I really like the attention to detail where the shape of the "shadow of the sun" changes based on the distance from the equator.
Travel the path of the solar eclipse
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#13the orientation is horrible. why is north right-ish? just no.
There is a minimap in the upper right corner to help you orient yourself.
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#14Original title: Travel the path of the solar eclipse
Thanks, we've updated the submission title from “We built this 2017 solar eclipse map starting with 73 Google Maps screenshots”.
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#15I love North America! I feel privileged to live here and have access to the Interstate System to travel across such varied topology.
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#16the orientation is horrible. why is north right-ish? just no.
There is a minimap in the upper right corner to help you orient yourself.
the minimap is oriented differently (north is up) whereas the main map view is not; that just contributes to the spatially confusing presentation in my opninion. maybe a rectangle of the full map fov along the minimap path rather than a circle would help mitigate this, I don't know... it's also following the path of the eclipse backwards, which is also distracting.
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#17I really like the attention to detail where the shape of the "shadow of the sun" changes based on the distance from the equator.
Though it can be thought of as varying with latitude in this case, it's much more complicated than that for eclipses in general. So latitude can work as a pragmatic proxy variable in this case but not for all eclipses: e.g. http://www.hk-mcc.net/david/eclipse/image/se20080207.GIF
Moon's orbit is not on the equator (closer to the ecliptic), the Sun isn't fixed in the sky, etc.
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#18I really like the attention to detail where the shape of the "shadow of the sun" changes based on the distance from the equator.
Though it can be thought of as varying with latitude in this case, it's much more complicated than that for eclipses in general. So latitude can work as a pragmatic proxy variable in this case but not for all eclipses: e.g. http://www.hk-mcc.net/david/eclipse/image/se20080207.GIF Moon's orbit is not on the equator (closer to the ecliptic), the Sun isn't fixed in the sky, etc.
That's cool, I didn't even think about that!
So in your opinion does the linked article (it feels wrong to call it that...) accurately depict this (or at least depict it accurately enough that it's not deceiving)? Or like you kind of hinted at, is it close enough during this particular eclipse to not really matter?
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#19It is also peppered with nice little sound bites of cool info:
McCool Junction, Neb., won’t get McCold, but the air temperature during totality drops by an average of about 12 degrees Fahrenheit, according to astrophysicist Fred Espenak.
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#20Not a journalism piece, but this is a great map for getting details along the path; http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017...
We actually used the data on this site for a related graphic here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/?ut...