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Had a great cloud/smoke free view of the event from Oregon's Unity Reservoir. Fairly remote area, but there were several hundred folks about and 14 float planes on the pond. This was my third eclipse, but the first with an unobstructed view. Clouds fully obscured everything for #'s 1 and 2. A truly neat event and my first experience with serious traffic in our remote eastern Oregon. Took, about three times the normal duration to make it home. Cookie took 100+ images from end to end, and we will eventually get around to assembling a composite. That will involve some processing to merge about 15 images. Have to hustle off on another trip in about 36 hrs, so it might be some time before we get that done.

Here's a couple teasers at totality though just to prove we were indeed there. Looks like there were a couple of solar storms going at about 11:30, 1:00, and 3:00 o'clock, as they showed up in near all of the totality frames.



A Canon EOS 70 D which is a crop sensor. A 500 mm Canon lens ahead of a 1.4 extender. That combination amounts to about a 1,120 mm lens shot at F5.6 and 1/400 of a sec. No protective filters are needed at totality. Other images either side require a filter, and those images will have an orange cast.

I got to use her lesser unfiltered gear which limited me to 7 frames at totality.

Canon EOS 50 D with a 100-400mm zoom stretched out. F5.6 at 1/1250 sec.


Have a good one,

I worked thru it without noticing......

Nice shot, crazy that those solar flares are bigger than the earth

I watched it on tv. No special glasses needed.

Yep...

I watched the 90% eclipse here, then I watched the three apples on our newest tree grow for a while.

Been an exciting day.

That's a cool photo. It was mighty impressive to see it first hand. Much better than I imagined.

Thanks for posting it.

Those are some great shots. However, haven't seen any photos yet that come even close to the real thing. No camera is capable of doing that. It was certainly worth the trip.

My wife built a box and we saw, per the news, 91%. We enjoyed it and noted a touch of darkness outside, significant darkness in the house and a slight cooling.

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I was amazed at how light it was out when it was down to about 10% of the sun exposed. At totality though darkness really snapped in, and it was too dark to see the LCD control indications on ones camera. Had to get a flashlight out for those 2 minutes which cut into my image count. With no radiant energy, there was a noticeable drop in perceived temperature as well. Cookie is already planning on Texas for the next go around. A neat experience for sure.

We had a thermometer sitting nearby. Before it started, it was above 80. 10 min after totality ended, it was 55. It was almost jacket weather. It took a while after the eclipse was completely over to get back up to 85 as the air currents were a bit strange.

No way man. Still dark here. I told you boys this thing was gonna get stuck and be the real SHTF.

We're all hosed. Glad I prepped! Candles, beer, pig and all other stuff.

Saw the whole Shebangeree in Agate NE. Well worth the effort. Kinda eerie in some ways.

Clouds here. No totality either.
Bummer.

I forgot to mention the same sentiments. It rates a two-cool.

Once again thanks for sharing your wife's amazing photos, they're excellent.

Not total but the family watched it.

Great pictures!!!

And the world is still spinning in the prescribed manner. It went unnoticed in Aleutian Hell and most of AK.

Nice pics BTW.

My wife, another couple and I drove about 150 miles to be in the totality zone. Where I live would have been 97% and I questioned whether it was worth the effort for another 3%. It was, not even close. Not just the view of the sun,but at even 99% coverage sunlight hitting the ground wasn't much different than the sun going behind a cloud. Within about 2 seconds of the moon completely blocking the sun it got much darker than I expected. Two minutes later the sunlight came back just as quickly.

Great pictures, thanks for posting.