In article , Bruce Palmer wrote:

On some afternoons, depending on clouds and atmospheric dust, the sun
looks like a giant orange ball that you can actually look at without eye
damage as it sets,

I saw an annular eclipse, just on the point where it rose above the
horizon as it left "totality" (okay, maxima, YKWIM). Got about maybe
five degrees up, then we could see a sliver... thick morning mist...
which meant we could sit and watch the sun, no protective equipment or
any form of discomfort, for the best part of half an hour as the moon
slipped in front of it. Remarkable.

These clear-sky eclipses don't have *all* the tricks :-)

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-Andrew Gray