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On April 8th during the total solar eclipse our family will be visiting my mom Shirley Vange in Van Buren Arkansas. The media has been telling people, "even in 99% totality, you will have missed the experience". I saw the eclipse in 2017 and it was amazing. And, up until that moment when you are looking through your eclipse glasses and looking at that last sliver of sun showing, it is just like all the partial eclipses you have ever seen, except for a smaller crescent shaped sun. But, in a matter of seconds, EVERYTHING changes!
This video captures how dramatic that difference between 99% and totality is. Ignore the first 10 seconds of sped up time-lapse, and watch from 10 sec. in the video when they stop at a stop light. You can tell things are a little different, but it's just like a cloudy day. But across the street people are looking up at the 99% eclipsed sun through their glasses, and then within the 30 seconds it takes for the light to turn green, everything changes! After a couple of minutes of driving through cheering groups of people in the evening, there's another transition back to daytime. Like all videos and camera's though, this video camera can't capture what it looks like when you look directly at that black disk in the sky with a faint halo of what looks like angel hair. It's too difficult for cameras to adjust to that dim lighting and capture what it really looks like.
Anybody thinking 95-99% will be fine, I'm not going to drive a few miles for a solar eclipse. PLEASE watch this video, to understand the difference a few miles will make. At least in Fort Chaffee (just barely 2 miles inside the shadow) there will be 1minute 8 seconds of darkness.
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