Witnessing the Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024
I invited my family to see the April 8 eclipse, and we found a place on a bay in the St. Lawrence River. We had ourselves a grand little reunion up there on the Canadian border, and a great couple of days together. And we got to see a total eclipse, a first for each of us. We had a dramatic view of the Moon's shadow rolling in and out. Clouds came in just before the eclipse, dimming the Sun considerably and sometimes blocking it altogether, but we got a glimpse of the solar corona. Venus is visible in the video below after the 3-minute mark, but we never saw the "Devil Comet" Pons-Brooks, Jupiter, or any other planet or star. We had about three minutes of totality. It got cold! I had to get some long sleeves before totality, but went back to bare arms soon afterwards. Someone howled at the Moon's shadow, and we howled back. Totality is much darker than you see in virtually all pictures and videos, including ours. When I turned around to film the people and houses on ...