Total Solar Eclipse Live!

hello and welcome to a special stud live I am your host Beth Johnson and I am joined today by stud astronomer Tom Esposito hey Tom hello good morning how are you doing I'm good I'm pumped I've been looking forward to this for weeks so neither neither you nor I are in the path of totality but that doesn't mean that we're not excited about this so um what what are you looking forward to today uh I'm definitely excited I've been on a strictly solar schedule for about a week now I wake up when at Sunrise go to bed at sunset uh I went so far I went outside and got a moderate sunburn yesterday just to soak it in so I have this Rosy Glow um yeah I you know I've just been uh looking forward to getting the views from our folks spread out across the country um I haven't been lucky enough to see one of these in person so um I'm looking forward to living vicariously through them fantastic uh so what what's going I mean where where are you at you're in in Richmond California I'm in San Jose so we're again not in the path of totality which you can kind of see behind me here and we're okay I can do this I'm a weather person right okay we're over like here and so as you can see that path is nowhere near us so that's right yeah so uh you know we'll we'll get a partial View I think we'll see something like a 30% is Eclipse um even all the way over here far away from that path all yeah uh my understanding is it will start in about 10 minutes or so and then we'll Peak about an hour later so we get about two hours I think of you know a partial eclipse time but the peak of it for us will be uh in about an hour so um I seem to have Sun right now I can see the leaves the Shadows of the leaves on the tree outside my window so hopefully I can I can take a look at those later uh I wantan to I want to say a few words before we bring in Fran and get the show on the road um this live stream is H sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation who have uh provided us with the funds to do things like have starlinks so thank you to uh starlink uh for providing uh some lovely in the field uh internet connections so that we can actually bring you all of these people um from across the nation and into Canada so that we can we can we can actually show you all of these wonderful Skies that we're hopefully going to see um weather forecasts are starting to clear up for a few places um and I want to welcome in uh viewers from around the world so uh thank you so much for joining us we have people watching and this is an amazing list to begin with we have people watching from France uh on a couple people on PLS Colorado Florida uh and hi to Frank's family in moner uh let's see Switzerland India uh Manitoba the Netherlands Pennsylvania Germany and Ireland so thank you everybody for being here and the UK thank you so much for being here everyone welcome in to the city live um we are going to be streaming for the next 3ish hours and we are going to be bringing you views from the path of totality all the way from Texas to Ontario Canada so with a lot of luck and some good planning on our part we will hopefully be able to bring you totality at various points um oh wow welcome in from Portugal Guatemala and Romania wow okay so the goal was to get people who weren't in the path of totality to be able to see this so I am so happy that you are all joining us here and now I would like to welcome in uh Frank mares hey hi everybody how are you good hey Frank so Frank is in Austin and already starting to get a bit of a crowd you've got a you've got a party going on tell us about what's going on where you are yeah uh we are at East Travis height uh in South Austin I'm at my friends uh Dan and Rich and um yeah here in Texas where they do when there is an event a game uh an astronomical event whatever they organize a party so we have a front party with friends and the neighbors uh we promoted the event and we have some people gonna come uh as the eclipse is happening and hopefully we all going to witness together the totality uh is clearing up here and based on the prediction from astronomers not the one that you have from the news uh it should be clear exactly at the time of the eclipse and then for and then cloudy again one hour later so let's see it's going to be an interesting uh interesting day frankly this morning when I woke up it was so cloudy that I said this is not going to happen but hey we uh we have the the gods of of the weather with us today so let's see here's here's hoping uh like I said we we have a jam-pack schedule we've got people coming in from all over the place who are going to be joining us to talk about their views to talk about so science so um we're very excited to bring this all to you and hopefully we can we can keep things rolling uh with some skywatching so Frank what uh telescope have you brought with you uh so behind me we have the unistellar odys telescope the ODS Pro that's the newest one we release in January uh he is equipped with this solar filter and um the cap this telescope is capable of finding the sun I know it looks easy but it's not that easy to find the Sun and and uh we'll follow it as the eclipse is happening so in hopefully when the clouds will let us do it we will be able to uh to lock the telescope on the sun and you will see the dis is going to be a dis in on in an image and you see the the progression of the eclipse slowly happening as the the Moon is passing between us and the Sun so we are here what the reason I'm I came here in South hting is because we are going to have totality we are on the path of totality I forgot exactly the how long it will last but I think it's 1 minute and 10 10 seconds and um it's going to be fun for people here I think a lot of people behind me never experienc an eclipse before so we're gonna all sit together and enjoy this Eclipse do we want to talk about the ombra and what is the ombra yeah absolutely but let me let me just remind people really quickly if you are looking at the sun please make sure that you have solar eclipse glasses with you the only time you can take those off to look at the sun is during the few moments of totality if you are in the path if you are not in the path keep those glasses on the whole time and try very very hard not to look around the edges so keep them up against your eyes um there we go I do not have a pair so I will be I will be staying right here at my computer and looking at uh the cloud the the uh Shadows of of the leaves on the tree outside which is a a neat little trick you can use because you can see how the Shadows change so there there are a lot of options um you can get a colander Take It Outside hold it you can see the pattern in the sunlight um and the shadows and now those those holes in your colander will change and so it it's kind of a neat little effect so there are ways to safely view if you do not have solar eclipse glasses but do not look directly at the Sun as a rem so so all right let's start off with the basics what is an eclipse why can we see them from here on Earth is that for me or that's for Tom go for it Frank so an eclipse is is basically the passage of a an astronomical body in front in front of another one what we're going to see today is a solar eclipse so in this case the Moon is passing between us and Earth Earth and the Sun so what if you were observing from far away you will see the shadow of the Moon moving in a very specific trajectory along along the along the path of the centrality basically and that's a shadow we call it the Umbra so the Umbra is um as a size that varies depending of the geometry and so on so I think someone's going to talk about that but typically here in Austin the umra is 200 kilomet so that mean that if you're not located in this SP of 200 kilom you will not see the totality you will you will see a partial eclipse so that's that's why we are here to to be located on the umra on the pass of totality in this tiny band of 200 kilometer and what I heard that there is more than 100 million people who moved in the US along the path of totality today to see and to this this Eclipse yeah I I think one of my favorite uh Graphics I have seen this past week was the the graphic of Airbnb reservations and and how full it was and this yellow uh line that you see behind me was basically just red with with booked up reservations where everybody was uh uh getting ready to to see it I have friends on the road who are still on the road looking for that perfect spot um people on planes there's all kinds of amazing attempts to do this um very exciting uh Frank is this your how many how many total total solar eclipses have you seen how many you know how many annular what what's your record here so I've not seen that many the first one I tried to to see was in 1996 it was in north of Paris and it was cloudy so I experienced the darkness only but which was already an interesting experience and uh several years ago I forgot which year exactly 2015 or 17 I saw 17 I saw the total eclipse uh from Oregon and that was impressive I was with my kids and uh and the family and we basically saw the totality the sky was clear and that was my real full total eclipse I've seen multiple annular Eclipse I see I saw one in Japan and and I tried to to to see the one last year um but it did not work because it was cloudy in Oregon so yeah kind of I'm not an eclipse Chaser but I I've the last 10 years I've seen several of them and i' I'm getting hooked in fact I'm starting liking it more and more to go to these places to experience an eclipse because when you have seen one once one you kind of get it you know why people are so excited about it it's a very deep experience something that you see the cosmic ballet you suddenly realize that yeah sky is moving and there is something something special happening at this exact moment plus it's a nice story to remember it's a story to tell to your friends and there is always something happening dur an eclipse I don't know what's going to happen today but something may happen something fun something interesting I don't know an event lightning the power is gonna cut off I don't know we will see Tom how about you uh what's your Eclipse experience uh so I think the first one I remember seeing was 1994 I was I was eight I think uh seven or eight um there was one that passed near my home in New York it was uh it was a um I we didn't see a total eclipse but I remember while looking through my dad's welding mask because that has Glass Tinted glass dark enough to to safely look at the Sun and then it was a while after that before I saw another one I saw in 2012 there a partial I think that passed through California where I was and then 2017 there was a a pretty deep one here in Northern California that uh I saw through clouds and which actually worked out okay um so I've seen a few but never a total so I'm a little bit jealous uh but um again I I'm looking forward to the views we get from people like Fran I I am very definitely jealous I have never seen a total solar eclipse for some reason I thought I had but a friend of mine corrected me recently and said it was only a partial where I was at the time so um yeah I'm gonna have to fix that myself uh one of these many years it's it's going to be a while uh but you know there's there's time and I I do plan to do it and at least you know I get the fun of doing this with all of you so I'm I'm pretty excited um hopefully clearing up here yeah it you're I can see that you're uh your uh your telescope View and and it's not at the moment for you but it is clearing up so hopefully soon we'll be able to show some some actual uh footage of the sun right now everybody's kind of got clouds so yeah and I we have someone setting up in the background so hopefully soon yeah um yeah what is important is that we are not going to see the eclipse all together at the same time and that's uh that's what we uh we're going to experience today we are in H so we are the first station who's going to be able to see the eclipse the full and then as we progress over time people will experience the eclipse with other group other in other State uh and I think the last station where's located the last one the northern one uh the northern one is going to be the one in Ontario Ontario okay with amori so and the difference of time is of course I don't remember the exact number but it's typically 1 hour or something like that right yeah it's I think we've got our our totality spread out across several different uh different points yeah um because the Umbra is going at um the speed of the Umbra is something like 1,000 to 5,000 miles per hour the speed change depending of the H my iPad is hot okay let me just put this on the side yeah so the the speed of the ombra uh is one between 1,000 and 5,000 mil SP per hour so 2,000 Kil 2,000 to 8,000 kilom per hour so that's the reason we are not going to sit all together at the same times Austin will be the first tonight today and then the last one will be in Ontario and that's that's for our stream obviously you can see from behind me the other way that it does start down here in Mexico so uh there there are places we just didn't have anybody down there so yeah yeah we could not be everywhere so we decided to uh we decided the station B how convenient it was to have an internet connection to have uh two station which is stable know the people I mean it's great to uh to go in the middle of nowhere to see an eclipse but if you want to share the experience with people you need more than just uh just yourself you need to have a telescope you need to carry it there you need to bring power starlink if you don't have internet and all of this so that's the reason we are not everywhere but but seven station is good yeah and as as we learned from from last year's partial eclipse you know the the internet connection is an important thing when running a live stream so yes we learn we learn together yeah yep yep we did and so uh like I said Thank you again to starlink for providing uh some uh connections for us so um we do have some some Starling dishes and uh they're working so um we've we've tested everybody has has has checked out everything and so hopefully we will be able to see some stuff I think uh we're still working on on some people in the background here but um so Frank we've talked about you know the the how of it but why does this work why can we see this you know I there's there's a picture going around right now of of Phobos passing uh in between Mars and the Sun but it's not blocking out the sun it so why does this work for us here on Earth when it it doesn't work anywhere else it seems well it does work because the distance of the Moon and the distance of the Sun there with respect to Earth make that the the moon has almost the same apparent size than the Sun and that's the reason the moon can completely occult the sun allowing us to basically see the surrounding of the Sun the corona that some of us will experience today if they have a clear weather so it's a very um it's a very inter it's very interesting that the moon has the same apparent size than the sun it's a coincidence but it's happening at the moment that we are a civilization capable of talking about it so it's great I'm saying that because the Moon is not going to be always at the same distance we know that the Moon is drifting away and um then it will be too small to for in the future in million of years the moon will be smaller than the Sun so you will not be able to experience an an eclipse so this is the right time to do it guys I think we have a little bit of time but it is good don't waste your chances yes uh and and yeah we did not mention but the path of totality is small and it do um and Eclipse does do not happen eclipses do not happen everywhere so uh right now in the US we we're lucky we are two in a row the anular one last year and this total one this year uh we're not going to see another eclipse in the US for quite a while so that's the reason 100 million people move along the path of totality to experience this Eclipse s right I think it's is it 2045 that's the next total eclipse in the crossing the United States in North America I let you check that in the future yeah I think I think it's 2045 so so it's a bit of a weight yeah that's that's one of the things I mean so there's oh okay if anybody wants to have like some fun go ahead and Google solar eclipse Google has has uh done an Easter egg for today um just so you know I just got to discover that so I'm now sharing it with all of you um yeah so if you want to know when there's going to be time and date NASA people update Wikipedia all the time so there there's a lot of different places where you can check out when there are going to be eclipses and where they're going to be and and they're all going to have maps that look like the one behind me uh so it'll it'll show you you know times um the percentages that's what all these are these are the percentage covered and then as well as this you know 100% uh path of totality and so you know there's there's options they just don't come around very often but we we do have what are called called Eclipse seasons and there there are two eclipses a year basically um and but they're usually usually partial um the the moon does not it it it kind of goes up and down in its path as well as across so sometimes and I have I have a hockey puck so here's here's this so here's the sun and the moon but sometimes the Moon is up here and sometimes the Moon is down here so it doesn't always work exactly yeah and it's also interesting that we are in in a moment in time where we can predict that I mean in advance and know exactly where they're going to happen I mean this is not something that was doable 100 years ago 200 years ago so we um we make it easy to plan for people to see an eclipse you just look at the maps on the internet find when there is one not too far away from you or trip you want to do and plan a trip in advance to go to se they will be one in north of Spain in two years if I remember properly yeah and there there are there are literally companies who do travel that that basically you just contact them and they will arrange the travel and the locations for you and figure all of that out so if you really really really want to go see an eclipse there there are definitely people that will assist you with that if it's not just a drive an hour like for some of the people I know who are doing that unfortunately