Partial really is "kinda neat." The light level noticeably reduces a bit, like a very big cloud, and all the little dapples on the ground turn crescent shaped. More eerie than mind-blowing though. We got a minute of totality in 2024, which was very, very cool.
It is very cool. I’ll share what I wrote right after seeing a total eclipse a couple years ago:
Eclipse
As I watch through tinted glasses, the waxing crescent of the sun, unmarked by any craters, just a flat covered disk, fades evermore. The encroaching darkness comes faster and faster around the edges of my vision as the last traces of light in the sky turn to a speck, and then there is darkness.
I pull my shades off and hanging in the sky is a black hole surrounded by godly rays of light. It is a late summer evening around me at 3:05pm, just bright enough to see but not enough for details. To my left, the sunlight is setting as my eyes dart to the dim light on all sides, to the black hole sun, back around.
The edges of the black hole are the sharpest lines I have seen in nature, and all is quiet except the sounds of amazement and the odd firework. There is an orange dot at the bottom of the moon, perhaps a solar flare?
As I continue to look up, around, the sunlight rises to my right as the hole moves ever closer to the light’s edge. As the sun begins to peek out again I put my glasses back on to see a waning crescent of light slowly grow, dusk fades quickly into day. The shortest four minutes of my life have passed as the birds begin their morning calls.
Yep! Flew here from Los Angeles, landed on Monday morning.
Unfortunately, 4:47pm (eta: I was off by an hour, it's 5:47pm, was reading UTC) local time isn't looking good, and it's way too late to try and get a car and drive to the Westfjords
I mean, the actual eclipse is on the 12th, so unless this is from a previous solar eclipse, having a solar eclipse party 9 days after the actual eclipse is pretty weird.
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Actually, you'd have to reschedule the moon. ☝️🤓
To add to the FYI, there's a partial eclipse tomorrow evening in Europe. The farther north you are the better you can see it.
Partial is pointless, really. Which is why I have to hope it'll be visible here in Iceland.
Partial really is "kinda neat." The light level noticeably reduces a bit, like a very big cloud, and all the little dapples on the ground turn crescent shaped. More eerie than mind-blowing though. We got a minute of totality in 2024, which was very, very cool.
It is very cool. I’ll share what I wrote right after seeing a total eclipse a couple years ago:
Eclipse As I watch through tinted glasses, the waxing crescent of the sun, unmarked by any craters, just a flat covered disk, fades evermore. The encroaching darkness comes faster and faster around the edges of my vision as the last traces of light in the sky turn to a speck, and then there is darkness.
I pull my shades off and hanging in the sky is a black hole surrounded by godly rays of light. It is a late summer evening around me at 3:05pm, just bright enough to see but not enough for details. To my left, the sunlight is setting as my eyes dart to the dim light on all sides, to the black hole sun, back around.
The edges of the black hole are the sharpest lines I have seen in nature, and all is quiet except the sounds of amazement and the odd firework. There is an orange dot at the bottom of the moon, perhaps a solar flare?
As I continue to look up, around, the sunlight rises to my right as the hole moves ever closer to the light’s edge. As the sun begins to peek out again I put my glasses back on to see a waning crescent of light slowly grow, dusk fades quickly into day. The shortest four minutes of my life have passed as the birds begin their morning calls.
If you're in Iceland then you're actually in luck, the path of totality does cross over the west of the country. Wikipedia has helpful details of timings and places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026#Eclipse_timing
Yep! Flew here from Los Angeles, landed on Monday morning.
Unfortunately, 4:47pm (eta: I was off by an hour, it's 5:47pm, was reading UTC) local time isn't looking good, and it's way too late to try and get a car and drive to the Westfjords
some parts are going to be totally eclipsed:
Or we can move the calendar to make it land on a weekend. Should be easy
legit though, just make eclipses holidays and the problem is solved.
It's actually kind of messed up that we don't.
Why?
The absolutely maximum time you could be in totality during a solar eclipse is 7 minutes and 32 seconds, across a very very narrow path of land.
Partial eclipses are cool, but not really worth taking any time out of your day for.
If you’re in the path, taking all of less than 10 minutes to walk outside and see it covers it lol.
If we're talking about a partial, fair point, I'll agree.
*Farnsworth voice* Good news everyone! The solar eclipse has been rescheduled to August 12th.
I mean, the actual eclipse is on the 12th, so unless this is from a previous solar eclipse, having a solar eclipse party 9 days after the actual eclipse is pretty weird.
There is no total solar eclipse in the contiguous US until 2044.
This would have to be old.
I'm pretty sure it is cause I vaguely remember seeing this meme before, maybe like, 2 or 3 years ago
This is from 2017
The answer is that, yes, you can still have the party on the weekend.
Well what else do you propose, we reschedule the schools or something??
Yes. She asked that. Absolutely nobody is ever sarcastic on the internet.