2024 Solar Eclipse, Morristown, Indiana

I’ve lived through several partial solar eclipses where the skies got a little funky and strange shadows showed the eclipse on the ground. But I’ve never experienced a solar eclipse with totality. This 2024 eclipse was coming over my house in downtown Weisburg, Indiana but only giving at best 1 to 2 minutes of totality. I did some research and found if I drove about 48 miles northwest to Morristown, Indiana we could be almost directly under the center line of the eclipse path and experience a full 4 minutes of totality! So Jean and I packed up the car and headed out to the Asbury Cemetery just 1/2 mile from downtown Morristown, Indiana. There I setup my video camera in a stationary position to film the event and 5 minutes before totality I threw up the drone and just let it hover at 300 feet to capture the beginning and end of totality from the sky.

I’m very fortunate as I have seen quite a few amazing things in my life but this definitely rates in the top 5. I will never forget April 8, 2024.

I had almost an hour of video but cut it down to about 20 minutes. I separated it into three sections so you can decide what you want to watch.

Section 1 is the stationary camera on the ground in real time along with background conversations from Jean and I along with the ooos and ahhs of the other 20 people also watching in the cemetery. The original clip is 42 minutes but I cut this down to just 8 minutes covering the main event.

Section 2 is the 8 minutes of the stationary camera again but the film is speeded up and the entire event condensed into about a 2 minute time frame.

Section 3 is the drone in real time featuring the main part of the eclipse over a 14 minute time frame.

While the drone was up, a strange shadow appeared racing across the field before totality. I’m thinking it was a jet contrail???? Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Enjoy!

GPS Location: 39º40’59.2″N 85º42’14.5″W