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We are in the Golden Age of Solar Eclipses, but only for the moment. In fact, I'd argue we're already past peak solar eclipse and it's all downhill from here.
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Having seen 95%ish partial eclipse, I can attest that the sky _absolutely_ gets dark in that weird way where it’s dark like at dusk or dawn but the light is still blue-dominated instead of the reddish hues of sunrise and sunset. The best comparison I’ve heard for it was a “day for night” filter, except in real life.
If you haven't seen a total eclipse it really is something else. The difference between 99% and 100% is almost literally night and day.
Nothing compares a total solar eclipse even a 99% partial eclipse.
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Of course, there are absolutely some experiences that are unique to total eclipses, such as the diamond ring effect (95% isn’t enough for that).
Confirmed the "day for night" filter is accurate. It's like being on a different planet with a way weaker star.
Next time look at the shadows and see them become bow shaped.
I really wish the media did a better job at explaining to the general public about the difference between a total and annular eclipse, and also that the path of totality is narrow. I went down to St Louis for the 2018 eclipse and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, but then I had a lot of conversations with people afterwards who were not at totality like “I don’t see what the big deal was”
I am lucky enough to live in the path of totality of the 2018 eclipse, and it was one of the coolest things that I have ever seen in my life! I could see the sun cast a partial shadow on the ground where you could see crescents all over the ground before and after totality.
Not too relevant to your comment but I still wanted to say it because eclipses are cool
I didn't get "I don't see what the big deal is", I got "Oh yeah, I saw it too" when they were hundreds of miles from the totality. I'm not sure how many of them understood the huge difference.
Wasn't it 2017-08-21? It was partial where I live, and the sunlight was slightly oranger than usual, so that was kind of cool. Hoping to see totality in April!
yeah i remember my mother saying “oh we will see 92% from where we live its close enough” but i somehow convinced my parents to drive us far enough to see totality. it was 100% worth it
I had like a 90-99% partial eclipse and it was honestly really cool watching it at school in the field. But since it wasn’t “total”, it didn’t get as dark as night and afterwards, a lot of people were just saying “that’s it”? But I don’t know how often you’d get a chance to see it in your life… especially now knowing there will be less and less…
I would argue that now IS the golden age for solar eclipses!
52% annular vs 48% full implies to me that the average distance of eclipses (or the Earth-to-moon vs Earth-to-sun distance ratio) is just right for the moon to cover the sun but not the corona.
The moon being closer would of course give us more full eclipses, but a moon too close that it also blocks hide the corona would also be disappointing
I wanted to comment this. The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but by sheer coincidence, It's also 400 times closer. That is why they appear around the same size, and why total solar eclipses happen how they do. This truly is the golden age for such a thing.
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Radius of the sun: 696340km
Radius of the moon: 1737km
Rs/Rm = ~400.89
Avg distance of the sun: 147M km
Avg distance of the moon: 384k km
Avg Ds/Dm = ~383.12
I wasn't making those numbers up.
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@@rahul9704 I see you are right. I have known the incorrect radius of sun.
berserk reference!!! 11!!1
I hold such a grudge against my school for forcing us to stay inside during the total solar eclipse. I was in a room with a window facing a wall so there was no way to see it... the school had essentially banned us from looking because you're technically not meant to look at the sun. What made it more frustrating is that a couple younger classes teachers got those special glasses for everyone so they all got to see it while we didn't, there was a couple extra so two people from my class with special needs were let to see it too (which I mean, I get they have a hard time but still feels really unfair). I was so pissed off that all of my family, thousands if not millions of people and kids in my school too young to even remember it were all going on about how amazing it was while I was forced to just... stare at a wall. I don't think I'll ever get the chance to see one again, my school and teachers robbed me of a once in a lifetime experience :(
Edit: I won't be able to travel to see it, I'm in Scotland so a trip to America would be quite far. I'm in uni at the moment so I don't have much money and I'm busy basically all year, I can't really travel much at all except for a week or two in the summer with my family.
