there it is. total eclipse in casper, wyoming. at this point take filters all right cam that they will see the corona. you see it there it is. there you go. yeah. explain why that corona now has appeared? the corona is very, very faint. relative to the rest of the sun. so even though it s always there, we can t see it, because we re blinded by sunlight. that would be true on the ground. true in space. true anywhere. but once that corona is cut off by that occulting disc, the moon, a quarter million miles away, as correctly pointed out there, the very sharp limb between the moon s limb there and the sun being exactly the same size, let s us only see the faint light that is in the outer atmosphere of the sun. that is what we re seeing now. the key of a total solar eclipse, we can see the whole corona.
united states in 99 years. exactly. since 1918. the last time. the last total eclipse, not completely across the united states. exactly right. this is a moment we re watching this total eclipse. this is in casper, wyoming. shortly we ll keep this picture up for viewers. tell viewers what to anticipate. at this point with the sun just now there it goes. that s the bead. there s the diamond ring effect. and now, of course, that s overexposing. put the filter back on. right. doing it right. doing the filter. yep. whoops. got to get that filter on. yeah. i hope they didn t burn off pixels in the camera. yeah. that sunlight is very, very intense. got to be really careful. have a lot of filters. there we go. here it comes. all of a sudden, the sun will come back out. that s right. and people all across the eclipse path from west to east are seeing this in sequence.
aware on wall street this was going to happen today, the dow is lost a little bit. barry williams, look at this. barry williams is watching us in the news deck and look at that, he was watching when it was casper, wyoming, that is our locator bar, i know that. the backlight is imperfect for taking a picture but you work with what you have. he is using a box of bisquick, this is the first time i have seen a box of bisquick used. we sat rice krispies, some cap n crunch use but this is the first bisquick. i think just for your ingenuity barry williams, we will give you a nine. a nine on a ten scale, look at this. i like it when the poppies michelle just sent this. if your dog is going to look, you have to make sure the dog is properly glassed. matt finn, do you have any dogs
tim slater is on the phone in casper, wyoming, how was it? the eclipse doesn t happen here yet, the shadow when across madras, oregon and we are still about 16 minutes before the shadow gets here in central wyoming. shepard: you are only seeing a little sliver, right? the temperature has dropped about 15 degrees just a few minutes ago, about 90 degrees and now it is closer to 70 degrees, we are standing here on a bluff overlooking the city in the center of wyoming and i ve got to tell you, nobody here is wearing tinfoil hats but i am literally watching down here in the valley the deer and the antelope play. shepard: you are auditioning to sing it again, you only get one song per customer. how big is the crowded there? the atmosphere is electric.
about 1,000 astronomers, casper is our tiny little town, the largest city in wyoming, they now have a population of about 150,000 people, they ve come from all over the world. montreal, canada, london. i can see just a few feet from me the folks from google. nasa has a team of high school students here. 70 high school teams set up across the country all the way to south carolina and these high school kids are very carefully setting up their instruments because in about 14 minutes we are going to reach totality here. totality will last about two and a half minutes here. that giant shadow of the moon will come screaming across wyoming about 117 miles per hou