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Originally Posted by Bigtime
With even a sliver of sun left you couldn't look at the sun. No different than normal. Once totality hit I saw nothing with my lens, removed it and there it was...a black disc with the corona all around it, moving and flowing. Just shy of two minutes you could see the start of a bright spot up at the top so you had a heads up to get your glasses/lens ready.
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One can understand why primitive peoples believed in a vengeful god. All of a sudden, the sky turns dark and they're pitched into darkness. Then a couple of hours later, whole villages start going blind. Must've been terrifying.