I felt the same way.
I was *emotional*, which was not something anyone warned me would happen.
We didn't go this time around, but I'm already planning on seeing the one in Iceland in a couple years.
Same! I was outside with my partner because our little town was thankfully *right* inside the umbra. We witnessed totality and i got the biggest lump in my throat. It was just so mesmerizing. Almost felt like a perspective shift.
What gets me is thinking how prehistoric people must have felt as this ominous black thing suddenly rips the sun out of the sky. Like something is really wrong. Not normal levels of wrong (like a thunderstorm or intense hail). But a whole new level of wrong that was previously unknown.
Yeah I got emotional watching everyone on TV getting stoked about it. I think it’s that millions of people joined together to experience something joyful. We knew when it would end. Unlike with COVID, we experienced it together but it was very unknown. Just shows, turn to nature when in chaos
I knew there was a little prominence peaking out the south end of the sun, like an orange dot compared the white Corona, but I couldn't get a decent photo of it, only visible with the naked eye.
so this is crude but it was an ioptron tracking mount with a 400mm prime lens on a canon DSLR controlled by macOS software (called CaptureEclipse)
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Cool! You got fantastic results. I got started too late to buy CaptureEclipse, so I ended up hacking up ptp control code in python with a manual geared tripod head.
Incredible! We were only able to see glimpses of the totality through clouds, which was magical and awe-inspiring, but didn't leave much time for photography.
