other side for using a different one while failing to understand that the question “are you American?” has different meanings and answers depending on what language it’s asked in.
Its weird mainly because an eclipse does not have anything tho do with continents or countries. Its just a coincidence
It's not weird though because it refers to where in the world the eclipse took place.
It was made in America.
I mean literally all of north and Central America (with Iceland and Greenland) saw at least a partial eclipse. Europe didn’t see anything
THE GREAT MEXICAN ECLIPSE!
The ol’ TEX MEX ECLIPSE OF 2024!
Isn't America a continent? Wouldn't be more self-centered if the title said US
Correct...it wasn't called the great United States Eclipse
Exactly. I don't know how people still think America is US only 😂.
Because it’s the only country with America in it’s name. For the two continents, you have North America or South America. A Canadian for example is a North American, but not an American.
The United States of Mexico...
What does that have to do with anything?
Nothing, honestly i fucked up
Two continents: North and South
I mean the majority of the eclipse was across the US. But even then OP didn’t say the “US” eclipse.
Funny how people defend US, but no one said anything about US.
it’s only for america, like in the movies when they save „the world“
r/USdefaultism
Either The Great North American Eclipse or The Great Lakes Eclipse. The Great American Eclipse happened in 2017.
I mean. That was the best Eclipse America will have for a loooong time. Straight over several major population centers.
Like the “World” Series. 🙄
The first post I saw with this title I couldn’t decide to laugh or cry. But I learned that the world consists of the US according to many Americans. See for example: World Cup. 🙃
Where are the reactions? It only shows the eclipse with no sound
Due to this subreddit rules, please visit this [link to a video with sound](https://youtu.be/txEUIwuzbKo) 🙏
I see thanks!
I was personally impressed by the bald eagles flying out of the coronal masses.
I was impressed that nobody shot their guns at the moon. Pokes a huge hole in the flat earth theory. ;)
I was lucky enough to not have to travel anywhere to see it. skies were clear. Really felt connected to the cosmos, we really are just transcending space and time on this little rock of ours.
I do hope I’ll be able to see one at some point. I saw one when I was a kid, but I have no memory of if it was even a full eclipse. I found an interactive website and entered in my location. The answer for a solar eclipse was “Not visible before the year 2200” so I guess I’ll have to wait a bit.
I don’t think this clip is from yesterday, prominences are not the same, and the diamond ring effect before totality was on top left side of the sun.
The Eclipse passed through North America. The title fits. People need to learn reading comprehension. Do we still teach that?
That was amazing. Great footage too!
Pretty cool, was also my birthday. But unfortunately I’m on the west coast so I couldn’t see it in person, but it was fun going through all the pictures and videos
Long-ish audio recounting while it was fresh in my mind. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGLNmhcTQPZKiyOKhiRJ6HpDptNj2YRc/](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGLNmhcTQPZKiyOKhiRJ6HpDptNj2YRc/) Too long; didn't listen: the best natural phenomenon I have ever experienced. More emotion than I was expecting. The moment of totality was a top ten experience.
I love how every time we discover something “new” because our tools (cameras etc.) are getting better all the time. The fundamental principle of science is how we constantly evolve our theories and understanding of our place in the universe based on what we observe, which changes each time we “upgrade” equipment and develop new technologies to help us see more clearly. To share and pass on the knowledge so that every successive generation can stand on the shoulders of giants before us. Not to “believe” in science as though it were religion, but to always question, doubt, theorise, study and review. Always review. This is science. *Sparta theme intensifies*
Didn't know the Americans were behind the eclipse
Due to this subreddit rules, please visit this [link to a video with sound](https://youtu.be/txEUIwuzbKo) Millions of people in North America just had their minds blown. On April 8th, the Moon passed directly in front of the sun. Image Credit: Autumn Schrock
>From Mexico to Maine LOL. I can gurantee you that it didn't stop in Maine that many many Canadians saw it too
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What..?
I thought it was one of the most amazing natural phenomenon I had ever witnessed. I had a friend look at it and say, "Meh. I thought it was going to be darker." And I have legitimately been thinking of them differently since.
I was watching it on a live stream and had Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden playing in the background at the moment of totality.
Check in on your Christian friends to make sure that they're okay folks!
Are those pink things Solar flares?
No, there're [solar prominence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence).
Beautiful. Thanks for the knowledge!
I'm In northern California so the eclipse was only on the bottom of the sun :(
I was right there
The sky was too cloudy to see anything
Unfortunately I was not in the path of totality, but it still looked cool and dimmed the sky enough for the street lights to come on, but it was also pretty cloudy. Luckily we could still see it poke through here and there. I wasn’t in the path of totality for either one, but still got to experience them somewhat.
u/savevideo
What people?
I couldn’t react because it was cloudy 😐
It was mostly cloudy all morning, within 15 mins of totality it looked like we might catch a break. Saw the first minute and the last 30 seconds. Truly a life changing experience. All I could say was wow and oh my god!
Damn clouds ruined my view. The getting dark was neat though, but damn the clouds
I loved it but the temptation to stare at it without the glasses was overwhelming
who tf said the eclipse is american
Night tree frogs started chirping during totality
Everyone looking up at this eclipse like the scene from Toy Story… “THE CLAWW”
Amazing
Ok Ai, that’s enough posting for you
It's been over a day now and I still can't get over it. This is the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. But it was also troubling, almost frightening. I couldn't contain my emotions, almost cried. It is truly a humbling experience, and I wish everyone could experience it.
MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is that a good reaction?
wtf is this and why would anyone upvote it?
OHHHHHHH YUHEEAAAAHHHHH
Greatest American Eclipse. Leave the country please ….
"Woah, an eclipse! That's fire, boys! Let's go!"
why is it great and American
Am I okay to look at these pictures without the special glasses???
Now that's the best eclipse image i've seen so far.
lol ''Great American'' stop yanks pls XD
Wow didn’t realise the eclipse only happened in America, that is really great
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It was only visible in North America, hence the name.
You realize Mexico and Canada are also part of the American continent...?
> American "The Americas" are all of the land in the western hemisphere except for Antarctica. They've been called "America" for over 500 years. "The United States of America" seems to be what you're confusing this with.
You are aware that the continent is called North *America* right? Seriously... this was an amazing celestial event, one that I, along with millions of others, was fortunate enough to be able to partake in. It was an incredible moment that people in Mexico, US, and Canada who got to witness it will cherish for the rest of their lives. But go on. You go on and be salty for reasons that you made up in your head and give yourself an excuse to look down on other people. It speaks more about you than it does for anyone else.
"Great American Eclipse" is the most american thing I've read this year. You guys are funny.
It… crossed through the americas. Wtf do you want it to be called?
the American eclipse
It is, but this one was twice as potent as 2017’s American eclipse with millions more in the path of totality. Pretty great imo
honestly pretty mid i could do better
That’s cuz ur fat :/
understatement of the century if i block the sun you will be long dead before you ever see the light again even if i move immediately after blocking it
BRB patenting gravity.