There’s another one coming on April 8 2024 in the states of Texas, southeast Oklahoma, Arkansas southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, far western Kentucky, Indiana, ohio, far western New York etc
@@Mahpoosaylipsme in Virginia 😢
If you really want to see one that badly you'll be travelling to TX just after Easter. Don't bear a grudge, sort it.
There will be one in Spain in 2026. Still a bit of a travel, but definitely much closer than the US.
@@trueriver1950 then they are wasting time effort and money on something they couldve easily seen for free. they have every right to be upset
One weird consequence of even partial solar eclipses for a very niche group of people is that thermal air currents get weaker. One time at a gliding competition the comp meteorologist casually mentioned during morning briefing that the day was going to have a partial solar eclipse (maybe around 50%, cant remember exactly) and to watch out for weaker thermals. I didn't fly, I was there as an assistant, but when the pilots came back from their flights they did say it was a noticeable drop in performance.
Noticeable weaker for the solar powered planes too.
That's such an _obscure_ reference
@@YounesLayachi That's such a subtle reference. Here's an (insufficient) 3rd upvote.
Petition to put boosters on the Moon for no particular reason.
Just for funzies.
POV: you have no idea how orbiting works
Genius
@@dosdude1935 pov: your brain is incapable of comprehending innovation.
I say we put them on the backs DN propel it back to earth when it gets too far😂
I watched the total eclipse of 2017 while sitting on my motorcycle in a hotel parking lot at Grand Island, Nebraska.
Can’t describe the feelings accurately in words…I was in complete awe. Seeing the corona was spectacular.
Hope to see the next one in April.
thats badass
was in hastings nebraska at the time in 6th grade. it was phenomenal
I was skeptical of how cool seeing a total solar eclipse would be until I actually saw one. It wasn't mystical or spiritual or anything, but it was a singularly interesting and unusual experience. If you have the opportunity, definitely go see it!
And to anyone who thinks "why drive to see a total eclipse if I'm close enough to see 95% or 99%," trust me when I say it's a world of difference. It's so insanely cool and probably the most striking natural thing I've ever seen in my life.
I absolutely agree, except I'd say it very much is spiritual. I don't follow any organized religion, but I think it's a pretty miraculous thing that the only thing we know of that holds life also has something as beautiful and unlikely as our eclipses. Witnessing it and experiencing all the sensory aspects of one throws you into a mindset where you are forced to reckon with our place in the universe.
I love science and physics. I'm not at all someone who discounts the insane amount of things we have understood and documented. But some things are inherently outside of the realm of scientific explanation. Something like an eclipse can be a slap in the face to wake you up to that fact.
If i live long enough
If you live in the US there is one on April 4th and then none until 2045.
I had the perfect time & opportunity to see one, but that day was completely cloudy lol, maybe another time if I live long enough
Checking in from the 2024 American Eclipse. I bought eclipse glasses, solar filters, and a telescope (with a filter) leading up to it. Drove over 1000 miles to reach a clear spot in totality. I don’t think I’ll ever see anything more impressive than that eclipse in my life. No photo does it justice.
No way. The line of totality of that april 8th solar eclipse goes RIGHT BY my home town. I could definitly go see it, especially seeing that the next one that is even close to being that close to me is in 2106
Do it! I’m certain it’ll be worth it 😄
GO SEE IT. I travelled to go see the 2017 total solar eclipse and it was SO worth it!
I'll play contrarian. Consider not going making plans to go home if it's in a place where there's a good chance of bad weather. I can drive 4 hours to the Adirondacks , but because there's a very good chance of crappy weather I'm not going to make any special plans for it. If the weather forecast is good a few days out I can just drive up without any special plans in advance.
Yeah, I can drive an hour or so and be right in the path of totality
its outside my window lol
jesus is coming.
