Total American Eclipse August 21, 2017

Started by Solar, June 09, 2016, 11:21:58 AM

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Watch the video at link below, if you're in Oregon, Georgia, NC, SC, all states in between, you could see a total eclipse, though it is only 70 miles wide...



Preparations have already begun for what scientists are calling the Great American Eclipse of 2017. For the first time in American history, on August 21, 2017 the "path of totality" of a solar eclipse—that is, the path along which the Moon's shadow transits—will run exclusively and entirely across U.S. soil in a 70-mile-wide line running from Oregon to South Carolina. Astronomers see it as an opportunity for new scientific observations and public engagement.

The last coast-to-coast solar eclipse over North America occurred in 1918. It followed a similar path as the 2017 eclipse, but because its path also brought it over Bermuda—then part of the British Empire, now a British territory—the United States couldn't claim exclusivity. The 2017 eclipse won't pass over Bermuda or any other territory. It is truly "all American."

"The is the science Super Bowl," said physicist Angela Des Jardins of the Montana Space Grant Consortium, who is leading an experiment in which 50 teams of students in 30 states will fly high-altitude balloons during the eclipse. Speaking on June 2 at the 47th annual conference of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society in Boulder, Colorado, she described how the balloons will transmit to the Earth's surface live video from the edge of space. Only once has an eclipse ever been observed from such a height—over Australia, in 2012—though coverage and images were then limited. "There's never been live footage from the edge of space, and certainly not coverage across an entire continent," she said. "It's going to be awesome."
http://mentalfloss.com/article/81013/how-scientists-are-preparing-first-ever-all-american-eclipse
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Quote from: Solar on June 09, 2016, 11:21:58 AM




From the map I should get about 2m 10s @ about 98% total eclipse.  If there not cloud cover, if there are clouds then it will just get dark.   :lol:
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