A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time
			
		
		
		
			How would you feel if the Sun disappeared?
Many eclipse watchers 
across the USA surprised themselves with the awe that they felt and the exclamations that they made as the Sun momentarily disappeared behind the Moon.
Perhaps expecting just a brief moment of dusk, the spectacle of unusually rapid darkness, breathtakingly bright 
glowing beads around the Moon's edge, 
shockingly pink 
solar prominences, and a strangely 
detailed corona stretching across the sky 
caught many a curmudgeon 
by 
surprise. 
Many of these attributes  
were captured in the 
featured real-time, three-minute video 
of 
last month's total solar eclipse.
The video frames were acquired in 
Warm Springs, 
Oregon 
with equipment specifically designed by Jun Ho Oh to track a close-up of the Sun's periphery during eclipse.  
As the video ends, the 
Sun 
is seen being reborn on the other side of the 
Moon from where it departed.