I live in Southern Illinois where we were in the point of longest duration for the eclipse in Augus 2017 and will be experiencing totality again this april. We are incredibly lucky to experience this phenomenon twice within such short period of time.
So am I lol. We drove all the way down to Kentucky from Michigan (13 hrs) just to see that total solar eclipse. Now we get the treat of having a much longer one in Toledo.
@@50Steaks68 I'm in NY, and could be in the center of totality 170 to 180 miles away, but that's in the Adirondacks in early spring. If the weather forecast is cooperative when it's close enough I'll probably drive there, but if I could I'd be headed for southern Texas because there's a much better chance of good weather and the extra minute of totality.
That’s cool! Me and my family were also there at the point of longest duration. We didn’t really plan it out, we just put in the coordinates for the point of exact longest duration and drove there (we figured it would be a random cornfield or something like that) and when we got there it was actually a vineyard who had a whole event set up for it so there was tons of parking and there was a cool sculpture at the exact point of longest duration. Lucked out pretty well. Loved the experience!
Going to Niagara falls for it 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'm at a frustrating 10+ hr drive from each one. Just far enough to make it not worth it, but close enough where I could do it if I really wanted to. Could fly I guess, either way would spend hundreds and lose a couple days for a 4 minute experience. If it were half the distance would be a much easier call.
All of this reality must be denied to think the Earth is flat.
Dont be sad. A billion years from now, you should be more worried about sun's helium burning red giant phase evaporating oceans than the solar eclipse ...
Just got back from a 800 mile journey by car to see the total eclipse. Worth it.
620 and it was worth being in the path of totality.
Duluth MN to Carbondale IL ❲769 miles❳ for me. The 4 minutes and 9 seconds of totality were worth every second to experience. Never could I have ever imagined that total solar eclipses could be so astonishing and breathtaking.
Duluth MN to Carbondale IL ❲769 miles❳ for me. The 4 minutes and 9 seconds of totality were worth every second to experience. Never could I have ever imagined that total solar eclipses could be so astonishing and breathtaking.
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After a 4 hour flight
Was just watching some of your other videos. You have inspired me to consider becoming a physicist as a career. Thank you for doing what you do!!!
Inspired to consider? That doesn't really seem like much of anything if you think about it.
@@yomammasaurusrex9571 Makes sense, because there are many hurdles you have to go through to become a professional physicist. It takes 8+ years of higher education to become fully qualified. You will have time to consider your future prospects, and if at some point you decide to switch careers, your degrees are still useful to you and won't go to waste.
@@rickzegooene2193 no
@@yomammasaurusrex9571 no what
@@rickzegooene2193 No he doesn't want to do any thinking what so ever I guess lol. As for the OP, Physics is huge fun to study up to master's level, but doing a PhD and having a career in it is pretty terrible for a wide variety of reasons.
I can attest to the statement that the difference between 99% and 100% totality is literally the difference between day and night. Having seen the totality for 2.5 minutes, it is ethereally beautiful! I encourage you to see it once in your life!
A 99% eclipse here on Earth is almost as bright as normal daylight on _Saturn._
59 years old, and this is the first time I understand what an eclipse is! Thank you!
That definitely says something about the state of education. That's not a dig at you or your intelligence, more an admonishment of the time wasted on nonsense in schools...
Well, there's also lunar eclipses. I think this guy also made a video about that too, you should go check it out.
@kennarajora6532 I've had the blessed fortune to see an annular solar as well as a lunar, lunar was the most wowza to witness! Interested to see how it compares to seeing a total solar =D
@@tengonadacluewhatsgutsprec1419having seen all three, I'm excited for you to see the total solar eclipse. It completely blows the other two out of the water and is one of the most amazing and beautiful things to see in life. But it has to be a 100% total eclipse.
@@Ostensibly_Mellowor going out there and searching it yourself, Wikipedia and CZcams will do.
I once experienced being near an almost total eclipse. Everything looked like it had static. When I stepped outside, it was like the world had a CRT filter. Bizarre.
