Monday, August 21, 2017

Total Eclipse of the Sun

AWESOME!!  Rick brought his telescopes and we watched the eclipse from Casper, WY at Ruth and Richard's house.


The totality didn't come out on camera, but it was amazing.  A large group of people some distance away saw it a few seconds before we did, and we heard their "OOOHs" and "AAAHs" and celebratory gunfire.  Now we know why some people chase these all over the world.

I got a few good pictures through the telescopes, some sunspots before


and we could see solar flares, but they didn't show up on the camera.  Got several pictures from the two telescopes at various stages of the eclipse.

The next one in the US is in April 2024, from Texas to Maine.  Make your reservations.