Watching the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse! (I cried) 🌑

The most naturally occuring themed event I could document. Just wanted to share my experience. Hope you enjoy:)
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[@justlanchen]

Have you experienced a total solar eclipse before? Would love to hear your experience! 🌑✨

[@suicideistheanswer369]

sadly no

[@justlanchen]

@@suicideistheanswer369oh no :(

[@1005corvuscorax]

I have, with my wife, 2 of my sons and some of their friends in 2017. It was...I don't know how to explain it the pure majesty of it. I was in awe, and that weird, odd "shadow shifting" effect caught my attention almost as much as the totality itself. I'm incredibly happy that you and yours got to experience this. Everyone should have the privilege of seeing the majesty of the solar system in such a way. Edited to add- I didn't get to see this one :( Did you get to see the "Diamond Ring" effect? If so, then I'm insanely jealous

[@clairenicholson7563]

I was in the path of totality April 8th. I cried. I laughed. I was in awe. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget, and I'm so happy I could share it with my son and husband. We drove 3 hrs and slept in our car the night before, and it was so worth it. ❤️🌞🌚

[@justlanchen]

@@clairenicholson7563 im glad you understand how truly magical is was. I’m so happy you got to experience it with your family🥹

[@newYorkStories]

A total solar eclipse humbles you, it shows you our tiny place in the universe, it teaches you that 99.99% is not 100%. It places you in sync with the universe for 3 minutes and 36 seconds. Everybody should experience this at least once in their lifetimes.

[@jorgesoto2020]

it definetely humbles you... cheers!

[@justlanchen]

you are so right. How small we are in such a vast universe, yet everything aligned just for us. Its absolutely incredible

[@Mars0984]

This eclipse (I saw in person in Ohio) was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in life. Pictures and videos do not do justice. Thank you for trying to capture it in words.

[@RobertSwick]

"The sun burst out. The blue sky returned. The stars, the planets, and the corona were gone. The world returned to normal. But I had changed." - David Baron, TED Talk - 'You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse'

[@RabFinebeau]

Not a bad explanation by David Brown, but I think my poem sums it up, quite a bit better: _The air becomes brisk, and moist. Like the dampness of the Cave of The Winds -- Hurricane Deck. Afternoon and night become one. A dark solid circle, with a bit of glow from behind it's sharp edge, releases chalky cloud streams of morphing light, out from behind it's veil. Occasionally a few single strands and glowing spots of blazing orange hair pop out, overpowering the darkness of a tiny fragment section of the dark solid circle._ At least that was my experience.

[@AccidentalHorcrux]

had some trouble finding the ted talk; it's david baron

[@RobertSwick]

@@AccidentalHorcrux - Thank you! Corrected.

[@Mikearice1]

I saw this one outside Cincinnati, and the 2017 one from Hopkinsville, KY. Both times count as the most beautiful things I've ever seen, especially when the diamond ring transitions to totality. That feeling of awe sticks with you. Everybody should see one in their lifetime if they can.

[@tomchidwick]

Chills. Nothing but chills at re-living this with you. We had a very similar experience here in the central Texas town of West. Simple and majestic awe and wonder. Then just like that, it's over. Thanks so much for putting together in video and words your 2024 eclipse experience. And by the way, +1 for the Velma reference. Loved that! 🙂

[@justlanchen]

I'm so happy to hear you had a similar experience as well. It was truly wonderful and I'm happy I was able to capture it. 😅 oh gosh I wish you could've seen me, I was running all over looking on the ground for my glasses 😂

[@kilroy987]

What struck me most about what I saw in Napoleon OH was how fine the details were. The black disk of the perfectly round moon was VERY apparent through the thin clouds. I couldn't make out the finest details of the corona, but I definitely made out its overall shape (each total eclipse's corona is different, of course). The line of red prominences peeking around the upper right corner of the moon were made up of very tiny, fine, very apparent red piercing lights, brighter than the corona, all behind a veil of a very thin high cloud layer. The whole thing was like the highest definition special effect on the highest definition TV screen. The land around me was lit as if it was dusk - I could still clearly see the grass, just not with a very apparent shadow.

