21 August 2017 total eclipse at 64x real time

From Casper WY. It was amazing; I’d never seen a total eclipse before. A partial eclipse doesn’t compare at all.

Here’s about 5 minutes around totality, compressed into 5 seconds (64x real time, exactly):

If you watch the clouds, you can see the eclipse shadow come and go.

Also notable is the city traffic (in the background).

One thought on “21 August 2017 total eclipse at 64x real time

  1. I’ve come up with an analogy of a partial eclipse vs. a total eclipse. It’s like a caterpillar and a butterfly. Yeah, they’re the same animal, but if you’ve only seen a caterpillar, you really have no idea what a butterfly will look like. Similarly, even if you’ve seen a 99% partial eclipse, a total eclipse is completely different.

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