Next total solar eclipse in Germany is in 2084, I don't think I wanna wait that long so I already booked a plane to Canada to view this next total solar eclipse you mentioned! :)
Nice! Where about in Canada? If you are in Quebec, I'd recommend going to Old Quebec. It's really beautiful and peaceful
Make sure you get to a place of complete totality. It's totally worth it. We flew to Argentina to see one.
Just go to Spain in a few years.
There's one in Spain in 2026 and 2027, if you want? One right down on the south coast, one cutting across from the north to the east coast
Hopefully no clouds.
sun - moon - earth --> solar eclipse
sun - earth - moon --> lunar eclipse
moon - sun - earth --> Apocalypse.
Amazing! Thank you for this video. Your style of communication makes the complex simple. Yours is the only CZcams channel I have binge watched from start to finish.
Love the art in this one ♡ the eclipse drawings are so cool. So glad minutephysics is back
Having seen the 2017 eclipse, it was amazing. I was stuck saying wow over and over. My camera overheated because my welder's glass just barely blocked the sunlight. I just saw the annular eclipse in October and it was cool but not anywhere as cool as the total eclipse. I had this primal fear worrying that the sun was gone and not coming back. It was always there, and then it just wasn't. I saw the stars, felt the "coolness" in the hot Georgia August air. Can't wait to go back to TX for the April eclipse.
You jinxed April 8 in 2024, only cloudy day of the week.
I got to see the eclipse in person this year! It was beautiful!
Did you see the annular eclipse in October, or the total eclipse back in April? I was lucky enough to see both :D
I brought my eclipse glasses to church and showed some people. Where I live, the moon got halfway across the sun (which is about 40% of the area). That was in October.
@@Electifriedwere you lucky enough to witness the west papuan genocide there too, or did you just look at the sky and hum whenever the screaming starts
because it's fastantic to witless all kinda things up thar thar while the only competent people in the world are being slaughtered so you can buy plastix at the store
Nice blog
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I went to Nashville in 2017 to see the most recent solar eclipse visible in much of North America, and I'm planning on going to Montreal in 2024 to see the next one. I feel so lucky to be able to see two total solar eclipses in my lifetime, so close together!
I was in Kentucky for the 17 eclipse too. Drove from Michigan to watch it and then straight back home. 75 was packed and we sat in like 16 hours of concert traffic all the way back to the michigan border
I saw that one, too! I totally understand why people travel far and wide to experience it again and again.
The next one, April 8th, will be going through Southern il, Indiana, and Michigan. Why go so far north?
@@oscarinacanbecause Montreal is a cool place? Besides, we don’t know where he went from 😂
@@d_bud Montreal sucks lol but so does michigan lol watch it in Indiana
I went to see the April 8th eclipse and what I found amazing was how even when most of thr sun is covered it isn't much darker. (It was cloudy tbf, but it really felt like more of a rainy day but without thr rain)
Then it rappidly got dark, like when the lights turn off at a movie theater. Birds were going crazy, I could hear crickets coming out, and it got much colder.
Then it was just.... Over.... Like some sorta glitch in the matrix that just got patched.
If you ever have thr opportunity to see an eclipse take a prepare ahead of time, mark it as a day off, do whatever you can to see it. I skipped 2 college lectures and I normally _never_ skip classes.
I was lucky enough to see the total solar eclipse in Oregon, US in August 2017. It was absolutely transforming experience. Highly recommend!
Same here!
I live in PA it would have been a pretty far drive. The one in April I’ll be able to see from Erie, PA just a few hours away.
I was a little too far north to get totality, but I still saw around 98% where I was at.
It was still really neat but it never got noticeably dark outside (turns out, 2% of a lot of light is still a lot of light). Still looked pretty much like daylight, but much cooler, shadows had much sharper edges, and the light/colors had a weird quality to them that I can't quite describe.
