I was in ~80% zone. It wasn’t 80% darker. It was maybe 25% darker.

Web searching that phrase just gives me times and such.

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    7 months ago

    I was in the path of totality.

    It wasn’t dark like the middle of the night. It was dark like the sun was just about to dip under the horizon.

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        Yeah it was crazy having a “sunrise” all across the horizon instead of just one location. There was only about 5 minutes of noticably darker lighting before and after the totality. Other than that, i would have had no idea the moon was transiting the sun if i hadn’t spent an hour watching it go across.