Hey, it's me, Destin. Welcome
back to Smarter Every Day. I am in the globe museum
in Vienna, Austria, and going to show you something really
neat. This is called a Lunarium. A Lunarium is a really interesting device used to
calculate the position of solar eclipses. You can see you have a candle here that
represents the sun. You have the moon, which goes around the earth when you
input power to the crank there and it calculates the position on the
globe where the shadow will be. So this is a really
interesting thing and you know, I'm excited about solar eclipses ever
since the one in America a couple of years ago, my wife and I, for the first time, we've been able to plan a trip
around a total solar eclipse. So go with us to Argentina and let's see
what it looks like in the middle of the desert. As we observe a solar eclipse
together. Let's go get Smarter Every Day. [Music] Holy cow... my beard's a beard. It's real beard. Look at that. The ground crew are wearing
full on winter gear. Uh Oh! Mendoza Si... Gracias [inaudible]. That's where, we're going, excuse
me, I'm eating an Empanada. Punto de Observacion looks
like it's directly ahead. So after days of travel, we ended up here at the far
western edge of Argentina, just outside of a little town called
Bella Vista in San Juan province. The reason this eclipse was such a big
deal is that it's a setting Eclipse, meaning the photos could
capture the eclipse and the
horizon in the same shot in this location means the shot would be
the beautiful in these mountains right in front of you. This was supposedly the spot to watch
from tons of stages and live feeds, all kinds of things that were
already set up the night before. We met a ton of really cool people like
this famous news anchor who showed us the huge lens that we're
going to use to film it with. Everyone was really cool and excited, but
when I saw this drone flying overhead, I realized that this wasn't
the spot for us. Okay, so we just went to the site where half
the world is going to be literally for the eclipse. No, I'm thinking no, because I saw people
with drones and stuff. I'm not thinking that's
where I want to be. No, no, but this is gorgeous. There's pretty, I'm thinking on the side of
the road somewhere with you. We drove two hours back across the desert
that night back to our hotel and the next day we threw all our gear in the car
and armed with the solar eclipse timer app, we headed back out into the desert
to wing it along with thousands of other people from all over the world.
Look at all these people here. Yeah. For the eclipse. This is the only store for like forever. Good for the guy that owns this store .
Es un loco dia para ti? Si... It's a big dia!. Does this feel like
the Science Olympics to you?? It's not the Science Olympics.
People are from everywhere though. Yeah.. And people are super travelers
to not so super travelers At this point. We're trying to figure
out what the photo is going to look like. So my beautiful bride is driving and
I am using an augmented reality app. You can see the ecliptic line right
there. Yeah, I think this is it. Look at that. So you got two mountains
there. Hola! Habla Espanol? English! Cool man. I'm Destin. Stefan, have
you set your orientation up yet? Is it polar aligned right now? What
do you think adventure wife? 318 to 296 We're looking like.... there. Yeah, that's it. Let's just call
that good. (hat plops down on ground) Do you mind checking my setup for me? Yeah why not? So you came all
the way from Switzerland?. Yeah That's Amazing. Thank you very much. At my first total solar
eclipse. I got so excited. I left the solar filters on and
didn't get the shots I wanted. So when it came right
down to the moment here, Tara couldn't resist
poking a little fun at me. Okay. Are these the only
lenses you have to take off? (Automated voice) "Thirty
Seconds... hands on camera filters" Haha... it's just for you babe. (Automated voice) Remove camera
filters. Got 'em. Voice "15" "10" (Automated Voice) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...... "Glasses Off... Glasses Off" [Camera shutter firing] Oh, come on babe. (Automated Voice) Observer for planets and stars How cool. WHAT!? [Camera controls clicking to roll up exposure] It's a 360 sunset I decided to set up a camera behind
us to capture the eclipse progression through the sky in front of the Andes. I had a photography filter on my front
camera and I would run it back and forth between the camera in the front and the
camera in the back and that would take these shots along the partial
phase phenomenon progression. They say a picture's worth a thousand
words and this one's worth far more than that to me because Tara and I built
it together. We picked the spot. Everything about this captures the
entire experience with my wife. Probably the most interesting thing about
this photo though is that last photo before the sun goes down
behind the mountains. We didn't expect that and the
way it went down was pretty cool. I'll show you that in
video in just a second. This is so much better than the binoculars. You don't believe me but like this
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on. The moon. The moon is on one side. We didn't get the total
before we got the sunset. It's cool because the mountains
running away. That's pretty cool. That's really cool. Actually I gotta
I gotta take some photos of that. Do you think that the moon is
going to move fast enough for the, I don't but I gotta take a
picture of the back right, because it's going to come
up by the mountains. Wow. It's going fast. It's going very fast.
Do you want me to push buttons up here? I need another battery. Uh,
yeah, I got it. I got it. I got what we need. We're good. Do you
want me to push buttons up here? No. No, no. Okay. It's going fast.
I'm coming back. Yeah, you should. I wasn't expecting that. Did we get it right there?
Yeah, we got it. That's weird. Aw Man. I really wasn't. I thought it
was going to, it's like we're, Oh, which one's gonna win? The mountains are gonna win.
The mountains are going to win. Absolutely are. Oh, that's cool. Oh Man. How cool is that? And
then the lights gone. It's almost almost. Oh...it's so close! Oh, can I see it out there yet?
Or is it tobright? Too Bright, too bright. Bright. Too Bright. Oh, it's like a little triangle.
Take a photo. Take a photo. Oh, Take a photo. Take a photo. I'm doing my best I don't know what
I'm doing! I did. I did. Okay. Now. Oh, look at that what a neat
way to end the eclipse. Huh?! I just wasn't expecting it. I
wasn't either, but I wasn't, oh, it's getting cold fast. Look at the
smoke rising off of the mountain. You see that? Yeah. Hey, you ready? Okay. It's going to work. People will love
it I promise. All right, so, oh, all right. You Ready? Ready? Okay. Thank you for supporting every crazy
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much. You don't talk a lot on here, so I think this is kind of enjoyable.
We gotta stop before I... twerk my back. Until we break. It was your fault for twisting.
Destin I fucking love you. Iβve seen everyone of your videos. And a solar eclipse has been one of the most emotional experiences for me I watched it in Tennessee. My wife and I plan to see the next one in 2024 and at least one or two more after that. Thank you so much for sharing this video it meant a lot to me to be able to relive that experience through you
Wow, very cool! I managed to capture a pretty similar sunset from Brazil, but in an urban setting: https://youtu.be/JLHxM5ynueU
whats the augmented reality app he used in the video?
This is one of your best videos ever Destin. We need more Ms. Destin! Y'all are great together.
Yo Destin, I loved the video. I need to go to Argentina some day ;).
Quick tip, you should check out the App βPhotoPills.β It is the best photography app I have used, and helps you align your camera for celestial events. I use it mainly to plan Milky Way exposures. It had an entire module for Solar Eclipses as well (and tons of tools). Costs $10 I think but the planning aspect alone is totally worth it.
Love your content, come to Utah if you ever wanna do some dope Astrophotography.
Couple goals.
A Solar Eclipse is a life changing event to experience. I was at the one in Kentucky 2017. Gonna try and make the one in 2024.
But to the real point Smarter Every Day is awesome and provides me my dose of knowledge. Thank you!!
Does anyone know which music was used for the second half of the video? "A shell in the pit" is the artist.
Shout out to Western New York, where I get to go to my hometown to watch the 2024 eclipse!