Annular solar eclipse

[moonshinegnomie]

had to fight clouds and camera issues but got some shots about 15 miles south of Bandera Texas










near the end including a couple of sunspots


the jagged edge on the moon covered sun is from mountains on the moon

[Jirel]

1. Nice.

I was watching on a mountaintop about half an hour north of you.

[moonshinegnomie]

2. i started out near hondo but it was cloudy.

drove up to where it was a little clear. anothe 15 miles north would have been better but the eclipse had already started

[Jirel]

9. Wow.

We had the clearest danged skies, start to finish.

[2naSalit]

3. Fantastic!

Thank you!

Those are great!

[Abigail_Adams]

4. These are incredible

Thank you!

[radical noodle]

5. Spectacular photos

Thanks for sharing them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Omigod, my dear moonshinegnomie! Incredibly good shots!

These are commercial grade! If you were selling them, I would buy one!

The first one, the second one and the last one are the best.

Thank you for sharing them.

[burrowowl]

33. Did you take photos, shadow effects can be fascinating!

[AllaN01Bear]

7. i saw effects of the eclipse in the shadows and darkness. cool. like.

[BigOleDummy]

8. Excellent

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

[wiggs]

10. very nice! Going to be near you in April 2024 for the full eclipse. Staying in Austin, will drive

into path.

Saw the 2017 eclipse in central Oregon, can't wait to see it again.

[FirstLight]

11. I am In Tahoe, CA... I think our max time was 9:30am

I woke up at 10....dammitt!

Decided to grab the Eclipse glasses and check, still saw a good 'bite' out of the sun

Glad so many folks got good pics!

[BigmanPigman]

12. I saw it and a reflection of it in a window so it looked like owl eyes.

Kind of cool and creepy.

[Walleye]

13. Beautiful, really good job. Love those sunspots too

I heard one of the reporter say that the sun spot is the size of the Earth.

[MyMission]

14. Amazing!

Not visible where I live in the southeast.

I planned to check out some sites to see images, but now I don't have to!

Thanks for sharing these amazing photos.

[BOSSHOG]

15. Thank You Very Much

I’d been ready for a week. Had my camera ready, location, time. And we had heavy clouds all day. Not a peak.

Thx very much for your efforts on our part.

[moonshinegnomie]

18. got up at 6

drove 2 1/2 hours. cloudy...
didnt seem like it would clear up to i drove another 20 miles or so to a break in the clouds


this was practice for april when there will be a total eclipse in my backyard

[BOSSHOG]

19. April 8th, got it marked on my calendar

Good luck to you. And thx again. Awesome pics.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

16. The Astronomer's Curse struck again :-(

A friend two hours away had partly cloudy skies, so he got a pic of it and sent it to me.

[cate94]

17. Wow!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Excellent!

We had rain here in Philly all day and the portion eclipsed here would have only been similar to your 4th and 5th pics.

Will be looking forward to the April one (and hope the weather cooperates)!

[republianmushroom]

21. They look good.

Thank you, bummer, heavy cloud cover here no sight of the eclipse.

[orleans]

22. these pictures are AWESOME!

WOWZA!

glad you made the effort to drive to where you could see it.

(honestly, i hate solar eclipses of any type--they just freak me the fuck out. i just stayed inside with the curtains closed today, like i did the last time we had one. but i absolutely love your pictures!)

[FailureToCommunicate]

23. In the Northeast not much to see...and the Navajo stay inside...but if any of us were curious...

later, we have your terrific photos to satisfy that curiosity. Thank you!

[iluvtennis]

24. Sweet - thanks so much for sharing! n/t

[MiHale]

26. Beautiful photos...thanks for sharing...

From the cloud covered ones.

[HAB911]

27. Outstanding! I knew we could count on you

for some spectacular shots!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. I watched it from just south of Albuquerque.

My Son The Astronomer was here, and we stayed at the Isleta casino and resort hotel. We simply watched from the parking lot. A couple of people set up telescopes. Perfectly clear skies the entire time.

[peppertree]

29. Said to bring misfortune over whomever is in charge in that particular spot

[Snackshack]

30. Those

Are fantastic.

Going to save a couple.

