Eclipse first, the rest nowhere
The cloud cover comes and goes and we may not be able to see any of the broken rings of leaf-light that I remember so fondly from the annular eclipse of 1994, but through the (carefully purchased from the NASA-recommended manufacturer) glasses I can see that a shadow has already bitten the sun. I am off to see how much more it devours before we drive it away into the swinging dance of planetary bodies again. I am wearing my Miskatonic University T-shirt. It seems appropriate to this brush with the cosmos.
[edit] No leaf-rings, but I saw the crescent sun: through eclipse glasses it looked like a hunter's moon. I didn't expect much effect on the afternoon so far out of the path of totality, but it was strange light to walk around in, slightly thickened, slightly smoked, the wrong angle and the wrong color for plain overcast or sunset.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch said it was like someone had dropped a filter over the sun and of course someone had: the moon. We walked to the library and back and intermittently looked up at the sky until the crescent began to widen again and then the real overcast thoughtfully rolled in.
[edit] No leaf-rings, but I saw the crescent sun: through eclipse glasses it looked like a hunter's moon. I didn't expect much effect on the afternoon so far out of the path of totality, but it was strange light to walk around in, slightly thickened, slightly smoked, the wrong angle and the wrong color for plain overcast or sunset.
spatch said it was like someone had dropped a filter over the sun and of course someone had: the moon. We walked to the library and back and intermittently looked up at the sky until the crescent began to widen again and then the real overcast thoughtfully rolled in.
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Oh, nice. I think we were either at the wrong latitude or just slightly too cloudy for the necessary direct sunlight.
A little bit as if the tree was smiling at us; lovely.
Yes! They look like a multiplicity of cats' eyes, closed to crescents with content. I am thinking now of L'Engle's cherubim.
Also scudding clouds visible as shadows through the eclipse glasses, which were fascinating to watch.
I hadn't realized how much the clouds would be a factor in the viewing of the eclipse. At one point we lost the sun in the overcast and were saying things like, "Well, if it went out, we'll find out in about eight minutes when we freeze . . ."