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Showing posts with label 2017 solar eclipse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017 solar eclipse. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Eclipse 2017: follow-up
Direct link to video from Team Greene Real Estate (Rexburg Idaho)
Some what belatedly, I am making my final post (for now) on the 2017 Solar Eclipse. I made this post on eclipse day and a post a few days later talking about watching the total eclipse in Sylva North Carolina with some good friends (go here).
I want to share a few other links that I found that I thought some of you might be interested in.
Raw live video from NASA (16 minutes) no commentary from Space Videos
Photos from Carbondale Illinois
Photos from around the United States during on the day of the 2017 eclipse
More photos of the eclipse reveal sunspots and solar flares
Total eclipse: effect on nature
Report from Mike Wall of Space dot com (with videos) of the 2017 total eclipse
I'll close with a couple of videos on the NASA 2017 Solar Eclipse Video Gallery and a second 2017 Solar Eclipse Video gallery from NASA
Direct link to video
Direct link to video
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Watching the Eclipse from Sylva North Carolina
The zone of totality for the August 21st solar eclipse passed through western North Carolina (go here to see an article about the eclipse in North Carolina) and I drove down to see some good friends and the eclipse.
I watched the total eclipse from Sylva, North Carolina (population 2,588), the county seat of Jackson County. Thanks to an invite from some good friends who live about 30 miles away from Sylva, I enjoyed a long weekend with good friends. The capstone was driving to Sylva to watch the total eclipse of the sun on Monday, August 21st.
Sylva did a great job organizing a three-day eclipse festival. They had music on Friday and Saturday nights along with a moonlight fun run on Saturday night. On Sunday night there was a panel on the science of eclipses at a local community college. On Monday, eclipse day, Sylva’s solar eclipse event was held in Bridge Park, a downtown park, started at 11 AM with music. There were food trucks and a stage where a speaker talked about the eclipse at 1 PM. Parking was offsite at the nearby Jackson County Justice Complex with overflow parking across the street. There was a shuttle ($1 each way) from the Justice Center to Bridge Park, located about one-half mile away.
My friends drove to Sylva, a 45 minute drive was over two hours because of heavy eclipse traffic. We each had our eclipse glasses, water, and a chair. We got to Bridge Park about 1:15. All the spots in front of the stage were taken, so we found a grassy spot with a good view of the sun.
We used our eclipse glasses to watch the moon move across the sun. Just before totality (at 2:36 PM EDT) the sky darkened and you could see colors on the horizon. When we saw nothing out of our glasses, we took our glasses off and saw the total eclipse. I feel like any words that I write to try to described the blackened sun with the corona are inadequate. With that in mind seeing the total eclipse was an incredible and awe inspiring experience, one that will stay with me. The best part was being a part of crowd where everyone cheered and clapped when the total eclipse occurred.
My friend summed it up when she spoke of the total eclipse: “that was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in the sky.”
After totality a little boy said: “that was so cool.”
My friends and I knew that we all seen something special, that seeing a total eclipse was worth the traffic nightmare to and from Sylva. As I traveled back north on Monday and Tuesday through some horrendous traffic in Virginia, my traveling companion and I agreed that the eclipse was worth it.
Added on October 26, 2017: I wrote a final follow-up post on October 25, 2017 with some videos and links to photos, articles, and additional information about the eclipse.
I watched the total eclipse from Sylva, North Carolina (population 2,588), the county seat of Jackson County. Thanks to an invite from some good friends who live about 30 miles away from Sylva, I enjoyed a long weekend with good friends. The capstone was driving to Sylva to watch the total eclipse of the sun on Monday, August 21st.
Sylva did a great job organizing a three-day eclipse festival. They had music on Friday and Saturday nights along with a moonlight fun run on Saturday night. On Sunday night there was a panel on the science of eclipses at a local community college. On Monday, eclipse day, Sylva’s solar eclipse event was held in Bridge Park, a downtown park, started at 11 AM with music. There were food trucks and a stage where a speaker talked about the eclipse at 1 PM. Parking was offsite at the nearby Jackson County Justice Complex with overflow parking across the street. There was a shuttle ($1 each way) from the Justice Center to Bridge Park, located about one-half mile away.
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| Shuttle Bus |
My friends drove to Sylva, a 45 minute drive was over two hours because of heavy eclipse traffic. We each had our eclipse glasses, water, and a chair. We got to Bridge Park about 1:15. All the spots in front of the stage were taken, so we found a grassy spot with a good view of the sun.
We used our eclipse glasses to watch the moon move across the sun. Just before totality (at 2:36 PM EDT) the sky darkened and you could see colors on the horizon. When we saw nothing out of our glasses, we took our glasses off and saw the total eclipse. I feel like any words that I write to try to described the blackened sun with the corona are inadequate. With that in mind seeing the total eclipse was an incredible and awe inspiring experience, one that will stay with me. The best part was being a part of crowd where everyone cheered and clapped when the total eclipse occurred.
