A day when people looked up at the sky and may have seen the green and black sun

[squirmelia]

I gazed up at the sky through binoculars, while wearing a welding mask, standing outside my office. Someone else appeared to be looking at the sky through a CD. The sun, oh, a beautiful glowing green orb punctuated by the black image of Venus. I'm tempted to buy a welding mask so the sun will always look like that.

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[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

There was a solar eclipse once, i was in college at the time i think, and i went out to watch it but i was not equipped with proper sun-seeing gear, and i sat on a bench in the park feeling kind of stupid with people around me looking up at the sky eyes properly protected. And looking at the ground i saw the missing part of the sun reflected in the shadows of the leaves of the tree above me, so i watched the sun by looking down at the shadows nature had conveniently provided me.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

The shadows sound like they were just as beautiful as the event itself.
In the UK, there was a solar eclipse in 1999, but unfortunately it was cloudy, so I didn't get to see the appropriate patterns. I laid in a cornfield and watched the sky get dark and even that seemed amazing. What I wrote about that eclipse can be read here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/squirmelia/996.html).

[(Anonymous)]

who was it you were with when you saw the eclipse?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

When Venus eclipsed the sun? Random people from the office appeared outside the building and looked up at the sun too, although I don't remember who exactly they were.

[(Anonymous)]

no the solar one in 1999

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Hint: Not the moon.