Great video, lovely active tort in a great enclosure. I like the 'time for bed" as eclipse happened 😂
Solar Eclipse
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Was it supposed to be 100% where you are?
Wow, the eclipse really put a pep in his step lol.
He was just trying to get away from the crazy following him lol
No it wasn't. 94% I think or 96. But I thought it would have been more obvious with the darkness.
Somehow I should feel offended by your statement. It's a crying shame I have to agree with it. 😆
Come on, this is the crazy tortoise forum. It's said with love😊
Where it was total, it was as dark as full moon night but that was only for a few minutes
I know. Still can't help but to agree with you though. lol
Not the best pic, but the corona was pretty awesome. 
My son lives in Texas in the path of the sun/moon alignment. He said it was awesome. It got so dark the streetlights came on.
Same here. Folks around me were shooting off fireworks and cheering.
That's a great tortoise yard!
That's what I thought would happen here, street lights come on. If you didn't know it was the eclipse, the haziness wouldn't have even caught your attention. Thought 94-96% would have been more exciting. Oh well glad it's over, that's all the news talked about.
I'm glad it's over too. Now the aftermath 😞
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Yeah, glad I'm not out in that.
We are in California, only received about 40% of the eclipse, although we did not have glasses etc, it was definitely noticeable. It was as if you had sunglasses on but you didn't! Bright and sunny now!
I watched it live as it passed over different states on the NASA website. I loved the picture of the moon's shadow/umbra on the earth taken from the space station.
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Saw totality where I live in Canada and it was soooooo incredibly cool!!! We had 1 min and 18 or so seconds of totality, so set a timer and looked at the corona for 60 seconds and then glasses went back on 
All the street lights started coming on when it reached around 95% and the birds got pretty loud.
All the street lights started coming on when it reached around 95% and the birds got pretty loud.
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_The_Beast_
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And the right size + shape and at the right distance! Imagine if they were on the same plane, then we'd have full eclipses multiple times a year. There's also the 'donut style' partial eclipse where the sun and the moon are in alignment (like today) but the moon is at its farthest distance from earth so it is too small to eclipse the sun (annular eclipse). When that happens the moon looks like a donut hole in the middle of the sun and you can't see the corona. Other partial eclipses are also much more common. Sigh.
Then there's Jupiter, which is rollin' in moons and has total solar eclipses on the regular
Ok nerd tangent over 😂
