OT ecliptical timing

[micky]

You guys are cynical enough so I shouldn't show you this but at 3:29 or

3:28AM EDT

says there are 8 hours and 35 minutes until Eclipse Countdown Until First Contact in Oregon August 21, 2017 UT

And

says Countdown Until Totality Begins in Newport, Oregon August 21, 2017

9:47:40

So there is a difference of 1 hour and 12 minutes. Not even an even hour!

Encouraging, right? Perhaps they have the day wrong too. Oh, one is first contact and the other totality. My bad.

The whole thing is not dependant on how fast the sun moves, or how fast the earth rotates (which is the same thing) so it does not take 3+ hours.

It's dependant on how fast the moon crosses the surface of the sun, which would only be 20 minutes or something, but the sun is moving, not as fast as the moon, but enough to make the whole thing take iirc 90 minutes (all numbers are guesses.)

Watch on the web, and tv will probalby have it too, and since it's going to rain in Baltimore,

.

[Iggy]

replying to micky, Iggy wrote: NASA's a joke and so lame at everything, but most everyone buys whatever they sell...unbelievably. The "Space Station", if you believe that fraud, "live-feed" went down all day and didn't catch a single angle of the eclipse at all (yet again)...hint-hint. Oh and of course, everyone's day started with heavy Chem-trailing of the Sun's path, the always helpful science and government.

[trader_4]

So you needed to point out that the difference between the start of the eclipse and totality confused you?

I'd like to see the reference for that claim. It would seem to me that the rotation speed of the earth would have to be a factor in the timing of the eclipse appearing and ending at a given location. If the earth was not rotating, the sun would never change location in the sky from Oregon to SC to begin with.