Solar Eclipse Eye Safety - 2023 Annular versus the 2024 Total. And Eclipse Glasses

[@ScaryFear]

I loved your app in 2017. I was in South Carolina. Hoping to go see the next total one in 2024. I still have the same model phone and it says you app is no longer compatible. If it was back in 2017 why would it change? I hadn't realized it was gone. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 and don't plan to change it unless it totally breaks.

[@solareclipsetimer]

Hi Scary, the Android operating system has been updated many times since 2017. It is presently on Android version 13. I have needed to update the app through time to stay compatible. But the present programming should be compatible back to Android 10. So. Google/Android updates have created incompatibilty with versions of the Android operating systems older thsn that. And certain older phones and certain carriers can create issues also.

[@ScaryFear]

@@solareclipsetimer Oh, that's a shame. I might be able to put it on a tablet hopefully. I have one that's recent from the start of this year.

[@solareclipsetimer]

@@ScaryFear It should run on a tablet. The versions since 2019 use an in app purchasing process. So you need to buy the 2024 eclipse data for $1.99 when the tablet has an internet connection.

[@ScaryFear]

@@solareclipsetimer Ok thanks for the info. If I can make my way out to Texas next year I'll definitely do that.

[@MilitaryPawn]

Is there somewhere that I can load the data for the annular solar eclipse happening next weekend?

[@solareclipsetimer]

Hi, thank you for contacting me. Sorry, but I do not have a data set to time the annular eclipse. That is because so much of my app has to do with the critical timing and the observations that happen only with a total solar eclipse. With an annular, you keep your solar filter on the entire time and there is no crucial timing. Thanks.

[@TheDahliaQueen]

I have seen 2 total eclipses, but I have never seen an Annular eclipse. Will it also have Beads, Shadow Bands, and 360 degrees of sunset, the same as a total eclipse?

[@solareclipsetimer]

Hi, those are good questions about the partial phase phenomena. Since the Moon is blocking a significant portion of the Sun (about 89% max in the U.S.) you will feel a temperature drop, you can take pinhole projection images of the crescent Sun, and you will see the effect of creating sharp and fuzzy shadows. However, since the Moon is much smaller than the Sun, the overlap does not cause the diamond ring or bead's effect. And since it never becomes a fine single slit and the ambient light does not get low enough you won't see shadow bands. Since you are not within an umbra you do not get the 360° colored horizon. Hope that answers your questions.

[@TheDahliaQueen]

@@solareclipsetimer thank you. Everything I was watching or reading didn't make this clear.

[@solareclipsetimer]

Happy to help. Have you gone to my website and considered getting my book solareclipsetimer.com@@TheDahliaQueen

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

is it moving to the west looking up cause how can the moon grivity rotation by earth energy be going faster than earth spin east into morning sun rise earth drop below you obsedrb moon going faster ovder loop[ earth spinning east speed?both are spinning that way but the moon faster eclipse over how?

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

moon moving to the west then east x axis how?

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

swest face is looking up east face must be gyro east spin south west curve ball ?cricket spin bowler effect of 3axis neutrino neutro electron enery matter ?

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

blackhole center discs top bottom spinning light you can see

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

x axis 6month apart