It almost felt like I had taken a very small dose of mushrooms. Not enough to fully trip, just enough to feel vaguely odd.
Still remember in 1999 when my father took me and my brother out of school, drove us to the south of England, so we could watch the total eclipse. Once in a lifetime event for me for sure.
I saw this one too in Belgium. Fun but I would not travel a thousand km's for it.
*cries in european*
Same
what
why european
@@chumbleisverychill817 r/whoooooosh
*cheers in american*
This was a perfect concept just waiting for a youtube video. thanks mp!
Without a doubt the most concise explanation I've seen, great job.
Who's here after april 8th, 2024?
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Me watching the video after the eclipse
I got to see the one in 2017 and I’d say it was one of the best moments of my life. I’ve counted the days until the next one this April ever since, and it’s even better that I don’t have to travel to see a total eclipse! I’m just really hoping it’s not cloudy
"Let's hope it isn't cloudy." :)
It was cloudy for me, but just before the big time and then clouds move just enough for me to be able to see it. I was only at the 92% partial eclipse but just seen the super skinny blade of the sun was enough to get me excited one day I’ll see the total one.
can't wait for April 8, 2024
3:56 scared me, I was about to get my ass to america
hee haw
Viewing the eclipse that crossed North America in 2017 quite literally was a life changing experience. We saw it from the city of Weiser, Idaho, around 100 km NW of Boise. Though I've been interested in astronomy all of my life and have seen countless photos and videos of eclipses, it didn't prepare me for witnessing the real thing. It was absolutely overwhelming, and felt for all the world like some sort of special CGI effect was going on in the sky - it was so far outside the experience of what we see in everyday life that it was difficult to comprehend and accept as some kind of natural phenomenon.
When we returned back to Boise after the event, of course the topic of conversation was the eclipse. So many people (by far the majority of the city) stayed in Boise to watch the eclipse, figuring that 99% totality was basically as good as the real thing, so they didn't make the effort to drive less than an hour to the eclipse path. And their response was pretty much along the lines of "it got darker, and was pretty neat, but I don't know what the big deal was". I felt so sorry for them; that they had missed the opportunity to see something so spectacular, literally on their doorstep, because they assumed that 99% was almost as good as 100%. In reality, they are a completely different thing.
Since then, we have become "eclipse chasers", making it our goal to see the world by travelling to where paths of totality might lie (yes, it really is that spectacular that seeing an totally eclipsed Sun for even just a few minutes is worth the months of planning to get there!) In 2021, we used a total eclipse in Antarctica as an excuse to visit a continent we had always dreamed to visit (sadly, it was completely cloudy during the eclipse; fortunately, we did get to see Antarctica!). Then, in 2023, we travelled to Australia to see a solar eclipse there (again, our first time to a new continent for us, and that time we got to see both the country as well as a spectacularly totally eclipsed Sun in a cloudless sky). Of course, we will be certainly travelling to the next total solar eclipse in North America on April 8, 2024, and are hoping to travel to Spain in 2026 for an eclipse there.
The bottom line - if you are even just anywhere in the vicinity of an eclipse track, make it your goal to get somewhere right in the middle of the track, in a place with a good likelihood of clear skies. Getting "close" isn't good enough - it's like "almost" winning the lottery. I guarantee you that I've never met someone who made an effort to get to the center of an eclipse track who was sorry they did.
I just saw the total eclipse yesterday, it was literally night time.
I drove 6 hrs to watch the 2017 eclipse and it was the single most incredible thing I've seen. I wouldn't quite say it was a spiritual experience, but I understand why people say it is, because I think that's probably just the closest analogy you can make. The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end and I actually had tears in my eyes, for no reason I can readily explain. I'm not a handwavey new agey person. I'm STEM af. But maybe that's precisely why it was so momentous to me. It wasn't a supernatural phenomenon. It wasn't an act of god. It was, with no exaggeration, a miracle of nature. Next year I'm flying 6 hrs to watch it again, and I absolutely urge everyone to try to do the same. You won't regret it, and if you like in the US like me, you won't have another chance to watch it domestically until 2045.
