Mind-Blowing Phenomena During 2024 Solar Eclipse
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the discoveries from 2024 Solar Eclipse
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0:00 2024 solar eclipse debrief
0:40 New comet found and lost
1:45 Kreutz sungrazers
3:00 Pons Brooks comet
3:35 Shots from outer space
6:00 Gorgeous shots and videos
6:45 Solar prominences
7:40 Baily's beads
8:10 Sounding rocket studies
8:40 "My eyes hurt"
9:40 Solar telescope video
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14:30 What about humans?
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My Aunt passed away the Wednesday before the eclipse. Her funeral and grave side service ended during totality. We saw 99.7% here in Kentucky. It’s not one I’ll forget.
Mein herzliches Beileid.
What a beautiful ending to a life
Sorry for your loss, but wow. None of the attendees will ever forget that!!
Id like to think she planned it that way. Pretty legendary way of shuffling one's mortal coil.
@@FreejackVesa knowing my Aunt, that’s probably exactly what happened, lol.
I got to watch it in my own backyard, 100% totality. Absolutely wild! I had been waiting nearly 15 years since I learned about it, and I'm so glad my children got to see it!
That's so awesome. I saw a total eclipse when I was only 5 years old. 61 years later, it still amazes me.
I got to not see it because the earth got in the way. Unfortunately for us, the eclipse happened at night.
Public information but not covered was the launching of communication technology at the exact time of eclipse. Scheduled in advance for that particular point in time from the lone star state of big hats? Curious if anyone in your neck of the woods witnessed this in observation? Love you and this wonderful site Anton💫
I could have seen it from my backyard too had there not been cloud cover, but not wanting to miss my first chance in 6 decades to experience totality, I traveled in advance to a nearby state with a clearer view.
@@sandrajones1609 "the launching of communication technology at the exact time of eclipse" What? It's covered at 8:10
"Don't look at the sun, unless you're a telescope designed to do so"
Solar telescope: "He mentioned me, he mentioned me!"
Parker Solar Probe's Instagram story be like
Ah another Sentient Robot Machine !!!
Looking at the sun pre-totality and post-totality is a matter of how much energy you allow to get to your eyes. That means that TIME has a big role to play. During and after the diamond ring effect, it starts to be dangerous, but if you look for 0.5 to 0.75 seconds, your retina will be affected for about 3 minutes, but you would have looked at it directly for a short period of time. So it's not cut and dry 'don't look at it, period.' We all have different biology and our retina' fragility to a post-totality light will vary. It's all about total energy. So why are TV stations and people in authority tell us not to look? It's all about liability, inability of children to understand the concept and to some degree, stupidity of some adults. You will not turn blind instantly if you peek for less than a second. However, I can tell you that there is no point in doing it though, there is too much light to witness anything interesting. Keep your eclipse glasses on and see interesting stuff.
Hahahaha funny!
I love the fact that "bears don't seem to do eclipses".
Yeah it's great they fly that low over the earth on their mighty wings that are looking like they were their paws.!
1 minute and 15 seconds of totality was an experience I was lucky to share with both my parents. I'm 35 and they're 62, so it was a really wonderful experience I'm glad we all got to share.
We went to Eternal Flame Falls in NY and got about 5 mins and its crazy
What got me was seeing the big black dot moving across the earth from space. It made me appreciate how bright the sun really is.
Huh? If the sun was smaller, the black dot would be even bigger!
@@siquodThey said how bright not how big 😅
@@backonlazer791 Whoops.
I’ll never get over that shimmering corona. No photograph can come close to capturing that experience.
Right on! That was the most striking part of the experience for me; just a fluid white ring. Hope to see one again in the future!
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Agreed! Also, the naked eye observers within the totality could not come close to capturing the level of detail revealed by the specialized optics used to create the images shown on this video. I enjoy the moment with no equipment and I am thankful for the images in this video
I know exactly what you mean. The best way I can describe it is it's like an organic breathing jewel of the highest clarity. But even then that does no justice to describe what it's truly like. It can only truly be comprehended with the naked eye
@@AldenDoble very poetic description
We were in the path of totality and the ground looked soooo amazing with the weird light during the eclipse it was so fascinating !
