• it's getting darker;
• stars and planets appear;
• the approaching shadow of the moon (with a velocity of about one kilometer per second);
• the twilight around (besides the trace of the shadow);
• drop in temperature;
• stagnation of cumulus accrescence;
• the living nature strikes wrong (animals, plants);
• the appearance of the corona, preceeded by the Baily's Beads and the diamondring followed by solar flares;
• small parts of light during the partial eclipse are not circles but sickles;
• the rising wind (inland) or the dropping of the wind (at the shore);
• shortly improved conditions for short wave emissions (radio);
• a probable deviation of Foucault's pendulum with an explanation
• the impact on the spectators.

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