It’s like hearing vs. seeing fireworks
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joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe annular one over north America? Because it was annular. While a cool event it is really a specific kind of partial eclipse. Totality is incomparable to even a 99% partial eclipse. I heard it described as the difference between mostly dead VS dead and recently I’ve seen the xkcd comic that does a decent job conveying the difference too.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
xkcd.com/2914
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I didn’t get it… What is 91% speciality
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you didn’t know, you’d expect a 91% eclipse to almost look like a full eclipse. But the sun is so bright that it still looks like day at 91%. You might not even realize there is an eclipse unless you looked at it with glasses.
When I saw it two days ago, even at 99% everything still looked normal. It was only a tiny bit darker outside. You still needed to use glasses to see that an eclipse was happening.
When it hit 100% it was like lights being turned out in a room. In place of the sun was a giant black disk with a multicolored glow around it and a bright red spot (solar flare was happening at the time).
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Thank you