Yes!!! That was my favorite part! A 360 sunset at ground level I almost missed it because I was looking up lol. I'm in Ontario Canada
I have a lifelong interest in astronomy and waited my whole life to see a total eclipse; I’ve seen an annular (“ring of fire”) solar eclipse and many partials but never been in the path of totality. But my daughter flew in and we drove from Houston up to a ranch near Waco (within a couple miles of the totality centerline). The clouds cooperated and it was truly amazing. What an amazing experience! At 64, I’m not sure I’ll be able to travel to the next one in 20 years so I’m really glad I checked this box on the bucket list. Totality is so much better than any partial eclipse; even 90%-plus coverage. Highly recommended - please do make the effort if you can! I noted some unusual responses from the animals on the ranch; cows started lowing like it was sunset, horses circled up, etc. Really interesting …
There's another one in a few years
In 2026
Until I saw a totality I couldn't get why it was an item of experiential significance.
Now that I have I can understand why some people will go to so much trouble and expense for a few minutes of totality.
You Will Make it To The Next One and Beyond , I Personally Tell My Children That I Will Be around Raising Hell at 365 Years From Now , We Must Fight The Good Fight for as Long as God Grants Us Health and Breath , Do Not Go Silently Into That Good Fight For You are an Instrument of God and Your Mission with Your Fellow Souls !!! Chin Up Proudly and Never Doubt Your Faith and Possibilities That Lay Within Yourself !!!!
Anton, you've changed my life with knowledge! I couldn't be more grateful! ❤❤
What a great thing to hear! The easiest way to keep young is to stay curious.
We got to watch this eclipse from our back yard with 100% totality, but back in 2017 we went down to Kentucky for it and we ended up in a park near a neighbourhood that had chickens, and as soon as the eclipse passed all the roosters started crowing! It was pretty funny.
There are a few 40' tall cedars in my apartment's backyard filled with birds. They were making their usual racket until the eclipse darkened, then few to no peeps until the sun returned. The thing I found the most interesting about the eclipse is the color shift over the last minute before and first minute after. Wish I had filmed that instead of over-exposed sun shots with a bunch of internal reflections from the filter stack.
Me too!! We got 2 min 40 sec
Thank you Anton!
I’ve seen a lot of great pictures of yesterday’s eclipse, but none representing what I experienced.
It’s so much more than an
image of the sun being blocked by the moon. Until totality, the changes in light, shadow, and temperature are subtle and gradual, as familiar as an increasingly cloudy day. But in the final seconds, as the last 1% of the suns direct rays are cut off by the moon, a gentle dreamlike shift in reality suddenly occurs. Nothing can prepare you for it, not even having experienced it before. Instantly it appears to be about 8pm. Nearby objects and people are now barely visible in the deep twilight. Crickets and frogs chirp their soft night rhythms. It’s cold. Up above, a few stars appear and in place of the searing sun is an incomprehensible spectacle, a luminous silver ring with gossamer tendrils radiating in all directions like gods hair blowing in the universal wind. Then before experience can translate into comprehension or even belief, the suns rays blindingly reappear, chasing the impossible night away over the horizon at 1500 miles per hour. Day returns but is it the same day? It’s unlike any other day that’s for certain. And it’s certainly not something that can be conveyed by any photograph.
Photographs show a black disk over the sun. I saw a more 3D purple ball over the sun. Also, as totality ended, a circus cloud was over the sun. It caused a cone of blue light that looked like a laser show, but only for like 1/2 second.
Seeing a solar prominence with my naked eye is now something I can check off my bucket list
I saw a prominence during the eclipse! There was a red prominence on the southern limb and it was totally awesome!
It was as bright as the entire corona!
I saw that, too‼️ Like red comma in the corona, below the sun❗️ My pictures didn’t show it, but it’s my favorite memory of this eclipse! 😎
It was completely overcast where I am, so I missed it. I vividly remember one I saw in the early 80’s, the way the light looked, has stayed in my memory! Awesome!
I was in the path of totality in Burlington, Vermont; it was amazing!!
The evening frogs started singing, crocus blooms closed, a hot air balloon floating above our land glowed when firing up at totality. It was spectacular.
It took an hour for sunlight to warm up after totality!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Yes! The temperature drop even before totality was surprising. Mosquitoes started pestering too. The little buggers enjoyed it.
@@Silver-Sliver Our car was filled with them. Got some bad bites on the six-hour drive home!