[@flyingfishsurf]

Perfectly clear blue skies south of Bloomington, Indiana. Bedford had to be one of the best spots. It was beyond words and no photos will ever capture the surreality of the moment.

[@bluesnote1]

Saw it from central Texas. It was more than I could have ever expected. So glad I flew out from California to see it. I have a few videos on my channel from the eclipse, including shadow snakes.

[@danielharmon15]

I was in central Indiana for it and we had perfect clear sky and great visibility. I knew it was gonna get darker, but I figured it would just be like a cloudy, overcast day; I wasn't prepared for it to look like dusk and the horizon be so orange and all the street lamps turn on. Pretty awesome! (And I was with some Purdue alum, so that day was extra special watching the National Championship game.)

[@Americathebeautiful49]

It’s an emotional experience that puts you in touch with the cosmos and our relativity in the Universe. Thanks for sharing. I was a young boy the last time I saw a total eclipse. You were lucky to have that experience. They happen more often than we realize but most of the time they are over the oceans.

[@scottgriz]

I got chills watching your video. You captured the experience better than any video I have seen. This was my second one and It was no less incredible than the first. My favorite part is that first glimpse of pure white light of the diamond ring that emerges after totality. That fraction of a second stays with you. You will forever struggle to explain it to people but no words will suffice. I like to say that it's the ultimate "You just have to see for yourself" moment.

[@justlanchen]

😭I'm so happy you enjoyed it and felt it captured the moment accurately 🥹 I will forever look back on this video to reminisce in this experience. It's definitely an event that everyone should experience once in their lifetime

[@brendansgames6955]

I cry almost every time I see videos of this and especially in person the first time. I saw this in TX again and it was super amazing to have 4 minutes 28 seconds of totality. Back in 2017 it was just over 2 minutes. I want to chase these things now for dang sure... Edit: Also your production of the video is really good. Keep it up!

[@iz8904]

Nice capture of the 360 degree sunrise. You had similar cloud conditions to what we had in Spencer, Indiana. Awesome, wasn't it? Once you see a totality, you get it.

[@catherinelamonde8514]

Wow !! The sunset and sunrise are unbelievable together.

[@catherinelamonde8514]

I also loved it at Spa Bolton Estrie, Québec, Canada

[@justlanchen]

It’s so crazy seeing the 360 view 😭😭😭

[@bukharagunboat8466]

It was beautiful. We only had to drive 5 hours to get into the totality path. We watched over a lake at a State Park. The changes in the light were amazing.

[@LouPauly]

It was great meeting you. Hope you enjoyed your visit to Ohio. Thanks for including us in you video

[@justlanchen]

Thanks for being apart of it 🥰🥰🥰

[@raycapetillo5569]

I flew from Florida to Ohio so that I could experience totality. I had seen a few partial eclipses, but totality was a humbling experience. Seeing your reactions was a reminder of what I experienced and yes, I cried as well. I felt so blessed to have experienced this eclipse. Thank you for sharing your experience. When I am down, ill use this to bring my spirits back up!

[@justlanchen]

That is so awesome that you did it and I’m sure you found it was well worth the trip. I’m glad you had a memorable experience 🥹🫶

[@jujube6650]

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I saw it in totality in Waterbury Vermont with my son and grandson. They were humoring me by traveling over 100 miles to see it but they were both so happy after they realized how amazing it is to see. I’m glad I was so persistent because it truly is a once in a lifetime experience!

[@ZeeZee9]

One thing I felt when I saw the eclipse that no one else has said was that the sun/moon looked like a circle-shaped white neon light. I also was not expecting that. I think I was expecting the "ring of fire" look that I now realize are annular eclipses (not total eclipses). So I was thrown off by the white neon/electric-circle, with the beautiful Venus nearby--in a good way. It was too cool!

[@markmoser7914]

Drove to Ohio from North Carolina to view the eclipse. Watched from Findlay. Very spectacular and quite different from the one in 2017. It is a very big deal indeed and I'm glad you got to see it!

