Eclipse observations

The above video shows the effect of the eclipse on the lighting of our back lawn for the 4 critical minutes around the totality.

Below is a chronology of what we saw during our various spaced timed sightings:

• 11:30 — full sun through camera obscura and eclipse glasses. Outside thermometer 72 degrees.
• 11:50 — possible piece out of right side through camera obscura, through eclipse glasses definite though small piece covering sun in the 2 o’clock position. Outside thermometer 72 degrees.
• 12:10 — Camera Obscura shows definite bite out of right side. Eclipse glasses show moon’s leading edge about halfway to the sun’s center point. Outside thermometer 74 degrees.
• 12:30 — Camera obscura show indefinite progress across sun. Eclipse glasses show moon’s leading edge close to the sun’s center point. Outside thermometer 74 degrees.
• 12:50 — Camera obscura shows indefinite progress across sun. Eclipse glasses show moon’s leading edge past the sun’s center point — a definite crescent. Not sure exact distance across sun.  Outside thermometer 74 degrees.
• 1:00 — Camera obscura indefinite progress but progress. Eclipse glasses show thumbnail sun — crescent shape. Outside temperature
• 1:00-1:08 — finally starting to get the weird lighting feels. The air gives a slight sense of a cool breeze, but the thermometer still shows 74. Getting dimmer and darker, crescent shrinks.
• Totality — Can see the bead effect and the shimmer around it.  Nighttime darkness.
• The brightening is almost more eerie than the going dark.
• Clouds finally occluded our observation during the totality, so we couldn’t get a good view of the passing off the sun at first.
• 1:15 p.m. — Eclipse Goggles do not work well through cloud cover.

Below is a time-lapse video of the grass behind our house, encapsulating 100 minutes into 26 seconds: