I couldn't have said it better Chuck. I was in the totality of the same
eclipse while living in Savannah, GA. Absolutely awesome and somewhat
humbling. I agree about not taking a camera. It'll never do justice to the
vision and sensation one will experience. Several years later, 1984 or
1985, I experienced a partial eclipse while living in Atlanta, GA. It was
plenty bright outside but the words "nuclear winter" immediately came to
mind. I'd never before, nor since, seen light that eerie.
Gary
big snip
> If you've ever watched a partial solar eclipse the run-up to the main
> event is rather pedestrian... that is, until you get close to totality
> and the tepmerature starts to drop, birds stop chattering, dogs stop
> barking, shadow bands go skittering over the ground and Bailey's beads
> appear on the periphery of the moon.
>
> Then, BANG!! Suddenly the lights go out, the stars get switched on,
> near the horizon it's sunrise/sunset for 360 degrees around you and the
> sun suddenly is a moon sized black hole surrounded by streaming flares
> of red and blue several times its diameter.
>
> Well, I'll tell you I never got another shot off during all of totality.
> You could have knocked me over with a feather. I stood there with my
> mouth hanging open suddenly understanding the awe with which the
> ancients must have viewed this apparition. If I were to do it again I
> wouldn't even take a camera except maybe to shoot the crowd. The view
> is overwhelming and too much of a spectacle to bother taking photos.
> Buy them from someone else afterwards.
>
> But don't miss it. I think it's the most spectacular thing I've ever
> seen in my entire life. Too bad it was only 3-1/2 minutes.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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