Eclipse Photos & Videos
Eclipse Photos & Videos
Totality, all two minutes and forty seconds (2:40) !!!
Eclipse: Monday, August 21, 2017; page updated Wed. Mar. 21, 2018
This is an extension of
the Astronomy Merit Badge page.
The “The Great American Eclipse,” the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, was amazing!
The purpose of this page is to share our family’s experience at the Perryville (MO) Municipal Airport.
This page is for additional photos and videos.
The videos captured the full 2:40 totality, and are big video files, so we needed to post them to YouTube and Vimeo.
We also found some of the weather balloon videos posted by the Adler Planetarium and their Far Horizons Project.
Our Videos:
Great American Eclipse @ Perryville MO Airport #1 GoPro HERO4 Totality
Great American Eclipse @ Perryville MO Airport #2 iPhone 6+ Totality
Great American Eclipse @ Perryville MO Airport #3 iPad Pro Shadow Bands
We have also posted these to Vimeo, so they can be seen on your Amazon Echo Show, which at this time (Mar, 2018) does not yet show YouTube videos:
“Great American Eclipse” album:
https://vimeo.com/album/5062998
Great American Eclipse @ Perryville MO Airport #1 GoPro HERO4 Totality
https://vimeo.com/album/5062998/video/261118260
Great American Eclipse @ Perryville MO Airport #2 iPhone 6+ Totality
https://vimeo.com/album/5062998/video/261119753
Great American Eclipse @ Perryville MO Airport #3 iPad Pro Shadow Bands
https://vimeo.com/album/5062998/video/261120406
Weather balloon videos posted by the Adler Planetarium and their Far Horizons Project.
Far Horizons 360 Stratospheric Eclipse Mission Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrCYejbDCeQ&list=PLldc-1x4_ZVneBgOBoy9pHEMpPx9adyQv&index=2
Far Horizons 360 Stratospheric Eclipse Mission - Totality!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpbOY-pXSys&index=3&list=PLldc-1x4_ZVneBgOBoy9pHEMpPx9adyQv
This is a weather balloon launch video that was posted b someone else... we are actually in it, at the end.
360 Degree Solar Eclipse 2017 Event - Weather Balloon Launch with Virb 360
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-JgZ3dRxUM&list=PLldc-1x4_ZVneBgOBoy9pHEMpPx9adyQv&index=1
“Our photos - the cameras”
We set up the following cameras:
1.Matt’s GoPro HERO4 Silver - recording live video, positioned on his gorillapod right on the airport taxiway, looking up
2.Matt using his iPod Touch to take his own hand-held photos and videos
3.Abby’s iPod Touch sitting on the cooler, looking up, with the wide-angle Olloclip lens, recording live video
4.Abby using her Kodak Z1285 camera (pre-dates iPhone 4... and still takes great photos!) to record her own hand-held photos and videos
5.The iPad also sitting atop the cooler... positioned so you can see the screen and type on it, which meant the camera lens was pointing down, just where we wanted it, so it could capture the shadow bands - and it did capture them!
6.Ann Marie using her iPhone 6 to record her own hand-held photos and videos
7.Michael using his iPhone 6+ positioned on the tripod, to record live video of the eclipse, and to also capture some stills as the video recorded
8.Our eyes, pointed upward
You’ll recognize that we don’t have a DSLR, and we knew that we would only have small images of the sun. Our goal was to see the eclipse and just “capture whatever we could,” without looking at the screens too much, as we could watch later.
“Our Photos”
These still photos were extracted from the GoPro Video... they provide a time-lapsed view of the clouds as they, thankfully, did not get between us and the eclipse.
“Photos from our friends”
Sharing a couple awesome photos as captured by friends.
Before Totality
Photo by Susan
Photos by Grant
Photo by Mark P.
Photo by Christina
Photos by Matt N.
All of these are awesome. Thanks for sharing!
These are all of the links to the Astronomy Merit Badge pages:
Astronomy Merit Badge - Extra “Fun Facts”
Astronomy - Great American Eclipse
Astronomy - Great American Eclipse 2017
These are all of the links to the Space Exploration Merit Badge pages:
New Horizons - Mission Overview
New Horizons - Pluto Resources
The images from Mr. Berman’s “Secrets of the Night Sky...” and Outdoor Photographer were scanned directly from the book using the Halo Scanner Mouse - http://shop.halo2cloud.com/collections/computer-and-backup/products/scanner-mouse, which I received as a Christmas present from my mother in 2013.
Regardless your desire to pursue an astronomical career, it is hoped that you learned enough about astronomy through this merit badge to at least be interested to continuously look up at the sky in awe and wonder. If you pursue with enthusiastic interest, that’s great. If you do make a career in the field, GREAT.
May you be better off having completed your Astronomy Merit Badge than you were before you started.