for me it was a fly sever flowers so yeah there's there's plenty of cruises I know that you know they'll sail you into the middle of the ocean because a lot of the there are more eclipses they just don't cross a land where there's a lot of people I I I know I our CEO president and CEO Bill Diamond has done at least one Eclipse cruise that I remember since I've been with seti since he and I have been with seti so I I it is doable is definitely doable and there like I said there are companies out there that will have make that happen for you I'm going to welcome in uh people we wow we've okay um coming in from a whole bunch of places uh before we get to our first interview um let's see oh uh scrolling back okay uh North Carolina somewhere from Texas Japan uh Spain Maryland Ohio Indiana New York uh someone from else from San Jose California hello uh Netherlands uh more France Germany hello Ron in Louisiana on the Bayou uh Missouri uh more from Texas and the UK uh Ontario Canada uh Mexico uh welcome in um more Ireland Ohio up in Sacramento L Union Frank there you go uh Korea uh more France Florida Argentina and Italy wow okay literally around the world thank you everybody for being here and um I we're gonna bring in our first guest um so Frank stick around um we'll be back with you in a bit okay uh but first I want to bring in uh Steve trimberger who is on our Board of Trustees uh okay oh no I think he's I think his connection of course because that's how that's how the internet works I'm gonna he been eclipsed already we can't even see beened already I know I know we'll BR FR back in for a minute and see if we can get Steve's connection sorted out and I started out my iPad is not working so you may be able to see the sun I don't know oh wait it looks like Steve's back so okay um we'll be back I know Ariel's got hers up too so I think we can look at the Sun from from somewhere all right Frank be back with you and you see hello Steve oh okay I'm gonna I'm gonna add Ariel's uh View for the moment there we go hello there we are hello good morning good afternoon oh yeah you're uh the uh I am in Waco Texas and it's been in a bit of an adventure already uh if you may have heard the forecast for I'm losing Steve's audio a little bit oh I know I let me see if I can here I'm trying to there get the various audio things to work here yeah we got we got you back sorry about that uh oh and then we lost you again have to come back to Steve while we're waiting though we can see the beginning of an eclipse here yeah you can see AR Ariel's got clouds coming in and out but you can see just the hint of uh of that coming in yep on the lower right there I'm G I'm gonna bring in Ariel while we wait for for Steve to sorry Ariel should have given you more warning than that hello Ariel Hi how are you good how are you how's your how's your rooftop viewing going it's going well you know so far this morning the clouds were pretty thick and I wasn't feeling super good but all of a sudden they've started to break up and I've been able to look at the sun now and yeah the eclips is starting so we're all really excited this is this is really nice this is a good view thank you so much for for being able to do this now you were the one of the ones that has a a star link up and running correct yeah I do have a starlink it's it's right next to me it was really easy to use is super cool that I was able to do that um but yeah so I'm streaming to you from starlink now and and what which telescope are you using I'm using the E scope too you can see it there okay so that's also Tom you have one of those behind you correct yeah well this way yeah that's an e scope too as well yep that's a so we're actually yeah go ahead no I was I was just that looking at the the way the the Moon is starting to come in there that looks pretty amazing and that Sunspot that I've been chasing for the last four days is still making its way across yeah I focus as best as I could With the Wind shaking the sun like that but I think you can you can make out a bit of the structure of the Sunspot which is kind of cool yeah there is a little bit of wind Shake just that's that's when this one is moving around a little bit that's the wind just blowing the telescope there's not a whole lot you can do about that but uh when it's not shaken uh it does look pretty good there's that big one in the middle and there's a little Sunspot down to the left of that as well yeah yeah I've definitely been uh seeing that that sun that big Sunspot has it started uh on the very left hand side uh when I started running tests with people on Thursday and Friday and now now it's already in the middle so that's and then we have yeah that new that other one coming in there from the left so that's pretty cool and then you've got coming in from the right this is an amazing view so so Ariel where are you at I'm in Dallas Texas right now and so yeah the weather forecast was very Hit or Miss but right now we're hitting so I hope it stays this way at least until totality uh oh uh someone is asking and that's a that's a really good question uh enhance view honor off for Eclipse viewing on the Odyssey Pro do we do we know the answer to that so I believe uh it will the Odyssey will automatically turn on um kind of a sun mode as soon as you point to the sun and it will enhance the image with that kind of builtin unistellar technology so you're seeing a the enhanced Vision image without having to do anything extra yeah all right adjusting automatically as things change I was having trouble earlier because of the clouds and it was trying to adjust the gain of the telescope and whatnot and it was kind of affecting the brightness in a weird way um but now it's been nice without the clouds it can adjust really well it looks it looks it looks great so uh what time what time do you have uh so what time is it there it's uh 12:30 there for you it's 12:30 here and I believe totality is at 140 for me this time so I have a little over an hour until ality and you're going to keep your telescope on there the whole time yeah I plan to as long as the clouds stay away we're staying on the sun did you uh did you bring eclipse glasses for people or are people bringing their own um we brought a a handful of eclipse glasses but a lot of people brought their own but yeah have some ready to go fantastic all right we're going to try and bring Steve back because it looks like looks like I have him back so um one moment Ariel thank you we'll be back with you in a few minutes sounds good all right Steve hello hello it's a bit it's a was an adventure and Still Remains an adventure all right so so you are you are in Waco Texas uh what what is going on there where you are so Waco Texas is actually pretty quiet considering the eclipse is on uh actually quite except for the background music yeah uh the forecast in the uh this morning the weather looked really bad and so we were planning to leave and uh Head West uh to to search for clearer Skies but the weather kept improving and we finally decided that uh nope we're just going to stay put where we're going to be where we are it is currently uh broken clouds uh and some high clouds so uh yeah pretty much like what you were seeing on the uh uh with with a telescope uh it's about what we would it looked like here uh so the clouds pass in front of the Suns here diminishes that quite a bit but uh still uh pretty exciting and we are really happy we to that we stayed here instead of chasing this Chasing the Sun across Texas uh where uh we think we did the right thing you never know what this it's it it's kind of funny right this is a you know you don't get a rain delay uh you don't get a second chance it's just you got what you got and that's what we're doing we're yeah it's on now it's live and here we are we're making the best of it yeah the the live aspect and the the the inability to reschedule anything is sort of the the challenge here it does add an intensity that uh few there not that many experiences in your life where they have you know this kind of intensity so like get married and go into an eclipse is kind of what it is you got to be you got to be there and you got to do the right things you can do both at the same time if you're really good so so yeah we're uh actually we just we are uh just finishing lunch and G to head right back outside and uh and enjoy the enjoy the day go out and see the see see go out and not see the sun it's the plan so who are who all are you with on this uh particular trip so I've got uh got my my whole family here so uh and we uh my my wife was with me and my all my my three children and uh their spouses and my grandson so we got everybody and come in from all over so my son came in from Virginia one daughter from San Jose California one daughter from Glendale California and we I live in Reno so we all got together here in Texas is H is this your first is this going to be your first total solar eclipse experience no I did uh I did 20 17 I went up in Idaho and uh that was that was really something uh very clear skies and actually kind of spoiled us because okay you go out there and sit down and watch a sun uh so we're it's a bit more uh a bit more exciting here I've done a couple of annular eclipses uh including the one just uh just last fall in in Nevada uh annular isn't nearly as good as total if you've seen an annular Eclipse you haven't experienced the total eclipse yet that's for sure the other annular eclipse I saw was uh actually I was had the Hat Creek radio telescope when the when the annual annular Eclipse went through there I think that was 2012 something like that uh and those those eclipses are pretty good pretty good but uh yeah the the total is uh is a qualitative difference substantially different so uh go ahead Tom well I was just curious you happen to be at hat Creek which is a radio telescope facility right that's correct were they listening to the Sun by any chance because the sun is I believe noisy in the radio does it quiet during a solar solar eclipse at all were they looking listening that that I don't know but I would I would expect that the moon would interfere somewhat U but uh uh it was just happened to work out to uh uh SEI was having a an event there and and uh it was a good a chance to to see the telescope was H pretty pretty new at that point and pretty exciting to to uh it's a it's a fun place to visit and uh and it's just I I just and I love love the astronomy I love the love to walk through there but it was a great place to to see that Eclipse so Steve on on that note how how did you become involved with uh the study Institute and end up on the Board of Trustees What attracted you to the to to the cause so to speak well I actually knew about the stud in Institute for a long time and had been uh and had been uh in my uh industrial career I was responsible for doing some funding for uh for academics and uh we actually funded some uh some SE work uh and that was that was pretty pretty interesting and uh there's a there's a great story is probably too long for this call but uh but uh it was uh it less and we funded some setti research and they did some research that turned out to uh to be very valuable for us commercially at at XY links where I was at the time so I was doing that and then uh uh got connected with the uh the big picture science radio uh and podcast and uh and that was very exciting so just uh being able to to be part of that kind of that Outreach and just talking about real science especially you know 20 years ago when sometimes uh what they said was real science wasn't real science and so it was it was nice to have real scientists talking about real science in a way that was really accessible to people and I liked that a lot and so so I was u i was supporting that and uh and then that sort of one thing led to another and said look uh maybe I could do something with the with the Board of Trustees and and but some of my background was uh was relevant to where the where the Institute was looking to go with uh with some of the intellectual property and and uh looking at some of the government governance items so it's been it's been really exciting uh to get more into more involved well thank you so much Steve for for being here today for joining us um what how long is a totality going to be and and you're going to be outside observing with the family that's right it's it's scheduled to be over four minutes where we are which was really something because you know when we did the one a couple a few years ago it was only two minutes of totality and that was just just to extremely exciting to have have twice as much I it's it's an amazing to look up and see a great big hole in the sky it's very strange and yeah I can tell why why the Ancients were totally terrified so and other things that will happen uh clouds will dissipate you know certain types of clouds will dissipate the animal will uh like go quiet and the night bugs will come in and it it just completely changes around you are you looking forward to experiencing that well I I don't know if how much of that I'm GNA see but I it will be interesting yes but you like said don't not sure how much we'll see because maybe the freeway will go quiet or the roads will go quiet we are in town um but uh yeah there was we had an opportunity to uh uh to go down to the zoo and uh and and maybe maybe you talk to somebody who's down at the zoo they have a big event going on down there but uh yeah I my number one priority is to be in the moment and experience the eclipse uh so I am yeah you I have cameras and my dad taught me you know you when you when you go to Y don't take a picture of half doome they have real good pictures down at the gift shop uh but uh enjoy it and if you get if you can manage a picture of yourself in front of you that's okay but so that's what we're going to do we're just going to be in the moment we're going to if you want to look at pictures we'll download them online from online later but we are going to and pay attention to the eclipse maybe we'll notice the animals or maybe we'll just notice ourselves oh fantastic well Steve we are gonna let you get to it so um it looks like if if if Ariel and and Fran's uh earlier images were any indication it looks like things have started so um go grab your eclipse glasses and and your family and have a wonderful wonderful time well thank you very much I did take a peek out there a few minutes ago it's it's it's eclipsing it's on it's on all right well we will let you get to the enjoyment part of it thank you again for for joining us today and and sticking with it so and we'll talk to you afterwards at some point thank you so much very good bye bye thanks bye all right all right we're going to bring Ariel back in since we kind of flipped things around a little bit so Ariel I'm giving you a warning here we go hello and looks like you've got well on and off you've got a view here yeah there's a bit of clouds coming in right now but yeah every now and again it peeks through it's I mean it's it's what you're getting when we get to see it looks really good so how is how is the crowd is it picking up up there it is there's actually an event here with the art history Department of SMU and they're here and they're going to talk about you know some of the art history related things to the Sun so that's kind of fun but yeah so it's picking up there's cookies and popcorn so it's pretty fun and H how many people do you think you've got up there right now oh that's a good question I'm so bad at estimating 30 to 20 30 and you're on top of a hotel correct I am on top of a hotel and SMU is right behind me so they just came over they did class here today which is kind of fun oh that's really cool so wow I it's just looking really amazing so so Ariel uh what's what's been your Eclipse experiences so far so the only Eclipse I've seen I've seen one and I saw it in 2017 I went to Portland to see it um and that was awesome it was really surprising it was my first experiencing an eclipse in the path of totality um so I didn't really know what to expect but it really blew me away so it it kind of made me I don't know want to chase eclipses now um yeah I don't know I think it's something else I think it's one of the most beautiful things you can see in nature if you get the chance you have to go to the path of totality and seeing this is cool too as it's coming in it's exciting but seeing that full totality is like a different experience so I got to see it again so Ariel you're you're the comment lead for unistellar and the citizen science obviously not a comet but there is a comet thing going on today so can you tell everybody a little bit about what's going on in the commentary world that is exciting today yeah okay the exciting thing in the comary world today is that there's a a comet that is just barely naked eye level brightness right now like if you were to have clear skies at night you could go out and um try to see it with your naked eye definitely with binoculars and definitely with a telescope obviously um but it's in a really cool position right now where it's just a bit to the upper left of the sun uh far away enough that during totality if you have really clear skies you might be able to pick it out especially if you have binoculars and know where to look um but for me it might be hard with the clouds but if you have a clear sky I definitely recommend during the forish minutes of totality try to just take a peek and see if you could see something I'm hoping I'm really looking forward to people taking pictures of the Comet with the eclipse and Jupiter is nearby too and there'll be a couple other planets so that'll be cool to see so yeah we have a really bright Comet out right now and you can see it during the Twilight like time of totality people it's it's up sorry Beth I think it's it's up and to the left from the Sun is that right up up and to the left yeah okay and and what is the name of the comment so that people can uh look it up on star chart you can look up 12p pawns Brooks okay both all of it some of it you'll find it for sure all right fantastic and uh just out of curiosity can the EV Scopes find that so normally yes it has to be a the E Scopes do a telescope orientation so they figure out where they are pointing in the sky and then it can point anywhere right it has this smart feature during the eclipse it's guiding on the sun using a a different method um based more on the brightness so