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Skylink, solar eclipse
Saturday, April 6th, 2024 02:24 amOn my flight back from California, I had a layover in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) airport. As my connecting flight departed from another terminal, I rode in the Skylink trains which run on elevated rails between the terminals.
Escalators go up from the terminal areas to the train station halls. The halls have large banks of windows, giving a great view of the airport.
DFW is in the path of totality of the upcoming eclipse. If I had timed my trip differently, I could have possibly watched the eclipse during my layover. However, I don't think you can get to the open air without leaving the terminals and then having to go through Security to get back in. (The terminal's "Pet relief area" turned out to only be a stinky room with a green outdoor rug and a water hose to rinse it off). Even from the panoramic Skylink halls, you probably wouldn't be able to see the sun directly overhead.
As South Carolina isn't near the path of totality, I've felt blasé about the eclipse. I've been too busy to give it much thought other than that partial solar eclipses are hardly noticeable. But when my mom mentioned it today, I checked the local details, and we'll get a 76% eclipse. That's a crescent sun. That's worth looking at through some eclipse glasses. It's nearly as much as I got to experience for the 2017 eclipse. It's the last one near here (hear, hear!) for the next 21 years (years and years and years!). It's worth getting a little excited for.
I wonder what a solar eclipse would look like from in the air through an airplane window.
Escalators go up from the terminal areas to the train station halls. The halls have large banks of windows, giving a great view of the airport.
DFW is in the path of totality of the upcoming eclipse. If I had timed my trip differently, I could have possibly watched the eclipse during my layover. However, I don't think you can get to the open air without leaving the terminals and then having to go through Security to get back in. (The terminal's "Pet relief area" turned out to only be a stinky room with a green outdoor rug and a water hose to rinse it off). Even from the panoramic Skylink halls, you probably wouldn't be able to see the sun directly overhead.
As South Carolina isn't near the path of totality, I've felt blasé about the eclipse. I've been too busy to give it much thought other than that partial solar eclipses are hardly noticeable. But when my mom mentioned it today, I checked the local details, and we'll get a 76% eclipse. That's a crescent sun. That's worth looking at through some eclipse glasses. It's nearly as much as I got to experience for the 2017 eclipse. It's the last one near here (hear, hear!) for the next 21 years (years and years and years!). It's worth getting a little excited for.
I wonder what a solar eclipse would look like from in the air through an airplane window.
