Total Eclipse Time Lapse (April 8, 2024)

Today's total eclipse was absolutely the astronomical highlight of my life! Please enjoy the entirety of this 3-minute video, combining 3 different videos that I captured into individual 20x time-lapse sequences. In the first two wide angle segments from different cameras, you can see the Moon's shadow racing across the clouds at over 1,500 miles per hour (~2,400 kph).
Thank you to the Adirondack Sky Center and Observatory for letting me join the solar viewing area at your "Totality in Tupper" event- I gave away close to 400 NASA stickers and had a blast sharing my telescope views with the crowd! I would also like to give a special thank you to some of social media followers who actually stopped by to say hi to me in person today- how awesome was that?! 😎🔭🌑☀️
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Wishing you clear skies!
-Marty McGuire
Music credit:
“Background Music for Videos: www.bluetreeaudio.com”

[@jshepard152]

Beautifully captured! Thank you my friend.

[@kevingallagher1673]

Terrific time lapse! This is really well done. Thanks for posting!

[@Backyardastronomyguy]

Thanks Kevin!

[@davethorup]

That’s an amazing shot with the Sky-Watcher! Wondering if you used any reducers or anything? I’m thinking you probably didn’t need one, but still wondering nonetheless.

[@Backyardastronomyguy]

Thank you! I did use a celestron focal reducer & adapters to my sky watcher to see more of the sun.

[@AltoonaYourPiano]

Wow, what an impressive video. That settles it, I'm making the trip in 2045 to see totality.

[@RbxlH]

I saw totality from my home and my discord friend in Dominican Republic is going to see totality in 2045!

[@fordchevinman4614]

Do you see the the river of plasma how detailed it was.

[@ShadowriverUB]

If you follow solar activity, sun can put out more impressive show then that, but totality is too short and to rare to have chance to see it

[@Sophia-hp3lx]

1:09 the solar eclipse

[@All_praise4Allah]

i wasnt in tottalaty