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Important scientific information from this, but once again, explain to viewers what kind of scientific information the best scientific information will they be able to obtain? >> it's looking at the corona, wolf. it's looking when you get totality, it's the view you can't get any other time. yes, you can put a disc in the way of the sun and get a man-made, partial eclipse and try to get a reading from that. but when you take a body, not just a piece of plastic, and you don't block it with a piece of plastic in front of the scope, you block it with a body of rock way out there in space, you get...

>> 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 ...

We've got another hour here in nashville, thankfully. we'll get to see that. that was incredible. >> certainly was, and on the left, you know, david, i want to point out we're seeing it's leaving oregon right now. moving across the country. heading next towards idaho. you see what's happening in hailey idaho. that whole path will be amazing? >> right. every single point along the path they'll experience what they experienced in oregon. that is what's going through my mind. an amazing realization to see so many get a chance to see this. >> that swath, 70 miles approximately. say you're 80 or 90...

Between maybe 5 and 10 degrees. this is absolutely amazing. to witness. never seen anything like this. >> david, go ahead. explain what we're seeing right now. >> well, we're looking at a number of images from the beginning and the end of totality and seeing the crest of the sun coming back here on the right-hand side, and the left-hand side is, zooming in, we still see put full totality the corona easily visible. >> the sun is coming through in organiz oregon but it salem total over there. >> that's right. >> wow! [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ]

Affected the temperature and affected everybody here. wolf? >> and during that 2 1/2 minute period, miguel, you could see other stars? >> reporter: oh, yeah. you could see -- i don't know -- i'm not as good an astronomer. i don't know if you could see planets or stars but you could see several bright objects in the sky. may have been planets. i know some of the planets you can apparently see when it's full corona. planes you could see everywhere. it was literally -- it was literally day turning into night. as cliche as that sounds, really incredible. you can see why 1,000, 2,000 years ago when...