The moments that are the most important to the story that make the author filled with amazement the excerpt from the total eclipse by Annie Dillard in February 1979 was when a total eclipse was going to pass over the states when the author was in Washington state and she is going to view the eclipse.
Next, at the start of the story and the solar eclipse the story says that the world is wrong because the sky to the west turned to a changed to deep indigo a color never seen before in the sky where the grass was being changed to platinum every part to the stem and head.
Then when the sky changes the author says that the color had never been seen before it has a matte color, and the sky is detaching it was a loosened circle suddenly