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On April 8th, a total solar eclipse will cast its shadow across Mexico, the United States and Canada. This solar eclipse is quite special for a number of reasons. Let’s have a look at why this solar eclipse is so special and some things you should be on the lookout for.
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Sabine, you forgot 360° "sunset". In the shadow there be no direct light so all light will come from the the periphery and blue is adsorbed.
I saw it in Vermont. So cool
I saw my first one in 1808.
Just watched this now. Yesterday saw my first totalilty. Fantastic! And I and people with me were all noticing the super sharp shadow lines and crisp light during the diamond ring—the second one–because as you enter darkness you are lookg fwd to that but the 2nd diamond, it is the light–that sharp edged shadow was CRAZY! This is such a full of questions and observations experience. I am an eclipse junkie now.
Did you notice that Sabine eclipsed her hair as the program progressed? And she made sure to wear her signature top! I like that she has a signature top. I think it just occurred to her a few months ago probably by accident and she is rolling with it.
I saw the 2017…an unbelievable experience. But the 2024 eclipse totally stunned me. I wasn’t really expecting numerous BRIGHT planets to show plus solar flares. It seemed darker this time too.
how is this your first total solar eclipse? you look like you're 50-60 years old…..
This year perhaps there is good things happening, nova, supernova.
And lots of questions, like in the Nova, the binary system, what will come first to earth, gravitational waves or light, both can be measured ….
I'm jealous, last one in France was in 1999, and next one is on 2081… 😢
Did you see totality?
So question. When I saw the eclipse I saw a bright red dot on the bottom left of the moon that started getting a yellowish tent as the eclipse ended. Did anyone else see that? Does anyone know what caused it?
Here in Texas, it was AWESOME
This is how we determine the path of the moon an earth:
Every 18.6 years, the angle between the Moon's orbit and Earth's equator reaches a maximum of 28°36′, the sum of Earth's equatorial tilt (23°27′) and the Moon's orbital inclination (5°09′) to the ecliptic. The lunar distance is on average approximately 385,000 km (239,000 mi), or 1.28 light-seconds; this is roughly 30 times Earth's diameter or 9.5 times Earth's circumference. Around 389 lunar distances make up an AU astronomical unit (roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun).
If we plug in these numbers to a computer program the above numbers don't match with the path of the moon, the reason for full and partial moon, the speed of the rotation of the moon and the earth, why and how light scattering makes some of the moon transparent, and only the moon, but no other planets.
It also does not explain why we can not see / detect the moon's axis of rotation and how earth and the moon remain in a precise rotational speed to its milliseconds despite the claims that there are many disorderly changes in earth's rotation?
😀👍: just helps the algorithm which appears to be broken 😀😀😀😀😀😀
This was indeed way much "total" than the one in of 1999 we had in Europe. Unfortunately I wasn't there to watch it.
I watched three of them.
Two. No glasses
Watchef it from Dunnville Ontario Canada. 3m30s of glorious totality
in a partial 2017 near St louis. sickling was obvious everywhere, seemed to become shadow bands. before and after the maximum. on totality near Indianapolis 2024. no sickling. couldn't produce any pinhole effect. no shadow bands. felt like there was too much light for those effects.
Please, can you tell us about your experience?
I was in Terrell Texas which was mostly cloudy but right near totality the nearly merged Sun and Moon overlapped a patch of blue and slightly hazy sky.
This isn't my first, I was born under a Total Eclipse(Blood Moon) on Feb 21, 1989. Not long after another total eclipse occurred.
I'm really starting to believe that science is the new failed religion. I'm not saying that because of this video, because an overall view of many science videos compared with what I truly know.
I was going to say dress up warm, it gets chilly, but I'm too late. Hopefully you survived without frostbite.
"Just the birds are silent with suprise" enjoy
Something I didn't anticipate at all was that I was going to see solar prominences. I didn't actually know what they were during the eclipse—I just saw these red patches around the halo. I had to look it up later. Very neat.
I left my giraffe alone..what do i do now?
Well you managed to make it sound much more interesting than it sounded from the other coverage I heard, I'm not surprised though because you're a star. ⭐😊
I didn't hear much though as I'm on the wrong part of the planet to experience it, I recall an eclipse or two but I don't think they were total, just partial ones.
Great video!
My wife and I watched from Mason, TX, and it was an objectively better eclipse than the one in 2017! I'm pretty sure we saw Venus to the right of the sun/moon, and there was a persistent bright violet/pink dot near the bottom of the moon's disc, perhaps where the Sun was peeking past a valley on the moon's surface. (Never knew about Purkinje effect until just now, so thank you for that piece of info!) We also noticed the wind speed pick up, which only added to the bizarre beauty of it all.
So where in the US did you view the eclipse?