it doesn't necessarily know what coordinates it's looking at so I couldn't just type in 12p go um during the eclipse unfortunately I would have to kind of know where to point it um but if you know where to point it's definitely possible to see fantastic well I am looking forward to seeing some photos as well um I hope that your clouds clear up a little bit and that maybe you can even kind of get a look at it um it looks like your crowd is picking up you're getting some more people in there yeah yeah people are checking it out that's good fantastic all right well well Ariel we will be back with you in a in a little over an hour um hopefully get to see some totality from your location in the meantime we will continue to uh to see your view um it's one of the the ones we have coming in so uh thank you so much for for doing this for setting up and uh we will um we will talk to you in a bit um we are going to go snag Michael Prim now so Ariel stay safe up there and have fun thank you yes see you later see you later see you later all right Michael whenever you're ready while we're switching to Mike I will say just a note of caution so uh you might be tempted to take the solar filter off your telescope to look at the faint Comet during the eclipse please do not do that because uh it would be very very risky so keep that solar filter on during the day if you really want to see the comet look at it tonight all right I am I am I'm bringing Michael in and I think he's he's uh here we go hello Michael you are you are muted so you'll have to unmute to say hi there we go that better yeah there we are so so how's it going I I understand you're you're having some struggles here I mean we've got a lot of clouds here so so so the the the game is to look for when there there's a gap in the clouds that's enough you might you actually can kind of see yeah you got my screen up there right now so um let's see if uh let's see if uh fourth Chimes a charm but yeah I think the the trick is we're getting these gaps and the scope is trying to find it and then some clouds come in and it's not clear enough and it it decides it's not happy so so anyhow um sticking with it here trying to try to you know trying to get what I can get and uh going to be do doing some shots with my uh my SLR also and uh seeing what we can do here but uh I'm over at my brother's place we're having a little uh Eclipse party here and uh so actually I think they've got the stream on in the other room right now so oh okay so so you're you're also in Austin same as friend yeah I'm I'm in Austin I'm in I'm in the northwest Austin sort of over toward actually I'm actually in Cedar Park right now which is just Northwest and a little north and west of Austin so uh had about 10 or 15 seconds more more totality time forecast than than my house and uh and a little further from the clouds so we're kind of hoping we're still hoping to catch a break I mean you can see here we've actually got um a uh you know pretty clear window right now so that's that's something I suppose right yeah so what which telescope do you have that what one of you are you working on here the one that is up here right now is the is an odyssey Pro okay and I've got also got my old uh my old ev1 trying to kind of trying to do its job too uh I wanted to I had wanted to go with this one because I I did the EV during the uh the last event for the annular eclipse and uh unfortunately the field of views a little tighter and so the sun would hang a little bit off the top and bottom of the screen and I know a lot of people were uh were were asking about that oh where do we go anyhow so like I said it's it's fighting a little bit to get a track so but um sticking with it here so um how every how is everybody else doing as far as uh you know WEA anybody doing a little better than we are uh it looks like uh Fran has had some clouds come in and out Ariel's had some clouds come in and out but uh I have Lauren's a a view up as well and uh hers looks pretty stable and pretty nice so um what I can I can bring that in so you can see there you go excellent very good so yeah she's she's got she's got like no wind and and uh no clouds so hers is looking really good and also also hello to your brother Greg oh okay thanks for watching Greg much appreciated so very nice so so go ahead uh so Mike you are uh a very active citizen astronomer for unistellar um have you done an an exciting science observation recently that that you were into yeah I'm always well I'm always trying to keep busy on these things you uh like Tom I know you know uh my my my you know the my a special place in my heart for exoplanet observations I uh it's one of those things um uh what it's one of those things that as I was growing up I've always been a a huge fan of like Star Trek and and start science fiction in general and the idea of growing up from the idea that sure there must be planets out there you know wouldn't there be to oh wow somebody can actually see them to oh my god I've actually published over a hundred observations of exoplanets that I've spotted in my backyard um generally while watching not Netflix or or or something along those lines is is a little unreal let's put it that way it's it's it's a it's been an amazing experience and uh getting a chance to uh work with professionals like yourselves um in in in doing uh and actually contributing to the to to the science of it all is is remarkable honestly it it it I've learned a a tremendous amount and it's uh in a lot of ways it's been it's sort of been a dream come true if you will like I said as a as as a born and bred treky actually getting the chance to uh uh explore strange new worlds is uh has been very true to yeah very close to my heart yeah well we we really appreciate it and uh really um get a great ad Advantage from the the citizen scientist citizen astronomers around the world that participated in our science campaigns um for seti and for unisell you can visit science. unis.ca in those programs don't have a lot time that and things like the the cosmic cataclysms getting into watching supernovas like the uh the SN 23 2023 ISF uh campaign we did last year was just it was remarkable I mean it was and it was one of those things where I think we as a group it really showed our strength in the sense that it's not about having million dooll Scopes when it can be about having hundreds or even thousands of observations all you know ganging up to to to well do things out even the best telescope on the ground can't do which is look at something 24 hours a day you know we can do that you we've done that on on multiple occasions at this point with people here and in Europe and in Japan and you know Australia New Zealand on on it's it's a there's a there's a power to that that is hard to match with with a single high quality instrument definitely yeah the sky belongs to everyone H so it's nice to be able to cooperate kind of like we're doing today we have views from all over the place and and obviously you know Mike thank you so much for for participating in the the citizen science program and the the unistellar community so we we couldn't do a lot of these things without these without you and everyone else who so hard on these it's it's been it's been so enriching I mean the way I the way I tell some of my uh my astronomer you know my observational astronomer bodies like Folks at the uh uh the local you know atin Astronomical Society and so forth is it's great getting a chance to look through the scope and see things it's great taking pictures but it changes it from kind of a a Pursuit into a mission to to get involved with actually contrib you know contributing data that wind so I mean it I I it was remarkable for instance the first time I got to be listed as a co-author on an actual peer-reviewed scientific you know for you PhD types this is this is a thing for I I mean I'm I'm a career computer engineer I've never written a scientific paper and I've now had the chance to be you know the honor of being listed as a co-author on eight papers over the last two years it's been uh it's remarkable it's like I said it adds a lot it adds a lot to my life and I I get a lot out of it well thank you thank you for joining us today and we will be checking back in with you uh on and off and uh so um thank you for for setting up your telescopes and we will talk to you a bit later okay talk to you later all right I I was just sent this GIF and I'm going to share it with people this is pretty neat so one of our scientists sent this to show where we're at kind of right now so you can see the Moon Shadow coming in there and that's that Umbra that Fran was talking about and uh so this is pretty neat so um thank you to Peter yenkin for sharing that with us and uh yeah all right let's Lauren are you ready to come on you wanna want to say hi to people here we go there we are hello Lauren hi everyone happy total solar eclipse happy total solar eclipse so so you got all your you got all your uh uh aliens around you yes we have a lot of gear can you all hear me okay is that all right yeah you're fine fantastic yes we have several aliens unfortunately because our weather is so great it's really warm and some of them have blown up so oh no um I have the Odyssey behind me equipped with this smart solar filter and we have great weather here it's a little bit windy just in gusts but the weather is looking fantastic we're going to have a great view of of fality of totality and uh we're in Green Brier our Arkansas I'm with my family and we're at a place called The Hilltop RV Resort so there's going to be a bunch of people behind me cooking out and uh it's going to be really awesome time so uh when did when did you get there um it seems like ages ago however it was only Saturday night I think yeah and I'm I'm really stoked because last I saw the solar eclipse in 2017 because it passed over to Georgia where I live um but I didn't really get very close to the center of the path so totality was really short and here it's going to be about 3 minutes and 56 seconds so I'm really excited to see what the environment does and what the animals and you know bugs do and how they react and uh who are you with do y'all want they're they're just off screen do you want to go say hi come on it's my whole family hello family hello hello Lawrence Family how there got the t-shirts and everything I love it y y so we're all super excited to see uh to see the eclipse and enjoy it together and the the alien balloons were their idea so I can't really take much credit for it honestly they just had them laying around they already they already had them just materialize them out of thinner very cool very nice very nice well Lauren thank you Lauren has been uh alongside me and Frank and a bunch of people behind the scenes Rebecca hasmine uh lee all of our our team Lauren has really been the the the general of our troops so um thank you so much Lauren for coordinating so many people and so many things and making this go along uh so far really really easily we've been on on for an hour and it's it you know we're we're doing pretty well here so um when you're having fun by the way it really does and you know so thank you so much for coordinating so much with this and and for you know getting a starling up and running and all of that so yeah and our sorry there's people running around because it's a fantastic day but uh I've got it almost looks like we're getting a quarter of the way um into covering the Sun so we've been looking at it through the telescope and also through eclipse glasses and uh I'm really glad to be here this is fantastic and we've had so many people participate Beth tomm you've been amazing so just clear skies for everyone like continued clear skies yeah absolutely so so thank you so much Lauren and we will be back with you as you get closer uh to totality in about 45 minutes so um okay en enjoy and uh we'll we'll be presenting uh your view on and off so thank you for being here awesome thanks y'all see you later bye see you later all right we are going to bring in Stefan who is in Raleigh North Carolina hello Stefan H you're muted you're gonna need to unmute all right hello can you hear there we go hello now let see I'm gonna I'm gonna pull up your view because you're giving us a nice view here too I I have the perfect weather here um it's clear no wind um still waiting for the moon but so yeah you're a little little further along the path so you haven't quite gotten there yet so so what's where you're in Raleigh North Carolina who are you with and and what telesc I'm just at my in my backyard um took a break from work and uh told some of my colleagues to tune in so if you're listening hi hello to to Stefan's colleagues hope you are watching and what what telescope have you got set up I have a ev1 um my oh hey I can see the moon like on the bottom right actually there it is oh yeah just coming starting to creep in there we go exciting um yeah I have a Eis scope one it's like the first version um actually invested in the original Kickstarter campaign um and as yeah as Mike mentioned uh you can't it doesn't show the full dis um so but uh I love it just been using it a ton um yeah and very active uh another very active citizen scientist for us soate getting your data all the time um this is a really nice view still even we lose a little bit of the Sun at the top but um can really see that so sunspots just as clear as the others yeah yeah yeah yeah it's it's amazing um just been getting so much out of it and uh you know been contributing data the papers and you know been cited on um you know scientific um Publications so it's yeah it's just great because I'm I'm a huge nerd so I love the stuff think we might all be might if you're watching you might have a little bit of nerdom in you exactly exactly so it's true yeah so Stefan what what is your Eclipse experience what have you seen a totality before I have yeah last time was in uh 2017 um we went to Charleston and uh it was yeah it was pretty amazing we were just at we were going to stay on a campground but it was so hot that we ended up going to hotel and we were at the pool and and it was cloudy and then just in time the clouds parted and you could see the totality so it was yeah it was just great um so uh yeah and is is anybody at your house with you it just you right now it's uh yeah my wife's sort of around um probably going to get her like now that we can actually see something that's right yeah call me when something exciting happens that's usually the way exactly exactly exactly have some you know eclipse glasses um fully eclipse glasses no clouds and and and an ev1 and that that disc of the Moon just starting to creep in there so that's really NE exactly exactly this was this was great timing Laur Lauren Lauren knows how to read these Maps really well and she she knows how to time it so you know good on her I was like I was like I was a little worried there for a second like uh but yeah well fantastic so so Stefan uh what what do you have what have you worked on C and science-wise for unistellar so far um a lot of things um I've doing been doing some exoplanet stuff although I I have too many trees uh they get keep getting in the way um I've done some OBS Comet observations um like I uh observed um the uh the recent impact of uh Theos or rather the uh you know asteroid um before its impact um so that was that was exciting like I love the things that are happening like in the moment um so so reason the one is there's a there's a star that's uh a uh Nova that's about to um you know it's predicted to flare up um and so we're we just been constantly watching it and to see if we can you know catch it in the moment um so that's exciting um just lots of things like I got a uh a uh occultation by like another type of eclipse really um where an asteroid actually moves in front of a star and temporarily blinks it out um so so that those are really hard to get hard to catch because they're just you have to get the timing really right um and I got one of those the other day so it's yeah congratulations that's really great yeah yeah that um I'll just say because that's the program I'm leading right now with the watching for that Nova explosion um that's a cool one so that star is named T Corona Borealis uh and it's it's a star that uh erupts in an explosion every 80 years or so and just based on watching it over the last few centuries um we know that another eruption should be coming up soon so we've been watching it since July almost every night we've gotten an observation uh waiting for it to go off and so we want to just be there waiting and watching as soon as that star starts to brighten and it'll be bright enough to see with the naked eye when it goes off it will be one of the brightest stars in the sky once that happens so that's a very exciting uh campaign that we're running right now yeah exactly I'm I'm yeah that that is that is true um it's a true true Nova true you Star right like where the name comes so y well well that's exciting so uh Tom should they if if people are interested in in uh observing that they should uh how do they get involved um yeah you can either download the unistellar app um and go to the the uh Cosmic cataclysms mode and and look for I think it's the find latest alerts or um something like that or um you can just go to science. Unis dollar.com and check out our Cosmic cataclysms program inside of there that's uh that's where you'll learn all about that fantastic well Stefan thank you so much for joining us enjoy your what seems to be a very lovely day and a lovely View and uh and have your have your wife come take a look now because I will doting to see absolutely all right you have a fabulous rest of your partial uh solar eclipse thank you you too I'm I'm looking forward to totality on the on my screen thank you thank you all right bye bye right all right uh let's see so um I was hoping to have Pascal but Pascal has has not pinged in yet I know he's had some uh connection issues um and may just honestly be distracted I have heard let me see if if I yes okay I have been given I been given this again so I've got another update oh there's Pascal but let me let me present this really quickly um I have been given another update here for where the eclipse is and uh it's just starting to hit maiton Mexico so uh we're we're getting there all right so totality is approaching yep so some people are going to start to see some some really