Remembering the Great American Eclipse 1 year ago
Taken by Giorgio Rizzarelli on April 8, 2024 @
Eagle Pass, Texas, USA
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Remembering the Great American Eclipse 1 year ago (April 8, 2024) in Texas. Trip by me and a friend from Centro Studi Astronomici Antares Trieste (Italy) and four from near Rijeka (Croatia) Universitary Astronomical Association celebrating the 50th year. Since sky was almost overcast many Americans gave up (traffic on highways was pretty normal) but we persevered. A webcam revealed a slightly better weather in a location near Mexico border, called Eagle Pass, in center of shadow strip. In the last minutes before totality, due to the wind caused by the eclipse itself, the clouds opened up to a veiled sky in the Sun direction. It was veiled but enough to see and photograph the event, in key moments among the 4.5 minutes of totality, including the start of the event: in a fraction of second the Sun became a black disc with Baily's beads. Thanks to the veiled sky the prominences appeared to eye in their real red color, rather than bright saturated pink. We felt gentle wind gusts (see gif), colder temperatures and birds going silent. No corona, stars and comet (there was a binocular one), but some of us briefly saw Jupiter. Due to clouds the ambient light wasn't much reduced: it was like a twilight, and one of us saw red sky low on horizon (partly seen in the gif), but in all directions. This was the first total solar eclipse for all of us. The strongest emotion for me was the return of the light, with the strongest wind gust, giving me an ancestral feeling of rebirth.
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