This NASA graphic shows the path of totality for the total solar eclipse of Dec. 14, 2020. (Image credit: NASA)
Posted on 12/11/2020 9:32:32 PM PST by ETL
This year's only total solar eclipse will cross South America on Monday (Dec. 14), and you can watch the spectacle unfold online thanks to a host of webcasts — no special safety glasses needed.
The broadcasts are particularly fortunate, given that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means eclipse-chasing is not safe this year.
The eclipse will begin at 8:33 a.m. EST (1333 GMT) and conclude at 1:53 p.m. EST (1853 GMT), with totality lasting at most 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
The narrow path of totality will cross from Saavedra, Chile, to Salina del Eje, Argentina; otherwise the total eclipse will cross over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
NASA will be broadcasting the eclipse, with camera views from Chile beginning at 9:40 a.m. EST (1440 GMT). At 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT), NASA will begin a narrated program for the event in Spanish. Both will be available to watch here at Space.com courtesy of NASA or directly through the agency's website.
This NASA graphic shows the path of totality for the total solar eclipse of Dec. 14, 2020. (Image credit: NASA)
The Slooh online observatory will also livestream the solar eclipse, with a star party beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT) and broadcast on the group's Facebook page. Coverage will end at 12:45 p.m. EST (1745 GMT).
Thanks to a partnership with the Institute of Astrophysics of Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Slooh will be sharing views from Volcán Villarrica, one of Chile's most active volcanoes. But this time, the activity will be coming from above, with narration by a host of astronomers and eclipse chasers.
Time and Date will also be broadcasting eclipse views throughout the event on their website beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT); the Virtual Telescope Project is also planning a livestream with details to be announced.
The next total solar eclipse will occur on Dec. 4, 2021 but will only be visible to a swath of Antarctica.
Visit Space.com on Dec. 14 for complete coverage of the only total solar eclipse of 2020.
I saw the 2017 total solar eclipse. It was a cloudless morning like everyone hoped. But like a fool, I spent the few precious seconds trying to focus my camera on it when I should have just been watching. I only got one zoomed in picture.
I’m gonna fly my Lear Jet to Nova Scotia.
I took my Sons to see it. Drove from Denver to the middle of Wyoming. It was awesome.
Warren Beatty?
I bet you think this post is about you!
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That’s great! Too bad you didn’t get to enjoy it as much as you could have.
I’m not sure if I ever saw one. Maybe once when I was very little.
Trouble is that the Nova Scotia eclipse was in July. Saratoga didn’t start racing until August.
ML/NJ
I thought it was the eclipse I saw at Va. Beach, Mar 7, 1970.
I did get some brief looks. The corona was the interesting thing, of course. And someone thought his drone could steal the show. Not really.
I didn't realize until afterward that those lyrics I posted above were so jumbled and truncated (on the right side).
Here they are again, in case anyone else is wondering what the heck we're talking about here...
The song was apparently a reference to Mick Jagger who she once dated.
This says Warren Beatty but basically WGAF
What says Warren Beatty?
And what is "WGAF"?
The song is a critical profile of a self-absorbed lover about whom Simon asserts “You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you.”
The title subject’s identity has long been a matter of speculation, with Simon stating that the song refers to three men, only one of whom she has named publicly, actor Warren Beatty.[5]
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Mick Jagger contributed uncredited backing vocals for the song. When asked how this collaboration occurred, [Carly] Simon said:
“He happened to call at the studio. ... I said “We’re doing some backup vocals on a song of mine, why don’t you come down and sing with us?”[32]
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References in the song
Gavotte—used in the line “You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte”—is a French dance. In this context it can be taken to mean moving in a pretentious manner.[33]
Simon said the line “clouds in my coffee” came “from an airplane flight that I took with Billy Mernit, who was my friend and piano player at the time. As I got my coffee, there were clouds outside the window of the airplane and you could see the reflection in the cup of coffee. Billy said to me, ‘Look at the clouds in your coffee’.”[34]
The line “I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won” refers to the Saratoga Race Course horse-racing season held in late July, August, and early September in Saratoga Springs, New York. The season is frequented by the rich and famous of New York and other East Coast cities.[35]
The line “Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun” could refer to either of two solar eclipses visible from Nova Scotia in the early 1970s, on March 7, 1970,[36] and July 10, 1972.[37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_So_Vain#References_in_the_song
Sorry for some reason the link didn’t post the first time:
https://www.biography.com/news/carly-simon-youre-so-vain-inspiration
I got to witness that total eclipse on Nantucket Island.
It doesn't work with an eclipse in March or an eclipse in July. The thoroughbred horses raced then up in Saratoga for only four weeks in August. (There are standardbred races in July and other months at a different, smaller, Saratoga track but only degenerates like me know about them.)
FTR:
Well I hear you went up to SaratogaFor this, you wouldn't need a jet at all to get from Saratoga to Nova Scotia. You could probably walk.
And your horse, naturally, won
Then you flew your jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
ML/NJ
I suspect something along those lines did happen. She just screwed up the chronology. I mean it wasn't as if Jagger needed the money he won at Saratoga in order to fly his private Lear Jet to Nova Scotia. The song does make it seem that way, though.
"Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun"
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