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| Sylva, NC |
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| Bridge Park and Stage |
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| In front of Bridge Park, Sylva NC |
My friend summed it up when she spoke of the total eclipse: “that was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in the sky.”
After totality a little boy said: “that was so cool.”
My friends and I knew that we all seen something special, that seeing a total eclipse was worth the traffic nightmare to and from Sylva. As I traveled back north on Monday and Tuesday through some horrendous traffic in Virginia, my traveling companion and I agreed that the eclipse was worth it.
Added on October 26, 2017: I wrote a final follow-up post on October 25, 2017 with some videos and links to photos, articles, and additional information about the eclipse.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Eclipse Day is here!
I don't know about you, I am psyched about today's solar eclipse. For those of you who are interested and landed here first, I posted a blog on August 18th with some information and a variety of links. Scroll down a bit and you will see the article.
Hopefully today's weather will be kind and allow me to observe today's eclipse with the safety of my eclipse viewers. I'll let you know in a couple of days how I make out. I hope that you stay safe wherever you are today. If you plan to be driving today at the time of the eclipse, please follow these suggestions from Time Magazine to be safe on the road. Don't wear your eclipse glasses while driving. If you are driving to an observing spot today, allow plenty of extra time and get there early, use your headlights and not your running lights, and pay attention to the road.
Space dot com has a list of live streams covering the eclipse available here. If you are home or otherwise near a Television and want to watch the eclipse on TV, I am pretty certain that ABC and the Weather Channel will have live coverage of the eclipse and I suspect that other media outlets will have live coverage as well.
Two options for watching the eclipse on live stream from you computer or device.
1. NASA has a page with some apps that you may choose from to watch the eclipse on your tablet or smartphone.
2. Livestream from NASA, entry page is here with links to options for Facebook, Periscope, Twitter, UStream, NASA TV, etc.
3. ABC news will have a live stream of the eclipse starting at 1PM EDT, I think that ABC's eclipse live stream may be found here. In addition, ABC news has a page devoted to the eclipse where I found the link to the live stream along with other information.
Added on August 24th: I don't know how long the links that I have referenced will work. So be warned if you are arriving here later and find some dead links or links that no longer reference the eclipse. In the coming days, I will look around for a video of the eclipse to share on this page.
Added on October 25,2017 (sorry this is late)
Direct link to video from Team Greene Real Estate (Rexburg Idaho)
Hopefully today's weather will be kind and allow me to observe today's eclipse with the safety of my eclipse viewers. I'll let you know in a couple of days how I make out. I hope that you stay safe wherever you are today. If you plan to be driving today at the time of the eclipse, please follow these suggestions from Time Magazine to be safe on the road. Don't wear your eclipse glasses while driving. If you are driving to an observing spot today, allow plenty of extra time and get there early, use your headlights and not your running lights, and pay attention to the road.
Space dot com has a list of live streams covering the eclipse available here. If you are home or otherwise near a Television and want to watch the eclipse on TV, I am pretty certain that ABC and the Weather Channel will have live coverage of the eclipse and I suspect that other media outlets will have live coverage as well.
Two options for watching the eclipse on live stream from you computer or device.
1. NASA has a page with some apps that you may choose from to watch the eclipse on your tablet or smartphone.
2. Livestream from NASA, entry page is here with links to options for Facebook, Periscope, Twitter, UStream, NASA TV, etc.
3. ABC news will have a live stream of the eclipse starting at 1PM EDT, I think that ABC's eclipse live stream may be found here. In addition, ABC news has a page devoted to the eclipse where I found the link to the live stream along with other information.
Added on August 24th: I don't know how long the links that I have referenced will work. So be warned if you are arriving here later and find some dead links or links that no longer reference the eclipse. In the coming days, I will look around for a video of the eclipse to share on this page.
Added on October 25,2017 (sorry this is late)
Direct link to video from Team Greene Real Estate (Rexburg Idaho)
Friday, August 18, 2017
Upcoming Solar Eclipse on August 21st
I don't normally write about celestial events here on this blog, but I am making an exception with the upcoming solar eclipse in the US on August 21st. As a child I was living in Massachusetts, and in the summer of 1963 I do recall seeing what I was told was a solar eclipse. Someone told me, probably my Dad, that the moon would be blocking the sun during the day. It turns out that the solar eclipse that I witnessed that afternoon was not a total solar eclipse, but a partial solar eclipse, more information on that eclipse may be found here. Still as a child, I was awestruck by what I saw.
I am hoping to be at or near an area where the total solar eclipse may be seen on Monday, August 21st. See the map. I'll let you know what I see or don't see. I was fortunate enough to find a few pairs of reputable eclipse viewers from a local store before they ran out. Looking at the eclipse with reputable eclipse viewers can cause blindness, please be safe, please don't be fooled by counterfeit products. Our eclipse viewers are from American Paper Optics, meeting ISO 12312-2 international safety standards for eclipse viewers. These are paper, and I will use them under my eyeglasses. For other tips on viewing the eclipse safely, go to this NASA page.