I know what you mean. Like, I knew in my head all it was was me standing in a shadow but I also knew it was a kind of shadow impossible to create otherwise. I mean, I can blot the sun out with my hand...but it's nowhere near the same :-) I hope both weather and circumstance cooperate that I may see another in 2024!
*Looks at thumb* ...that's no moon...
Your explanation of how 1 moon day compares to 1 moon year due to it slowly moving away was pretty mindblowing to me!
It was cool to see in a space video game (Elite Dangerous) the moon revolves around its axis every 27.3 days and it takes 27.3 days to go around the Earth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
happy new year guys
i saw the solar eclipse today in a totality zone within vermont. sucks that there is gonna be nearly 100 years before the next one in that spot.
What lucky person I am (haha jk had to travel) to have observed a total solar eclipse.
The most memorable thing is that all animals are as surprised as people are, so everything also goes _really quiet_.
the same thing hapens during a total eclipse of the heart. except bonnie tyler rushes down the stairs and grabs you
I'm really glad that I was in the path of totality for the solar eclipse in the US about 5 years ago, it's probably the only total solar eclipse I'll ever see
3:55 Hey thats today!😃
Took the kids to see a total eclipse along the Snake River on the eastern edge of Oregon a few years back. I hope that down the road, they remember and reflect on the experience as much as I do. Very thankful to have passively taken a video of the whole thing on a tripod while enjoying the moment with the family.
Even after years, it's still the same as always... Awesome!! ❤
The city I live in (Toledo) Ohio is gonna have a full solar eclipse next year, I’m so happy about that and my city is gonna have so many visitors. So I’m excited for next year.
a partial (for me) solar eclipse happened today, and even though i only got about 90% coverage, it was still really cool to see. The weirdest part about it was that it looked like it was about 6 in the evening, but the sky was still high in the sky. It looked like bad lighting in a low budget movie.
Yeah mexico got to see the total eclipse i did not even see anything cuz i am not in the usa saddly
3:53 Yooo TY for putting that clip in of the Earth for that conclusion. Super *Super* Clear Now
…it was cloudy.
It was cloudy for so many people.. my area had just cleared up before totality.
Same
It was sunny
This was a strange Elden Ring lore video but I'll take it. =\
Thanks!
great, after so much talk about total eclipse, I now have TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART stuck my head
The 2024 eclipse passes by might house, and directly over my work. I will have to take an hour off or something that Monday. Too bad it wasn't a week earlier, as it then would have been the Easter Monday holiday, though I guess that would never happen since the date for Easter is the sunday after the first full moon after March 21st, which means Easter can never be nearer than a week away from a solar eclipse as an eclipse happens with a full moon.
2 more days!
Me and my family were blessed to see 99% totality in Toronto during a split second through the heavy clouds.
It was amazing.
The April 8 2024 eclipse was so close to me, we saw 99.5% coverage, it got significantly colder out, and like just before the sun sets level dark, but the 0.5% makes such a difference
The 0.5% is about as bright as the whole Sun seen from Uranus.
I'm super excited for the 2024 eclipse. Being in southern illinois, i was able to see the 2017 eclipse without traveling. Seems the odds of living in the path cross would be a fun calculation. The region is starting to prepare for the tourist invasion with local colleges setting up events. My wife and I have a fiber business with sheep and alpacas and we are planning an event for the eclipse date. Alpacalypse 2024 is nigh! Hope the weather is good.
Where are you in Southern il? I'm by Dale, ne of carbondale
@@oscarinacan Opdyke area near Mount Vernon
@Kliest3 - witnessing a totality is unreal, not having to travel for it makes it a 100 times better
Edit - Forgot to ask if you have a website for your business. I support local business when i can and alpaca is comfortable af.
Bernard Family Farm. Website is fairly new, but we also have a Facebook page.