I was on top of a 300 foot cliff overlooking a river and a midsized city. Pretty intense experience
Here in Englewood Ohio' Centennial park about 1/2 a thousand people were gathered for it. It definitely got cooler' while the birds began to hush the people got louder in oohs and ahhs' a few people also began to drop a tear or two ' I as well I'm not afraid to admit was overjoyed at this spectacle in the sky. And yes' the clouds did begin to fade as it was going into totality. What made me drop a second tear was when the adults began to hush like the birds did while the kids oohs and ahhs got louder and then their laughter of joy started.
So that’s what I saw! The Purkinje effect. I live in southern ontario Canada zone 5b. The sun was warm and the air was cold and windy. As partial totality came on the temperature did drop forcing me to put on gloves. I wasn’t located in an area of full totality so it got only partially dark. Looking at my surrounds the land looked shaded. The colours were off. The trees, plants, farm fields my gardens all discoloured in a way that weren’t familiar. I had thought my eyes were screwing up on me and of course associated the offset shaded surroundings as a part of something to do with the eclipse. But I freaked me out. Now thanks to you I have an explanation to this phenomenon. I witnessed the Purkinje effect. Wow 😊 super cool. I like your videos.
Wheres zone 5b? Lol I'm in Hamilton and the clouds broke up just in time!
@@marshferguson4737 that’s what I was happy about about two hours before the inception of the eclipse was when the sky was starting to clear eventually leading to a clear sky without any blockages of clouds. And I don’t say where I’m from kidnappers bro you know what I’m saying. 😁
@@thefarmerswifetfw haha no doubt! I'm more worried about the government finding out where I am after some "hateful" comments I make 🤣
Anton, you are a very wonderful person!! Thank you for all the information you give us!!!
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 👍🙂
During the 2017 eclipse, I found the effects on the ground the most interesting. First the grass started looking digitized. Then shadows of stuff like the leaves of trees on the sidewalk were very strange. Also the colors of some things were weird.
I showed my mom how my shadow got very sharp in the last minutes before totality.
Yes, that is one way to watch an eclipse without eye protection. The shadows of tree foliage make
I wasn't in the path of totality, but I was in an area that got 92%... Was an amazing experience...
I got some pretty cool shots with my phone. Well worth the 1000 miles I drove that day!
I first observed totality at age 11 in Norfolk, VA, on March 7, 1970, in clear conditions. I was a science nerd, immersed in the space program and anticipating the launch of Apollo 13 the following month. The eclipse made a huge impression, and during college I learned about 4-8-24, looked at the path, and formed a firm intention to see it.
My wife has cousins in the Akron area, so I suggested a three-state family gathering weekend as the hook. One cousin is an alum of Kent State and took us to an all-day event on Monday to watch on campus, which was perfect. The forecasts were looking dreary until Monday morning, when they said the heavy clouds and overnight rain should be clearing by early afternoon. They did and it was bright sunshine, with some thin high clouds that didn't spoil the show.
It didn't get nearly as dark during totality this time as I'd remembered. We could see the planets only. In 1972, it really got nighttime dark, with all the stars out. I guessing the difference was due to some combination of light pollution and cloud scattering. Also, I wasn't able to make out any shadow bands this time, which were pronounced and spectacular in '72.
It was still great. My filtered binoculars were terrific, once I could locate the sun. The prominences were... well, prominent, and gorgeous. My gaggle of first-timers were duly thrilled. My wife admitted that she hadn't expected it to be all that, but she was blown away.
While nothing to do with the eclipse, yesterday in Bangkok The Sun hit Zenith as it makes its annual trek into the Northern half of the sky, and at Sunset I took a compass reading and it was directly due West, which I found kind of neat. It's also extremely hot since there's the least amoung of atmosphere between us and The Sun during this week.
We enjoyed ourselves a lot, as we had Anton up on the large screen which we could view from the front porch, as we used a "strainer"/collander as a pinhole effect shadow. Hundreds of little eclipse!!! The leaf shadows and color outside was trippy here in LA. Thanks for the memory Anton. You Rocked!!! Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love
I always love your uploads ❤
Thanks!
I noticed much more vibrant greens is millions of variations
Movie theaters' seats are red because in low light our eyes perceive it as black ergo not a distraction.
