I don't believe there was a total solar eclipse during 1969. Where did you see this? There was an annular eclipse in 1969, but seeing that would have led you to conclude that the sun is bigger than the moon!
(I've been in the path of totality twice, but the only total eclipse I actually saw was on March 7, 1970, on Nantucket Island.)
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“the only total eclipse I actually saw was on March 7, 1970, on Nantucket Island”
Did you fly your Lear Jet up there? Geez you’re vain.. You probably think this post is about you.
There was a total solar eclipse visible to parts of the South Eastern United States in 1969—to the best of my knowledge—maybe it was 1970 or 1968—but I remember my motther—irrationally protective—fussed at me because I watched it without vision filters after it went total—it was so weird cuz the night creatures started singing and the day creatures went silent and the corolla was awesome—a cosmic ring of flashing electric emanations that unlike lightning were straight and variable in length—to me on the ground it was like a horizon to horizon dark glass soup bowl was put down on my back yard.