I remember seeing this eclipse. The view of the eclipse itself was magnificent, but one thing I didn't expect was how much the atmosphere changed. Birds and critters went off to sleep, crickets came out as if it was evening, the air got cooler and stars started to appear in the sky. Then as the total eclipse started, everyone went nuts. It really is a communal experience.
Your video makes me remember those feelings from the total eclipse of the sun that occured here , in Tunisia in 2009 i believe . It was spectacular ! And not only because it's a rare event , but also it gets you to believe how tiny and simple we are against this mysterious univers . it s like living few minutes in an other world , how the temperature and the colors of the sky change so quickly .. Hope you enjoy it this year american fellas ✌😍
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Heed the Seen what for? It's easier to stay in your room and look for other deluded paranoid skizophrenics "debunking" reality on youtube with a puff of meth and a tinfoil cap.
I chose to go to Cookeville, Tennessee because it had the best chance of being a clear sky. It was perfect. All my plans came together, and it all worked out for such beautiful experience. No video, no person, no pictures can prepare you for what you actually experience. It was amazing.
Man. I thought about this channel a few days ago. I was like, when are they gonna upload again? So glad i subscribed. Keep pumping the quality content!!
I saw the one in 2017, drove to Sweetwater Tennessee from New Jersey on a whim. Decided I was going a 4pm the night before picked a random town in the path, and by 6pm I was on the road, arriving at 9am. Drove 15 hours for 2 min of eclipse. It was one of the most amazing moments of my life and I can't wait for the next one.
My Mrs & I flew from the UK to see the eclipse in 2017 & combined it with a 10 days of touring. At totality I had a tear in my eye & a lump in my throat, I turned towards my Mrs & she was crying. Just typing this has given me that lump in my throat again. That experience will stay with me forever.
VERY well made video, it just perfectly demonstrates what it feels like to experience one. If I'd seen this video before seeing an eclipse, I'd have thought this video was exaggerating the emotions you feel. It's not.
Still yet to see a total one personally, the one in UK I was still a kid and couldn't persuade mum to take me but even from that I can understand how much of a strange and unique experience it would be was quite the experience even that near total eclipse from around 100 miles outside the path. Hard to describe but even with a partial eclipse like that there is something about the light sure we have all seen the sun partially obscured by cloud but this looks and feels different somehow almost surreal match that up with looking at the sun disappearing with a makeshift pinhole camera and it's a very unique experience. I was particularly struck with the thought of how this must have felt to our ancestors back before we understood what was happening and could predict and explain this event must have been really bizarre to experience without warning or explanation almost terrifying hell even knowing what is going on seeing the sun almost be taken away and being acutely aware of losing it's warmth unlike when clouds do it must have been scary even (It's a stronger effect than just cloud blocking it as at least then it is still heating the atmosphere albeit at higher altitudes where the cloud is, in an eclipse it's energy is lost entirely for a time).
I travelled with my family from Italy to Austria to see the 1999 total solar eclipse. I was 14 and I will never forget it. We were in this Alpine open field. At the beginning it looks like when a cloud passes over the sun, until the very moment the moon completely covers it and WHOA it’s night!!! Like dark pitch night, you see the stars and at the same time the horizon is pink and blue all around you. It was so intense I had to hold my tears back. My father was taking pictures and a certain point just stopped and said “I just want to enjoy this”. The peak lasted around 2 minutes, then an amazing ray of light comes out and in another minute or two it’s daylight again. I can tell you that no matter how many videos you saw about it, it is something beyond imaginable. I can’t even think what people in the past that knew nothing about astronomy must have felt like.
I was there with my friends up in Garden Valley, Idaho! 2+ minutes of totality. It was AMAAAAAAYZING! This vid did a great job a capturing that moment. Hope to see you all in 2024 :D
Saw the eclipse totality and it was astounding. I've seen several livestreams of solar eclipses from all over the world but you cant compare it when you view it first-hand. It was something you cant really explain and describe. Also this video and channel deserve more attention.