As a note of interest you had a moment where you got to see the world in a similar way to aquatic species (Under the Ocean). Now you know what sharks an octopus see :) How kool is that :)
Thanks Anton! Great work as always! Thanks!
I finally got to see a full solar eclipse.
Same, I seen partials and they do not compare in the slightest!
Anton usually tells me something I don't know.
It's not as hard as it sounds.
You don’t know the vast majority of things that could be known. It’s part of being human.
@@oberonpanopticon .. A lot of people's troughs are fuller than mine.
Are you familiar with ignorance and know-it-all attitude?
The Wikipedia list of scientifically proven
Cognitive distortions can help: "List of cognitive biases". 😊
Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
I am lucky enough to have an 8" dobsonian telescope with a solar filter and I used it to view the eclipse in Carbondale Illinois. We went to a park and I was the only one with a telescope there so naturally I attracted attention. About a dozen or so people got to look through my telescope during the partial phases and 1 or 2 got to look during totality. The views during totality were just jaw dropping. The detail on the solar prominences through an 8" telescope are a once in a lifetime sort of view.
I watched you live stream during the eclipse. You actually answered a question I posted about how do you say "hello wonderful person" in Korean!
Anyhow you said to pay attention to the wildlife. So I went outside to my camera and gave 2 quick turkey clucks.
From down the valley a gobbler answered, then another. So they didn't care at all about an eclipse.
After I went to the store and came back, as soon as I slammed my door one gobbled from behind my garage.
Incidentally, there are 2 in my yard right now as I write this.
I had the opportunity to watch the eclipse in Erie, PA with my older brother, and it was lots of fun to partake in the science! I noticed the shadow banding, the temperature drop, the birds nesting for the "night", and seeing the solar prominences with my own eyes was breathtaking! I wasn't aware that NASA planned for the ISS to be in position for the eclipse, which is pretty cool. The process of firing the thrusters on the ISS or any spacecraft to avoid hitting other objects is know as a Risk Mitigation Maneuver (RMM), and it's something I'm familiar seeing with the satellites that I work with at Goddard. There's a Collision Avoidance (CA) team that tracks individual pieces of space debris, and they notify all the operations teams to conduct a RMM if the probability of collision is high.
This is super interesting to me. I watched the totality from a field of bright and colorful wildflowers, and yeah the colors felt so weird as the sun was dimming. Got some photos of the eclipse that I’d been waiting to get for years, too.
We could see those plasma flairs with the naked eye during totality… amazing stuff.
Thank You Anton Wonderful Person
I cannot explain it. I mean yes sometimes a piece of music or a really sad movie will get me, but for some reason I found myself wanting to cry during and after the eclipse. What a powerful experience.
You were not alone! ✌️🙂👍
The prominence was super apparent during the eclipse. It was absolutely incredible seeing the red jet coming from the bottom of the moon. To think that what I saw was roughly three Earth widths, just helps put into perspective the true size of the sun! I also was able to capture a few decent images, thank you for letting me know that smudge was in fact a comet and not a lens defect XD
I'm very glad that I took the day off and drove 400 miles to be in the totality zone! It felt very spiritual to me and gave me a greater appreciation of our planet and moon.
Great piece!
Great video, very interesting, thanks 👍😊
Very cool! Looking forward to seeing more data from space!
Great Cover.Thank you Anton
That duck was just beautiful!
Wow, I think the scientific studies that were done on the observation of animals during the eclipse was pretty impressive😲
Thank you Anton
Rite Anton Dude, Cool update! TFS, GB :)
Great job with all the extra details and unexpected events that occurred during this eclipse
As long as people used proper solar filters, they would have been fine. I think many people asked that because staring at the eclipse for a long time, they were not blinking enough. Their eyes dried out. And then there's spring pollen...The eclipse was fantastic!!
Since the Moon is slowly leaving Earth's orbit, at some point there will never be a total eclipse - only partials. How far into our future will that point arrive? Someone can figure that out.
around 600 million years
but by then complex animal life will have probably gone extinct on earth so it doesn’t really matter
Not in our lifetimes
@@dewiz9596unless they merge with ai
What's also interesting is that in the past The Moon would have appeared larger than The Sun and completely obscured it during eclipses. I did do some rough calculations once and I think I'd come up with numbers along the lines of 150 million years ago The Moon appeared 17% larger than today, so it's quite a slow process. I was inspired by a piece of artwork someone created of Jurassic dinosaurs watching an eclipse and someone commented that The Moon would have been larger then, and I began to wonder how much larger.
