[GJones2]

> The totality itself was surreal. Photographs, no matter how good, do not do it justice. I get it why people chase these things all over the world now.

Yes, I’d witnessed a partial eclipse previously (in 1984) and was not impressed. Just a tiny bit of the sun can produce a lot of illumination. There’s no comparison with a total eclipse. It’s awesome!

[GJones2]

Here's a screen image that I captured live from the NASA site when the eclipse reached Nebraska (it looked the same a bit later here in South Carolina):

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