Nice shots, Dave! I purposely left the H-a scope at home; while it would have made for some interesting shots, I figured it secondary to the main event. I also had no room to spare since we took the Fiesta to save on gas. Didn't have to buy a drop of gas in Idaho. I don't have any prior total eclipse experience, but I felt the sky pretty darn dark. It was completely cloudless at Thornton. Before sunrise I noticed just the thinnest band of reddish smoke on the northern horizon, it didn't extend up more than a few degrees. Terrestrial visibility didn't seem too compromised by suspended particles in the air. Ground visibility was very good in all directions going home that afternoon. Dust in the air probably contributed to the lighter sky some eclipse veterans mention, but I think the size of the umbral shadow played a big part as well. A 2-minute centerline totality means a much smaller umbral shadow than a six minute centerline totality. The illuminated countryside outside the shadow is much closer with the shorter eclipse. It's the equivalent of a shorter span of time after sundown. I'm not in a rush to go through my photos, there are hundreds and I'm paying the price at work by taking two days off. I *am* going to hie myself on down to Walmart and have a poster or three printed up, however! I'll be retired in 2024 so can do what I want to, when I want to, for that one. And I'll only be 87 in 2045 when I won't have to go anywhere. ;-) On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> wrote:
I’ve posted this album to Flickr. I have not cleaned up the photos and don’t have time to do so at the moment. What impressed me most about the eclipse was the difference in air temperature I felt at totality. Sorry, no H-alpha filter, just white-light filtered photos.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/albums/72157687999587425 < https://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/albums/72157687999587425>
Dave