amazing uh uh totality views in in Mexico so uh stay tuned down there and we will be bringing some totality to you here and uh now I going to bring in Pascal Lee so hold on one moment here hello Pascal hi Beth hi everybody how are you hello good how are you where are you at we are in Hunt Texas if there was a place called nowhere that this would be the middle of it I'm with ra beta who is actually on the advisory Council of the CI Institute and uh we're having a a blast at this location uh it's uh we're on a Hilltop I'm going to do a quick pan slowly at a private property uh this is the beautiful uh Valley wide open Skies but as you can tell it's uh pretty cloudy uh it's pretty cloudy wow it we've had so we're still hopeful that right at the right time we'll have a a break and you can see that behind us there are some uh telescopes that I set up high resolution cameras some real Pro equipment and then on top of the hill here uh lots of people gather together so we're having a good time well that's that's really good so uh this is this you're at an event correct you're at an eclipse Fest so this this is Eclipse Fest this is called Cosmic Eclipse it's organized by Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides and her team uh we're having a fantastic time if I can catch her I will bring her to to the uh microphone here but uh yeah it's a it's a nice Gathering of people there's there's Frank White who's the author of The overview effect very wellknown Cosmic perspective of of our world over there uh just a really nice group of people as how many how many people do you think you have there I think we're about a hundred yeah maybe even more maybe close to 15 yeah it's a party even if it's cloudy it's a party yeah so let me show you all sky this is looking up now and uh while we wait for this to clear out maybe MAA you can you're sorry ra you can say a few things yeah this is a special place um you know different depending on where you're at in Texas you know weather warnings and storms and potential tornadoes and we're lucky that we only have clouds to deal with so we see the sun kind of you know peek out every couple minutes so get these these uh ephemeral glimpes glimpses of the Moon you know moving into the Sun so it's really beautiful hard on the there you have it so I'm not sure we have more to report I mean unless you have some questions on other things I was going to say you know one thing that uh really fascinates me when we look at these eclipses is to think of how these eclipses have changed over time as viewed from Earth H okay what's up with that either either someone won the lottery or maybe the sun came out a little bit okay well there was a break in the clouds and everybody got excited so eight seconds eight seconds that's excitement right there we hope that during the four and a half minutes of the totality we will have a few a few glimpses of the actual totality ourselves yeah so I was saying you know one thing that's really fascinating to me is is how Eclipse has have evolved uh as seen from Earth over time uh the moon as you probably know is the result of a giant collision between a mars-sized object and Proto earth the earth at the time was maybe 80% of its of its final size and that that object that collided with the Earth dumped a big chunk of itself into the Earth but also tore out into space some of Earth's crust its mantle we were then surrounded by a giant ring of debris for a while which then reac Creed and coalesced into the moon there might have been a few later additions to that uh that's where some uncertainty still lies but at very at the very beginning there right after this giant impact in the formation of the Moon the Moon was much closer it was about 16 times uh wider across South Sky than it is today it was a gigantic blob and you would have eclipses all the time not only that but the the duration of the day at the time was only four to 5 hours on Earth and so eclipses were very common and then as the moon quickly receded to its current location they've become rare and rare and we arej just at that point in time in in the history of the Earth when the moon actually matches the apparent size of the sun but that's really a complete coincidence and uh in a few billion years as the moon continues to move out the moon will appear small smaller and smaller and from that point on we will no longer have total solo eclipses only annular eclipses at best so from from the standpoint of the history of Earth uh these are some of the last total eclipses that we get to see from our planet yeah a super cool that's a really good reminder that uh things actually do change the universe and in the solar system over time sometimes we just get lucky about what we do see but maybe sometimes the near future we'll be seeing eclipses from other planets yeah beautiful images so I'm getting a few comments on chat I'm not sure if I'm supposed to look at those thanks where's Ryan I don't know okay that's not for me so uh Pascal your work is primarily I don't hear you anymore oh I I hear you Beth I think that's can you hear me I can hear I can hear Tom I can hear Pascal yeah no sound no sound we may he may have just lost our audio you may have just lost our audio yeah yep anyway uh I don't I don't hear you guys anymore oh you're in the show everyone can see and hear you okay fine yeah so so the moon in the past is sort of really fascinating and of course I work a lot on Mars as well and Mars does have have eclipses of the Sun as well since Mars has two Little Moons but they're much smaller than our moon and although they're much closer to Mars and our moon is to the Earth uh they're so small that they never completely cover the dis of the Sun so if you were on Mars looking at uh these moons every now and then you would see that they pass in front of the disk of the Sun but these would be annual eclipses so to speak in the sense that the the profile of the Moon would not completely cover the disc of the Sun even a seene from Mars um and so eclipses the way they are total like this on the earth with a perfect match almost between the disc of the moon and the disc of the Sun that is really an exceptional thing not just in space but in in time as well y absolutely uh can you hear us now Pascal no yeah so more about Sky yeah it's not looking great but we're still having a good time well that's that's what counts I know you can't hear us but uh all right I think I think this part of all is of course our aletti Institute uh glasses do you see these nice oh wait a minute wait a minute yeah I don't know if you hear the the clamor there but that's that's a break in the clouds okay guys on to the next person good take care bye bye good bye Pascal thank you you can't hear us but we'll say goodbye anyway we'll say goodbye anyway so we're still looking at Ariel's view in in Dallas um I'm going to switch real quickly to to Lauren and then we're going to bring in uh who do we have next it's uh um amori here we are hello you're muted you're gonna have to hi everybody can you hear me yes hello oh hi so so where are you at so right now I'm on the Brook University campus it's in s cines Ontario Canada uh as you can see behind me o that way very cloudy here we do not have a view of the Sun but that's okay A lot of people are coming in and enjoying the the valley I guess so how did you how did you end up at at Brooks University what's going on there uh I was looking at location to go uh in Ontario Canada and I came across the chairs of physics at Brock University and we and change and they they actually ordered the NIS scope to see the live Eclipse before I even contacted them and they said they would be delighted to have the city live here on campus and so yeah that's how I came to the campus and and you're there you have an eveve scope with you yes uh you can maybe see he right there oh there we go yeah an eeve scope two an eeve scope two okay so you have a two and uh are are you haven't been able to see anything obviously because it's just for every time there is a tiny tiny little spot to we tried to get through it but no success so far so so it's going about as well for you as it was for Pascal there he was having some cheering every time people would would get a break yeah it's kind of the same yes I'm gonna I'm gonna switch back to Ariel her view is really clearing up here I wish we had the same and she's pushing her way towards totality wow it is looking really good so so what's what's your EXP experience what do you do with unistellar uh so I joined City unella two years ago as an intern right and I came back six months ago to be a research assistant at the city Institute and so uh on day today I work with done on transient events um a scientific side with the unistellar network yep so I'm is one of our one of our researchers on that Cosmic cataclysms program that I mentioned before so he has been responsible for helping us plan and kind of catch these super energetic explosions this is the most energetic things in the universe that we watch for and you never know when they're going to happen so he's been part of that team to to build this program that will catch them as soon as possible and be the first to get uh these really energetic explosive events hopefully your weather clears up soon uh I don't know forecast get any better the the forecast is not looking that good unfortunately oh no well I mean you've got about an hour maybe maybe yes about it's about an hour till totality right now uh we still get uh the complete dark which will be cool but we will not see it the sun itself that's that's a good point actually even if it's cloudy it will get darker I even if you can't see that shadow coming yeah and we have actually there are cool experiments on campus uh for instance there is one behind me that will kind of see the impact of uh the Sun going dark for a few minutes on Plants uh they have a special plants that just close up when it's completely dark and so they are trying to mimic that oh that's very cool um that is I'm I'm hearing a few com I'm reading a few comments here uh David can kitki sorry I said that wrong said boset laon was totally awesome and uh that there was a uh prominence uh visible at about five o'clock on the Sun so that's really neat so mazan apparently had a really good view and uh so congrats on that and uh Ariel's view is still looking great here yeah for I was just gonna say that that prominence is something to look for that's going to be a little like a tendril of sun material that's coming off the surface of the Sun looks like up in or kind of down and to the right maybe at five o'clock when that shadow is complete it's definitely something to watch for definitely so so Amari we will check back with you closer to totality um and and we will keep our fingers crossed that that something something good happens but if nothing else we'll get to see it get dark for you yeah i' keep you posted all right great so thank you so much for joining us and enjoy the crowd at least I know you've got you've got company yeah thank you thanks so much all right H next up we have Ian Weaver who is in Dayton Ohio um he's just coming I think he's he's off camera at the moment I will switch to his view though because he does have his view going and uh so he's got a nice clear sky uh when he comes back in why does why does Ariel's view show Tuesday January 9th in the top left corner you know some of us are having trouble with our apps uh giving us dates that are useful um I know Lauren's uh phone does not want to pick the correct time and it's like wrong on so many ways so it's it's impressive that can that can actually also be a it's a weird feature it's not the phone or the telescope it's when you share it through your computer sometimes that will happen um I don't know why it's it's a weird thing of phone talking to computer uh It's just sometimes the way it is yeah it looks like looks like Ian's at some kind of an event I'm just gonna pop it up so people can kind of see so yeah he's at an event in in Dayton um you see people pointing camera pointing and they're on camera can Ian hear us I don't I don't think so I'm in the switch to to Daniel who is in Vallejo and who is ready and maybe when Ian comes back we can grab him we are currently looking at uh at uh Daniel or at Ian's view at least hello Daniel Oh Hey Beth how's it going D Daniel Daniel you're no you're not looking at the camera hun oh I forgot to take my glasses off whoops hey how's it going glasses off you go good how are you doing good we have a partial eclipse here we got my school here Griffin Academy High School in Valle Hill um so I'll get my screen ready and then I'll show you some of my students too all right okay yeah so this is what we're seeing here in Leo and I think uh just about uh 11:15 or 11:14 we had the maximum coverage there was like 33% of the area of the Sun or 44% of the diameter was covered but still pretty amazing to see a lot of oo and O even though we have a partial very nice how many students do you have there with you uh yeah so we have uh just about 300 students so I'm gonna pick my camera up so we can see so wave hi everybody wave hi so they're all over campus kind of outside the rooms people are looking up some people are coming to the telescope and taking a look yeah look just be careful you don't you don't uh bump it kids are asking to look through the telescope so uh Daniel which telescope do you have back there it's an EV scope 2 okay so also running on the two yeah we have so at this point you're just you're watching the moon move off now exactly yeah and we have students doing activities too um there's a really cool activity Educators can do with a a meter stick and you get like a an inch sphere on a like a toothpick and then a quarter inch H sphere on the other end and when you line it up you get that stic lineup right or siy you can actually create the shadow of the moon on this this is a way that we can use modeling instruction of pedagogy of inquiry so that students can learn about Howes happen nice and that that really kind of drives it home a little more I imagine than just reading about it in a textbook yeah exactly do you have an idea Daniel how many students that are there how many of this is their first time seeing an eclipse or or even really thinking about one um I think probably most of them have probably not seen an eclipse before I know some of them some of my astronomy students saw the annular eclipse in October but I think this is a new experience for most of them I don't really have an exact number though well several of your several of your uh students are saying hi to you on YouTube so uh Monica and Veronica are both saying hi so forley class yeah so I also teach at Napa Valley College and I told them to tune in so hi Monica and Veronica thanks for tuning in that's awesome that you came H so so Daniel we will let you get back to enjoying it it looks like uh I think I think Ian is back in place and so we're gonna we're gonna jump to Ian you continue to have a lovely afternoon it looks like it is beautiful out there it it is definitely beautiful here but I didn't really notice any changes on the on the leaves so awesome well thanks for having me clear skies everybody good luck thanks D all right and let's find Ian where's Ian there's Ian and here's Ian's view Ian come talk to us Ian talk to us Ian are you there maybe having some connection issues uh may maybe yeah it it's definitely he's he's got a lot of people around him it seems so um while we see if we can get him back I'm just going to say hi to some more people because oh my gosh um let's see uh where did I where did I leave off there's so many all right um lots of people still coming in from Texas I've got the Caribbean Italy Brazil uh Ecuador uh the azors wow the azors oh um that's on my that's on my bucket list um let's see what else we got Florida you have not missed things uh Scotland Nevada wow um I also saw Bella is at the stud Institute hello Bella hello Ian howdy howdy all how are you good good welcome in and uh also let's see we've got Greece uh the UK some more people from the UK um and I know that uh our our associate Simon steel is watching from Pennsylvania so everybody is is back and back and back so yay all right Ian welcome in hi where where you're in Dayton Ohio but you you appear to be at are you you appear to be at a festival where where are you bit bit crowd here say busy hey glad to be here how's everybody doing good so how's how's your event going what what event are you at going right through that Center yes we are we are Aviation Heritage National Park here yeah this is like the hometown of the R Brothers of dunar we surrounded by amazing history here amazing people can you say that one more time excellent no we got you yes sorry is my audio coming through okay yeah it's it's it's noisy like we hear a lot of the people behind you but that's okay oh got you yes have a little bit of a delay here so sorry about that that's okay um yeah it seems like there is a bit of a delay go ahead Beth okay is that a little bit better yeah so so Ian uh is this is this your first eclipse or how many what what kind of view have you had for now oh yeah this is my first Total Eclipse excited to be here um so it looks like uh there is a big group of people that around have you got a feeling for how many people yeah so we are right by the Dayton like the actual City Center I think we have like a few thousand people coming through over the entire event it looks like trying to get a better view here for people every wait nice seems like all all ages are are represented there oh it's a good turnout you're having a good time and see if I can turn this to here this is you guys nice um so I'm getting reports fromex sorry uh it seems we getting pretty close totality yeah um do we want to switch back to Fran Beth you're muted right Beth you're muted if you're speaking turn off my sound a little bit here sorry all right uh Ian we're gonna switch to Fran we will be back with you a bit closer to your totality in about half an hour weest the chair next time all right we'll see you in bit good seeing you all thanks for coming [Music] through all right FR wow FR can you hear us yeah we can barely see you though I don't I don't have a view of your your telescope though well it's getting super dark so you here you experiencing the the totality is happening in three in five minutes but even though it's in five