Don't Miss the Eclipse Shot!

So what exactly is happening during

a solar eclipse?

So the moon is directly in between us and the sun, and so it casts our shadow, and that creates the eclipse.

And so the path of totality is right where the earth is between the sun and the moon.

And I talked about it a little in my introduction, but can you say a bit more about why eclipses are only visible in certain places and who has the best chance of seeing it? Like you said, you had to drive to Indianapolis or to Nebraska to see the eclipse.

Why couldn't you have just stayed in Minnesota and seen it?

Cause it's this fine line that like the sun cast a shadow with from it's like earth shadow on the moon.

And so if you're not in this specific little path, you might see like a partial eclipse, but you're not going to see full totality.

So I guess all of that is because the earth actually is round despite the flat earthers belief.

And so therefore it's not going to look the same if you're in different places around the globe.

Okay.

And if you're on the center line, you'll get more time in full totality.

But if you're outside of that path, you'll see like a partial eclipse, which is kind of like other areas are experiencing.

And full totality just means that the moon is fully blocking the sun.

Is that right? Yeah.

So with full totality, I've seen pictures where you have the moon blocking the sun, but you have sort of, as we'd call it in photography, rim lighting, where the lighting of the sun has like a ring around the outside of the moon.

Is that totality? Yeah.

yeah

yep okay so you still see that rim of light during totality okay how much do weather and sky conditions matter like you talked about rain and clouds like what should you be watching for leading up to the event

you want it to be clear like um if it's not clear skies you're not going to see it kind of like with northern lights i think if there's some high clouds you'll be able to see it because that was the first year but if it's low clouds you're pretty much out of luck And then you basically spent all that time going to a place to not get what you came for.

And it's hard to predict because you're booking hotels like sometimes a year or more in advance.

And like you don't know what the weather conditions are going to be like.

You can sort of do all of that research to find a place where hopefully the weather is most likely to be clear.

But of course, you can never fully predict the weather.

I know the first guy I went to that kind of guided the Eclipse tour, he was on a cruise the last one, I think, because at least the cruise ship can go to where it's going to be queer.