- A total solar eclipse is a feast for the eyes, but don’t forget to look around.
- There is much more to see during a total solar eclipse than just the moon itself.
- Solar flares, a glowing corona, two planets, and a diamond ring are just a few of the things to look out for.
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As a total solar eclipse passes over the United States on Monday, the more than 31 million Americans who live in the path of the total solar eclipse, where the moon completely obscures the sun, will be exposed to a series of unusual sights that many back home won’t see. You can witness the phenomenon. Another hundreds of years.
“Total solar eclipses are extremely rare,” Rick Feinberg, project manager for the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Eclipse Task Force, told Business Insider. “If you’re lucky enough to end up on that path, you’re very lucky.”
That’s because the unique sights that occur before, during and after a total solar eclipse are “staggering,” Feinberg said. Some of them he can see twice: when the moon passes over the sun and when the sun moves away.
“At the end, everything unfolds in the opposite direction” of totality, Feinberg said.
Here are his eight recommended sights during a total solar eclipse.