2017 Eclipse

Shot this in Murray, Utah 8.21.2017 at 95% totality. Shot at 11:33 AM MST.

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The eclipse was freaking awesome! It moved me to tears. We camped at Cove Palisades State Park in Oregon and hiked up the Tam-a-lau Trail to view the eclipse. It was awesome because we found a spot to ourselves to view the eclipse, but could hear people in the area cheering during totality. I heard there was a major traffic jam in Madras, not far from where we saw the eclipse. Luckily our campsite for tonight was accessible by back roads, so no crazy traffic for us yet. Hopefully the drive tomorrow morning will go smoothly.

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I'd confidently call it a life changing experience. Ended up doing a little cloud dodging, but having them on the horizon made it even more epic. Other than being pretty windy, I got a pretty great spot, and was so moved by seeing the eclipse that I fumbled with the camera and didn't come back with much. What a sight!
 
We hiked to a peak in the Hole Range out of Victor, ID and got the full view of the approaching moon shadow at, what, 1000 miles per hour? Totally awe-inspiring. At totality the wind blew cold from weird thermals and it got 20° colder. The whole time my dog was oblivious and only wanted to play ball.

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Kullaberg63 said:
We hiked to a peak in the Hole Range out of Victor, ID and got the full view of the approaching moon shadow at, what, 1000 miles per hour? Totally awe-inspiring. At totality the wind blew cold from weird thermals and it got 20° colder. The whole time my dog was oblivious and only wanted to play ball.

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Was in the same area Friday and Saturday. I'm planning on doing a micro report on Packsaddle Lake.
 
Reef&Ruins said:
After watching it with the wife and kiddos in Central Oregon (a quaint place called Fossil), I'm all psyched up for 2024!
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My wife and I are the same way. We are considering a vacation to Vermont to visit that part of the country and catch another totality. When the moon fully blocked out the sun and I removed the eclipse glasses and stared up that has to be one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. We were visiting with family in the Donnelly/Cascade, Idaho area, so totality wasn't really long but it was beautiful. Our drive back to Utah wasn't too bad because we were coming down I-84 rather than I-15, the worst parts were on Highway 55 from Cascade to Boise which took about 5 hours instead of the normal 2. After seeing totality I can see why people end up chasing them.
 
I'm fortunate that the 8/21/17 eclipse is the 3rd total or nearly total eclipse that I've seen - and I didn't travel to see any of them. In fact the first one was totally by accident. I had no idea that there was going to be an eclipse. In college I had a great job that sent me all over the world tracking GPS satellites. In 1976 and 1977 I spent 9 months in the Seychelles which is an island group about 500 miles off the east coast of Kenya in the Indian Ocean. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was at the beach. Mid morning it suddenly began to get dark. Honestly, it felt a little like the end of the world, not only because of the sudden darkness on a sunny day, but because the darkness was accompanied by an equally sudden formation of thick clouds. I finally realized what was happening and I rushed to work to get my camera. This is the best picture I got. The October 1976 eclipse was nearly total in the Seychelles.
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6 months later there was another solar eclipse over the Seychelles. This time I knew it was coming. I think it was about 90 to 95% total in the Seychelles. Like the other time, the sky was pretty clear until the moon began to cover the sun and then clouds began to form. This time it didn't produce fog. Again, this is the best picture I have of that one.
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8/21/2017 Nebraska State Capitol building, Lincoln, Nebraska. Double Exposure
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For those of you that missed the travel part here is a time-lapse of our return trip. Just so those that didn't see totality know even with this traffic we still think it was worth it to catch the total eclipse.

 
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I got a few shots

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Very nice, Swims! Especially the corona shots. Are these assemblies of multiple shots stacked together? Hard to get the fine streamers in the corona and the red chromosphere visible in the same exposure as the bright corona otherwise. Were you tracking?
 
" Are these assemblies of multiple shots stacked together? Hard to get the fine streamers in the corona and the red chromosphere visible in the same exposure as the bright corona otherwise. Were you tracking?"

No tracking and all are just single shots of varying exposure lengths.
 
SwimsWithTrout said:
" Are these assemblies of multiple shots stacked together? Hard to get the fine streamers in the corona and the red chromosphere visible in the same exposure as the bright corona otherwise. Were you tracking?"

No tracking and all are just single shots of varying exposure lengths.
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Well, interesting. Nice work. It was sure an event. I am glad to have seen it again.
 
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Excellent shots! Super well done. I especially like the totality shot with the bluish tinge in the corona. That is what I saw and not everyone captured it with their photos.
 
Reef&Ruins said:
@SwimsWithTrout
Excellent shots! Super well done. I especially like the totality shot with the bluish tinge in the corona. That is what I saw and not everyone captured it with their photos.
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I agree as well. That shot also shows the chromosphere which is red and was, through our binoculars. Interestingly, the corona is 5M degrees C.! and the chromosphere is MUCH cooler at 6K degrees C.! Swims did well to capture that color and the red layer/loops without a telescope.
 
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Did anybody get any photos of Bailey's Beads? I read that you can only see them for a very short time just before totality and they're caused by light shining through the mtns and canyons of the moon. They're easier to see when you're at the outside edges of the totality path (probably the angle) then go away with totality as the diamond ring takes over.

Here's a pic from NASA

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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-baileys-beads-effect-during-the-2017-total-solar-eclipse
 
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