So, here's a dumb question. The eclipse just happened, many

>>9129425

Nobody said the entire Earth is cast into the Moon's shadow, just that the Moon's shadow moves across the Earth. If you're under the path of totality, where the darkest part of the Moon's shadow will pass directly over you, then it will get pretty dark around you. However, the light scattered from the Earth's atmosphere around the shadow of the Moon will still reach you, resulting in non-total darkness.

Here's what the Moon's shadow on Earth looks like from space (too big to post here, remove the space) http://mediad.public broadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/201603/470091400.jpeg

You still see sunlight all around you from the areas not covered in darkness, and the corona itself also provides illumination. It's really more like a late twilight than the dark of night, when you're in Earth's shadow.

Even without totality, having a good coverage of the sun results in a weird dimming and desaturation of broad daylight, like you're wearing tinted glasses or are going blind.

I was in the path of totality. It was mind blowing. Kinda twilight but could see Venis, I was a little worried about the sun coming back. Damn it did.

>>9129425
The only time it gets dark is when it's a total solar eclipse and you are on the path of totality. Otherwise it's hard to even notice the moon in front of the sun without special glasses/filters.