Ploughshares writes, “Ten minutes before totality — for readers who have not seen a total solar eclipse — the light will be almost fifty thousand times brighter than a full moonlit sky. Still, effects will be noticeable, he says: ‘As the crescent slims, shadows in the landscape start to sharpen . . . buildings on the ground and the nose on your neighbor’s face become more stark, and that face takes on an ashen look, as if being viewed through sunglasses.’”
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