This is very important to Team Manatee films, and I advise you read it. We have never done a film about the moon/sun, and in 11 days turns out to be a great daytime opportunity to experience it.
Special note: yesterday, October 2, was the first anniversary of our crabs Little Lalzo, Lottie, and an anemone. Although little people took note of it, Little Lalzo grew a surprising 0.9 inches in a course of 3 molts, which is an unusually fast growth rate for a yellow shore crab.
Also: Jaylon's birthday is today. That means tomorrow a new film will be released in dedicated to him. While at school, a timelapse was recording from Rob's southward facing room, and another facing Rob's westward facing room. Jaylon's film will feature those timelapses, that have been running for the whole day. This symbolizes his 14th year on Earth.This is the first time we have done this. Jaylon's film will be capturing early morning fog, and hopefully a nice sunset. AS IF OCTOBER 3, 6:24 PM, the timelapse is still running,
On October 14, which is next Saturday, there is a Solar Eclipse happening!! We are very excited, because is the first solar eclipse we are going to see (fog obscured the 2017 one).
What is a Solar eclipse? It is when the moon, the sun and earth are almost perfectly lined up. Since the moon appears the same size as the sun from earth, a shadow of the moon will cast on the earth, which brings darkness for up to 2 hours. Meanwhile, the moon can be observed blocking the sun, such as during the 2017 Total eclipse. A Lunar Eclipse, however, happens when Earth blocks the sun from view.
The moon rotates around the earth, and during each eclipse, the path is different. This is called the Path Of Totality.
Depending on how close to the path you are at, the eclipse can be classified into three categories:
Total Eclipse - When the entire moon makes a shadow on the earth. Blackout!
Annular Eclipse - When entire moon makes a shadow on the earth, but parts of the sun appears as a ring on the outside of the moon.
Parsial Eclipse - When part of the moon casts a shadow on the Earth. It may be less dark than a total eclipse, but is still very fascinating to look at.
The October 14 is an annular eclipse ONLY where its path of totality is, which unfortunately does NOT pass SF. This means the eclipse will appear as a partial eclipse, which also happened in 2017. Below is the path of totality for the 2023 eclipse. The red dotted line is the totality, and each shade of red represents the intensity of the eclipse. The deeply red shaded part represents where the eclipse will be annular, which as you can see, only reaches the tip of North eastern CA. So if you think it's worth it to camp out in the boonies to see your first annular eclipse, that's OK with me.
The song we will be using is "Break Of Dawn" by Michael Jackson. In this song Michael repeats the lyrics "Break Of dawn, there's no sun up in the sky," which represents the case where the moon obscures the sun. Since October 14 is on the weekend the eclipse will be showcased in the film will be using a series of time-lapse footage that will probably be shot from our eastern window, because the sun and eclipse will be there then.
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