The National Weather Service has a webpage where you may find out about weather conditions and other facts about the upcoming eclipse, see this NWS website for more information.
A map from NASA of the path of the eclipse and how much of the eclipse you can see over the US and adjoining areas of Canada and Mexico is reproduced below. Some of you might be interested in NASA's explanation of this mapping along with some other products and some history here. NASA's entry page to eclipse mapping is found on this NASA webpage.
If you will be driving around the time of the eclipse, please be safe and follow the suggestions in this Time Magazine article. Allow extra time to get to your observation spot if you are going to somewhere in the path of totality and arrive early!
NASA's entry page to the 2017 eclipse may be found here with links to oodles of information. I suspect that many newspapers have coverage of the eclipse. I'll leave you to your own devices to find coverage in your favorite media outlet, but here is a nice page on the eclipse from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Space dot com has a list of live streams covering the eclipse available here. NASA will have a livestream of the eclipse on Monday with a variety of ways you can stream the eclipse, including facebook, smart phone apps, and NASA TV, the entry page for NASA's eclipse live stream is here. NASA has a page with some apps that you may choose from to watch the eclipse on your tablet or smartphone. Finally NASA has a nice press release about the eclipse and some viewing options that was posted on June 21, 2017.
For those of you who are home during the day and want to watch the eclipse from your living roomI think, but am not sure that the Weather Channel, ABC and the Science Channel are among those networks that will be broadcasting about the eclipse. I don't know how many of you will have the Science Channel but I think that most basic cable and satellite packages include an ABC affiliate as well as the Weather Channel. You might want to check your local listings to verify this and to see about other live eclipse coverage where you live.
The links on this page may only be live up to the day of the eclipse. So, I suspect that some of these links will be no good after the eclipse has passed. However, I'll try to post something about the eclipse, a video and other stories after the eclipse has passed.
On Monday, I will post links to what I hope for where you can go for live streams of the eclipse.
Added on August 24th: Some of the links here no longer work, e.g. the NWS eclipse page is no longer up and the list of live streams covering the eclipse from Space dot com is no longer available. NASA's eclipse page has has different eclipse related information. The two articles I referenced from Time and the Atlanta Journal Constitution are still available but I am not certain how much longer they will be available.
I am hoping to be at or near an area where the total solar eclipse may be seen on Monday, August 21st. See the map. I'll let you know what I see or don't see. I was fortunate enough to find a few pairs of reputable eclipse viewers from a local store before they ran out. Looking at the eclipse with reputable eclipse viewers can cause blindness, please be safe, please don't be fooled by counterfeit products. Our eclipse viewers are from American Paper Optics, meeting ISO 12312-2 international safety standards for eclipse viewers. These are paper, and I will use them under my eyeglasses. For other tips on viewing the eclipse safely, go to this NASA page.
The National Weather Service has a webpage where you may find out about weather conditions and other facts about the upcoming eclipse, see this NWS website for more information.
A map from NASA of the path of the eclipse and how much of the eclipse you can see over the US and adjoining areas of Canada and Mexico is reproduced below. Some of you might be interested in NASA's explanation of this mapping along with some other products and some history here. NASA's entry page to eclipse mapping is found on this NASA webpage.
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| Obtained on August 16, 2017 from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4518 |
NASA's entry page to the 2017 eclipse may be found here with links to oodles of information. I suspect that many newspapers have coverage of the eclipse. I'll leave you to your own devices to find coverage in your favorite media outlet, but here is a nice page on the eclipse from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Space dot com has a list of live streams covering the eclipse available here. NASA will have a livestream of the eclipse on Monday with a variety of ways you can stream the eclipse, including facebook, smart phone apps, and NASA TV, the entry page for NASA's eclipse live stream is here. NASA has a page with some apps that you may choose from to watch the eclipse on your tablet or smartphone. Finally NASA has a nice press release about the eclipse and some viewing options that was posted on June 21, 2017.
For those of you who are home during the day and want to watch the eclipse from your living roomI think, but am not sure that the Weather Channel, ABC and the Science Channel are among those networks that will be broadcasting about the eclipse. I don't know how many of you will have the Science Channel but I think that most basic cable and satellite packages include an ABC affiliate as well as the Weather Channel. You might want to check your local listings to verify this and to see about other live eclipse coverage where you live.
The links on this page may only be live up to the day of the eclipse. So, I suspect that some of these links will be no good after the eclipse has passed. However, I'll try to post something about the eclipse, a video and other stories after the eclipse has passed.
On Monday, I will post links to what I hope for where you can go for live streams of the eclipse.
Added on August 24th: Some of the links here no longer work, e.g. the NWS eclipse page is no longer up and the list of live streams covering the eclipse from Space dot com is no longer available. NASA's eclipse page has has different eclipse related information. The two articles I referenced from Time and the Atlanta Journal Constitution are still available but I am not certain how much longer they will be available.
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