Do you think that NASA might be speeding that process up because they have been shooting a laser at a mirror they left behind during the moon missions' just to check the distance from here to there? Maybe? No? It may be possible but almost negligent measurements I guess.
Nice job
Thanks Anton
Can't wait to know more about this color phenomenon, please make tha video 🙏
I was going to go to Oswego, my hometown, however, I read about the traffic and lousy weather, cloudy. I watched you from Korea, thank you for your coverage!!
Rochester, New York is known for cloudy days. Eclipse day was no exception. Two days before, and the day after, skies were clear. I didn't get to see the moon and sun, but the strange quality of the light was impressive!
Usually, the squirrels are running around in my yard when not eating my ignition wires. About thirty minutes before totality there was not a single one visible. After it was over they returned to normal activities.
Hope a lot of good data comes out of this! Thanks for bringing us the news, Anton!
One thing they don't tell you about totality is that you can't see it through the dark glasses. If you aren't looking at it with your naked eyes, you aren't seeing it. It was by far the most amazing thing I've seen. Worth it on every level.
What I found odd is the lack of UFO sightings during the eclipse. Because in past eclipses there were always some... Stars and planets became visible and so on.
A good sign, I guess.
Anton Petrov is a great man. I've been following for years, The phasing in this vid! He is encouraging and awe inspiring, like a combination Fred Rogers, Cart Sagan. Thank you for your work. I'll see you till the end, stay wonderful brother!
My absolute favorite thing about all of this is that people actually went outside and experienced something real for a change
Easily the coolest thing ive ever seen, and i got to see it from my back yard
I was about an hour or two away from totality near Vermont, for 3/4 hours straight there was a constant line of cars heading towards the best lookout
We were in southern Quebec and saw no vehicles in the hour before and during totality.
thanks
one thing that I found interesting was that the local dogs started barking a lot when the sun reappeared I would have thought they would start earlier.
I got to see the total eclipse from Hamilton Ontario! The day was super cloudy! But when it started, the clouds broke up and went away!! The 360 sunset around the ground was absolutely stunning!
Finaly something on the commet and who else but Anton 💪 man you rock so hard
I never thought I'd ever get the chance to scratch something off my bucket list, but it finally happened.. It was friggin mind blowing.. We watched and recorded it from a mountain overlook up near Jasper AR, and it was crazy..
I'll definitely be in the upcoming one in Spain, God willing!
Most animals reacted in ways to not call attention to themselves by predators.
There were also companies selling eyewear of insufficient quality. And few alerts about not viewing the sun for more than 3 minutes consecutively.
I just drove around my town and checked out all the changes visibly, and whatever else. It was a cool experience.
Where I was it felt like it dropped more than 10 degrees. Might’ve been because we were in an open field, but it felt like it went from 85-65.
I was sweating and a few minutes later I was freezing
Wobbling on the starlink is likely from the attitude keeping, as it will have a small oscillation around the desired point, especially as the solar panels turn, putting a small torque on the spacecraft, and the attitude keeping allowing the error to build up slightly, as it probably has a large area of acceptable attitude it has to maintain. Wonder just how many have cameras on them, and if those are available to stream and open to all.
Watched the prior total from my driveway, and this last one, was at my buddy's in Dallas. Also managed to avoid all the traffic.
Was totslly epic, and my daugter was also only 2 during the prior, so she got to actually enjoy this one.
I went to a small town outside of Montreal for the eclipse. My girlfriend and I got engaged during it. It was perhaps the most wonderful thing I've ever witnessed
I saw the solar prominences! Just a reddish glow off the right-hand side of the sun during totality! It was so cool!
Is my "mind blown?" Comets going by the sun, then there was "Bill Haley & the Comets,"singing "Rock Around The Clock," not Rock Around The Sun.
Wow, that footage from orbit is spectacular. I know where I want to go on my next eclipse chasing trip. Get a new angle on the umbra
The clearing of clouds during the eclipse was a welcome phenomenon, as we were in the totality zone, and we had a cloudy day early on, but we ended up getting a spectacular view of the eclipse including over four minutes of totality here in Texas.
