It’s being hailed as the “Great North American Eclipse.” The longest since 1806, in fact, the best since 2017 and the last until 2033 in Alaska, and 2044 in Montana and the Dakotas.
How To Easily Convince Someone To Come With You To See The Total Solar Eclipse
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“Oh My God!” “This is crazy! “I’ll be dreaming about this for the rest of my life!” You’ve heard all about what it’s like to experience the brief moments of totality—when the moon completely blocks the sun—yet you’re having trouble convincing others to come with you on an eclipse adventure. After all, they’ll say, if there’s an 85% eclipse where we live, then what’s the point of traveling to where it’s 100%? The expense, the time, the traffic … let’s not bother.
They’re misunderstanding totality. It’s not a sliding scale. If you’re in the path of totality, you experience an exhilarating total solar eclipse, but if you’re not, you don’t experience any of it.
Here’s the solution—you play them a short video. Or, rather, four short videos. One shows exactly what it’s like across the course of a few minutes when day turns to night, the other visually shows the difference between the path of totality and what the rest of North America will see, the third gives a little context in space, and the fourth is a short inspirational documentary about why eclipse chasers do what they do.
More than enough to convince anyone to come with you on your most spectacular and memorable adventure yet.
Here’s a timelapse video from the shores of Palisades Reservoir, Idaho, on Monday, August 21, 2017, during the last total solar eclipse. Play it, then pause it at 40 seconds. If you’re somewhere close to, but not inside, the path of totality on April 8—such as southeastern Austin, the center of San Antonio or anywhere in Cincinnati, that will be your peak experience before the sun gradually becomes less covered, and it gets brighter again. Now play the video—what follows a few seconds later is totality! You can hear it in the voices. It’s mesmerizing.
Totality is an absolute state. You cannot be in partial totality—it does not exist, in the same way that you cannot be partially conscious or partially pregnant. The last slither of sun during a 99% partial solar eclipse provides enough light to see, and as totality begins the light drops by 10,000 times.
This short video shows you exactly what will be seen from everywhere across North America—succinctly showing that unless you’re inside the path of totality, there’s really not much to get excited about.
This 48-second video from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio shows and tells exactly what will happen on April 8 when the moon’s shadow rips across the surface of the Earth for 100 minutes.
It shows the narrow path of totality and exactly what’s going on from the point of view of a virtual camera that flies from the night side of the Earth and moon to the day side.
“I spent over three minutes in totality and the rest of my life with a new sense of the three-dimensionality of
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