Temperatures will be chilly Friday morning.
SAN ANTONIO — During the solar eclipse on April 8, many San Antonians will experience darkness fall across the sky during totality around 1:30 p.m. This event will leave more than just outer surface of the sun visible to the naked eye.
Even at 99.9% coverage of the sun will not provide the full effect, it will not get dark, you will not see planets or the sun's corona, the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere. In addition, you will not be able to remove your solar glasses. During totality, the sun will be very high up in the sky and many people won't even notice any light changes for the first hour before the eclipse, according to Angela Speck Ph.D., UTSA Professor and Department Chair, Physics and Astronomy.
"The last minute before totality is when everything changes. It goes from basically as dark as an overcast day...and it plunges to at least late twilight in about a minute. So it gets dark very, very fast, said Dr. Angela Speck, Department Chair at UTSA. As the sky gets very dark around the sun San Antonians can also draw their eyes down near the horizon where a full 360 degrees of sunset colors will be present, depending on weather. The stars we would see six months from now at night are behind the sun and we wouldn't normally see during the day could make an appearance during the eclipse, but only the brightest stars, according to Dr. Speck.
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