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Originally Posted by Crowbob
That video of the umbra is fake! All the networks showed a very distinct and clearly defined path of totality that was exactly 7 miles wide.
Fake! Photoshop, prolly.
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Ahhh, my good man... the umbra was 7 miles wide, but the penumbra was much wider. Folks as far away as Ohio got to see a partial eclipse and were impressed.
No doubt if that video could've shown the contrast between the umbra and penumbra more clearly, it would've been much better and would've been a more accurate representation.
"From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow crossing over North America on Aug. 21, 2017. EPIC is aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), where it photographs the full sunlit side of Earth every day, giving it a unique view of total solar eclipses. EPIC normally takes about 20 to 22 images of Earth per day, so this animation appears to speed up the progression of the eclipse.":
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/nasas-epic-view-of-2017-eclipse-across-america
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