2024 April 8 Total Solar Eclipse from (almost) the Highest Point in Ohio
A shorter, speeded-up version of this eclipse is at • 2024 April 8 Total Eclipse, version 2 (sho...
Carol gathered all of her relatives who could get away at Grandview Orchard, which her maternal grandfather, Frank Lane, created about a century ago, to watch the eclipse. It was smack in the middle of the path of totality.
The video is 10 minutes long, with the middle 3 minutes and 45 seconds in total eclipse. Look for color changes, lighting changes--including the yard light toward the right (north). Birds' chirping. People reacting.
The video runs in real time, with no editing other than redirecting the view in post-processing: You get what you see--but you can't see it all on your 2D screen. In reality, the totality scene looked somewhat darker to us; but digital cameras see better in the dark than we do. During totality, we saw the sun as a dark disc--the moon, lit by earthlight--and we all could see venus clearly, below and right of the sun and moon. Almost all of the available light during totality came in from the sides, outside the totality. And the yard light that turned itself on when it got really dark.
The camera is an Insta360 X3, placed on a tripod off to the side of where we were gathered. It was seeing 360 degrees in all directions--all around the horizon and from the ground below to the zenith. But the basic view here is west-ish. The video resolution is 4k, which is quite sharp; but you may see a lower-res version, depending on your internet connection at the time. Click on the gear at the bottom right of the screen and then on "Quality" to increase the resolution.
The hilltop behind the Red Barn is the second-highest point in Ohio, second by maybe 30 meters, but we were about 150 feet lower.
LATER: YouTube has tried to transcribe the voices, with some amusing results. For example, there was no music, but it invented some. If you don't see the captions, you can turn them on by clicking on the "CC" button in the lower right corner.There's also a transcript of the captions, if you're deadly curious. One of the viewers is an astrophysicist, by the way.