Which Planet Has the Best Eclipse? 

Explore eclipses on your own - check out the interactive lab here: labs.minutelabs.io/eclipses/

What a fantastic video. Pandora potato, Amalthea from Saturn is straight up eye of Sauron. May you all have a gap in the clouds on April 8th!

Petition to put up a structure, could be thin like foil because it just needs to block light, around Phobos to increase it apparent size and roundness so that it causes S tier total eclipses on the surface of mars.

Great video, will have to rewatch it for when I travel to Saturn

Fun fact: the Saturn moons Janus and Epimetheus are coorbital. This means they have very similar orbits. Roughly every four years, the moons will get close to each other and perform a sort of gravitational dance, where they switch orbits. So Janus taking the orbit of Epimetheus and vice versa.

This eclipses any other video on eclipses, in my opinion.

"Potato solar eclipse on Saturn" is a phrase I never knew I needed, until now.

So ours is the best. How convenient.

Really appreciate you taking the time to include a disclaimer about wearing eclipse glasses when viewing from Uranus. 5:52Safety first

Regarding eclipses from Jupiter's moons on other moons: We have cool images of Io's shadow on Ganymede taken from earth.

So excited to see an S-tier eclipse on Monday! It's amazing what a bizarre coincidence it is that the relative sizes of the moon and the sun are basically the same

Last night on a talk show Neil Degrasse Tyson said "Earth has the best solar eclipses hands down"

Naughty, 5:25, you made Neptune Dark Blue. We've moved on from that.

Are there occasions where two solar eclipses happen simultaneously from the same viewpoint. So two objects cover the sun?

Another consideration for those S-tier eclipses on outer planets is that they're all caused by moons in very rapid orbits (typically about a day or less). They move incredibly rapidly across the sky, so any eclipses they cause (particularly with a size match to the sun close enough that much of the corona is visible) will be incredibly quick - on the order of several seconds (if even that much). They're also not round so you're a lot less likely to see effects such as Baily's Beads or a prominent diamond ring effect. Solar eclipses from the earth are truly unique.

7:55 I ran the numbers for Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto a few years ago. The apparent sizes vary wildly depending on where the moons are in their respective orbits, but the apparent diameter ranges for Io and Europa do overlap with the apparent diameter of the Sun, when observed from either Ganymede or Callisto. So perfectly aligned total solar eclipses - where the photosphere is blocked but not the corona - are possible, but I have no idea of how frequent they would be.

What a crazy work to pull all of this together! Thank you so much!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

0:46 wow, that 2d to 3d effect was very cool. also seeing your face at the end!

I was hoping Moon (from Earth) would be C tier or something and that there would be even cooler ones we didn't know about, but at the same time we're so lucky to get to see one of the top tier eclispes here on Earth!

Now this is what I want to wake up to in the morning! Great vid! :)

I am LIVING for these HEAT / minutephysics eclipse videos, I can finally show people why the heck I love eclipses so much

This is the most convincing thing I’ve seen to persuade me to try to see the eclipse

This video is really really satisfyingly good! Thank you!

Great video idea, thanks for exploring this topic! Would be amazing to see an eclipse from another planet

That list is awesome!

This Eclipse series was great!!!!!

I think a good followup would be looking at just moons with atmospheres as eclipse recipients. There are, what, 10 of them?

Bro is talking in 2x speed, good vid though

might be the only tier list that I agree with

Haven’t seen a video of yours in a while. Happy to see you’re doing well.

I was just thinking about this the other day great content!!

The haze in Pluto's thin atmosphere actually looked pretty visually interesting in the New Horizons photos, would that not be visible to the human eye on the horizons?

Props to the camera man for recording every solar eclipse on all the other planets

Those two pics of Saturn's rings at 5:08 are some of the best probe images ever. See that pale blue dot? Yep, that's us. Bit of a step up from Carl Sagan's pale blue dot photo from Voyager. Edit: I recommend anyone who likes them to look them up on NASA's website to get the full detail. RU-vid's video compression definitely makes them lose a lot of detail.

