Solar Eclipse 8/21/17

[TheMastersSon]

FYI, NASA will have live webcasts of the eclipse on August 21st:

 

https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive

 

Video feeds will include the ISS, so the views should be amazing.

[montky]

@themastersson

yup, it'll be fairly awesome!

I'm looking forward to seeing a few experiments which will be conducted around that time.

 

tf00t will be live-streaming from a vantage point to see the whole duration,

he wants to show the speed of which it rushes up and recedes,

he might even do some 'eratosthenes' style calc's to determine distance and such.

 

 

 

the planetary society network

https://www.youtube.com/user/planetarysociety/videos

will be showing multiple vantage points, they wanted to do a live-stream event, with Bill Nye in the studio,

to cross between the vantage points and all (much like a New Years Eve style coverage hehe).

that would then have cut to the Kepler Orrery and shown exoplanets and different orbital resonances,

had asides about the Theia Impact Event and theia hypothesis, etc.

 

instead, we'll get a special edition Planetary Post with Bob Picardo.

 

codyslab will also be covering the event.

he's already done a few awesome vids on lunar penumbra, and the 'case of the missing Apollo 11 and Apollo 17" moon rocks.

he's also looked at Tranquillityite in a few videos.

in addition to the feeds you've outlined, and the amateur astronomical societies along it's route.

 

 

 

at certain points,

the fringe near the total eclipse/penumbra interstitial points, should have some really awesome diffraction gradients.

some people complained during the so-called "blood and super-moons",

that "the fringes around the moon are wrong colored - this is a sign" yada yada, yet,

don't believe in Penumbras, chromabrasion/plasmonic diffractions etc.

they have no understanding of astronomy or astrophys, yet feel qualified to say those events are 'auspicious'?

incidentally, the penumbra and toroidal vorticies observed, are consistent with different diffractive behaviors.

anything to pin stuff on that "wigington" fellow... that's a whole other discussion.

 

there'll also be different shadowing etc.

hopefully its mostly clear hehe. it'll be awesome.

[TheMastersSon]

Well thanks to elliptical orbits no two eclipses are exactly identical, so the length of totality also varies widely. We're a couple hundred miles from this one but still decided against the effort, only because totality maxes out at around two minutes. The best eclipses are well over eight minutes. At two minutes your eyes barely have time to light adjust before it's all over. So I'm looking forward more to the video captures and images than the event. :)

[montky]

well said re post#3.

its not one of the longer duration transits.

still, it'll be good fun to watch.