The way the color saturation fades out, slowly, in ways that are not consciously present to start with, but merely settle in as a growing sense of unease.
This! Even pretty far from totality, there's a quality to the light which is subtly different than "the light you get closer to dusk". I think we got to 93% totality or so, by which point the color of the world was like sunset, but lower-contrast - closer to a day with haze from wildfires but with a clear blue sky.
I remembered this from previous eclipses, and pointed it out to G before it became obvious. As it got stronger, he was trying to find words to describe it.
(He wants to experience a total eclipse at some point, as do I - looks like we'll either need to wait a couple decades or travel to a different continent, though.)
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This! Even pretty far from totality, there's a quality to the light which is subtly different than "the light you get closer to dusk". I think we got to 93% totality or so, by which point the color of the world was like sunset, but lower-contrast - closer to a day with haze from wildfires but with a clear blue sky.
I remembered this from previous eclipses, and pointed it out to G before it became obvious. As it got stronger, he was trying to find words to describe it.
(He wants to experience a total eclipse at some point, as do I - looks like we'll either need to wait a couple decades or travel to a different continent, though.)