LibertyBell

Venus on one side and Jupiter on the other side.

That's natural because all life on earth is adjusted to sun as our "white balance" but it's interesting that G type stars like the sun are considered yellow on the H-R diagram. It's also interesting how life on planets that orbit other stars would see different colors-- for life on a planet that orbits a red star for example, that red star would be "white". Any plants on such a planet would be a different color too-- likely purple. On earth, green maximizes the energy available from photosynthesis while on a planet that orbits a red star, purple would be most efficient in converting that sun's light into energy.

Imagine if the moon actually had rings like Saturn does, you'd experience multiple flashes before the real eclipse.

It's why I liked the idea of making it a national holiday

I see that here a lot living near JFK airport, it's the oddest feeling when an airplane eclipses the sun it creates a "flash shadow" that confuses me for a second until I realize what happened.

I figured you have to be in space to know what the sun really looks like. Because here colors are refracted and scattered by earth's atmosphere.

Did you forget about mid March lol?

I've always wondered if these colors are real, or the colors we see with our eyes and with cameras are real. In pictures it always looks pink and the sun is yellowish. Here, everything looks red.

I wonder what the corona looked like from there

I think that 2045 one in Miami is a much better bet than the 2079 in NYC-- note how early in the morning that one is.... 10 minutes after sunrise, you'd have to be near a place that had a body of water to the east to see it. Since Miami is the "sixth borough of New York City" the one in 2045 should count as a NYC eclipse.

Yeah it's why I want to know what camera and lens he used lol

I wonder if the corona was visible from there with all those clouds around?

Looks like they weren't so cloudy after all

definitely no cell phone pic

Bats too

There's a total solar eclipse in Iceland in August 2026, considering it?

Orlando is the place to be for the 2045 eclipse

I hope we're alive for it. I have a lot of family in Orlando, I could visit them. Orlando has totality for over 6 minutes!

That's like the rain/snow line staying 5 miles south of you during a 30" snowstorm!

well before that NASA will be creating artificial solar eclipses, I'm sure. ESA is working on that already

how do you know it wasn't 100%? There is still a little imprecision with these calculations

what are those trails around the sun? airplane contrails?

ended up going to Watertown, because Syracuse was too iffy.

why not Burlington?

Why didn't Amtrak start running extra trains? It would have alleviated a lot of the traffic. They should have been running a train every hour today like the LIRR does. Divert them from other lines if need be. Today should have been declared a national holiday, shut everything else down and divert all mass transportation to areas of totality.