Total Solar Eclipse : The Great American Eclipse of 2017
Baily's Beads and The Diamond Ring: 2nd Contact, Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
At the moment of 2nd contact, the first Baily's Bead becomes visable as the Diamond Ring effect quickly begins to show. A faint sliver of the photosphere is visable like a bright diamond as the cornona begins to become visable, appearing as a faint ring around the moon.
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The Diamond Ring: 2nd Contact, Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
At the moment of 2nd contact, the Diamond Ring appears, Baily's Beads quickly fade and totality begins. A faint sliver of the photosphere is visable like a bright diamond as the cornona becomes visable, appearing as a ring around the moon.
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The End of 2nd Contact, Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The moon makes it's final moves to 100% cover the sun. 2nd Contact quickly comes to an end and totality begins. The Diamond Ring fades as the Corona appears much brighter from behind the moon.
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Totality, Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The Totality phase of a Total Solar Eclipse: the Corona appears as a bright ring from behind the moon.
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Totality 2017, Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The Totality phase of a Total Solar Eclipse: the Corona appears as a bright ring from behind the moon.
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"3rd Contact," Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The moment of 3rd contact. Totality comes to an end, the Corona is still visable as Baily's Beads appear. The craters of the Moon catch the first glimmer of sunlight, froming beads of light the sun's rays begin to reappear from behind the Moon.
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"3rd Contact 2017," Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The moment of 3rd contact. Totality comes to an end, the Corona is still visable as Baily's Beads appear. The craters of the Moon catch the first glimmer of sunlight, froming beads of light the sun's rays begin to reappear from behind the Moon.
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"Black Hole Sun," Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The Corona still shines around the eclipsed sun as the Diamond Ring Effect begins to show at the top, raising out from Baily's beads. Totality begins to end, as solar prominences and solar flares can be see shooting out from the sun's surface.
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"Black Hole Sun 2," Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The Corona still shines around the eclipsed sun as the Diamond Ring Effect begins to show at the top, raising out from Baily's beads. Totality begins to end, as solar prominences and solar flares can be see shooting out from the sun's surface.
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"Let There Be Light," the end of totality, Total Solar Eclipse, Oregon, United States
The newly exposed sun shines bright as the moon moves further away from totality. The Corona, visible in the lower corner still covered by the moon, hangs on as a dim reminder of totality now gone. The sun is just a thin sliver of light at this point, yet the intesity still shines bright.
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