I live in Illinois and went to Kaskaskia for the 2017 eclipse (and general historical interest). The drive to St. Louis the night before wasn't bad. Back took almost twice as long as it should have, due to traffic. I'm thinking about flying to Texas for the one next year.
A solar eclipse actually happened literally today
Thats what he was talking about with the 2024 thingy
Having experienced 2 total eclipses, they’re very impressive. Watching the shadow rapidly move across the earths surface is awe inspiring, and the temperature drops around 7 degrees Celsius
Saw a 90% eclipse yesterday thought it was blocked heavily by clouds. Still a memorable moment.
1:23 I totally disagree. I witnessed the annular eclipse of october 14th 2023 and I was deeply shocked and mesmerized. The sky got VERY dim and it got very cold. Its NOTHING like a total eclipse. But it was most definitely and amazing event. They are not just like partial eclipses. There is a moment when you realize the sun truly is being taken away and its like this incredibly intense feeling.
New fear unlocked: not watching the last ever total solar eclipse within one's lifetime ☠️
I’ve seen a full one. They’re a beautiful phenomenon. See them when you can.
Here after seeing Totality :D Was a very cool experience :D
The corona is something you can never prepare yourself for…I’ve seen it twice now (2017 and 2024) and you can’t even believe it’s real. It’s this ghostly, radiant, whiter than white entity that stays with you forever. I’ll never forget the first time I saw it. It’s almost panic-inducingly beautiful. Being a space nerd and someone who’s deeply into the universe and our place in it, it’s almost like the closest thing I have to attending “church” in a weird way. It brings me closer to the things in which I believe and allows me to appreciate them, as corny and stupid as that sounds.
Solar Eclipses are truly magnificent!
Bhutan
@@etrestre9403 Wut
I live in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse but considering it’s in April that can be very cloudy and rainy I’m hoping for the best
I got to see a total eclipse, it just happened when i was going back to Shanghai. it was already a cloudy day, then when it happened, it was like night time. it was so awesome.
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Corona
Norona (LOL)
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In spanish the joke its better 🤓☝️
I've seen totality once in my life and it is truly awe-inspiring.
I truly understand why our ancestors thought God's were angry at them for it.
The complete removal of the sun. Your day to day activities then.... black. Nearly midnight black. I knew it was going to happen and it still took me a second to understand what just happened.
It is absolutely impossible to say the feeling of how tiny you are compared to the size of these bodies in the sky.
It is something I hope everyone can experience in their life at least once. It is one of the greatest things I've ever experienced and very very little things can ever top that experience.
I was in Cornwall for the 1999 solar eclipse and it was cloudy where I was :(
I did get to see a shadowy sun with a huge bite out of it through thinning clouds, but even then the sun wasn't really shining.
Only a few lucky people got to be in the places where a gap in the clouds coincided with the eclipse, as there was something like 95% cloud cover
Flew to Albuquerque in October ''23 to catch the annular eclipse, going to (just outside) San Antonio in April '24 to see the total. Annular was one of the coolest thing I've ever seen. Can't wait til the total.
This is why, if I am elected, I will commit to a 10% enlargement of the Moon. A vote for me is a vote for eclipses!
I do not want to pay for the cost of moving the moon. It would probably take 100 times the mass of Mt everest in fuel to nudge the moon.
@@MrT------5743 you wouldnt need to move it, just build large sails or similar around the visible edge. Since the moon is tidally locked (ish) you will always have the same parts edge-on to the earth and could build something there to visually increase the size of the moon
@@kahlzun not exactly. We can see 59% of the moon from earth due to lunar libration. So you couldn't just easily build something on the edge. Because the edge isn't always the same edge.
And I'm still not going to pay for that. And suspect the majority of people would not want to just for future people millions of years into the future can see a total solar eclipse.
learn to take a joke bro @@MrT------5743
Do Flaties have explanation for eclipses?
perspective
Back in 2017, I had an excellent view of the Great American Eclipse from my then home in Tennessee. It was amazing. I got some great pictures.
