34 photos that show the wonder of solar eclipses around the world

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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/17/16136692/solar-eclipse-2017-photos-glasses-history-nerds

34 photos that show the wonder of solar eclipses around the world
Don’t worry about your nerdy eclipse glasses. These people didn’t.
Updated by Kainaz Amaria and Brian Resnick | Aug 20, 2017, 11:56am EDT

The moment the moon covers the sun in a total solar eclipse, everything goes silent. Then, “you hear people saying: ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,’ and they just say it for three minutes,” says Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist who has been to 27 total solar eclipses. “Others are totally speechless. Some people might even be praying. Others, just tears of joy running down their cheek.”

Huge crowds are expected for the total solar eclipse that will cut a path across the United States on August 21, and for many, it’s sure to be a powerful communal experience. “For a brief minute, everybody is doing the same thing at the same time,” Rhonda Coleman, an eclipse chaser from Bend, Oregon says. “It makes you feel a part of the Earth. It makes you feel a part of the cosmos. It makes you feel a part of every single person you're standing there with. Just for a brief time, we're not separate, we're all the same.”

People have been observing eclipses together for as long as humans have been on Earth. They occur about once every 18 months, and can pass through any country on Earth.

Below, find some of our favorite photos of people around the world, donning protective eyewear, looking through pinhole projections, wearing ridiculous boxes, or gazing through protective film. (Though note: X-ray or camera film is not sufficiently dark to completely protect your eyes.)


President and Mrs. Coolidge, White House, Washington, DC, 1925 Library of Congress


Maywood, Illinois, 1963. Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images


France, 1999. Yves Forestier/Sygma via Getty Images


Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia, 2016. Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

[we can do it]

1. Protection is needed unless during totality.

[Control-Z]

2. I am so disappointed in myself.

I could have pushed family members to plan something for viewing the total eclipse together.

I'm in So Cal so I will only see 60% (if I can find a pair of glasses to even watch). But my daughter and her family live in SLC. They will get a 90% view from their back yard. We could have found a spot to meet probably just a few hours from her. We all drive to meet up in Vegas often enough. This would have been a lot more exciting!

Thank you for the post. The pictures are great!

[SoCalDem]

3. Mazatlan in 7 years...start planning

http://moonblink.info/Eclipse/eclipse/2024_04_08


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