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Here is a 5-hour YouTube video that streams real time for the entire duration of the eclipse (1,104,942 views in 1 day):
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Starting at minute 46, the view of the solar observatory in Stanley, Idaho begins its imaging of the sun with the moon's moving in front of it.
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Graham Jones (astrophysicist and educator) slowly and deliberately describes in detail what's going on, while Anne Buckle (journalist with timeanddate.com) tries really hard to APPEAR interested in what he says. It's her job to keep trying, even if she's not really interested.
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This eclipse is the most anticipated and the most intensely observed eclipse in history. There have been millions of observers, many with sophisticated equipment watching it. Even so, in my area most people went about their day without so much as any awareness or interest in the fact. Strange.
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Starting at 1 hour, for the next 20 minutes and so on, the clear closeup telephoto view of the sun with moon's silhouette moving in front of it is shown.
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The slowness of the progress is fully covered in this video. I made a solar eclipse projector with a cardboard garment box, by cutting holes in the end and the side, and placing a white screen angled at the bottom for the sun's light to project on. I was outside in the sunshine, expecting passers-by to be interested in seeing what I was doing. Much to my surprise, I had to approach people, carrying my box, asking them if they would like to see the eclipse going on inside. They seemed to not believe me at first. They seemed to think I was trying to sell them something. Most of them did not know that an eclipse was happening, and some didn't know what an eclipse is. One neighbor had kept her children home from school for fear they might look at the sun and hurt their eyes. When I offered her to see inside my box, she told her children (whom she kept inside her house) "maybe later." The eclipse came and went, and she prevented her children from seeing its effects as it was happening. I had shown her you can see the shadows of the partially covered sun on the concrete walkway where bushes and trees cast their shadows. But she kept her children indoors anyway.
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Some of the people who looked into my garment box projector were very grateful for the opportunity. One man commented that it's not moving very fast. I told him the shadow of the moon moves across the earth at 1,300 mph but while we watch the image of the sun it appears to be standing still. He didn't seem to understand this difference at all.
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If you want to skip to the beginning of the totality coverage, go to minute 1:45:00.
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