[@averykempf9164]

It was so beautiful! I keep rewatching the videos of it and they take me back. Seeing something so beautiful and magnificent makes me emotional. I can't wait until 2045.

[@justlanchen]

Right! It was unbelievable. I’m so excited for the next one 😭

[@TheBunzinator]

I've experienced 4 of them. And I have to say, it never gets old. :) Grats on you first time! BTW, did you see the video SpaceX posted of a view from one of their Starlink satellites? It's crazy. These things almost universally evoke emotion in people. It's hard to imagine how people would have felt in the days before humans understood what was happening.

[@Philippsalzgeber]

your video captures the excitement of a total solar eclipse perfectly.

[@justlanchen]

Thank you for watching. I'm so happy you enjoyed it 🫶

[@Philippsalzgeber]

@@justlanchen I didn't get to watch this one, but I experienced others, and I am happy for everyone who was able to experience totality as this is such an awesome event.

[@2listening1]

1:52 You were both delightfully eccentric! 😻💛♾️

[@AnnMar22ie]

Thank you for the video. Very educational and super cool. I Iive in Nebraska, so I didn't get all that awesomeness that you got. I actually got really emotional watching your video.

[@cherylkerr6804]

Awesome! Love your video esp with you and Bray demonstrating the eclipse! That sunset and sunrise tho😮❤!!

[@justlanchen]

thank you!!!

[@thetireless1812]

Hey! I’m an Ohioan here. The eclipse was absolutely wonderful! There won’t be another until 2044, but that’s incomprehensibly small in the timeline of the Universe. I have been watching your Dark Academia videos lately as I have begun my own transformation. It aligns well with the rapidity of my own transformation in life. At the moment, I’m thinking of buying a few ‘Napoleon’ oriented items, as he was history’s greatest bookworm and he absolutely fascinates me. As the KZbin channel ‘Historically Adequate’ put it, “If it was available in France in the 1780s, chances are Napoleon read it.” There’s some irony in that, considering there have been more books written about Napoleon than there has been days since his death on St. Helena, on May 5 1821. Also, love the science demonstration. Explained everything.

[@ifly-fsx]

There's a few others before then, if you travel. What if you just wait 20 years and it's completely overcast that day?

[@protorhinocerator142]

@@ifly-fsx Exactly. 2 years for Spain, then another year for one that circles around northern Africa and goes through Egypt, and another year for Australia.

[@lovelife5646]

#socool #great #video! I could #feel your #emotions which made me emotional! I almost cried too! 😮 I cannot wait to see more #eclipsefootage. So happy for your experience and #thankyou for sharing! 💪🥳🎉

[@justlanchen]

Thank you for watching. I'm so happy you enjoyed it 🫶

[@lovelife5646]

@@justlanchen yes it was great! Thank you for sharing! 🤗

[@PADARM]

I loved you reaction. I also cried. It's like being in another dimension in just one second. Nothing comes close to this, nothing.

[@SuzyTurner]

OMG your enthusiasm, passion and emotion totally made me cry too!! It reminded me of the time we visited the Kennedy space station in Florida and I cried when they revealed the Atlantis Space shuttle....I'm such a cry baby 😭😭😭

[@justlanchen]

OMG!!! I CRIED DURING THAT MOMENT TOO😭😭😭😭 and I was on a date too, it was so embarrassing

[@SuzyTurner]

@@justlanchen LOL!!! Awwww I bet your date thought you were adorable!!

[@sampowellmusic]

you are sooooooooooo lucky. I've been looking forward to this since 2017. Had it all planned out. drive 7 hours upstate NY (live on long island) found the perfect spot, lyons falls, NY reasonably close to the center line. we had breakfast at some country diner it was a beautiful day in the making. And then an hour before totality the clouds started rolling in. we saw first contact and then some but by the time of totality .....nothing. all i have ever wanted to experience in my life is to see the corona with my own eyes. your video and all these others make me so disappointed that i didnt get to experience it. ill be 82 for the next one, not sure if thats gonna pan out. maybe jesus will come first and spare me the agony.

[@tygical]

the thing that strikes me the most about it is the color it is in real life. the corona looks, as my dad describes it, like an electric silver. it really reminds you that we live in space.

