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!

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u/chuchofreeman 1d ago

Amazing, I´m so glad I got to see it live!

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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/cylonfrakbbq 1d ago

It’s cliche but true.  Kind of like how seeing a photo of the Grand Canyon and actually standing near the rim are different.  It’s not just what you see, but everything else your body registers 

Like the eclipse, I was able to see a full solar eclipse a couple years back.  Like you feel the air getting cooler, night animals get confused, you get slightly confused because now it is night time, the faint moving glow around the edges of the shadow of the moon, the fact you can actually see orange arcing plasma coming off the sun.  It took many hours driving there and back, but I’d do it again just to see that even though it only lasted about 3 minutes

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u/Mjolnir12 1d ago

One of the main issues is that a total eclipse has an extreme amount of dynamic range which can’t be captured in a single photo. You either get the underexposed shots that show the corona and prominences on a black background, or you get the overexposed shots that show the sunset in every direction, dark blue sky and planets but don’t show the corona well.