Human reactions

As anyone who has done so will tell you, experiencing a total solar eclipse is like nothing else. For many us this was our second eclipse (the 2017 version passed right over the Tennessee Tech campus) but still the reaction was one of awe, wonder, and delight, as you can see in the movie below. The inset at top right shows the simultaneous view recorded by the C8 telescope. (And yes, we had some Pink Floyd playing as we watched!)

The reaction of bunch of normally sedate engineers and scientists to entering totality.

The reaction on exiting totality was, understandably, more muted!