[@Truth_Seeker96]

I posted my reaction as well. I was in the backyard with my family, the videos and photos don’t do it justice! I plan on going to Egypt in 2027 to watch totality last for nearly 7 minutes!

[@lisadc4681]

There's one crossing Spain up to Iceland in Aug 2026. Going to that one for sure!!

[@talk2kev]

2017 was our first the plan was to travel to Missouri and watch the Eclipse cross Route 66 the mother road but thunderstorms and rain so we drove to Nebraska and seen the Eclipse we did have some high clouds but the Eclipse was amazing. 360 dawn the crickets, the birds at rest, The parking lot lights turned on it was surreal. Now 2024 was so much better longer totality the naked eye prominences. 360 dawn lasted longer seeing the planets. Just having more time to take everything in was incredible. You owe it to yourself and your love ones to share this experience. Seize the day and embrace the moon's shadow. It is something you and your loved ones will never forget. Clear skies

[@damiencannane]

Thank you so much for this video. You have captured the experience and feelings of totality better than anyone else I've seen. You gave me legitimate goosebumps and brought back all the feelings from last week. What camera were you using when you were filming yourself that you then turned to see the corona? It did a great job handling the difficult light conditions of exposing for your face and totality.

[@gaetanche]

Very nice video to see, Well done!

[@justlanchen]

Thank you for watching!!!

[@ParamotorSteve]

Outstanding! I absolutely love hearing people's reactions especially if it's their first totality. I wasn't far from you, I drove to Fairfield, Illinois and flew my paramotor up a mile to see it. Best flight I ever took! I can't wait I have to wait so long for my next one.

[@justlanchen]

Were you in the sky during totality?!?!

[@ParamotorSteve]

@@justlanchen I sure was! About a mile up actually. I was surprised that you can actually make out the shadow on the ground slightly as it's coming towards you. Insane! I posted a couple of videos of my experience on my channel.

[@LearnToStargaze]

Wonderful job on this video.

[@justlanchen]

Thank you 🥹✨

[@DrR0BERT]

It's been nearly two weeks since the eclipse, and I am still watching people's reaction to it. There has yet been someone to accurately describe the experience, as it is an experience that defies words and pictures. This is an experience that is unlike no other. The grandness of it is beyond day to day activities. There is no celestial event I can think of that we can witness over observable measure of time. This takes place over minutes, yet just about all events happening in the solar system, the galaxy, and the cosmos take millennia or megaannum. (The only other example would be a shooting star, but that pales in comparison.) Let me ask you this, based on your memory, is the size of the eclipse bigger than what your video (or all other videos) indicate? The size, in my memory, is enormous, yet I know it's about the size of my thumbnail at the end of my extended arm.

[@Papershields001]

I spent the week up in Montreal then popped down to jay VT to watch the eclipse from right in the path of totality. It’s my second eclipse and I’m hooked. I’m definitely going to Morroco in 2027 and Sydney the next year.

[@gryffindore007]

I cried too❤😊

[@mariacabrera2850]

In Chicagoland we had only 94 percent. I really felt that temperature drop. Everything did look like it had a almost greenish filter. Very cool!!

[@ifly-fsx]

Nah. If it's not 100.0%, you can't take your glasses off, you don't get to see the corona, you don't get to see the solar prominences. It's a different animal. Different experience.

[@protorhinocerator142]

@@ifly-fsx Absolutely. We had 90% here in 2017 and it's nowhere close. Even 99.9% is not 100. When that last tiny sliver of sun vanishes a whole new world emerges.

[@joshuaford7635]

I watched the full eclipse in Maine when it went over my house it was an amazing 21st birthday and I’m so lucky I got to experience it 😭

[@Abonanno24601]

I went to Findley Ohio. Just awesome

[@rockwithyou2006]

What eclipse glasses are those ? Looks like Rainbow Symphony. How was the quality ? Also where did you get that Orange NASA jacket, it looks so cool on you. I flew all the way to Dallas against all odds. And the clouds cleared up for us just in time, totality hit and the Universe came to a standstill. Time stopped for me and it was all over in 3:40 mins.

