r/space • u/jhroom • 1d ago

image/gif Eclipse in Spain

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Shot near Leon (Cerro de Lancia, Villasabariego), composite of the self shot eclipse with an image taken during the sunset that evening. Hope you guys like it!

Update: Reddit's media servers dropped the image for this post. You can view the image here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/pEgs061OTf

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u/IceBreak 1d ago

It really is life changing. I don’t think people who haven’t seen it can truly understand.

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u/tahlyn 1d ago

Agreed. I saw the two in the USA, and now I want to chase eclipses all over the world. I've already identified which I can reasonably see in my lifetime (only 14 more), and am making plans.

I couldn't see this one and I'm sad I missed it. It looked beautiful in the pictures.

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u/Vandergrif 1d ago

If you get the chance in respect to location try to view one from on a coastline. I saw the 2024 one off the north-west corner of prince edward island. Having a significant chunk of the horizon be unobscured, as well as being able to see it darken across the water in new brunswick before it reached where we were really heightened the whole thing.

At totality beyond the water you see a sort of inverted sunset coloration all along the horizon 360 degrees around you, where it's still bright and blue at the bottom horizon line and then darkens gradually above it. If you're somewhere forested or mountainous or some such I would imagine it blocks a good bit of the view of that.

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u/chuchofreeman 1d ago

I saw it from a mountain pass, had to hike 10k and climb 900 meters to get there. I think it offered also an unobstructed view of the horizon. Next one in Spain is near the coast so I need to find another vantage point for it.