Eclipse Chasers Travel the Earth in a quest for daytime darkness created by the cosmic dance between the moon and the sun.

Our Kristi Dutton caught up with one such stargazer who was ready to go the distance for the celestial show.

Their magic.

It gives you kind of a little scale with the solar systems like it's hard to describe until you've really experienced it.

David Shields saw his first eclipse at the age of seven.

And I'm there with my cereal box pinhole gizmo, just like my teachers taught me how to do.

And he has been hooked ever since.

You don't get it.

And some people are like, I've seen one.

I don't have to go back.

But some people see him as, Oh, I got to see more of these.

And I'm one of those guys.

This is his seventh solar eclipse and his third total solar eclipse.

And for the eclipse chaser, that's the best catch.

The totals are a little different because they're a lot different.

It's just an otherworldly experience.

And this eclipse will be even more of a celestial sight to see.

Well, sometimes you look at the sun and it's just, you know, it's featureless.

You don't see anything?

No.

No solar flares, no sunspots.

Not the case right now.

You know, we're in an active period of the sun and it makes the eclipse more interesting to have that was in the background.

Shields is such an astronomy aficionado.

He keeps his eye to the sky using telescope types.

He made himself.

I learned how to do it, and they're all the same design.

Isaac Newton Invent that telescope, by the way.

It's a Newtonian reflector.

Reflector on and the rest of it's just a carpentry project.

You know, I'm good at making boxes.

So good that he's made five telescopes and modified cameras.

With pretty cool optics on it, huh?

And you can't be very bright.

But he still enjoys sharing unique ways to showcase this solar spectacle.

You hold up like this, and during an eclipse and clear skies, you see a little crescent sample and you can have spaghetti afterwards and avoid the traffic jam, you know, which when when.

When it comes to eclipse, chasing shields lives by one simple rule.

Seek out clear skies on the eclipse path.

Nothing else matters.

He's ready to go the distance to do just.

That and will do whatever it takes.

If I have to run a car for 13 hours, I'm going to run the car for 13 hours.

His fascination may take him much farther away for the next total solar eclipse.

I just think it's cool.

I go to Spain in two years.

I'm hardcore.

We checked in with David Shields to see what location he chose for this eclipse.

Luckily, he didn't have to travel far for a clear sky forecast.

He drove a couple of hours up the road to Indiana, to the center of the path of totality.