[@holidaytracker]

You are right it is not the same thing as a sunrise/sunset as you approach totality but different, kind of hard to explain. It is like midday but someone put a filter on is a good way to describe it.

[@olgapikul3328]

I'm in upstate NY so we were in the path of totality.. BUT because it is upstate NY, we also had complete cloud cover at the time of the eclipse.. And therefore could see absolutely nothing..

[@justlanchen]

Nooo this is so sad :(

[@TimtheHermit2]

I live in Ohio. My house was right in the path of totality. We were amazed at how clear the sky was. Ohio has a history of cloudy weather blocking cool phenomena. It was awesome.

[@ifly-fsx]

1:42 I can see the sun's shoes.

[@ZeeZee9]

This video and your experiences and emotions towards the eclipse mirror mine closely. Even some of the people you interviewed at the end said things I was also thinking. Wonderful video. I got as excited as you for this eclipse and also travelled for it (6 hours). I love your passion. Here is to us space nerds 🤓🤓😎😎☀️🌙🌗

[@cheavideography781]

Don't worry, many of us cried too lol

[@rachelsworld5922]

10:35 How does he know that? He wasn’t around 200 years ago

[@justlanchen]

how does he know what?

[@tygical]

he's saying like, imagine how it must have felt back then to see that, and not know what was causing it

[@rachelsworld5922]

8:59 Those aren’t solar eclipses glasses

[@justlanchen]

Yes they are

[@jr3474]

Regular people do not care about chemtrails... it is just a given thing totally normal....

[@tygical]

contrails* and that has nothing to do with the video

[@DLD_Photography]

Great video! We drove up to Bloomington, IN from Clover, SC. The weather forecast was a little iffy but, it turned out great. We were also right in the middle and, the totality lasted 00:04:01. The last one we saw was not too far from where we lived back in 2017. Here is a video I put together from the eclipse in Bloomington. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZancqmaq66jqsk

[@que-stead-que1717]

I just subscribed. I experienced my very first after traveling to Toledo Ohio to see. I was floored. Cameras cannot capture what the naked eye sees. And until you’ve actually seen totality there is no way to grasp, nor compare to 99%. It’s been an ongoing argument in the eclipse groups. Trust us if you ever get the opportunity…get thee to the path of totality ❤. I hope that you do not mind me sharing a link to my experience here. If so just delete. Excuse the quality, I had to re-film from the ipad to phone because the original got a copyright strike due to music 5 minutes before totality. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4e8p2egf9aojLssi=32lxg7OaBaX3SXkX

[@ifly-fsx]

2:02 The moon does not orbit the sun, though. That sun is an impostor.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Sure it does. Let me send you some literature about the wonders of the Flat Earth...

[@tygical]

@@protorhinocerator142 please tell me this is a joke

[@rachelsworld5922]

5:22 Put up your hands in a waffle type pattern? Huh? Wdym?

[@justlanchen]

It creates small light leaks which create a crescent moon!

[@suicideistheanswer369]

Hi. Space is pretty cool.

[@passingthru4383]

Thanks for sharing and Im glad you had an awesome time. :)

[@LilMzMandy]

So I didn't get to see this one, but I've been lucky enough to have seen totality back in the 90's, and 2017. I fully understand that words don't get anywhere near close. It's such an emotional trip. So glad you got to see totality. Love the NASA jacket, definitely a video for it. One can only imagine how life changing an eclipse would have been 5, 6, or7 hundred years ago. Safe journeys and best wishes.

[@kurtheidel6535]

No picture or video can capture what you see with your own eyes. The disc of the moon is the darkest black I'll ever see. Totally devoid of light. The corona gives the sky around it the lightest shade of blue, and around it, a cobalt blue. Not like any shade of night sky. Close up pictures blow out the sky. Selfie shots make the moon/sun look tiny. It was as large as a full moon. I said at the start of totality I wouldn't cry, but when telling my daughter I probably wouldn't see this again, I shed tears. Was worth all the driving to see it and like you we were 20 yards from the center line of totality on Lake Champlain NY.