My first Total Solar Eclipse
Taken by Nunzio Micale on August 21, 2017 @
South Carolina - USA
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Date Taken: 2017:08:22 09:51:35
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On August 21st I observed a phenomenon that I have always dreamed of seeing. Seen and revised through video and images is by no means comparable to what you experience from live, especially if it's the first time you observe a total eclipse of the sun.
Nervousness rises, as you watch the moon touch the edge of the solar disc,anxiety and fear that some cloud can ruin what you expect, increases. You have to be calm and hope everything is fine.
So you calm down and you enjoy the steps through the glasses with the script "Great American Event", and every 5 minutes you have to remember to shoot with reflection a photo at that fleeting moment that only lasts that solitary moment, and if you forget to do so, You can not go back.
The phase advances, our satellite begins to block some of the sunlight, the shadows become more definite, and if you take shelter under a tree to cool down, you realize you have small projections of the current phase on all your body.
But after a while the temperature becomes more pleasant, the danger of perceiving the drop in temperature is obvious, and suddenly you get a breeze that caresses your skin, the so-called "wind eclipse" caused by the lack of solar irradiation that causes Lowering the temperature itself.
The sky darkens, removing the astrosolar filter from the lens, you realize there is only a piece of sun. The shadow is now here. It envelopes me and everyone around me who shouts for amazement. The last rays of the Sun are incredible because they filter through the cavity caverns on the edge of the moon, called "Baily grains." The light then gives way to a crown that takes shape from nothing and surrounds the lunar disc.
The sky is now dark, with a particular color that at a minimum can be like twilight, the crown shines, it is also possible to see the colors of lights coming from the chromosphere and the atmosphere of sunburns.
In those two minutes and 36 seconds one becomes a machine that simultaneously photographs and enjoy that unique show. Suddenly it opens up a huge ray, a diamond of light, it almost blinds you with its indescribable beauty.
The crown disappears, you put the glasses, but you realize everything is blurred because of the tears you have in your eyes.
Nunzio Micale
18 years old
Photographer's website:
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