Emotional Reactions to the Total Solar Eclipse 2017

A montage of peoples' reactions to Totality during the Total Solar Eclipse in Columbia, SC on August 21, 2017. Our own NASA approved Eclipse Expert Jim Gandy got very emotional during this Amazing event.

Everything you need to know about the eclipse on our website WLTX.com.

[jungersrules]

That last man's word, "It's hard to explain" says it all. I feel the same.

[bean-ccdx]

Being less than 3 weeks from the 2024 one, I can’t wait to see my first total solar eclipse!

[maggie]

I saw it in 2017 and will see the 2024 one. After that, no more😢. I won't live long enough. Please, please go see it

[stymiedagain]

That first man’s comments that “the scientists and mathematicians can explain everything they want with their numbers and their figures but it’s just a feeling and an emotion of being there”, reminded me of the media interviews with astronomers when they first fixed the lens problem on the Hubble telescope and got these extraordinary, breath-taking pictures. The astronomers and cosmologists were giving interviews talking about numbers of stars, distances, ages of galaxies - as if that’s what people found fascinating about the pictures. It was the sheer beauty of “the heavens”, an aspect of nature they had never seen before, in those pictures that made people admire them. We never look up much in our light polluted environments. We’re so obsessed with our little existence here on this planet, it’s good to be reminded that there’s more out there than us. To see the sun disappear in a clear sky in the middle of the day must have been terrifying to humans in an earlier period of our history. We get to enjoy the experience and know this life-giving energy isn’t gone for good, and I think it makes us feel grateful.

[Zen_Viniti]

2017 was an absolute solace as well and I'm blessed that technology in just 7 years has brought us all together to experience one of the earths most amazing phenomenons. Thank you ❤ again.

[lunedogg]

You really have to see totality to “get it”

[anndeefam]

I watched it in Dayton Ohio and totality was AWESOME!!!!

[Empress_diorr]

It’s not fair I was in third grade when it happened but I could not see it :( 😭 hopefully I can see it the next time it happens

[GearMaster-kuxf]

This is like those overhyped fortnite events lol.

[rmr]

Maybe that's why people need to start looking up to the heavens instead of believing heaven exists in books, legends and myth. 🤗

[john-.]

People are nuts getting emotional its not that big of a deal.