The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 strafed North America with moments of darkness over major metropolitan areas. I traveled with a few friends to the Royal Military College in Kingston to watch the event on base.
Everyone was excited for the event. People set up telescopes, left cameras on tripods to take time lapse videos, and launched drones to get closer to the sun. Most of use were only outside for 20 minutes preceding the totality and 20 minutes after the totality to observe the moon significantly eating into daylight.
At the darkest moment, it looked like the sun had set for an instant and then reappeared shortly after. The birds crowed and flocked back to their nests, people jumped into the lake, and a ring of light was all that was left of the sun.
