Solar Eclipse Timer App - Totality Demo
This is a video of a observing practice session that is centered around a 120 second totality. A 270 second movie of a totality begins at a point 90 seconds before C2 along with Solar Eclipse Timer doing its routine countdowns. Totality spans 120 seconds in this practice demo. The movie ends 60 seconds after C3 and the practice session closes. This allows you to practice your photography and observation routine for just prior to totality and during totality over and over again. Because the movie is playing you are practicing with the excitement of a total solar eclipse in progress. It makes your preparation as realistic as possible. The STOP button (top navigation bar, right side) will stop the movie. You can stop and re-start the demo session as many times as you need to because the app continually considers the system time and will start the demo session again 90 seconds before C2. The contact times will update. NOTE: The totality movie used for this demo session is an edited version of the movie that I took on a cruise ship on the Mediterranean Sea on March 29, 2006. The image has to be re-centered because of the motion of the cruise ship. NOTE: The person heard making the announcements regarding the progression of the eclipse during the movie is David Levy. David Levy is famous for discovering comets and you may be familiar with comets referred to as Shoemaker-Levy. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was the comet that broke apart in July of 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July of 1994.
This is a video of a observing practice session that is centered around a 120 second totality. A 270 second movie of a totality begins at a point 90 seconds before C2 along with Solar Eclipse Timer doing its routine countdowns. Totality spans 120 seconds in this practice demo. The movie ends 60 seconds after C3 and the practice session closes. This allows you to practice your photography and observation routine for just prior to totality and during totality over and over again. Because the movie is playing you are practicing with the excitement of a total solar eclipse in progress. It makes your preparation as realistic as possible. The STOP button (top navigation bar, right side) will stop the movie. You can stop and re-start the demo session as many times as you need to because the app continually considers the system time and will start the demo session again 90 seconds before C2. The contact times will update. NOTE: The totality movie used for this demo session is an edited version of the movie that I took on a cruise ship on the Mediterranean Sea on March 29, 2006. The image has to be re-centered because of the motion of the cruise ship. NOTE: The person heard making the announcements regarding the progression of the eclipse during the movie is David Levy. David Levy is famous for discovering comets and you may be familiar with comets referred to as Shoemaker-Levy. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was the comet that broke apart in July of 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July of 1994.