minutes you we barely see already on people all good I am adjusting my screen I'm going to turn off my screen doing the totality so we enjoy it fully so from time to time through the clouds we see the Sun or the Crescent of sun and uh and the color is changing now like you can have this Eerie feelings I don't know something weird is not natural and I don't know if you see behind me but everybody is uh behind me waiting for for the moment and uh if our calculation all right the vi I'm sharing right now is H from Ariel's Rooftop in Dallas and you can see how much of the sun is covered up there uh wow it is so dark get if you switch to my to my screen I'm showing an app right now and we have 4 minute and 19 seconds this is the app made by I know uh Eclipse I forgot to name the exact name it's extreme it has been extremely useful for everybody here to know when it's going to happen and how long it's going to last so yeah and we can start like it's getting cold colder definitely and and people are quiet so I may be quiet too I don't know everybody's quiet it's very cool and now we see the sun through the clouds yeah it's very very small it's a tiny Crescent right now and despite that this is basically the same kind of color you have When You observe an anular eclipse this more or less the same the same feelings the temperature the dropping temperature and the color yeah it's going to happen three minutes three minutes it is amazing how much darker it looks compared to when we talked to you earlier so they kids they experience the oh so oh my god there look even if I've done that multiple time this is still something a very weird feeling we have a dog here let's see what the what the dog's going to do yeah have you noticed is are the birds doing anything strange they subon H interesting the kids are screaming and there a human reaction and an expecting one all right and then so one it once it totality starts it will be something like 4 minutes you said uh this one's going to last uh uh let's see 1 minute and 20 seconds for us okay shorter for you we we are on the side so you see oh yeah okay thank you I know for doing this app by the way that's a very convenient app it's going to be my new app for for Eclipse now all right two minutes I make announcement to above the megaphone but I'm I there quite enough now and once again here's here's Ariel's view ah it's getting you see us still because I don't see any yeah you're you're basically just a shadow now Frank yeah it's it's getting very dark for you uh let's see if I can get the camera to be adjusted guys can you adjust slightly the camera because you're already in the dark we're already almost can you show us the screen now my the The View please so I'm I don't have your view I just have the app no we have my view when I speak ah yeah there you go okay because what I would like is to kind of boost slightly the balance so we can see the full obscurity one minute can you just slightly adjust it I tell you I will tell you all it's it is so dark now it's getting super dark wow we can still see here I mean you're you're you're just B like I can see a faint outline of you and that's it and now is getting crazy crazy crazy dark yeah there we go we can see a little better now but I expect you to can see me still all right 20 seconds 21 and we can see the the the sun on the top of that it's amazing we can see a tiny oh my God this is beautiful we just saw the last part oh [Music] wow the crowd seems excited oh and theow out goes wild here we are now we are in the totality guys it's amazing it's beautiful the lights in the S the sensor light turn on in the neighborhood so the the app that that Fran was showing earlier is called eclipse live so if you wna if you want to snag it uh if you are in the path of totality and you want to see you know or anywhere really and see like what percentage you're going to get when it's going to happen that app will tell you all of these things I'm gonna I'm actually gonna I'm actually G to uh make Fran sort of a solo view here so that people poing up again beautiful oh we can see the the the Corona That's amazing beautiful when the sun is active it's it's seriously something like yeah sorry reports from Mexico said there was a prominence at about 5 o'clock on the sun yeah exactly we see it you see the prance at 5:00 yeah that's I'm don't even take a picture I'm not even taking a picture and here we are it's the end we can start seeing the sun again the solar eclipse is now ending but it's is getting cold yeah wow that's amazing actually you can actually feel the difference that is wild I feel like you can actually actually starting to brighten up a little bit now on camera yeah we're starting to see you a bit more yeah now you can see me now you can we can start seeing people again there is a baby crawling around so I was not moving it's good it's good don't worry he saw his first eclipse oh look people there are people and we back so yeah we will he will come back don't worry guys if you're on totality yeah you will you will get the view back this is this is Ariel's view from Dallas Texas she is moments away from totality herself okay you can switch to to her whenever you want but U yeah that was a great Eclipse total eclipse to do it to witness with you guys seriously that's amazing yeah no that was incredible Fran thank you so much and thank you so much for for coordinating a lot of this and making this happen everybody's smiling again good they're not worry anymore and now you're now you're in the light like it's it's it's it's such a drastic change I see how was that that was good yeah they like it and they want to do it again one more time Encore Encore wow amazing and now yeah we can finally see the Crescent again through the clouds but you see even if you don't have a clear sky being on the path of totality make a huge difference I mean you've experience it the darkness our Ariel is about to go away completely go ahead go ahead to the to to AEL whenever you want thank you very much see you later okay thank you Frank we'll talk to you later Ariel Ariel what's going on look at that hi yeah it's just about to start here we have a cloud but I think it'll pass during totality it's not that big and we have a clear patch coming you could hear people like screaming I mean your view your view shows that it's it's oh there's like a tiny tiny sliver and not much left yeah go into it in like 30 seconds I think okay I think about and how is it about four minutes for you there yeah I think just under four okay oh it's getting dark this is so cool yeah oh dang I can't really see much on my screen but it's happening don't don't right now all we see is a black screen and that's what we wanted to see so I'm I am content can you hear other people oh yeah no we we hear the crowd that is amazing good we're looking at it through a thin Cloud right now so there may you can see some action yeah there may be a prominence around five o'clock oh around 5 o' yeah around five o'clock there's some like more of a prominence going on oh [Music] yeah I know that's something that's that'll be tough to see and that's really the telescope with the solar filter on won't really see that it's probably too dark yeah prances but well we can watch on the I'm I'm gonna take the The View down and just show you and all your all the people so everyone can see how dark it is there yeah so weird so what what are you experiencing what is it is it cooler is it are you hearing different noises what have you got going on it's definitely cooler um there was some birds that freaked out for a second right when it started but yeah right now the cloud is moving away so we're about to see a lot more structure yeah I think it is is that a planet over there I think yeah it should be Jupiter and Venus I think so you can look up without your GL ah so you can see the planets there there should be four up there uh five actually [Music] right I see two though clearly okay oh yeah you can really I've heard from other people watching that there were two really easily view viewable yeah we're seeing um like streaks that are more than just the five o'clock but I don't know all around there's a lot the sun is an active place I'm not too surprised I do think I see the prominence that you were talking about if you look like really close to the edge there's like it's like a tiny bright spot yeah o00 yeah yeah yeah so cool I imagine plasma yeah I imagine that's probably Jupiter and Venus that you're seeing since they the bright up there yeah so I think yeah we're seeing Jupiter and Venus any sign of that Comet I'm looking I don't see it I don't think it's quite dark enough for me here that's okay uh yeah I've read somewhere someone was advising you can look for the comment for about two seconds and if you don't see it just yeah you got to look at the sun it's so cool oh yeah definitely definitely a little jealous that I'm not there for this part yeah I know you should be I I have someone someone saying that they don't see the eclipse on screen I'm gonna I'm just going to add your telescope and show them what they see which is nothing it's it's nothing like unfortunately with the solar filter once the sun is gone you you see nothing there's no light it was blocking out everything and now it's now the yeah uh Ariel can you can you give a glimpse of the the crowd around you oh yeah let me see if I can do that without knocking things over let's see let's see okay [Laughter] oh wow yeah yeah you've got quite a party up there there some people over here yeah I would definitely say you are you are over 30 people now yeah we definitely are now yeah oh okay it's starting to peek back through you could see on my uh telescope view now it's starting to peek back oh yep there it comes back it's coming back so solar solar eclipse glasses back on yeah people definitely want the sun to come back eventually we don't want to stay away yeah it was Co okay no no no tell what what's your impression I was just going to share um the the class that came here they brought an obsidian Rock uh because that's how they used to view the sun and the eclipse uh in ancient times in the Aztec culture and so we were looking through an obsidian Rock instead of our glasses earlier and it was really awesome it gives you a similar effect but so it's been really fun with this crowd here to view the eclipse wow that is fantastic thank you thank you for for traveling and for doing this and for for chatting with us yeah all right well Ariel we're gonna let you go because H it's about time to go find Lauren in uh in Arkansas and then and then we're gonna jump over to Ryan so we've got okay keep the energy up keep the energy up all right have fun Ariel enjoy the the last bit of that thank you all right Lauren let's see here's Lauren's View and there's our Lauren hello Lauren hi I'm so excited it's G sorry I squeal when I'm excited but Ariel's was awesome I'm so looking forward to this it's getting like really here it's not quite dusk like it's it's something different obviously but we've got a a uh fire going and uh's see if I can pick this up there's people watching the alien is still here he hasn't blown up yet it's uh it's gonna be awesome well it's definitely getting close uh we just saw Ariel uh go through totality um so it looks like you've got a show in store in a few minutes based on seen I think the totality starts in maybe five minutes I believe so I'm my telescope because there's a really slight sliver of the sun left for it to track I'm it's almost it's almost doing perfectly but I'm making some small adjustments so that uh it stays centered on the sun um yeah it's it's definitely clear though um how how long is a totality going to be for you Lauren three minutes and 56 seconds which is like three times longer than the one that I've seen before so I'm really pumped and I heard you talking about the prominence what' you say around five o'clock yeah will definitely be looking at that as well but through eclipse glasses so I have a whole Fleet of eclipse glasses here well once not totality I can I can take my glasses off but yeah exactly once once totality in place you you shouldn't have a problem with that uh do you think um you could could take the solar filter off during totality since it's so long for you um I don't necessarily okay want to I don't know Tom Tom's my boss so I'm gonna ask Tom I'm not gonna do that on record uh I just feel like now is maybe not the time to experience expent and unfortunately it's so hard to test these things because of course we um we only have eclipses so often where we can test this kind of stuff so I think I'm G to leave it on so that that moment when the the Sun comes back I'll be fully safe to to keep observing that sounds like a good plan so um yeah if you if you if you really want to see totality you're going to have to and you're not in the path you're going to have to wait until some of these uh amazing pictures that people are taking get published so unfortunately it's just it's it's not a telescopy thing at that point so yeah it's like a it's a human experience these kinds of things always reminds me like why I became an astronomer because it's so wonderful to be able to see people gather together and just enjoy something with with strangers just with the human race you know it doesn't matter if you're observing it's a beautiful sight to see and then we all get to share that together so it's yeah it's not a telescope thing at that point it's like a it's a human experience uh thing I [Music] think how has the crowd picked up where you are um we've got oh my gosh I just looked back and it's so dark it's so wild they're all really excited we have some kids here too that are just really really excited to see it and we have some dogs um which is you know they've they've had a Clips glasses on which is maybe the cutest thing that I've ever seen which is really lovely um but yeah it's like a bunch of families a bunch of people staying at the RV park um and just people from all over so it's it's people are starting to gather at the same place now before they were kind of like observing all over the park and now they're all coming together for this wonderful moment it looks like you're you're mere seconds away now we just kind of sliver okay I'm going to start shouting oh my God okay we're one minute away one minute away totality is at 1 15 one local time my mother is also excited she says hello oh we are having a great time yes yes arear we've got like 30 seconds oh my God this is crazy whoa okay I gotta I'm gonna have to like move my chair out of the way so that I can go peek at the corona whoa don't do what I just did it's not don't do that put your glasses on to do that wow even though such a tiny little bit is it's still actually bright to the eye that's yeah it bright the sun is yeah let this be a warning to everyone I just get so pumped okay so it looks like oh my God still still a sliver still a sliver oh it's going I can really see it getting dark where you are and oh my God it's gone it just went dark oh my God oh my God we can see the planets this is amazing yes you can take your glasses off sorry I I have to tell people they can take their glasses off it looks like Sunset there oh my gosh no you can take a picture it's wow that is absolutely incredible oh my gosh let me see hold on do you takeing it with oh oh you can actually see like the hole in the Middle with wow oh my God y'all this is incredible that is really cool thank you Lauren yeah wow that is couple planets yeah yeah I feel like I have to whisper because it's so beautiful I think that's yeah that's Venus on the right Jupiter on the left that's that's better that was an alien sorry everyone everyone is super excited so you're just on my computer audio you get to hear it all that's fine it's nice to hear the crowd that is really amazing oh my God I see the prominence y'all that is amazing look at like 5 to 7 o'clock on the sun you can see a prominence com a prominence a comet I mean there is a com but I can't see it right now it's a prominence it's it's yeah yeah exactly wow this is so cool y this is just incredible I'm going to leave it on while it's still totality this is amazing yeah it's quite the view has has it gotten cooler for you colder oh yeah it's like 10 degrees cooler it's like it feels like it's it's nighttime um but I haven't really heard any animals making any reactions which is interesting the dogs seem fine but they're all with their humans so yeah wow wow that is you can't see anything with the glasses this is amazing y'all this is incredible so I think you've only got about a minute left so yeah we got a minute left all right y'all I'm G to log off so that I can enjoy the little tiny bit that I have left yeah you do that and H we will switch to Ryan in Bloomington Indiana thank you so much thank you I'll see y'all later bye bye all right now we have Ryan Ryan my other partner in crime you are in Bloomington Indiana I am so we are at the point now that other people have mentioned I'm a little upset with for bring it up that it's starting to get darker but in a weird way that you weren't used to where it's not like Sunset is happening and shadows are long and colors are starting to get muted it's like somebody has taken the brightness dial and just turned it down a littleit right it's a little hard to hear you can you either move closer or change your mic yeah yeah you're very you're very muffled like you're talking through something yes so that's problem of having my airpods in it defaults to those can you hear me now okay excellent yeah so uh we're at the point right now that other people have mentioned um where it's starting to get darker H but it's not like Sunset and where the Shadows get long and the colors start to uh kind of change you get a little more orange and purple it's like someone has just taken the brightness volume on something and turned it down ever so slightly it's a very surreal experience um so right now I am on my balcony They Are Up on the Roof having a party um but I needed the Wi-Fi for this and in Bloomington we've got people all over I've been hearing cheers uh so the town is really getting into it it's awesome that's really cool I I I'm gonna I'm gonna take your your view of um oh which uh which uh telescope do you have up so I have an odyssey actually I'll just show I'm sitting out here with my wonderful mother uh but there is the Odyssey and a little cat