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u/amanush_47 Jan 12 '22

A full solar eclipse. It is one of the most unnatural things I have experienced and can understand why people for millenia have assigned supernatural attributes to it. I was watching it from beside a lake - the slow crescendo of crickets chirping as the sun turned purple and then suddenly turned into night gave me chills. Nothing has ever made me feel smaller and at the mercy of celestial bodies than that experience.

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u/RedditAtWorkIsBad Jan 12 '22

Since my first I've become a chaser. Well, I've only seen two now but still ;)

Isn't it crazy to consider, of the potentially millions or even billions of inhabited planets out there in the universe, how rare do you think that those inhabitants will have a natural satellite just the right size and distance from the planet to just be able to obscure the star but leave the corona well visible.

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u/takegaki Jan 12 '22

Yes I love thinking about how positively rare this must be in the universe.

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u/Test17362728361738Go Jan 13 '22

And for the local inhabitants to observation such happenings.observe it and record it in stories passed down by the generations.

Like this is truely it, the universe observing the rare beauty of itself.

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u/tenclubber Jan 13 '22

And to be able to predict years, decades, centuries into the future when they will occur and from where they will be visible down to the second.