Clear skies tomorrow Andy!
Made it to Midland, TX and skies should be clear tomorrow, high temp about 73. Was a bit of a hike from Edmond, however. Midland is right in the center line and should be peak at 11:45 am.
Great! Hope it stays clear!
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CRO is open for the day and for tonight’s member night.
Clear skies wind out of the north end a little chilly. Dress warm!
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Family and neighbors in the OKC metro. I had messaged neighbors and posted on FB and Nextdoor. Had plenty of Lunt Eclipse glasses for the kids and solar filters for the Q50 and TMB130.
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Good deal! My neighbors enjoyed the views while I’m at CRO.
It was too windy here, all my pics turned out blurred because of it.
My wife got a few pictures too.
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I ended up with a crowd of about 20 or so viewing it from the hotel parking lot. Had folks there from Michigan, from Memphis, and several from Austin and Houston. We had a lot of fun viewing the leadup partial and the ring of fire. Someone in the group started playing Johnny Cash singing Ring of Fire during the maximum.
I had both my eVscope 2 and Stellina getting images. Haven’t had time to go through everything I got (3850 images from Stellina alone), but this is probably about typical of the ring.
Here’s a nice partial at about 80% or so.
I never got the pinhole viewer to show the crescent (must’ve been holding it wrong), but the leaves formed a nice effect!
It got noticeably dimmer, and the parking lot lights came on. Maybe a bit cooler, too.
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Here is an animated view from Oklahoma City done in white light.
Captured by the Sun Box. I’m not sure if words properly describe it – It’s kind of a Meade parasite projection device. Its best to just show you.
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No fantastic processed images here, just some pictures of the setup. We had family and neighbors over to view the eclipse from our backyard. It was a lot of fun. It was also educational. My neighbors got a daytime look at what I do in the dark backyard at night.
The setup used an Orion ST-80 (80mm f/5) telescope with a 0.5x focal reducer, Orion solar filter, ZWO ASI 120MC camera, on a Celestron CGEM mount. Capture software SharpCap Pro.
Images were displayed on my laptop and a small TV. We also provided eclipse glasses so guests could watch the eclipse by eyeball.
This setup allowed guests to take their own pics of the event right from the TV screen. I provided a lightweight blanket to cover the screen and head of the guest while taking pics. This reduced reflections and glare.
The TV pic below did not use the blanket. Note my reflection in the screen. The laptop pic used the blanket. Much reduced reflection. Lots of discussion about what a fantastic coincidence it is that the Moon is just the right size and at just the right distance from Earth to be able to do this.
Pics follow.
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Observed eclipse from my house with a few different scopes. Used an Orion ST120 with a glass solar filter, Orion 20 x 80 ED binoculars with safety film solar filters, and a Lunt LS60MT Ha telescope. I also had a Sunspotter solar projection scope. Got a few images with my iPhone.
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I like the Sunspotter. It’s Rube Goldberg style.
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Outstanding views! Cool kit! And beautiful ha images. Thank you!
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So many great pictures! Well done everyone, I’m so happy, what a great experience it was.
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Hopefully it was clear where you were Andy! Can’t wait to see what you got!
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Nice collage, Andy! looks gorgeous!
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