Solar eclipse anomaly?

JMartJr

JMartJr

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OK, friends, here's one I don't get...

Sciman Dan recently (I guess recently, FaceBook reels are undated) addressed a space is fake video pointing to an odd feature in a video showing a solar eclipse.
sun outline.jpg


The claim is that this video shows the curved edge of the Sun that SHOULD be hidden behind the moon. (Dan deals with a second claim in the video, that we ought to be able to see the moon itself but skips the claim I am mentioning.)

In a reply to that video, I summ up my thoughts after a few minutes...

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My answer to "Why does that video still seem to show the curved edge of the Sun that is behind the moon is... I have no idea. But I do note that this is not a feature of any of the other eclipse videos I went to watch just now, nor of the many, many still photos I've looked at. It appears to be unique to this one video . So why might that be?

First, it may be something specific to that camera or the image processing done on this specific video, in camera or afterwards.
But I also wonder, is that a real video of a real eclipse, or is it something made in a computer to illustrate an eclipse, and the software created this effect?

Either way, if it was real it ought to show up in lots of videos and pics. Maybe it does, and I'm just not finding them? But from what I have found and seen so far, it does not.
But I don't KNOW, and now I want to -- so here I am, among folks who are quite good at this sort of thing! What do y'all think?

Sciman Dan's FB Reels vid:

Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1805436903731461
 
I just saw that a few minutes ago on Facebook. I notice that the background glow (out to about half a sun's width) is visible even where the moon is. When I searched for photos of a partial eclipse, it appears that most of them are either taken with a filter or severely underexposed, but I found this one:
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There seems to be that same sort of halo effect, but it is very definitely NOT making a round shape. I think it must be an artifact caused by the sun's light overwhelming the sensors, but beyond that, I can't comment.
 
The youtube video I found with it in was from clipping the image in the op and reverse image searching it.

What I didn't think to do was reverse image search the image I screenshotted from that video and posted here.

Unfortunately I'm on tablet now and reverse image searches hate me (can't convince tineye I'm a human) but the limited options I have do throw up more results than the first reverse search I did.

Like this tiktok that looks like the same animation but with audio from a real eclipse dubbed in...


Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@africanbeauty.23/video/7355853119953194272

Imagine seeing the moon stop.

Maybe someone with access to better tools might get closer to the source using this method.
 
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Ravi said:
Totally animated/fake/cgi/Ai whatever. Why bother?
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I am also convinced now that it is CGI... by my asserting this is not persuasive... being able to prove it would be nice. Of course, there are 8 gazillion CGI thises and thats out there, it may be almost impossible to definitively source this one, or to prove it is what it is.

But this crowd does the impossible pretty regularly, so it seems worth a try!

EDIT to add: And did so , had I finished reading the posts this morning.
 
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