It was completely overcast for the eclipse here. But the darkness was still really cool to see
Hold on.. if the moon is leaving us, it was closer yesterday and further tomorrow. So if people saw the same moon face in the beginning, and we see the same moon face now. And the reason we only see one side is because it rotates the same speed it orbits the earth. The rotation is a control, it cannot change without an outside force acting on it. The orbit changes, the further you go the longer it'll take to make a full orbit. And this tidal lock is so finally tuned the slightest different in anything will cause a different part of the face to be shown within a lifetime. Sooo why do we see the same thing the Greeks did?
Just remember that the moon has been having the same tidal-lock with earth for a lot longer than humans have had civilizations… if this answers your question, great but if it doesn’t, I don’t know how else to put it. We humans are literally like one day old compared to the 4.5 Billion years the moon has been with us.
The sun has coivd
What is "coivd"?
I don't know
Okay, you've successfully scared me into looking into buying tickets to travel and see the eclipse in person.
Classic Minute Physics. Feels like it's been a while.
I remember seeing the annular eclipse in 1995 in grade school, plus a few other partial and annular eclipses since then, but never a total eclipse. Yesterday my wife and i loaded up the car and drove an hour to get into totality.
Seeing the sun partially blocked by the moon through tinted glasses is neat and all, but looking at a total eclipse with the naked eye was spectacular. I will absolutly try to make the next one in 20 or so years.
I drove to view the totality a few years ago and it was the most wild thing I have ever witnessed. Hundreds of people fell completely silent in a 30 second period. Birds stopped chirping. I have never been somewhere that quiet with that many people. I won't ever forget that
I just saw one today, and it was truly the most amazing thing I ever had a chance to see
I was wondering this recently! Glad I have another billion years or so to see total eclipses!
Had the privilege of seeing the 2017 Great American Eclipse from totality. Was legitimately one of the coolest experiences of my life and it's a shame most people will never experience one in their lifetime.
The only real time I experienced an eclipse (might have been total) was in early highschool. We were in the middle of class in a pretty well illuminated classroom, so we didn't have the lights on. Suddenly everything goes dark and classmates start reverting to their primal programming. But we never went to see the sun/moon, and thanks to that I can still see properly since I wouldn't have had proper viewing equipment for when it passed
Hi Henry!
I was in the US in the summer of 2017 and I had no idea I was witnessing such a rare occurrence. We don't see much or any total eclipses in Central Asia
I've got April 8th requested off, and i've got my eclipse glasses.
I'm ready to Nerd Out.
Ohhh my goddd! I've been planning on going to the April 2024 eclipse and now I feel even more that I must! I may only get to see a small handful of total eclipses in my lifetime so I gotta take advantage of them when they do show up
I've seen both the 2017 solar eclipse and the 2024 solar eclipse. In 2017 I was more so towards the edge of totality, in McMinnville, TN, where the corona appears a bit brighter. This year I was in the direct centerine in Cape Girardeau MO, where you could see less of the corona, but was over twice as long. It's up to personal preference which looks better, but honsetly I prefer the centerline totality over edge totality!
I miss them already
The Blues Clues-esque handy dandy notebook bass music 😎
My astronomy professor mentioned almost every lecture how incredible a total solar eclipse is. He even said that he will retroactively fail any student who doesn’t see an eclipse,
*And the student who come back say that he **_undersold_** how incredible it is!*
Here's one for you: If there are two equal mass black holes who are merging, and currently their event horizons are overlapping like a Venn diagram, what happens if a near light speed object passes into the spot where the two event horizons meet? How far would it get? Would it get torn apart as it entered? Since the black holes' gravitational influences are fighting each other, does it let the object move more freely in the interior? Or do black hole event horizons not really overlap that way?
Already have tickets to Niagara falls to go see it :)