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    The Last 100 Years of Solar Eclipses in One Image [OC]
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    The Last 100 Years of Solar Eclipses in One Image [OC]


    edit: This map includes annular eclipses and the scale for colors is bad. Better version in the comments plus a bonus future eclipse map
    Every solar eclipse from the last 1,000 years, layered so that the most recent coverage wins. I sampled 512 points per path and rendered the entire history to capture the weave of shadow tracks across the continents.

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    2. dsp_guy on

      I was right in the path of the 2017 Eclipse. And so was a cloud, during totality. Chances are, it would be more than a 1000 years before that opportunity comes again. Specifically, my living in an area that just happens to have totality.

    4. Khal_Doggo on

      Piece of advice – with the range of devices people are going to be viewing your plot on, it’s very difficult to tell the values apart because most of the plot is quite dark. It would be much easier to visually interpret the differences in values if you either reverse the palette or choose a different colour scale.

    5. GlowingGreenie on

      It looks to me like the data set starts at yellow for 1000, and yet there are clearly white areas within the map. Are these areas which have not experienced a solar eclipse in the past millennia?

    10. darkshoxx on

      Okay I misinterpreted that. I thought that somehow the Mike Oldfield song “Moonlight Shadow” is covered by other artists so frequently that you can make this beautiful diagram out of it.