In the previous eclipse, we had 100% totality in northern Georgia. During the 2017 eclipse, we were the only place in northern Georgia that had a brief, moderate rainstorm. The storm quickly dissipated when the eclipse ended.
Had a strong urge to face palm when the stats on all the people looking up that their eyes were hurting during the eclipse.
Even if it's a near total eclipse, it is a weird experience that stays with you and can see why our ancestors thought it was the end of times. Before noticing it going dark, birds all come in to roost and then a midday morning chorus soon has the moon passes. I do recall of being in a dream like state when the UK experienced a partial eclipse in the late 90's.
Man this was such a cool video,,,,I was able to witness the eclipse.
No picture makes justice to the absolute beautiful even I witness
In Saginaw Texas, it seemed like the cloud cover was going to get in the way. At the last moment the skies opened giving me a unbelievable view of my life. It shined & then went Black & white. Incredible the planets showed up and everything. Street lights came on my Strp Dad even came out
It was an awesome event to witness in the totality zone. I drove from California to Texas for a week long vacation. The BBQ was amazing too. 👌
Im happy researchers took advantage of the eclipse!! My eyes and my kids eyes were fine the next day thank god! We had glasses but they slip off
The main prominence was clearly visible from moments after totality began until the end off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. With all the hype of serious solar activity in the weeks prior, I was stunned and a bit disappointed to see the sun so quiescent. What always intrigues me is how fast totality comes and goes. The fastest and most amazing minutes of my life.
At 9:50 I hope someday we will be able to create that video again, but next time as the ultimate HDR imaging stack with insane dynamic range that makes the moon's surface visible, not just the edge. Perhaps with tandem telescopes, one exposed for the sun and the other exposed for the moon along with a moving mask perfectly fitted & sequence with the moon's landscape shadows but sharpy blocking the sun's surface.
This makes me think of the Koyannisquatsi scene where the zoomed in moon is time lapsed as it is being occulted by a building. The moon is way brighter than the building in that scene, but the details of the building are still visible... And of course, that's an insanely small fraction of the dynamic range that would be required to expose the dark side of the Moon and the surface of the Sun simultaneously.
I suppose there's probably no scientific value in that data set, I just think it would be another magnitude of mind blowing to see. Who knows, maybe we would detect miniscule but interesting variances of light on the dark side coming from Earth's changing reflection.
I watched the early part of totality with my 10" telescope at 30x. I had to see prominences up close with my own eyes. We had 3m 18s totality, so the first 90 seconds was utilized for telescope viewing, then a few photos at the eyepiece. The experience is frightening and awesome seeing the Sun's corona and prominences up close and live.
11:48 I have Betty Edward’s color theory book - but I decided to wildly experiment instead of reading it… vogue, the great art masters and the surrealists are responsible for my Montessori self-education
Nice. Humans oddly stopped what they were doing, went outside, looked up for five minutes, went back inside, and searched ‘my eyes hurt’… what a fascinating species!
Kool CGI from esa
During totality, our alpacas headed to the barn, the sheep gathered together, and the guineas went crazy....basically getting ready for bed nighttime behavior. Noticed the color change and the flares mentioned, but also the wavy ground lines.
I'm very interested to hear from ARRL what happened to RF in the upper atmospheric bands
65% in AZ! was very cool 😎
Thanks, lots of good info! I was surprised that you did not mention shadow bands and people's observations of them during the eclipse. As for the painful eyes being due to looking at the sun, without protection, I have a different explanation: Hypochondria. A lot of people that perhaps were just slightly careless in their use of eye protection but weren't hurt at all by it, probably thought "I wonder if I hurt my eyes? Hmmm, I notice my eyes are hurting." A lot of people's eyes 15:35 are going to hurt quite a bit of the time because they're on their device or computer all the time, but they don't notice it unless they pay attention, and even if it isn't hurting, it may feel like it is when you start thinking about it. That's what I think happened
I was supposed to work during the eclipse, but the hotel manager decided to shut down for the eclipse. It was one of the most joyous moments of my adult life. I am a sucker for anything astronomy related, and it was even better than I expected. I really would've wanted to be lost in the forest to see it, to see the changes on fauna and flora, but I was on top of a skyscraper instead.
Oh and I live in Montreal so middle of totality.