that is also hanging out so yeah girl I brought out the Odyssey um just for this uh front gave me the okay to use uh the fancy Odyssey uh for for this event I'm very excited it's first time I've gotten to use it on a solar eclipse and and Frank says to say hi to your mom from all of us I will think about it she's tuning into this so she's aware now all right I'm gonna I'm going to take your view down for just a second because Ariel and Michael have been sharing some photos um so Ariel has sh shared this with us so from totality so you can really see the corona um and uh this was taken by Tyler and uh you can see the glare of that that prominence uh coming down from there so this is it's pretty neat and I know Michael was also taking some photos um and Michael I'm gonna I'm GNA share your photos I'm warning you so there's there's one right before and you can see there's he's got some during totality that he took with his SLR so yeah CLS just how lucky is it that it's the forecast for L for Texas has been so bad and then right at the moment of totality for Dallas they get that clear clear that is great look you can really see that prominence at the 5:00 position just like flaring out there a little bit that is perfect so you know the clouds kind of help with that actually yeah they highlight it let me get Michael on here we go hi Michael hey folks sorry it's been hectic over here I bet but uh but yeah I I I I ducked away from the Scopes and and went out to the backyard to eyeball things and brought my my camera with me and uh um I'll tell you is bad as the weather's been here as far as we've been like 80 to 90% cover it was like it was I I don't know a Mira it was almost miraculous right before the totality hit the clouds thinned down and we got we got over at least two out of the three minutes we were supposed to get of of clear you know either totality that was clear or or kind of like highlighted with these these these these high level wispy clouds instead of the lower level ones that were blocking everything and it it was it was remarkable it it I've never you know this is one of those things you study it all your life you've been interested in it all your life you've seen pictures like this since you were you you were This Tall you know of these things and it doesn't prepare you you know it it it was just it it was you know I mean because it was also weird to hear I mean the birds got quiet and you the sky got dark and you started seeing some stars coming out and and through the patches that we could get but the fact that the you could I I hadn't realized just how Dynamic the Corona is while you're watching it I mean you see this movement in it and then we saw there's a some of my pictures you can see it a little bit here in the one that's on the screen there's that what looks like a prominence down in the around the five o'clock position and once again this it wasn't this steady Rock Steady thing it was a it had a lively new to it that you're just I know you're not used to seeing when it comes to you when you look at the sky what's often what defines it is a Stillness you know things change but they change slowly you know and to actually see the Sun as this this Dynamic living thing is um I know is a is is a remarkable event it really is yeah I'm sure and it's I can with you guys as soon as I uh I'm I'm busy messing around well you can see on my screen here I was busy slurping it out of my SLR and sending it up to here and sending it over there and I'll I'll get them cleaned up and they'll look a lot better we'll definitely we definitely be caring some of those out Michael thank you so much um enjoy uh going through all of those photographs and thank you for your your post totality Impressions too that's great it was it was a blast I hope I I best of which luck to everybody who's on the rest of the track and folks that are still looking forward it's a it's a it's an amazing event all right well thank you again Michael and we'll we'll be talking to you soon I'm sure okay take care back to Ryan I just yeah want to note that what Mike was talking about with those features that those structures coming off the edge of the sun even though they look small because the sun's so far away those are those features are many times the width of the earth they are huge enormous coming off the surface of the Sun and so it's they look small and width being fragile but they are violent and and enormous yeah it's really it's one of those things that you can easily take for granted um just because the sun's so far away it's hard to really capture the size of of what we're seeing yeah you're getting pretty close there Ryan four minutes what do you think yes so it's supposed to start at 20451 my time or I guess 30451 my time um and so yeah we're we're about three minutes out from that uh it's starting to get darker now uh we're really getting to the point where I almost feel like I can visibly see the change the camera is not probably not sensitive enough to pick it up but I feel like I can actually see it getting darker actually if anybody was looking I was covering the sun because I thought I saw out the corner of my eyes some clouds and I was really hoping that that wasn't going to be a problem no it's just dark it's darker than normal and I keep looking at a blue sky and thinking it looks like gray clouds um yeah so it's so it's so surreal I I like how that's that's been sort of like the the the theme holding all of the comments I've heard from all of you together is that you know it it it's getting dark but it's not like a it's not a normal dark it's a weird strange surreal dark that doesn't feel right yeah that's exactly it it's just it's not like anything that you ever experience in day-to-day life um and it's it's really it it it feels like a very a privilege to kind of be here and experiencing this moment so uh Ron who is in Louisiana he's one of our our loyal followers and and loyal Watchers says that he's in Central Louisiana and it is 90% coverage um it is darker and cooler and the wind is picked up and the swallows that usually come out around Sunset are flying around the skies looking for insects so I mean even even at 90% coverage you know you you still get these these amazing changes that happen yeah yeah it's amazing the uh the amount that you know even 10% is still bright enough to see but it's it's enough that you can notice for sure yeah I've heard some interesting things about the animal behavior uh you know I don't know if it's the right season for it but fireflies coming out and lighting up because they it's they think it's evening Bears or cow no not Bears cows going in to sleep uh when they when totality starts um four minutes later like that's the shortest night we've ever had yeah you don't have any cows on that balcony do you Ryan no there are two cats here uh and we were warn warned beforehand that they usually get fed in the evening when it the sun is set and so the way they let people know is by biting things that uh you normally don't want bitten so like your hand or a book you've been reading so they may end up trying to do that because they think it's time to eat so we'll see please keep us updated now I am on the edge of my seat yeah now I I need to know that's the reason okay yeah I wasn't excited until now but now I am now now now there's now there's cats involved and so you know you've got you've got my attention for sure they're so cute I've known them for years uh I love these two cats cie and Punky so shout out to them um for they're the real heroes on this balcony your camera is getting visibly darker now as we're hitting the point where it is I like keep squinting expecting that you know I I don't something feels really wrong it's almost night time it feels like uh people I don't know if you can hear them are screaming uh cheering mom over here has said that she hears a planet she sees a planet I hear her saying that um we are moments away I actually see it too it looks like that might be Venus um and I think we're I think we're hitting it yeah you're good you're good okay so I want to impress upon people I have been given permission to do this um oh my boss has said I can remove the solar filter as long as I'm very careful with the timing I want to tell people who maybe are doing this with their own telescopes I don't know what's going to happen and it's only because we want to see do not try this at home please all right about to take it off I am a professional astronomer and oh interesting telescope's gonna adjust it's gonna adjust its brightness right right oh my gosh oh wow you can see that on the edge wow oh look at it look at oh wow look at the prominences that you can see I know oh it I I wonder if I have to I wonder if I can maybe manually adjust uh the settings I'm afraid to touch it because I don't want to make it worse but I feel like manually adjusting it could maybe get a a better view uh I just got to say I think I can actually see some of the pink of the chromosphere um which I I was I was here for the 2017 Eclipse I never saw that before I think that might be the prominence actually um let me see if I can scroll the camera of the eeve scope down so that everyone else can see what I am seeing because it's just off the screen it looks like um this is a once in a-lifetime experience like it is this is an experience that I say if you can ever get to a uh full solar eclipse Do It um yeah it's telling me object not detected uh so it doesn't know that it is looking at the sun anymore because it is so faint compared to what it's expecting so look at that we have two beautiful prominences I think there's the one at five o'clock and it looks like they're one one at 6:30 all right you got you got less than two minutes Ryan just we don't want to um melt I don't wna I don't want to destroy the eeve scope but this is such a cool thing um thank you frog for for giving me the go-ahead to try this um make sure to save that image on your phone right before you uh go away excellent point yes I am going to do that um saving now minute 45 I'm getting the countdown from Fran in the background yeah he's I feel like I I get I asked and I I knew I was like this is gonna be this is gonna be a nailbiter for him don't worry frog it's going back on now pictures have been saved so now that's a twofer guys that uh everyone who's tuning in you saw a uh full solar eclipse through an eeve scope and we've never done that before with uh with an eeve scope so that's a first that that was incredible that was beyond what I thought it would do I know it's so amazing how dark it is for you still right now it's like nighttime um that's what I kept telling people uh is when they were asking me what what is it going to be like how will I know when I can look at the sun without glasses the only thing I really say is like you'll you'll know um it's it is instant in terms of the lights go out and it feels like nighttime it looks like nighttime um that's I was wonder if I can turn my brightness up so you can see me a little bit better um it is it is just one of those things that when you experience it you'll know you'll know what's [Laughter] happening incredible gosh I'm wondering if I can I I have no idea if this is gonna work out let me see if I can so H yeah you can't get a good view of it but I mean you can see off in the distance it's like Twilight the edge of the Shadow happening um I think the last time when I was in the 17 one we were on a big hill and I had a massive view uh in all directions I could see the sky turning pink oh and here we go it's coming back all right what what an experience I this is this is probably my favorite part about astronomy is there's really not a whole lot of instances like this that can bring everyone together um because astronomy feels like um unless you're into it it can feel like a field that's far removed from everyday life and this is this is the event this is the event that really kind of puts everyone on the same page of how small we are and how much is out there beyond the Earth it's it's stunning and your your view is still amazing and thank you so much for thank you Frank and and Ryan for for allowing us to see the the the actual without through the telescope I mean like I I have no words I have no words um Ian are you there there's [Music] Ian sounds so so I know I know we can't I know we can't uh I'm gonna take this down I know we can't quite we're not talking to Ian but you can see it getting dark there yeah I do so Ian Ian is moments away from totality himself and you can hear the crowd wow that's amazing yeah w wow this this is unreal TR can you hear us Ian no I'm gonna guess that's a no I don't think so so is he he's in Dayton Ohio so he's Northeast of you ran yeah he like moments moments later he'll hit totality so he's not that far along but yeah yeah they're still they're still using they're still using eclipse glasses but you can see how dark it has gotten it looks like they're about one minute out from to I think they're they're at point where it was getting really really dark and you could tell it was about to happen but you still okay now you hear us yeah I can hear yall it right back all right all right well we're gonna we're gonna keep looking because it's still kind of amazing oh right now it's not [Music] she really she really wants to see it through the telescope and that's not going to happen right now okay hey I can hear you all all right wow this is this is unreal yeah those planets just pop out right at you along ecliptic it's wild and uh you make sure you take a look and see the prominences we've seen at least two uh one towards 56 and one towards the top so and I think we've lost him it is so I'm sure everybody is trying to stream and trying to take pictures he's just really good at doing a freeze frame yeah yeah there we go yeah did you see the prominences Ian yeah yeah yeah that's awesome okay good oh wow just like that light has returned great awesome w wow wow y'all yeah that's dating yeah you guys are you're closer to the edge of the the totality Shadow so that was a shorter uh totell than we saw with Ryan which was really quite long all right we're try and get back centered again all right there's here's here's Ryan's view now so we're coming out there um so again Ryan is Bloomington Indiana and had a very long totality All Things Considered Ian is in Dayton and had a very short one but still amazing from the sounds of it and a huge crowd it is the benefits of being on a relatively isolated balcony is that uh people can't like come up and ask questions while you're on live stream I I would love that to actually be there to answer people's questions but well Ian we'll we'll let you get back to talking to people because it looks like you have a crowd and and so go enjoy the day have fun all right I just wanna I just want to check in uh Ariel is still uh showing hers before we uh jump to amori amori uh and uh you can see this really late stage here where it's very very moving off so it's it's pretty neat um let's bring in hello amori you're muted just so you know before you try and say something there we go hi can you hear me everybody yeah we can uh very stylish very stylish how's it going uh well the clouds are still here uh we it's incredible how the internet knows it knows when we want to talk to someone it does it does it is it is oh can you hear me yes the stream okay cool yeah the crowd is kind of reacting every time there is a hole in the cloud and we can see the moon getting cler and cler to covering the whole sun it's pretty cool H yeah and uh yeah outside it's getting darker and uh it's very fun it's very fun to see nice so you're our last chance here uh for totality I think yeah do not have High Hope on this uh to to see 3 is totality in my location but uh yeah the the the effect of getting everything dark is really amazing and it's also getting a bit colder as you can see and what's what's the what's the reaction of everybody around you uh well as I said every time there is a h you can hear the crowd going oh wow amazing and this kind of stuff so yeah oh it's really close maybe three minutes to totality now uh maybe I can share the crowd with you um uh let see I can Ryan thank you so much for for being here for for doing totality did the cats fight you at all they did not they didn't even come outside it's like they didn't care about the eclipse I don't understand cult shocking cat so I'm going to go and shmoo and let people know about what they just saw and also answer some questions as well but thank you so much for having me and thank you so much for hosting this I know it was a lot of work put together it but it's been worth it absolutely worth it so safe travels back and have a good rest of the trip thank by Ryan's mom byy all right I'm wor showing off the crowd a bit since we can't really see anything else oh wow yeah everything is out everybody is outside uh the buildings right now everybody is looking that direction cuz the Sun and you have kind of the sun setting all around it's very fun we have everybody is having their setup to try to photograph and capture the event pretty amazing just the clouds are are here too but that's fine that's all right yeah I hope uh I hope they cancel some classes for this I know a lot of places that were rearranging their schedules there were professional baseball games getting rescheduled lots of things people worked around this event yes uh people told me that it was uh depending on the professor to set decision free for the eclipse but uh yeah I think everybody's out there now this see I mean once in a lifetime opportunity almost so it's pretty fun yeah absolutely take advantage while you can this will be to totality here getting darker every second I don't know if you can notice on the camera but no we we absolutely can see that it's getting darker maybe you can yeah it's completely covered the sun that's right about in about 5 Seconds 2 one there and we just hit the T it is it is yeah that is wild how dark that is it looks like night suddenly yeah yeah the phone camera adjusted pretty well but you can see how much brighter the lights of the building look now compared to what they look like before o00 that's amazing I I would have to check on the plants and the animal we had for the experiments around uh I would check the the results of that uh I hope the plants reacted and close their leaves as they they expected yeah I'm really curious about that I do