• @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    I viewed from the Perot Museum in Dallas and the announcement came on that it may have been a solar flare that was visible to the naked eye (due to the eclipse).

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      I watched some of the nasa livestream since I don’t have eyewear in a ~96% area, and it’s total overcast anyway. They basically said it’s a CME (or flare?) edit: “solar prominence”, and not surprising due to the sun being near the most active phase of its 11-year cycle.

      Pretty cool that one made such a clear appearance. If you search for solar flare, you’ll see images of that similar arch visible in the photo. Must have been amazing to see one with the naked eye.

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          Yeah, it was the cherry on top (or bottom) of observing a total solar eclipse.

          There were a few telescopes set up at the Perot, but I wasn’t able to view totality through them.