Your channel is educational! 😎👍

Pluto actually does have an atmosphere! It is mostly nitrogen so it is a similar color to earth’s. It’s atmosphere can reach up to 200 km above the surface, but the maximum height seems to vary. Also, the atmosphere is dense enough to be visible, but not nearly dense enough to block your view of the stars, it’s more of a light blue haze.

Amazing analysis on eclipses this video is S tier

I witnessed the total solar eclipse in 2017 and saw the 360° sunrise. But I had never heard this mentioned before and until this video, never had a term to describe what I had seen. Thanks!

Not just another Minutephysics video (I enjoy MinuteEarth but MP is the OG iykwim) but also using the best MP track! Dr Schroeder FTW

We watched the eclipse from Tupper Lake, NY! It was stunning! Thank you to all the wonderful guests to our town of Tupper Lake over the past few days. I am so glad the clouds moved and we were all able to view the Eclipse Totality. It was a stunning site to behold. I & many others were able to get fabulous pictures & videos of the event. If you are interested in our town, check out my waterfront property at 131 Lake Simond Road, Tupper Lake, NY. Escape the city. Come up to live in peace, view the sun, the stars & the moon! Experience & enjoy nature's splendor. I hope you all have safe journeys home. Wishing You Blessings & Wonderful Adirondack Memories

6:36 but pluto has a atmosphere made of mostly nitrogen

Super video! Thanks!

Your animations look really cool

What's crazy to me is that even though from Uranus and Neptune the Sun looks like just another star, it still lights them up to the level of an overcast day here on Earth.

Great video, thanks! I was fortunate to see the total solar eclipse last week - absolutely incredible! 🌞🌚🌎

That was some top notch research.

This was super interesting and fun! Out of curiosity: you included Pluto, but not any of the other dwarf planets. Any reason? My daughter is really into dwarf planets (specifically Make Make) and I'd be interested to know if any of those would experience interesting or unusual eclipses (especially those in the astroid belt, though I imagine that would be hard to research)

I saw the total eclipse yesterday, it was phenomenal. Never seen anything like it. Words can't even begin to describe it

minutephysics, This is awesome! I subscribed because I want to see more!

Thanks, great video Henry! Could you maybe make a video explaining the sunrise color pattern? During an eclipse and regular sunrise. I have been wondering about that for a while, but never found an explanation anywhere.

Thanks for sharing, those are really amazing, especially the potato shaved moons. Where I lived, we had around 90 to 95% totality. And even though it was cloudy, it was still really awesome. Especially because it was close enough that we saw that sunrise effect over much of the sky. Much different than just a mere thunderstorm, with dark clouds. Overhead like what it felt like when it got dark in 2017 and we had about 80%.

Excellent video!

Nice presentation and music choice.

It would be so cool to see a lunar eclipse from the moon

Thanks for the Eclipse Explorer app ! It's magical ! I'm in love with Saturn-Dione Eclipse 😄 (the world need a VR version of this app 🤯)

Fascinating 🎉❤

I'm not going to be intense in my criticism because you did all the maths, but Luna (Earth's moon) and Pluto do have atmospheres, but they are negligible. Great video! 🙂

I had been wondering if there were any other planet/Moon systems that could have total eclipses. Good to know that there are.Nifty

The greatest video I didn't know I needed

Simulations of how eclipse might look from another planet. Damn. As an amateur astronomer in the 90's, I remember when "map of galaxy/universe" came out on 150 CD's. And now one can somewhat accurately simulate how eclipses look on another planet. I do want to watch that, since I was born too early to visit another planets.

Dude, great memories of you, I used to watch your videos a lot... especially the one with Math🤓

How would you rank eclipses by minor planet rings (Haumea, Chariklo), and on the one moon that has an atmosphere (on Titan, by Saturn's other moons)?

Great, beautiful, thank you!

Will keep this as a guide when I leave for my space trip! ps: good to know, we are already in S-tire! but will prioritize other S-tires too during my trip!

