{"id":18837,"date":"2017-08-21T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/did-you-miss-totality-relive-the-solar-eclipses-climax-in-this-3-minute-video\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:15:58","slug":"did-you-miss-totality-relive-the-solar-eclipses-climax-in-this-3-minute-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/did-you-miss-totality-relive-the-solar-eclipses-climax-in-this-3-minute-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you miss totality? Relive the solar eclipse\u2019s climax in this 3-minute video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_356953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356953\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-356953\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/170821-hoots-eclipse-630x436.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond ring effect\" width=\"630\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/170821-hoots-eclipse-630x436.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/170821-hoots-eclipse.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-356953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \u201cdiamond ring\u201d effect sparkles just before the total phase of the Aug. 21 solar eclipse, as captured from Madras, Ore. (John E. Hoots via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MADRAS, Ore. \u2013&nbsp;Some skywatchers spend thousands of dollars on telescopes, cameras and other hardware to document a solar eclipse. John E. Hoots did it with a Sony Handycam video camera.<\/p>\n<p>Hoots, a semi-retired corporate scientist from Batavia, Ill., was part of our merry band in Madras, watching totality unfold today with thousands of others during Oregon Solarfest.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"callout clearfix\">Totality Awesome: Epic photos of the solar eclipse from an Idaho mountaintop<\/h4>\n<p>He attached the video camera to a tripod, secured a pair of eclipse glasses in front of the lens, and manually tracked the sun as more and more of its disk was covered up by the moon.<\/p>\n<p>When totality was just about to begin, Hoots removed the solar filter and set the exposure to capture the delicate glow of the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, known as the corona. The soundtrack for the resulting video consists of whooping and hollering from the crowd that was spread out at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds (including yours truly, who can be heard remarking over the three main lobes of the coronal emissions).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI adjusted the exposure during the middle to get more of the corona,\u201d Hoots said. \u201cThe crowd did the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was Hoots\u2019 seventh total solar eclipse, and he\u2019s already giving serious thought to what may well be the eighth: a blackout in 2019 that will last more than twice as long as today\u2019s, and should be visible from parts of Chile and Argentina as well as a long, thin slice of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The 'total' total solar eclipse in Madras\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g0dz8TpV9RY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cdiamond ring\u201d effect sparkles just before the total phase of the Aug. 21 solar eclipse, as captured from Madras, Ore. (John E. Hoots via YouTube) MADRAS, Ore. \u2013&nbsp;Some skywatchers spend thousands of dollars on telescopes, cameras and other hardware to document a solar eclipse. John E. 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