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“It's very ... it almost is like a bit of a dreadful feeling. It's like, "Whoa, wait a minute. What's happening to my planet?" ... It's a topsy-turvy world. It's not like night. It's not like day. It's not like twilight. It's like nothing you've ever felt before.” From “Tales from the Shadow of the Moon”, Vox.com, by by Brian Resnick and Joss Fong
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/10/16114762/total-solar-eclipse-chasers-2017
The National Eclipse is coming and BTB is all set!
His special eclipse-watching glasses came in the mail this week (don’t look at the partially eclipsed sun without them! You’ll hurt your eyes!). He’s already lined up a work trip which will put him in Asheville, NC a few days before. He’ll also see some relatives in the Great Smokies, and then go to an eclipse-watching party in South Carolina.
Work-familiy-fun-science. It’s going to be an epic trip.
"You never forget your first kiss … you always remember your first time in the shadow," says one eclipse chaser.
Rhonda Coleman, eclipse-chasing resident of Bend, Oregon
Everything you need to know about the August 21 eclipse.
“What’s so awesome about totality?
In conversations with several “eclipse chasers,” I was told that the photos can’t really capture the awesomeness (in the truest sense of the word) of the experience.
‘Anytime you've ever taken a picture of the full moon, it never captures how it felt in your eyes and in your heart, you know what I mean?’ says Rhonda Coleman, who has seen six solar eclipses and lives in Oregon. ‘It seems to fill the sky, but your photograph will only be a memory.’
When the totality happens, the sky goes dark. Stars come out. You can see the corona — the sun’s wispy outer atmosphere.
‘The disc of the sun is a black, black, black — like the blackest hole you can ever imagine, ringed with these beautiful wispy white coronal streamers,” Coleman says. “With the naked eye you can see, they're called prominences. It's the flames on the sun. ... There's also a very interesting 360-degree sunset around the rim of the Earth.’”
They travel the world, but their focus is never on a destination. They're obsessed with one type of experience, but they're not addicts. They sometimes wager their finances, safety and time on one specific outcome, but they're not gamblers. They're eclipse chasers, and on August 21, 2017 they have the chance to show millions of Americans why their passion is worth the sacrifice.
"I've seen people praying after an eclipse. I've seen a lot of people on their knees weeping after an eclipse. It is an emotional experience to see this event. For me, I get a great sense of our place in the solar system, in the universe. You realize how tiny we really are and how insignificant some of our day-to-day problems and arguments and jealousies and petty fighting really are in the scheme of things."
How solar and lunar eclipses work. Note: This is an update of a video we published in 2015. Sources: Getty Images https://www.amazon.com/Totality-Great-Ameri...
Best explainer vid about all types of eclipses and what you’ll see on August 21.
When it comes to learning about the upcoming Great American Eclipse, there are no stupid questions. Well, maybe these: Isn’t it too dark at night to see the eclipse? If the solar eclipse is s…
What would you like to know but are embarrassed to ask? I’ll find out and report back. Ain’t no shame if you’re wondering if you’ll see the moon like it looks on the stamp, why the path travels from west to east, how you’ll be able to see totality with your eclipse glasses on, and why sunglasses won’t keep you from going blind.
As nearly all of my readers, particular those who live in the US, will know, there will be a solar eclipse on 21 August. For lucky viewers in a narrow band of territory running West to East across …
“...you will probably only get a change to see a total eclipse within 1000 km of where you live once or twice in your lifetime. The last time that one has been visible in the contiguous US was back in February 1979, when most people currently alive weren’t even born.”
