The Last 100 Years of Solar Eclipses in One Image [OC]
Every solar eclipse from the last 1,000 years, layered so that the most recent coverage wins. I sampled 512 points per path and rendered the entire history to capture the weave of shadow tracks across the continents.
I was right in the path of the 2017 Eclipse. And so was a cloud, during totality. Chances are, it would be more than a 1000 years before that opportunity comes again. Specifically, my living in an area that just happens to have totality.
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Sources:
Data: NASA’s Besselian elements catalog (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSE/5MCSEcatalog.txt)
Tools: Python + Plotly/Kaleido
I was right in the path of the 2017 Eclipse. And so was a cloud, during totality. Chances are, it would be more than a 1000 years before that opportunity comes again. Specifically, my living in an area that just happens to have totality.