Quote from: OutOfMemory on Today at 05:16:22 AM

I remember the last total eclipse i've seen 30 years ago. It was in early summer and the most spooky thing was the silence, when the birds stopped singing and the bees stopped flying.

My first was in July 1963. My older brother and his friends drove about a thousand miles to Grand-mere PQ to see it.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/eclipse-at-grandmere/

What I remember was the birds chirping like it was dusk as totality was approaching and then falling silent before reawakening as the sun broke through again. The other thing was the eerie waves of light that moved across the ground during totality.

I saw those waves again during a near-total solar eclipse sometime in the early 1990s but not this time even though it was over 99% total here in downtown Toronto. I guess it had to do with the fact that it was sunny when I saw them in 1963 and in the 1990s but overcast here yesterday. I assume they were caused by the corona.

I wonder if that one you saw 30 years ago was the same one I saw. I didn't even know there was going to be one until it started to get dark in the middle of the day. I barely had time to run inside and make a pinhole viewer but I saw those faint bands of light moving across the ground.

Are you in North America?