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12 minutes to Second Contact686 viewsSeems like the Moon has a long way to go to annularity - will it make it in time?
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Totality 2686 viewsIf you look closely, a prominence can be seen at approximately 9 o'clock on the disk of the eclipsed Sun.
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Sunset, 7:57 PM684 viewsThe unfiltered setting Sun.
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First contact plus ~45 minutes682 viewsAbout 3/4 through pre-totality.
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Post-Totality 3680 viewsThe Sun hits the horizon, about a quarter through post-totality.
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About 20 minutes after First Contact680 viewsA big chunk of the Sun is gone already.
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Post-Totality 2680 viewsBut at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
- Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
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Totality 3679 viewsA longer exposure shows up the corona somewhat better. We are now approaching the end of totality.
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Pre-Totality 9679 viewsAnd Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land
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Totality minus 15 minutes677 viewsC2 - 15 min 23 sec
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Pre-Totality 3674 viewsTo feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
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Second Contact673 viewsFirst contact plus 16 minutes - Venus has now "detached" itself from the Sun's rim and is heading inward.
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