My experience with solar eclipse

What a time it is to shift to Cincinnati, its been just 3 weeks and I got a chance to witness one of the most awe-inspiring phenomenon of nature, Solar Eclipse. It was a friend a mine who told me about the eclipse and asked me to watch this [ted talk] (

and since then I though “before I die I owe it to myself to watch a Solar Eclipse”. I was lucky enough to be in Cincinnati where the moon would block about 90% of the Sun, although it would not be a total eclipse still it was a phenomenon I did not want to miss.

So in search of a Eclipse glasses I started calling planetarium, hardware stores, walmart and what not but unfortunately I couldn’t get any leads till 20th night. My last shot was to go to the nearest public library as I heard they were hosting the eclipse event and fortunately there was no need of per-registration, they would give me glasses which we can share and watch the Eclipse.

At around 1:30PM everyone gathered outside with our Eclipse glasses the Library to witness the event. Total Solar Eclipse started with the partial Eclipse and for the first 30 mins I couldn’t find anything unusual with my naked eyes, there was no change in the brightness, but when I looked through the Eclipse glass it looked as if someone has taken a bite from the sun and slowly the moon started covering sun and the bite grew larger and larger. At around 2:20 PM I started noticing the difference even with naked eyes, the daylight intensity decreased, we could see the crescents in the tree shadows, it suddenly became cooler and when I looked up I was just amazed, the sun was almost covered by moon turning in the shape of croissant, although it was nothing as compared to the videos I saw of Full Eclipse but I was still in awe with mother nature and that moment I though again that I owe it to myself to experience a total Solar Eclipse.

begining of eclipse.jpeg
eclipse in mid.jpeg

The next solar Eclipse is scheduled to be on 2nd July 2019 and will be passing through the Pacific Ocean, Chile and Argentina. Although I missed to witness a total Solar Eclipse this time but I will go watch the next one.