Solar Eclipse over my Piaggio

[Stig / Major Tom]

We were in the path of a full eclipse here in this part of Ohio.
Thin clouds with some intermittent blue skies.
How spectacular was it?....we saw neighbors we haven't seen in a blue moon coming out of their houses to witness this!

We had about 2.5 mins of total eclipse.....with that amazing flaming corona quite visible to the naked eye (even if a simple digital camera or inexpensive cell phone couldn't do it justice)
Otherwise we were using the dark shades made for viewing an eclipse.
The moon started its work about 2PM and by @ 4PM it was past the sun.

It got pretty dark - but, not night dark, that corona kept us pretty well lit.
We did see the state park parking lots filling up around noon, but we saw no problems with the curious from out-of-State.

It was pretty cool. Glad my kids got to see this! (I have something like 34 off-spring - my mother counted them!)

Stig



daughter set up an eclipse picnic on the patio


sun getting noticeably weaker...


nearly full eclipse


full eclipse, time to fire up the Liberty



Stig

[randyo]

no pics here, 96% totality, I ha a PT appointment, brought my solar filter from mt survey instrument, I was inside at peak, my GF was outside waiting, she watched it thru my filter. Not the big deal for me as others, I've seen total eclipse thru 32x scope in past. Watching on tv is just as exciting, maybe more with higher x scope

[klaviator]

Nothing to see here.  I think it was around 85% but it was overcast so it just got a little dark.  Many of my friends went to other states to see it.  I didn't realize it was the last one on the USA for over 20 years or maybe I would have gone as well.