Correction! Pluto had a seasonal, nitrogen rich atmosphere, albeit rather thin - and we have pics from New Horizons craft showing this atmosphere in visible light as pluto eclipsed the sun - its a similar shade of blue to earths sky, and we would probably see similar yet feinter effects of the sunrise glow ^^ idk if that's enough to push styx and kerberos up to c tier? 😅

Outstanding🎉

Where ceres?

4:35 dude that looks so tight lmao would travel to saturn just to see that fr💯💯

you teach me alot of space.

The eclipses taking place far enough out that the sun appears point-like, would those planets even have a noticeable "night" phase, or would it be about the same effect as their moons passing in front of any of the other myriad stars in the sky?

All I know is that I was able to travel to northern VT on Monday and witness a few mins of totality under clear skies, which is insane considering how the weather usually is in New England this time of year. To have been waiting for this for 7 years+, and take my wife and 4 year old daughter, who wasn't even conceived of yet when I first planned on going, was amazing for the lack of a better word. The icing on the cake was getting a couple great shots of not only the corona, but the solar flares around the sun at the time with my wife's canon 5DmkIV with 75-200mm f2.8L lens @ 200mm. It all feels like a "fairy tale" story in how it all worked out. I just hope my daughter remembers it... she's been talking about it ever since… She seems to think it will be something we can see all the time because she was so young seeing her first eclipse 😂 I'll never forget the moment that last sliver of sun vanished, and we first saw totality... my daughter immediately yelled out after we told her she could take her glasses off "daddy! The sun is black, with a big glowing ring around it!" Absolutely a once in a lifetime experience. Worth fighting all the traffic for sure!

I'd've been interested to hear about eclipses seen from moons with atmospheres though

Taking notes of this when we finally have a Space Trip organization

I thought my playback speed is defaulted to 1.5 by the way he talked. Nice way to shorten the video. Great vid. Watching from Saturn... 😅

Beautiful!

4:33 Amalthea eclipses are probably the best, looks like cat eye to me, pretty awesome

7:44 needs eclipses from the various moons to be a sequel video.

Never thought about this

I just drove from Denver to Illinois to see it and it was truly incredible. The four minutes of total eclipse was worth the 40 hours in the car lol

we'll moon eclipses with other moons sound like a lot of work. but then you can just show the moons that have atmospheres because we might have missed some a tiers

This question I've never thought of before occurred to me when you were talking about how bad the eclipses were on the distant planets where the sun is tiny: why *are* the planets where they are (relative to the sun of course)? why do they go from smaller to bigger? why rocky in the inner solar system and gaseous in the outer? I'm sure this is all understood but I don't think I've ever heard it explained.

6:24 it can be argued that Charon is a dwarf planet too in a binary system with Pluto

Outstanding.

I wonder about eclipses on other Earth-like planets in other solar systems… Anyway, great video!

I would put only the Earth’s and Saturn’s rings in S tier. Our round eclipse allows us to see not only the corona but solar prominences, as well. One was visible with the naked eye with this last one.

I’m so happy that I got to see the total eclipse this year will definitely look where I need to go for the next solar eclipse

That's a good background song!

Knowledge 😉

S-tier video!

one of those videos I'll rewatch every 2 years

Callisto was done dirty lol. Other than that, great video.

I'm so excited. The 2017 eclipse was such a great day. I keep gushing to friends about how cool this is, I must sound like a fanatic.

I wonder what the eclipses would look like from the surface of Jupiter's moons, or if they ever eclipse the sun from each others perspective. If you do any follow up to this video, you should include that.

I got to see the eclipse yesterday!

Nice video. You really need to have two or three more tiers, just to separate Earth's solar eclipses from all the others. None of them would even come close to a total eclipse as seen from Earth.

Interesting!

100% agree on saturns dope rings

Great video, But sad it wasn't suggested to me

We need that tshirt design as a poster. It's perfect for it and I want it on my wall.

This one, literally by far. It's the best any of us will actually see.