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A black star in a false Spanish twilight: Here's the story of my 1st total solar eclipse

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A black star in a false Spanish twilight: Here's the story of my 1st total solar eclipse
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I had never seen a total solar eclipse. That's a strange thing to admit for the skywatching writer at Space.com, but the truth is that the opportunity had simply never come up. When it comes to eclipses, I've always been beguiled by their beauty from afar. I've always hoped to see that strange moment when a black sun manifests to extend a glowing atmosphere into the fleeting twilight of totality. But after 37 years I hadn't once found myself in the path of the moon's inner shadow, and it was sta

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