{"id":3130,"date":"2017-08-12T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2017-08-12T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:33:34","slug":"effects-during-a-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3130","title":{"rendered":"Effects during a solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/astromaven.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/weird-things-happen-with-total-solar_72.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visual anomolies that you&#8217;ll see near a total eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just before\/after totallity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eclipse shadows<\/span> &#8211; Long before totality (when the moon is only covering part of the sun\u2019s face), go to a nearby tree and look in the shade of the tree\u2019s shadow.\u00a0\u00a0You will see\u00a0hundreds\u00a0of crescent images of the partially covered sun all over the ground.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shadow bands<\/span> &#8211; Anywhere from 60 to 90 seconds before totality or just after totality ends, closely look at any flat light-colored or white surfaces around you. Dark lines called\u00a0shadow bands\u00a0may be seen racing back and forth across the surfaces.\u00a0\u00a0These shadowy lines are supposedly caused by sunlight peeking around mountains and through valleys around the outer rim of the moon, while turbulence in the air makes them appear to shift position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f_XMnU7Ad40\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At totality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The air will instantly chill<\/span> &#8211; As soon as the moon entirely covers the sun and causes the sky to completely blacken, the air will instantly chill &#8212; perhaps by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Baily&#8217;s Beads<\/span> &#8211; An instant before the sun\u2019s disk is completely covered by the moon, you should experience the visually stunning\u00a0diamond ring effect &#8211; or <a title=\"Baily's beads\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baily%27s_beads\">Baily\u2019s beads<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The slight bit of sun remaining will give the impression of a brilliant diamond with the ring being a faint glow around the darkened moon.\u00a0\u00a0Some images of the diamond ring effect can be seen at this link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunstopper.wordpress.com\/tag\/diamond-ring-effect\/\">https:\/\/sunstopper.wordpress.com\/tag\/diamond-ring-effect\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Planets will become visible<\/span> &#8211; It will become dark as night during totality.\u00a0\u00a0The stars will pop out and you will see two very bright points of light near the sun . They are really the planets Venus and Mercury.\u00a0\u00a0Most people never get to see Mercury because it is usually so close to the Sun that it is blotted out by the Sun\u2019s glare.\u00a0Mars and Jupiter will make an appearance.\u00a0\u00a0Those two planets will\u00a0<i>seem<\/i>\u00a0to be near the sun, when in reality they will be much farther away on the far opposite sides of their orbits.\u00a0\u00a0In total, 4 of the 5 planets that don\u2019t require a telescope can be seen during the eclipse.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Solar flares<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0If we are lucky, there will be eruptions from the sun that cannot be seen at any other time.\u00a0\u00a0These eruptions are called\u00a0prominences\u00a0and will glow a bright beautiful ruby red color.\u00a0\u00a0Go here to see a photo of red prominence eruptions during an eclipse:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/county10.com\/will-wildlife-be-fooled-into-bedding-down-for-the-night-during-the-eclipse\/\">http:\/\/county10.com\/will-wildlife-be-fooled-into-bedding-down-for-the-night-during-the-eclipse\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sun&#8217;s corona &#8211;\u00a0The bluish white glowing\u00a0corona\u00a0(outer atmosphere of the sun) is made of charged hydrogen atoms; AKA\u00a0plasma.\u00a0\u00a0During totality, the corona allows us to see the beautiful structure of the sun\u2019s powerful magnetic field as the plasma is pulled by magnetism into graceful curving field lines.\u00a0\u00a0Check out this gorgeous corona photo:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz\/~druck\/eclipse\/Ecl2013g\/TSE_2013wa_ed\/0-info.htm\">http:\/\/www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz\/~druck\/eclipse\/Ecl2013g\/TSE_2013wa_ed\/0-info.htm<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0As pretty as this image is, no photo can capture the almost ethereal fluorescent hue that you will see when looking directly at the corona.\u00a0\u00a0Also, notice that you can see red prominence in this image near the bottom of the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Animals will become confused.\u00a0\u00a0Bats may fly around thinking it is night.\u00a0\u00a0Birds may go to roost.\u00a0\u00a0Crickets or cicadas may begin to chirp.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6jWCXPK6_g8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article on the visual anomolies that you&#8217;ll see near a total eclipse. Just before\/after totallity: Eclipse shadows &#8211; Long before totality (when the moon is only covering part of the sun\u2019s face), go to a nearby tree and look in the shade of the tree\u2019s shadow.\u00a0\u00a0You will see\u00a0hundreds\u00a0of crescent images of the partially covered sun all over the ground. Shadow bands &#8211; Anywhere from 60 to 90 seconds before totality or just after totality ends, closely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3130\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Effects during a solar eclipse","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Ou","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}