I was in junior high during the eclipse of '79, though it was only a partial where I lived in Michigan. When Walter Cronkite said the next was in 2017, he might as well said the next was in 3017. Thanks for the memories. Headin' to South Carolina to see the whole thing this time. Here's to good weather.
My wife and I drove south and spent the weekend scoping out a good place to see the 2017 eclipse, which we did, in Lawson MO. On Monday (eclipse day) an hour before totality it was pissing down rain. We were devastated. Then, at about 12:45 the rain abruptly stopped and the sky began to clear. A big patch of blue sky opened up by about 1:00 pm, and we ended up having a perfect, unobstructed view of the eclipse. At totality, we took off our glasses and saw the corona. It was one of the most transformative experiences of my life. We both wept with awe and joy. It’s impossible to explain and has to be experienced.
I am very disappointed in the fact that most of everyone I knew just didn't even care about this event. They were just 40 minutes away by driving to see totality and they chose rather to take a nap, or to watch a movie, or to just "watch it on facebook". These people truly missed out and what I witnessed is something I will never forget. My step dad was literally at the barber shop getting a haircut instead of seeing this event. Luckily someone offered him glasses to go outside and see it but he said "nah, I'm okay". LIKE LITERALLY! ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS WALK OUTSIDE. But Instead he had "better things to think about". Truly saddening. My only regret was that I didn't bring more people to see this amazing event.
It is so hard to explain to people why totality is something they should witness. :( I think a lot of them have seen the partials, and then they think that they have "seen a solar eclipse". They expect totality to be the same thing except slightly darker. When in reality it's a wholly different, breathtaking, and otherworldly experience. To be so close to the path of totality and miss it or not even care .... that's just sad. :( I hope more try to see the one in 2024.
Coming back to tell you I got to see April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse. I was in full totality and omg words can’t describe the feeling I felt. Pictures don’t do it justice
@@ToScale I’m so glad I stumbled across your RU-vid page many years ago when you built scale model of the solar system. I’m also so glad I grew up loving astronomy. As you said in this video, “it’s about how it’ll make you feel.” I couldn’t agree more. Seeing totality, you could cry. You feel so connected with the Universe. These videos of yours I return to often. The other video you should watch (you’ve probably seen it already) is the “most astounding fact about the universe” videos like yours and Neil’s have fueled my love for astronomy even more, I cannot thank you enough. When I first targeted the Andromeda galaxy I took a 5 second exposure with my William optics Redcat 71, what I saw made me tear up. I saw an entire other galaxy in full frame. Containing billions of starts and planets. It was an incredible experience just as April 8th was. Thanks again man.
Writing from St.Louis, yes it was all that and more. Incredible 1 min and 24 secs for us. It's mind bending to look up at the moon and the sun like this. It's like a benign One Eyed Monster of the universe looking down on you. And you are in awe.
I drove two days to central Nebraska for it. It was the best thing I've ever done. Saw the totality. Saw the 360 sunset. Got the picture. Saw Venus. But man, it's over fast.
I remember watching the eclipse of Aug 11th 1999. I was 11 years old back then, a friend of school celebrated her birthday party at home. It was a bit cloudy, so that everyone lost interest to watch the eclipse. I was the only one among the kids to go outside, waiting to get a glimpse at the eclipse. Although there were moments I only got to the see the partial phase of the eclipse, I was so fascinated by it. I ended up spending more time talking and being excited about the eclipse that the everyone laughed at me. When we played hide and seek, I was chosen as the seeker. The kids ran away from me although I found them. I figured out they were having fun being mean to me. So I ignored them, decided to be on my own, drawing images of the eclipse. Then I decided to go home, thinking about the eclipse and just being happy I got to experience it.
My wife & I traveled from Columbia Louisiana to Missouri for an overnight stay & watched the total eclipse from a Walmart parking lot with a bunch of other people- It was totally amazing!! I already had a telescope since 2014- last year I began building my backyard observatory to house it and retreat to when I want to marvel at the awe inspiring universe we are lucky enough to exist in & hopefully share with others that are looking for such inspiration.
