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Posted on 08/17/2017 7:46:43 AM PDT by Heartlander
Things get a little weird during an eclipse. Here are six things to look for.
While there are many superstitions about eclipses, there are also a lot of weird things that happen during an eclipse that are completely real -- and super cool. Here are six incredible things to look for during the eclipse on August 21.
"A totally eclipsed sun is 10,000 times fainter than one that is 99 percent covered by the moon," Meg Pickett, astrophysicist and a professor of physics at Lawrence University told CNET. The change in light during an eclipse makes the temperature drop suddenly, which makes animals think that night is coming.
As the total eclipse begins, animals begin their evening songs and behavior, such as crickets chirping. As the eclipse ends, the animals think that morning is coming. If you're in the country, you'll be able to hear roosters crow.
During the eclipse, the sky will get so dark that stars will look just as bright as they would during the evening. If you live close to the total eclipse zone, you'll even be able to see planets like Jupiter and Venus easily.
Right before a total eclipse, little snake-like shadows will appear to slither across the ground. According to NASA, scientists aren't completely sure why shadow bands happen. Many scientists believe that they are caused by light from the eclipse being focused and refocused through cells of air in the atmosphere.
Shadow bands are a rare sight during the eclipse, but you may be able to see them with the right equipment, timing and location. The most important part is the color of the ground. You can see the bands best on light colors. Some people lay a large white sheet on the ground. You may also spot them by looking at concrete, sand, snow or ice.
"In 2015, I saw the eclipse in Svalbard, just 800 miles from the North Pole," said Mark Bender, a longtime eclipse chaser who has followed eclipses from Norway to Australia, and also the director of CuriosityStream docu-series Eclipse Across America. "I was standing on a landscape covered with ice -- just like an enormous white sheet. And there they were! It's all about being at the right place at the right time."
Bailey's beads are pearls of sunlight shining through the valleys and mountains of the moon, explained Pickett. You'll see them around the edges of the moon as it passes over the sun.
"The beads may look reddish in color, exposing the upper atmosphere of the sun, the chromosphere, or 'Sphere of Color.,'" said Pickett.
Corona rainbows happens when the air is full of water molecules. "During the eclipse in 1999, I was watching in Cornwall, England," said Bender. "It was a completely overcast and rainy day. Leading up to the eclipse, you couldn't see the sun at all. Three minutes before totality, the sun started to peak though, and with one minute to go, clouds dissipated and the entire sky opened up. We lucked out, but the best was yet to come. Even though the rain had stopped, there was still so much water vapor in the air. When the sun eclipsed, the corona was full of tiny rainbows! Imagine seeing the stunning corona in full color! I have never seen that since, but anything is possible. You just don't know how it will play out."
During totality, or when the sun is completely covered by the moon, you can see a what looks like a sunset-- in every direction-- around the horizon.
When he was 15 in July 1963, NASA researcher and Dickinson College Professor of physics and astronomy Robert Boyle witnessed his first solar eclipse in Bangor, Maine. "When totality arrived, I was amazed at how dark it got," Boyle told CNET. "The silence that descended around us was as profound as it was unexpected. The birds stopped chirping. The air grew still. And all around the horizon where the clouds left a little gap of sky, there was a crimson band of light as if sunset was a 360-degree phenomenon."
The strange 360-sunset effect happens, Boyle says, because the sun is still shining outside the path of totality.
IOW, a normal day at my house proving once again there's nothing to get excited about. At least it get the Russia, Russia, Russia off the news.
Millennial-speak.
Bizarre
Awesome
Cool
Totally
Next week we’ll be reading stories about blindness.
Google the state, eclipse, and map. That worked for me. Can mouse click different places to get the time.
That’s amazing - I had never heard or thought of that.
Nature's pinhole camera! Gave me some great videos of a partial eclipse some time ago and without going blind!
Like watching the sun go dark in the middle of the day isn't bizarre enough. I'll be inside avoiding looking up. I did that whole pin hole in the box thing when I was 10 years old.
I examine near term (fewer than 50 days from today) prophecy in detail at “The Rescue of the Bride” http://october-5-2017.com
The gathering of believers who comprise The Great Multitude in White Robes (Revelation 7:9ff) will take place between September 5, 2017 and October 5, 2017. September 5, 2017 is the start of The Great Tribulation. October 5, 2017 is Sukkot, also known as the Festival of Tabernacles, also known as the Festival of Ingathering.
The Great Multitude in White Robes come out of The Great Tribulation (Revelation 7:14), so their gathering cannot occur before the start of The Great Tribulation (September 5, 2017).
The Great Multitude in White Robes will be in the throne room in heaven no later than the Festival of Ingathering on October 5, 2017. Look at what they are holding in their hands - palm branches! Palm branches are required for the Festival of Ingathering (Leviticus 23:40).
The Great Sign of the Woman appears on September 23, 2017 exactly at sunset in Jerusalem - exactly at the end of Rosh Ha Shanah, exactly at the time of the blowing of “the last trump.” [The two (2) day observance will start one day late this year.] This may be the “rescue/rapture” date. We see the first evidence that the “rescue/rapture” has occurred when “The Great Multitude in White Robes” [Revelation 7:9ff] appears in the throne room of Yahuah (God) twelve (12) days later just after the opening of the Sixth Seal on October 5, 2017. These events allow us to unlock the timeline of the Book of Revelation.
Thanks everyone who responded
Total solar eclipse 2017: 6 bizarre things that will happen
Number one will be, IT IS TRUMPS FAULT.
That’s what I’ve told my husband I’m going to do...watch what goes on around us...from our rooftop
“They are not bizarre things. They are 100% natural phenomena that occur infrequently.”
Well, everything in the real world is ‘bizarre” to a generation of miseducated snowflakes that spend most of their lives staring at little screens on smartphones...
OMG!!! Do You live near Downtown Mooresville, NC ?
I think that We have the same broken rooster!
All the Antifa crazees will run outside and begin to worship the moon which has the power to blacken the sun. They will stare at it in wondrous worship and then go blind.
Heading to central Nebraska to see the eclipse. One item off my bucket list
‘Zactly.
“Reason #7 Will Freak You Out!”
and
“Astronomers Hate Him!”
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