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oh my
goodness this is a total eclipse of the
sun the sun is completely blocked out by
the moon the sun is actually 400 times
larger than the moon yet during an
eclipse they seem almost the same size a
total eclipse is a sight of awesome
Beauty and one of Nature's Most
spectacular displays
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this is a solar filter by the way you
can safely look at the sun with this no
problem at
all think that that's 93 million miles
away and I can see it so clearly in
here we've been a hockey family for a
long long time so we built the telescope
out of hockey 6 this will be its fourth
Eclipse it'll be our fifth we're very
excited about the eclipse tomorrow I
even if it is
cloudy you know what we're still all
going to be together it's going to get
get darker than it is whatever it
is once we decided to make the
retirement decision to live here take us
up baby we started looking for property
and my wife wanted a view over the hills
and I wanted the best view of the
eclipse come over here hockey
lady we met when we first got hired on
back in
1989 I never dreamed I'd work for NASA
both of us wound up working in the
control center supporting shuttle flies
for about 10 years well every time I
talk about eclipses even even today many
years later I I get goosebumps talking
about it because it's just such a such a
different and deep emotional experience
that it's it's hard to even imagine I'm
looking forward to seeing everybody's
reaction when they see totality what do
they
do that's pretty good that's about right
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we're here in a dark sky site and I
thought it would be a great idea to have
a stargaze so I brought my telescope and
we're setting up to look at the
stars combine the two having a dark sky
event the night before and then having
the total solar eclipse just doesn't get
any better than that for my
standpoint uh I have uh traveled to see
six of them this will be number seven
lucky key number seven I'm
hoping so if you look in the
west up a few degrees really high is a
star that you can see with a naked eye
now and that is the planet
Jupiter I am most excited about sharing
this with people who have never seen one
I'm a teacher and I get my HDs from
showing people things that they've never
seen before
what do you want to be when you grow up
what I'm wearing tell me Well an
astronaut where do you want to go what
do you want to see Luna Gateway
die I want to see the surface of the
Moon and an earth R how are
you it's nice to see you Welcome To
Earth how was it out there it take your
finger bring it closer and further away
it's kind of the same kind of idea right
this is a drama filled event it starts
out
slow um I saw the sun briefly the edge
of the Moon the sun gradually gets
covered for 45 minutes it looks like
there's nothing going
on it's a pinhole camera because your
eyes are getting adjusted as the
sunlight Fades
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gradually and then when there's 15
minutes before you suddenly realize that
Sky's not the same
color I see it it's almost
there keep going it's going to do it
come on come on come on
W and then you notice the impending
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Darkness the temperature
drops
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toal and then totality
it's a
celebration I
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so it's just an absolutely amazing
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game I don't know it's like magic
unbelievable magical
thing part of what these eclipses are
all about for me is making
memories because what is your life
without memories what is your life
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