I was on the university campus in Nashville with 40,000 or so of my closest friends. Had total coverage for a bit over 2 minutes. Tried to take photos using the ISO rated glasses over the lens on my cell phone but they don't do justice to the event. The funny part was the insects started chirping when it got dark then quieted down when the sun came back out. Not total darkness, more like twilight. And the temps dropped by 10 degrees or so.
Here it was 89% occluded. I was surprised that it means almost nothing! It seemed like a perfectly normal day; I expected a lot more... had I not looked at the sun with the special glasses, I wouldn't even know anything were abnormal.
Brian you should get your chance in 2024 when the path will go through Texas and up through Maine. If any of you will be anywhere within a few hours' drive I highly recommend going to a place to view totality. Pretty weird to be able to look up at the sun in the middle of the day. Looked like a big black ball (the moon obviously) with a red halo or aura all around it. I was all set to be unimpressed but it really was a neat thing to experience.
We've already by now seen a lot of photos of the eclipse. This is a little different. A time lapse video taken from the square in my home town of Franklin, TN
https://www.facebook.com/CityOfFranklin/videos/10159237925390344/
Jimmy, was it dark enough to where you would have needed headlights, if you were driving?Oh yeah. It was dark. It was crazy how if just a tiny sliver was still showing, there was light, but for two minutes, it was night time.
It was about 90% where I was. It looked like @ 30 minutes before sunset.
Oh yeah. It was dark. It was crazy how if just a tiny sliver was still showing, there was light, but for two minutes, it was night time.