want to know what they saw with those plants I'm I'm sad for the cloud cover but at least you're getting the rest of the effect yeah so here we are scheduled to about 3 to 4 minutes of total and so we should see in 2 minutes the sun rising up again it's a shame because there are some holes over there in the clouds but not in the right spot it's always the way it is this is an astronomer's life yeah I'm still I'm still excited we got super great views from from Texas because that was not was not looking good last week when we were talking about it so I should have chosen my destination more carefully maybe in Mexico the sand over there looks great the grass is always greener on the other side the sky is always clearer on the other side you can only take your best guess oh it does really look dark there hopefully people who are driving are driving carefully paying attention to the road instead of the as you can see the the stop the buses and everything uh just for the eclipse maybe it's for security maybe for people to kind of witness the event I don't really know I think uh Canada decare like a emergency State just for the eclipse so yeah hopefully there are no real emergencies I don't know if you can see the back over there but it looks so beautiful in real life yeah yeah it really does it does look like a sunset or a sunrise over there that definitely definitely has this like strange Twilight effect where it's not like real Twilight it's it's so weird I have to I'm gonna have to travel for a for cl all right so now the sun yeah the sun should be back up it started right now oh yeah all right well amori thank you so much I I'm sorry that you didn't actually get to see like the Sun but I'm glad that you got to see all of the effects and you let me know what happens with the plants I'm very curious yeah for sure I'll let you know all right fantastic all right thank you again and uh we're going to switch to uh Athena welcome in here we go Athena hello how are you Beth hello Tom hi Athena is in in Dallas and and we're just we're we want to talk to you and find out you know how was the eclipse where you were well it was pretty incredible a lot of clouds so that kind of changed the coloring a little bit I've noticed I'm not sure if you've had anyone else hop on here but I think it just confused my telescope a little bit trying to find it and then stay focused um but it was awesome I mean even with some clouds uh we were still able to capture that moment um of seeing the corona I got some really really cool stuff on um yeah on on my telescope and on the iPad I also streamed it to my computer as well um and it was it was cool I'm in the woods so I heard a lot of an animal sounds I mean it was it was awesome so so you are you are coming to us live from your getaway cabin in Dallas Texas I understand yep that is my cabin right here uh it's actually really cool because you can see there's Wheels it's so it's kind of like a trailer um and it is super super cool yeah there's a whole bunch of them so there's a whole community of people with their telescopes also watching the eclipse at the same time oh that's really neat and uh so how long was totality from from your location it was only about a minute and a half I think the total was like a minute and 40ish seconds is what I remember um that I looked up but yeah it wasn't long it was not long it was as soon as it got like pretty dark and and you noticed it was getting really really dark um and got to enjoy it all of a sudden it started to get a little bright again so not super long but still just as cool and and did your live stream go well it did yes yep went live on Instagram had uh two cameras going and then the telescope um was mainly sharing just like this kind of with the iPad would flip the camera around uh but it went well had a lot of people viewing from around the world who were not able to see the eclipse in person so that was that was very exciting to know that um yeah they got to sort of watch it from my neck of the woods literally awesome yeah how's everything going with you guys in the Stream oh it's it's it's been great honestly we've we've had amazing views um Texas even you know to the extent that that yeah you've had some clouds in Dallas we've had people in Dallas and Austin um but we got great views from both places we got a great view from Arkansas um not so great views from Canada but you know got to see the the totality darkness of it so it was it's been really amazing I'm suddenly deeply deeply envious of everybody who has was in the path so oh no you didn't travel I see it say San Jose California so yeah someone someone had to and run the show man that's true that's true yeah we thank you for your sacrifice so so Athena I have to ask you were with us during the annular eclipse live stream in October what what's the difference here you did both yeah big big difference I mean what I think I probably enjoyed the most was especially with the clouds um every now and then I flip my my camera around my iPhone camera and I put my glasses on even though I did have another filter for another iPhone camera but when I flipped that around there was a moment where I just was a little bit delayed putting the the um glasses on and through the clouds you could see just like it looked like a black Sun I mean it was like the dark moon right in front and then the corona behind it um which I was able to capture on my telescope and I was able to see it through my glasses but just that kind of accidental moment that happened where like my iPhone lens thank you so much for surviving uh caught the eclipse without a solar filter which no I do not recommend do not do that it will damage your lens as well close your eyes um it caught a brief moment and I was like oh my gosh this just looks insane so very different than uh the annual Eclipse where I wasn't even in the path of annularity so I couldn't even see the ring of fire um so this was really a wonderful experience to be able to to witness this compared to the annular Eclipse so uh things have uh kind of changed for you a little bit since you did our anur Eclipse so you're you're now on a t show communicating about science yeah so I've been on um a couple shows in the past but I have this really fun fun new segment on CBS Mission Unstoppable um which is all about stem and helping kids get more involved in stem helping encourage young girls pursue stem and I have a segment on there called Astro Athena um and we talk about different things they're quick two-minute segments um one of them is about space tourism another one is really really kind of just tips of how to stargaze that I've learned over the years of really growing up in a light polluted city and being now somewhere where I actually have a lot of stars in the night sky actually out here such a great location for stargazing I imaged some incredible stuff last night on unistellar um on my um Equinox I caught so many amazing beautiful pictures so um yeah so so I'm on that showed out I talked about space you know why not love this stuff and uh got very forunate feel very lucky to um to be to be on the show it's hosted by Miranda Cosgrove so I grew up being like her number one fan watching I Carly and Drake and Josh so it's a really awesome awesome thing to sort of yeah to to be working it's it's a really it's a really cool show I've I've uh I've done a live stream with them before so it's they're really fun that's a great great bunch of people um congratulations on that are you I understand you are also uh working on an astronomy degree yes yes I am attending Arizona State University online um and they have a wonderful online opportunity you could get a bachelor's degree in astronomy and planetary science um and actually the class that I did this semester um uh with Professor Karen nman she is incredible it actually is a how to communicate astronomy and planetary science class so we've like learned how to create our own podcast we've like learned how to make science videos and I'm like this is right at my alley this is so awesome uh so it's all about how to be a science Communicator uh and it's been such a wonderful experience so so being that you are now a science communicator and and actively doing all of these things um what would you tell people who want to go into astronomy whether they want to do it as a hobby or as a career what what piece of advice would you give what encouragement would you give um I guess number one is like just do as much backyard astronomy as possible um because like I think there was a really long time where I wasn't I didn't have a telescope I wasn't outside at night just like observing the stars and that reconnection every time I go out and do that and we be out for like 20 minutes to three hours um just like yeah further reinforces my love for astronomy space exploration and communicating all of it um so I'd say whether you're going into it as a hobby or you're going into it professionally continually um get outside and do your own observing in your own backyard get a telescope like a unistellar equinox or Odyssey and um it's just such a wonderful way to just yeah be able to learn also um about the cosmos you could learn so much um and there's like a whole opportunity to do citizen science and that's such a wonderful thing too because if you're in the hobby section of it for your life and you want to kind of move into a career section for your life know I'm saying sections but you know what I mean um if you want to move into really pursuing it as a career to do it as as a hobby and as like you know just passion uh it's only going to help reinforce doing it um yeah as a career whether you go do research uh or do communication on TV so I would say yeah both both of those and then find Community which again I mean you know Unis seller has a whole Community with Ste so it's it's so incredible seti Institute absolutely love it go to conferences go to museums volunteer those were some of the first things that I did to learn how to really communicate to the public so um I would yeah would recommend those those few things and I hope it helps all right well Athena thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy day and to to join us and talk to us and uh enjoy the rest of your time uh looking at the stars tonight and getting more more pictures and as always uh follow uh Athena on at Astro Athens pretty much everywhere so Tik Tock insta uh Twitter whatever it's called this this week and uh she's amazing science oh well thank you so much Beth thank you to Tom thank you to the whole community that are on here um yeah without you guys we we wouldn't be able to form such a a powerful powerful Community here so thank you so much enjoy the rest of the eclipse there's still some left we do all right thank you atha by all right really quickly uh we have air caspy coming on who is a researcher but uh Fran has a friend with him right now now uh Frank who is your friend hi yeah I have a special guest with me today hi what's your name Matthew Matthew yes Matthew so you came here to see the eclipse yes I came here to see the eclipse uh and I took a a really good picture of it and I and I'd like to share it okay Show us the picture Okay absolutely let's go so you need to show it here oh wow that is amaz wow good job Matthew that's excellent what did you think about the eclipse I thought it was like a once in a-lifetime thing and I would probably never see this for like another thousand years so I took my chance and took the picture while I could did you did you send a picture to someone yes I sent it to my grandma my mom and my dad good well we have good work good work and did you how did how was the eclipse did you enjoy are you yes I I enjoyed it a lot oh goodw did you freak out a b yeah I was like why is it getting all dark of a sudden is it getting dark all a sudden all thank you Matthew thank you for coming was nice all take your fun back because I don't want to leave in your fun thank you again all right well thank you Frank I'll have you back in a couple minutes I'm gonna with the air right now so thank you see you all right Amir welcome in Hi how are you doing thanks for having me thanks for being here Amir um tell us who you are and what you do sorry I'm just adjusting my camera here uh I am Amir caspy I'm a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder Colorado um I didn't put my par parenthetical location because I work in Boulder but today I'm in Dallas Texas in the cotton which you can see behind me where we just about uh however long ago it was now half a almost an hour ago experienced uh the total solar eclipse and I have to tell you it was touch and go all morning uh but uh but it came through the clouds parted and we saw totality for about three three and a half minutes here fantastic I'm gonna I'm just going to pull up Ariel is still sharing her screen and so this is this is the current view from Dallas Texas from her rooftop so there is still partial eclipse happening where you are that's right yeah people uh people have are starting to go away now uh you know a lot of people uh don't don't look at the partial after totality but it's still something fun to look at the Moon is still covering the sun uh and uh it's still an amazing site so you you got to see totality so the clouds gave you a break indeed it was overcast basically the entire morning uh the sun peaked in and out of clouds but about half an hour before totality we were able to get a break long enough to align our telescope which you see back there somewhere uh and uh and then uh we managed to uh to get on totality we started taking data even though there was a cloud that literally came in 10 seconds before totality uh but it was a small one it was a little baby cloud and it moved away uh and we got over three minutes of totality it was amazing cloud free for those three minutes uh you could see really bright prominences uh red you know those red Loops that appear above the solar limb uh that is material from the solar surface that's bubbled up uh and those are really easy to see with your naked eye and of course you saw that that crownlike structure the corona which uh you can't see at any other time it was really a unique experience so what are some of the efforts that you've led to observe today's Eclipse you're working on a couple different projects uh what are they and and what are they doing yeah so I was uh basically monitoring two different experiments today uh the first one is what you see behind me this uh telescope right here behind my thumb uh is one of the Outreach stations for the citizen Kate 2024 experiment which is a distributed citizen science or participatory science experiment where we had 35 teams of amateurs volunteers uh students ranging from middle school to graduate school Educators professors uh Engineers retirees people who are not professional scientists uh they were outfitted with 35 of these stations identical telescopes cameras mounts and uh computers we gave them training and so as totality uh swept over every one of them in fact uh it's still sweeping over a few of them right now uh up in uh in Northern New England I believe uh then uh they're able to make observations of totality in exactly the same way and uh after the fact we're going to take all of these data and put them together to make hopefully a on hourong movie of totality maybe punctuated by a few clouds here and there uh the second experiment I was monitoring on my computer right back there uh NASA flew two WB 57 jets these are jets from the 1950s that have outfitted with really long Wings they can fly at altitudes of 50,000 ft or higher basically higher than any commercial uh Jet and uh they were outfitted with special telescopes in the nose cones my experiment was on one of the aircraft uh an instrument called Sammy it was built by NASA Langley Research Center uh from the scifly team there and it's a suite of infrared telescopes and visible light telescopes mounted in the nose cones so that we could actually take uh data on the solar Corona in the infrared wavelengths that we cannot see from the ground because the atmosphere blocks and absorbs and also emits in those wavelengths we have to be up in the air at 50,000 feet to make those observations uh the other experiments were from the University of Hawaii and Virginia Tech University also studying the Corona and Earth's ionosphere uh the ionic ionized region uh in Earth's upper atmosphere to see how it responds to the eclipse wow uh super interesting um so so you mentioned the the infrared so these are kind of colors wavelengths of light that are longer more red than the eye can see right um so so what do you what do you think how should the sun look different in those other wavelengths than what we see in the visible range you know that's a very good question and one that it's actually very difficult to answer because there have been so few observations of the Sun in these particular infed wavelength ranges in the near infrared close to the visible light that we can see you can actually make observations from the ground relatively easily well easily uh as easily as you can make any solar observations from the ground uh but in the shortwave infrared a little bit longer more redder more infrared uh and uh uh and the midwave infrared which is uh the colors of light that you know you and I would glow in if we looked at ourselves with a thermal camera those you cannot see from the ground they're just blocked by the atmosphere the atmosphere also glows in those wavelengths so there have been very few observations of the Sun at those wavelengths of light uh the the most recent couple of uh of measurements were uh when we flew the WB 57s in 2017 uh and made an image in this midwave infrared region um and of course some of our colleagues from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for astrophysics are also flying infrared uh imagers and spectrometers on board the nsf's Gulf Stream 5 that's specially outfitted for science uh so before that I think there were only like one or two observations in all of history before that so it's really difficult to say what you want to see but uh it turns out uh the sun actually looks uh fairly similar to what you would expect except different things are bright than what you might expect okay so still learning still lots to learn there yeah absolutely uh it's it's really interesting to understand what the sun is doing in these infrared wavelengths