{"id":10877,"date":"2018-08-21T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:42:17","slug":"the-great-american-eclipse-photographed-from-a-southwest-airlines-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/the-great-american-eclipse-photographed-from-a-southwest-airlines-flight\/%20","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Eclipse Photographed from a Southwest Airlines Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On August 21, 2017, photographer Jon Carmichael flew Southwest Airlines to capture his iconic photo unveiled publicly for the first time today to commemorate the anniversary of the solar eclipse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One year ago today millions of people watched in awe of the Great American Eclipse. For the first time in 99 years, the moon\u2019s shadow raced across the U.S. becoming the most-observed and photographed moment in history. An estimated 215 million Americans tuned in for the event, breaking NASA\u2019s online viewing records by 7 times. Today, photographer Jon Carmichael commemorates the first anniversary with the official unveiling of his never before seen image at Twitter\u2019s New York office.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s CEO Jack Dorsey said of the image:\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cI was immediately struck by Jon\u2019s photo. But, like most things, the story behind it was awe-inspiring. So excited for the world to hear it, and be reminded of that moment we were all looking at the sky together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time we had a connection to the heavens like this was during man\u2019s first flight to the moon, on Apollo 8 in 1968, said Mr Carmichael.\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cThe first, famous Earthrise photo came from that mission, and like the eclipse last year, showed us that we are all a part of something bigger. I wanted my photo to perfectly capture this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualization of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the American Museum of Natural History notes:\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cWhen I saw Jon\u2019s amazing work, under the moon\u2019s shadow, it is evident that you can see how thin our planet\u2019s atmosphere really is, and how close we are to space. This is by far one of the best eclipse photos I have ever seen. In Jon\u2019s photograph, one gets the linkage to space, with greater landscape detail than we get from Earth\u2019s orbit. His image is a ladder to space.\u201d<\/p>\n

To capture this rare image, Mr Carmichael mapped out the commercial flight paths around the U.S. and compared them to the moon\u2019s path of totality and determined that Southwest Airlines flight #1368, from Portland, OR to St. Louis, MO, would be his best chance.<\/p>\n

He introduced himself to the Southwest flight crew, who gave him seat 1A and did whatever they could to assist, from the Captain personally cleaning his window, to performing a series of five 180-degree turns while under the moon\u2019s shadow to get the shots he desired.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terrified,\u201d Mr Carmichael said. \u201cI worried I would miss this once-in-a-lifetime moment.\u201d Carmichael arrived at the gate armed with all his camera gear and $600 cash. \u201cMy biggest fear was not getting a window seat since Southwest doesn\u2019t have assigned seating.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Southwest, we aim to connect Customers to the moments that matter most in their lives.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as our Flight Crew learned Jon\u2019s story, they jumped into action to assist him in capturing the photo of a lifetime,\u201d said Michelle Agnew, Southwest Spokesperson. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of our Employees for going above and beyond in making this a moment to remember for our Customer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jon\u2019s larger-than-life photograph (74\u201d x 115\u201d) will be unveiled today at Twitter\u2019s New York office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One year ago today millions of people watched in awe of the Great American Eclipse. For the first time in 99 years, the moon\u2019s shadow raced across the U.S. becoming the most-observed and photographed moment in history. An estimated 215 million Americans tuned in for the event, breaking NASA\u2019s online viewing records by 7 times. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JonCarmichaelEclipsePhotograph-1-large.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10880,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}