Published On Aug 22, 2017
The events leading up to and including the 2017 eclipse at Independence, OR. The phone app I was using with the audible eclipse event alarms is called Solar Eclipse Timer and it worked remarkably well to let us all know when the main eclipse events were happening. I did not focus so much on the actual sun or the eclipse itself during this video, because a GoPro Hero 5 with a wide angle 4k lens is not designed to capture solar events, so I was mainly focused on watching the shadow, the darkness, and of course the eclipse watcher's reactions and remarks around me. I did try to capture video for "shadow snakes" but I personally didn't witness any or record any. The actual eclipse images in the video are unremarkable as expected. You can search online for much better photos and videos using specialized equipment.