because they could be really powerful scientific tools to do things make new measurements that we haven't been able to make uh so what we learned from this Eclipse uh both from ourselves and our colleagues uh we hopefully will be able to use that for not just future eclipses but hopefully future instruments that we can fly on balloons are in space to really make uh powerful observations for the future nice looking forward to it and out of out of curiosity how did you end up uh studying the sun rather than anything else and what what intrigued you about that what got you interested in doing solar astronomy as opposed to anything else yes so you know I actually grew up sort of wanting to do high energy astrophysics I wanted to study black holes and neutron stars and uh and I got interested in in viewing the X-ray Universe uh and when I got into graduate school my adviser at the time uh who was a solar x-ray Observer said hey you know what you can study the same physics that happens everywhere else in the universe you can see it right here at home and get a lot of light because the Sun is bright compared to for example all of the stars that are so far away or black holes that are far away so uh I got intrigued and I said you know what that sounds good and it it turns out that it was the best thing that I could have done because by learning about our sun we can learn about other stars we can learn about the same kinds of processes that happen around black holes and accretion discs and active Galactic nuclei uh we can learn about other Stellar systems and whether life could form around other Stellar systems uh and of course we learned about how the Sun affects our Stellar system that we happen to live in uh and it's important to know what the sun is doing because uh it's the source of all our our energy but it that also means that uh it can put out dangerous radiation that we need to know how to deal with as a space fairing Society well that that is really exciting and and I am I'm looking forward to the results of your experiments and and all of your observations so um thank you so much for joining us today to talk about it and and I know that you know this has been a very busy time for a lot of the solar astronomers so I'm so glad that we we we managed to find one that could talk to us about things I'm glad to be here thank you very much and I hope uh everyone got a great view either online or in person and uh the next one's in 2026 over Iceland and southern Europe so uh book your plane tickets all right I I think I I may I may just do that so soir thank you so much for joining us and have a great rest of the day and enjoy what's left of of the partial eclipse thank you so much thanks Amir all right well we are we are getting to the end of our three hours I don't know how this has happened um but uh I'm going to show I have really quickly I have an updated gift from Peter yenkin so this one's in color and you can really see that shadow moving across so um very very cool to see that one from space so there you go and uh so that's nice um so who all have we got that's available to come back on screen uh uh all right um okay let's see uh Lauren Ariel uh Fran anybody want to come back on to chat there's Lauren we'll grab her Frank's running back it is the end of the show there we go hello wrong how are you see you do the you do that thing and the balloons come up I what did you do how did you balloon like this oh my God she always find a way to make some weird things all it doesn't work for me I I don't know like I maybe that's a is that a built-in thing for streamyard I haven't seen that before that's weird okay no idea but I like [Laughter] it oh there's Ariel amori St either of you want to come back on too we can we can have all the peoples on now so yeah we still got a parcel here which which is awesome yeah for us there's Ryan wanted to spend some D on the roof so not sure there's Michael there was Michael so yeah Lauren Lauren still got a a partial eclipse run in here so does and Ariel's got I'll switch to Ariel really quickly Ariel's got a little tiny bit Yeah so but she also has a a a big screen so and there's Stefan hello Stefan hello birds are still super active birds are still super active so so Lauren you're calling dibs on Iceland huh did um the other so I Was preparing for the 2045 dibs on Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and caos 20ish years in advance so that I could go there but I just heard Amir talking about Iceland and I would like to call dips on that too just every single one basically yeah I think I I think I'll still be young enough to handle Iceland I don't I don't know about I could definitely be convinced to go to Iceland just mention before and I would love to go back I think best really need to to see one next the next so we are shipping we are sending best wherever we need to altica whatever she's going then she's gonna I have another friend who's like you have to go see one I will help fun this process I'm like all right I'll you know anybody wants to send me to to Iceland I'm in well the extra bonus with Iceland is you get a you have better about a better shot of seeing the Northern Lights than almost any place else so well Iceland is is definitely like when when I talk about the bucket list Iceland is number one so you know there's an ecse and Northern Lights and Iceland I'm in because you know the G the astronomy part of me gets satisfied that way and then the geology part of me gets Satisfied by the fact that you know it's the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the border between two plates and there are volcanoes so definitely on my bucket list it is an incredible place I wonder I I don't know the answer to this if you could see the Northern Lights during an eclipse I I don't know if they uh need the sun to be down low on the horizon or not but uh that would be amazing I okay A A new challenge we have a new challenge we have not done enough yet good new science questions to to answer uh Julia brawler thank you so much for the stars on Facebook always appreciated um and thank you of course everybody who has been watching and sticking with us for these last couple hours um absolutely fabulous job all of you oh my gosh thank you my there aren't enough words Frank Fran organizing this making the telescopes happen Lauren coordinating all of the all of these processes and and running a Google doc like a champ um thank you and scheduling um and of course you know Michael Ariel Stefan also to Ian oh there's amori I see you now you are here I'll add you as welli so thank you thank you everybody for for sharing your views good bad and different um it looks like you all enjoyed amori you answered my question in the background so did the plants close up unfortunately not they were supposed to close like this and they told me it was not cold enough and long enough because usually they close at night but like 3 minutes of totality is not long enough for them to close so they had this whole setup to monitor the temperature but yeah just didn't happen oh that's too we learned something right negative result is still a result exactly I also heard from some people who are watching the Eclipse kind of over a Hilltop that's over here that the deer started coming out when it started getting dark got really really confused and then totality ended and they were like oh no and and ran back out so and the bird started CH chirping as soon as totality ended maybe thinking that it was morning so it sounds like there was some some nature reactions uh that I just didn't happen to catch but no plants closing though that would have been super cool hello Ian thank you howdy howdy G G's pretty much all here now um so uh let's I'm gonna start with Lauren what was sort of like your highlight moment highlight moment oh man totality that was just incredible um being able to see the prominence but also um Ryan taking off the solar filter I was like that was absolutely incredible I was I texted him I was like I'm so proud of you I don't know why but it was just amazing it was so so cool to see that for the first time nobody else has seen that before we all got to experience that live with them so that was really awesome [Music] too uh Frank what about you how was your crowd has cleared out I see your your party has ended U what was what was the highlight for you uh probably the totality but frankly what I I'm going to remember for the rest of my life was was like seeing through the clouds the the protuberance that was that was something and um experiencing it for the second time it's you know what to expect so you take the time to uh to really enjoy it the first time I was really like oh my God we we're not going to see it I mean it was a people around it was very different this time because I knew what to expect I basically enjoy it and I admire and enjoy this moment without trying to overanalyze it that's what I will say so love it definitely thank you to my friend Rich and Dan for having us here yes thank you thank you to Fran's friends and for the setup for the the I mean the lovely branded mic the amazing camera work um that whole Forge for helping with the camera as well I mean yes thank you to Astro Forge um thank you to Star link for the the uh starlink dishes that we had and of course to unistellar for all of these amazing unistellar eveve Scopes equinoxes uh and and uh that we've had Odyssey thank you I was like I there's one more um some someone get me one anyway uh I'll just just leave that there uh all right uh Ariel what was the highlight for you you you had you had some some challenges there early on so how did how did it go I mean I think my highlights really kind of surround the challenges I was here with a group of friends who I was really excited to show the eclipse they hadn't seen one before and we had a lot of clouds in the morning and I was like I swear the eclipse is beautiful you're just G to have to go see it again another time but then it just cleared up and we got to see like all the structure we got to see the prominences um I don't know that happening and it happening kind of all of a sudden was a highlight for me and like them being able to see it was really cool and now we all want to see one right away we've been talking about 2026 one in Spain vacation time in Spain sounds good to me but I oh we're losing we're losing Ariel think her connection on her way to Spain she slept she's on her way she's heading out she's done well there you are am I yeah okay good yeah okay so that and then Ryan taking off the filter that was the best I wish I got to do that yeah yeah you gotta get you gotta get permission from the big boss so so so Michael how about you what oh well I mean I'll I'll Echo everybody on the totality but the uh the special part for for for myself and my family here was I mean the clouds have been miserable okay we we had an awful time uh it was 90% overcast I mean and dense overcast where most of the time I couldn't even tell where the sun was and then right after the time when totality was supposed to start started seeing this really thick Cloud just move out of the way and sure enough boom there blows through the whole the whole you know the totality with the Corona and it's you know it's moving it's scintillating and then you can see the promin around 5:00 on that it it was um it it you know there should have been you like waiting for like you the angels to be singing kind of moment you know what I mean it was you know just you know you know that that kind of unveil you know it it it just it just uh it just uh came out like that and it was really just amazing to say we we were we were all you know blown away it was it was uh we were like I we had been so pessimistic on how it was GNA go and to have to have it find the right three minutes you know was was just remarkable yeah that definitely that definitely made a difference I I know I know Lauren and I were discussing over the weekend contingency plans and you know who we who we go to When Things fall apart and break and you know it nothing nothing really did so I'm I'm very excited so I'm just gonna say one thing about the the weather because all week I've been fighting against that you go into an astronomical event it's rare it's something exceptional it's an opportunity you book your flight you go even if people tells you oh it's going to be stormy or whatever because that's what I got when I ared here in Austin but people were trying to push me to go somewhere else and to be driving erratically and maybe missing the entire experience just because of that so one piece of advice I'm gonna give to people and this is I what I learned with as an astronomer is you want to observe an asy event an Asal event you set a time you set what you plan everything like if is going to happen and you don't look at the weather pattern and you don't have this convers endless conversation about it because you never know weather is very unpredictable and that's that's the beauty of it so that's right well I said I sent you guys a big stack of uh of of pictures from totality so I hope hope people enjoy well and it was as as Steve triger said you know he he made the decision not to run away from Waco for the same reason you know Fran was mentioning is is you could end up loot you know running around not seeing anything and if you'd stayed put it would have been fine so it's it's like when you get lost in a store stop moving wait for the other person to find you um if you're both searching it's not GNA work Stefan the weather is still gorgeous there in Raleigh and I know you didn't have a total Clips but what was the highlight for you anyway yeah I I mean aside from Ryan taking the filter off um it was I I was positively surprised like I thought you know I wouldn't really get sort of this feeling of like something strange going is going on here right um but but you could still feel kind of the or see the light kind of dimming and like the birds literally like like it was evening for them so they just started going um now they're finally fting down again so it was it was still like even though I was only at 80% it was it was still pretty pretty great amori how about you I know you got you got clouded out but you still got the the effective totality so what was what was the highlight there yeah so because I I was cloudy that the whole event totality was not my high point my high point was when it first was the little hole in the cloud when we first saw a little bit of the sun covered by the moon totality yeah it was dark everywhere but the reaction we all got when we first see the moon covering just a little bit of the Sun that was my high for I'm I'm glad there was there was such a highlight since since and and since the plants didn't close and the the clouds didn't clear up you had to have something so I'm I'm happy for you Ian how about you you've you've been had a big crowd there oh yeah this was a great turnout and sorry can everybody hear me okay sorry about the mic issues earlier um but yeah yeah this was a very large turnout over here at Dayton Heritage uh just an amazing experience this was my first Total Eclipse still kind of processing it but it's a it was a very special experience I'm glad I got to share with everybody here well thank you thank you Ian for for joining us Frank you have Rich with you rich thank you ah no thank you that was awesome to help bring this uh to the world well thank you for for for making Fran look so good it was it was tough it was tough we have to work a lot on that see you guys thank you thank you P how about you was there anything any highlight for you you want to talk about uh I mean you know watching it from afar I think just the cooperation here to to have be able to combine the views and the experiences of so many different people from you know spread out some in remote places some in the middle of big groups um I think you know this is kind of where technology has gotten us now where we can share these kinds of experiences even if you can't physically go to the place I think so you know someone said something like 44 million people live along the the path of totality and maybe a hundred million had actually traveled there um but there's still billions of people who don't get to be near this uh so I think having this opportunity is is pretty amazing and then there's the corona with the filter off was just you know next level yeah I I don't think I'm going to have words for that I mean this has just been this has just been an amazing experience and I am so grateful to all of you for for helping me make this happen um to you know Lauren for helping organize all of you for for doing the thing Fran for making sure that everybody had things that they needed to have and for just having this great setup that's that's really awesome Fran you you still you look amazing and uh you know happy birthday to Frank and I we survived and uh thank you and uh you know this is this has been great and I have really enjoyed it and uh again I want to give uh shout outs to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for uh helping us uh fund this amazing program and making this happen um thank you to starlink for providing the starlink uh dishes for some of our people who are out there thank you to unistellar of course our partners in citizen science and also uh making sure everybody had telescopes that they could they could have to to go see all of this and thank you to the unistellar citizen science Community uh for for participating you guys you are all so amazing so thank you for for joining us and for traveling and for doing all of these things so and of course I have to thank our viewers from around the world it was a global audience I am so glad we could bring this to you for those of you who are not in the path of totality I hope we brought you a little bit of the magic of being there and uh as always we are 501c3 nonprofit so if you want to help us support all these programs you can head over to ste.org and uh drop us a few happy little pennies to help us uh keep funding these kinds of programs as well so thank you everybody for being here thank you everybody for watching and thank you to everybody who helped behind the scenes and who has been here I'm sure I forgot someone but it has been an amazing experience so from the bottom of my heart awesome thank you take care everybody than see

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