WUWT will have live streaming video. Programming begins at noon EDT, and the main live show begins at 1 p.m. EDT om Monday August 21st. You can watch live in your web browser right here either in a window of full-screen in HD quality video. Since there are multiple live locations setup, you’ll be able to view totality many times.
Thus will be an unprecedented front row seat of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse via a live television broadcast, images and streaming video – provided by NASA.
The eclipse will cross the continental United States, from Oregon to South Carolina, over a span of almost two hours. People in the 14 states that lay in the coast-to-coast, 70-mile-wide path of totality will experience about two minutes of darkness in the middle of the day.
NASA will provide viewers around the world a wealth of images captured before, during, and after the eclipse by 11 spacecraft, at least three NASA aircraft, more than 50 high-altitude balloons, and potentially astronauts aboard the International Space Station – each offering a unique vantage point of the celestial event.
This, and much more, will be featured during NASA Television’s four-hour live broadcast, Eclipse Across America: Through the Eyes of NASA. In addition to video of the eclipse, the broadcast will take viewers to activities in national parks, libraries, stadiums, and museums across the nation.
Programming begins at noon EDT with a preview show hosted from Charleston, South Carolina.
The main show begins at 1 p.m. EDT and will cover the path of totality, featuring views from NASA research aircraft, high-altitude balloons, satellites and specially-modified telescopes. It also will include live reports from Charleston, as well as from Salem, Oregon; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Beatrice, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carbondale, Illinois; Hopkinsville, Kentucky; and Clarksville, Tennessee.
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It was interesting, but I’m happy I didn’t fly in for it. The silence is cool. Then, the sound of neighbors cheering when the sun came out kind of did that in.
Here, in northern Scotland (UK), it’s grey (gray) – heavy cloud – so we won’t see anything of it.
In Hopkinsville, Kentucky they took the cameras away when it got dark so we never saw any coverage on land during the period of totality.
Same in Charleston, they didn’t show the crowd during the total eclipse…
In MO, they did show the crowd when it was dark and you got a much better feel for what it was like.
I would have set up a camera on a hilltop where you knew the sky was going to be clear and showed a clear panorama of the earth and crowd viewing it…(it might have been CNN which showed the crowd in MO).
Lousy job by NASA. Just “watched” the eclipse in Charleston and they left the camera stopped down throughout totality so no one watching on TV could see the corona. In other locations, they showed the corona and a few prominences but nobody tried to explain what was being seen. For example, does the corona grow and shrink? Does it ever look different than today and if so, why? What are the prominences? Nobody learned anything from the junk NASA put out.
It started sprinkling here in SE Wisconsin for about ten minutes a few minutes after the peak of the eclipse. Either an eclipse-induced sprinkle or just a coincidence. Cloudy and muggy today.
Can the rate of temperature drop and rise during the eclipse tell us anything about CO2 sensitivity – comparing this eclipse with an earlier eclipse or are there simply too many other variables, e.g. time of day, cloud cover, starting temperature, etc.?
bernie1815
I cross posted this in another thread about the “racist” eclipse, but thought you’d like it:
“I had a PROUD momma moment today, I just had to share. As some of my neighbors gathered in my front yard today ( they saw us sitting out with our nifty unsafe glasses) we were pointing out things to an awestruck group of teens…like that their shadows on the ground were no longer sharp and focused but had a strange “blur” around them. As they noticed the temperature start to drop long before the max eclipse ( we got 90% totality) one of them snarked :
” Hey! Isn’t all that CO2 in our atmosphere supposed to be “trapping” (he air quoted) the heat? Why is it getting cooler then?”
My 14 year old daughter said “Maybe Antifa sucked them all out of the atmosphere because CO2 molecules only LIKE certain types of radiation. Racist particles!”
My husband and I burst out laughing right along with everyone else gathered. There IS hope !!”
Got about 90% coverage here in Cincinnati. Was still pretty cool. Sunlight was fairly dim compared to full output. Mainly viewed it with a pinhole camera.
Total eclipse missed my house – only 99% here, judging by insolation dropping to just below 3.5 w/m^2 when 440 is norm at time of day. Temp dropped 7 F during eclipse. Minimum temp lagged peak eclipse by 25 minutes. Clear skies, Approx. 45% RH, Elev 4240′ in central Or.
SR
I see weather stations in Bend, Or. recorded ave. 4 F drop during eclipse. Same weather, 99.5% totality, Elev. 3650′
SR
The temperature at our location (near Shreveport, La.) dropped 10 degrees F. The thermometer was uncalibrated, red alchohol, and was placed in direct sunlight in a cardboard box over grass.
It wasn’t perfect, but made for the easiest control of the variables. Immediately before any obscuration, the temperature of the thermometer was 100 F. As obscuration progressed, the direct sunlight temperature dropped to 90 F. There were some periods of passing clouds and the thermometer temperature would begin to rapidly drop, but we made observations during direct sunlight and no observable changes in the temperature.
I see today’s high fell 4-5 degrees short of the prediction. Looks like the national weather service did not make any allowance for the eclipse.
Of course, that prediction has disappeared as usual, with never a word of remorse for missing the mark.
SR
We observed a 3℉ temperature drop as the shadow passed over our location. We were abut 78% coverage at maximum.
Just out of curiosity I did a search for images of an eclipse at sunrise or sunset.
Some had me wish I’d been there to see it, with or without a camera.
You people had so much fun. We had clouds roll in just as the eclipse was starting and at totality (81% in my area) a massive thunder/rain storm began. Things cleared up an hour later.
Watched from Cadiz Ky, coolest thing I have ever seen. Space Shuttle night launch viewed from 13 miles away is now a distant 2nd. Was able to take some nice pictures with my iPhone thru my telescope.