Name: HOW TO WATCH THE ECLIPSE (AND SHADOW SNAKES) - Smarter Every Day 171
Uploaded: 2020-03-26T04:01:55.000Z
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Hey, it's me Destin,  welcome back to Smarter Every Day.

We've all heard about solar eclipses, right?

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and you're probably aware that there's a huge one coming very soon

so, you think about how to prepare and you're thinking, maybe I gotta get some special goggles

so that when I'm looking up at the sky and I see the moon come across I don't hurt my eyes

so I can see totality by looking directly at the sun or something like that, right?

It's actually far more complicated and far more beautiful than that.

There are very specific moments that happen during a solar eclipse

That if you're prepared for 'em, down to the second, you can see really neat things that you didn't know about before.

So, today on Smarter Every Day, there's this hyper-meticulous guy in my hometown.

when I say meticulous, just look at what he does for a living

Anyway, this guy has chased eclipses all over the world--eclipsees, I don't know,

Anyway, this guy is like, having a meeting right now, with all his buddies

They're going to plan, down to the second, where they're going to be.

So they can see these individual events, not just totality, but there's other stuff that happens.

And let's figure how to scientifically watch

Can I bust up your meeting and ask you a question ?

He's a well-respected plastic surgeon by day

So why are you guys here listening to this guy?

He's travelled the world to film eclipses

And he's even been invited to give talks at NASA.

I wanted to go to my son's baseball game so

he agreed to meet with me the following day

By the way, my oldest son found his baseball swing this year

I came back the next day for a one-on-one

DESTIN>> So I guess your ultimate goal is to

GORDON>> and to inspire them not to miss it.

going to be a once in a lifetime thing for

a lot of people. People are not going to travel

like I do. It's a wonderful thing to have

are going to happen in the next twenty years,

to get to a total solar eclipse with you son.

He started with the basics. He first explained

different celestial bodies. The Moon orbits

This means as it gets closer to us, it looks bigger

and as it gets further away from us, it looks smaller.

at the smaller size, it doesn't quite cover the Sun.

This means that there's two major types of

occurs when the Moon doesn't totally block out

a bright glowing solar disk poking from behind

between but only a few hitting each continent

The red curves here show annular eclipses

total eclipses which are shown here in blue

If one of these is in the country where you live,

the eclipse Moon shadow moves over the ground is called the totality plane.

a total eclipse, but it's not just ok to be within the band,

the very centre of the band. At the edges,

several minutes. Gordon explained that the most

important thing about wherever you're watching the eclipse from

when the lunar disk touches the solar disk

to move accros the Sun for quite some time.

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