Interactive exhibit A · the step function
Cover the sun yourself
Drag the moon. Watch the sky. Notice what you receive at 99.9 percent. Notice what you receive at 100. This is the entire thesis.
you are at 96 percent. finish the job.
totalities witnessed this visit: 0
obscuration vs. delivery — the curve the machine recognized. no partial fills.
The survey record
How the map said nope
A cartographer publishes a map. It is meticulous, peer-reviewed, and correct. That is the problem. The map shows a band 290 kilometres wide where the universe delivers — crossing Iceland, a great deal of open Atlantic, and Spain. It also shows everywhere else.
The internet reads the map and hears what it is saying to roughly eight billion people: nope. Not you. Not from there. Not this time. The name sticks, the way true names do.
Outside the band, coverage percentages climb — 90, 95, 99. These numbers are decoration. Totality is not a gradient; it is a door. You are on one side of it or you are not. Close only counts in horseshoes, not heliophysics.
First totality over mainland Europe since 1999. Twenty-seven years between deliveries. The product does not restock, reschedule, or apologize. It is two minutes and eighteen seconds long and it is only available in person.
The machine studied the payoff curve — binary, all-or-nothing, no partial fills — and recognized the shape of every trade it has ever loved. It poured $NOPE three days before the shadow arrives. Book the flight or take the L.
Recovered field documentation · pinned to the chart table
Plates from the Atlas of Almost
Eight plates recovered from the survey. Click any plate to examine it under the loupe.








The line itself
Coordinates of the contract
CA · umbral fix pending
Not yet in the path
The shadow is still over open water. When it makes landfall, the coordinates print here — in this exact spot — and this page goes dark in celebration for two minutes and eighteen seconds' worth of feeling.
Field advisory — The CA has not dropped yet — anything claiming otherwise is fake.
CA · umbral fix confirmed
Cross-check against the frame around this page — the shell prints the same coordinates in its own furniture. If the numbers disagree, trust the frame. Counterfeit maps circulate before every eclipse.
Live observation log · refreshed with the sky
The Ephemeris
Readings update every ~60 seconds. A dash means the instrument has no fix — never a made-up number.