I traveled to the Grand Tetons for the 2017 eclipse with my whole family. It was more impressive than I imagined. We were among thousands lining Gros Ventre rd outside of Jackson Hole. Kids riding their bikes around, people in their lawns chairs. One of the things that stuck with me was going from 60 to 40 degrees it seemed in moments. I'll tell you, the difference between 99% and totality is everything. I highly suggest everyone make an effort to see the next.
Wow! Nice videos. Amazing content. It would seem that nature baked up an amazing dish for you! Pretty easy five stars with content like that. We love that you are doing it. Quite the ‘mark’ you are leaving as you go along your way.
Awesome. Glad every kid in my city was in school, forced to stay inside and not go outside at all to see the eclipse or even watch the scenery change. I saw it for a quick 2 seconds with somebody else's glasses before I had to get to class and not be tardy. Best first eclipse of my life, yay.
I saw it directly in perfect eclispe line legit 3 miles away from the line they drew. A small town called Eugene, oregon. They let peolke camp out in the downtown park overnight to watch the eclipse in the morning. Expectint a mad house we found the city EMPTY parked no problem and had a urban camp out. Woke up, and waited. Man how quite it got. Hoe amazing it was to watch im getting goosebumps thinking about it. I was crying my eyes out watching it, with my now wife. I cant wait to show my son the next one!
1:05 the sun is 400 times the size of the moon but it's also 400 times the distance between the earth and the moon away . Never knew that . Great video.
I drove about 5 hours south so that I could view the 2017 eclipse from the path of totality. It was totality worth it. Puns aside, it really was an amazing experience.
I travelled to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to see the eclipse. The first one that I've ever seen and possibly the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Honestly puts into perspective how bright the sun is when you can see just a crescent of it, but the landscape looks like you only have sunglasses on. When totality happened, it was simply breathtaking. Like someone turned down a dimmer switch and left a black hole in the sky in the place of the sun. Simply beautiful and I can't wait to see the total eclipse of 2024!
I remember when that happened, my whole family when out of town to catch it, there was live music playing a ton of food trucks when we got there and when the moon was creeping over, the shadows being cast at a crescent, and temperature dropping. Everything was getting to be hushed until seemingly.. the whole town had gone silent. Almost in awe of the magnificence of this event. It was Beautiful, but the silence is what got me, a just hoard of people crammed in a square witnessing their own little place in the world. Amazing.
My daughter was born in Denver that day during the Eclipse. She came 6 weeks early to be a part of it. Crazy. Not in the path of totality but still pretty special. I've often wondered how a baby born during an Eclipse would've been treated in the past? Also, that stupid song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" has been burned into my head.
I saw the last total near the UK mainland, August 11, 1999, on a powerboat hammering West in the English channel, chasing holes in the cloud cover, the only possible way to see this wonderful spectacle. Privilege. Will never forget :)
I was in Hungary and witnessed the total eclipse on 11-8-1999. It was unbelievable beautiful, the birds stopped singing and all the colors changed. Like the earth was suddenly moved far away from it's orbit. Hope the Americans will enjoy the beauty of this event! Don't forget to protect your eyes prior and post the full eclipse. Only in the center of the trajectory you will see the full beaty of it.
loved it. thnks dude. plz make a series where u see astronomical objects and u learn and we watch. also the bgm is beautiful. from 2:08 can u plz share
This makes me even more scared of the current weather reports. "Scattered thunderstorms in the morning, then becoming mostly sunny late." How late?? I NEED TO KNOW!
I just don't understand the flat earthers who think this is fake. We have such an accurate model for predicting solar eclipses that we can predict exactly when they will happen to fractions of a second, where the will happen, what path the moon's shadow will take, whether it will be total, partial, or annular, and how long it will last from start of partial to end of partial, start of totality to end of totality. These durations we are also well aware of for each and every point on the globe that will receive an eclipse.
