Eclipse Video, Svalbard

Here’s a short video beginning just before totality and running until shortly after, from the eclipse at Svalbard today. At the beginning, the sun appears to be out as usual while��obviously something is up because meanwhile it’s getting dark on the ground.

This is why as it was seen across other parts of Europe and Africa today, a partial eclipse just won’t do.��Annie Dillard wrote that the difference between a partial eclipse and a total one is the difference between kissing a man and marrying him.

That’s it. The two just can’t be compared.

Totality seems really long on this little video screen, but that 2:27��went by in an instant out there on the tundra.