Really good shots. The first 3 are my favorite.

Every second that goes by someone on this planets is looking up with just their naked eye or an instrument the positive aspect of science and technology has given us. Thank you Mr. Galilei, how he would love what we have today.

Images shared by backyard astrophotographers today are simply stunning. Power that used to reside in the hands of those w/ access to HST or NASA is now available to all.

Night and Day is always present it’s just a matter of where you are. When we spin around, away from the light of our star and into the dark the Universe is always right there waiting to greet us. When one stops, looks up and knows what they are looking at it becomes very clear what “god” is and it is not a horridly incompetent real estate agent or some omnipotent force that is creepily focused on bedrooms…eww. It is what you see.

Light traveling from so far away you could not get there…ever. At our best speed it would still take multiple lifetimes to travel the distant light travels in 1 light year and every spot of light you see is in the sky is at least 1000’s if not 1,000,000,000,000’s of LIGHT years away.

Some of the objects creating that light are enormous. We think the Sun is big. In todays fastest jet it would still take 6 months to circumnavigate. The Sun burns ~600 million tons of Hydrogen every second and losses ~400 million tons of mass because it takes 4 Hydrogen atoms to fuse into 1 Helium atom and its been doing this every second for 5 billion years and still has enough Hydrogen to go another 5 billion year and one Exo planet found by Kepler is so large it would reach Jupiter / Saturn, you could fit 1000’s of Suns inside it.

Other light comes from huge spinning discs of material 1000’s of light years across spinning so fast that the material glows red hot, in a vacuum due to a former star pulling it in that was >10x the mass of our Sun that has collapsed due to gravity in on itself so violently it has squeezed the very atoms it is made of down so hard all that is left is a Neutron, no Protons, no Electrons just a ball of Neutrons that after the collapse is ~ 10km in size from something that was at least >10x the mass of our Sun. Oh… this 10km ball of goooy neutron material is also spinning some ~9000x a second…gravity on this is so strong that if a person stepped off a ledge 3 feet high…they would be traveling at close to 3 million mph by the time the hit the bottom 1 million/mph/ft….

Things like this simply melts the mind.

There are clouds of alcohol millions of light years in size, planets with lakes made of liquid Nitrogen where it rains diamonds, gravity waves that literally stretch and compress everything…even you and a place so violent and extreme light which travels at 186,000 miles per second cannot even escape from.

It is a wonderful place and it holds all we will ever need. Take the time from a place where we have not turned our back on the Universe with light pollution and… look up.

[panfluteman]

31. Nice Photos, Dude! I Was in Albuquerque with a Group of Fellow Astrologers

Watching the eclipse in a perfectly clear sky. Unfortunately, because the eclipse point was almost exactly conjunct my natal Neptune, which is configured in an opposition with Mercury aligning along the sixth / twelfth house digestive immune axis in my natal chart, and Neptune forms a very precise sesquiquadrate (minor hard stressful aspect) to my relocated Ascendant in Albuquerque, and is also the ruler of my relocated Ascendant in Pisces there, the eclipse was associated with a bad intestinal infection that I suffered, which seems quite similar to the terrible blastocystis hominis infection that I brought back with me from India the last time I visited there. Perhaps some bad bug from India hitched a long ride in a bag of lentils or rice - I had been eating at an Indian restaurant in ABQ frequently for the week before the eclipse. I developed tooth problems on a recent visit to California. I could've stayed in So Cal and gone down to TJ for dental treatment, but I decided on the spur of the moment to go to ABQ, because I knew a dentist there who gave me very good treatment in the past, but along the way, I called my storage facility in ABQ from Parker, AZ and they told me about the eclipse, and when it would be happening - I said to myself - OMG - have I gone from the frying pan into the fire by stumbling into this eclipse? But on the bright side, this root canal and filling, after terrible inflammation the first two days, is healing nicely, and is now awaiting the crown, which will come on Thursday. And, I was able to buy a copy of Cassidy Hutchinson's book and send it to my sister in San Francisco, who introduced me to Democratic Underground, as a birthday present. I also totally forgot about the Balloon Fiesta, which made all accommodations in Albuquerque, especially reasonably priced ones, unavailable - so I have been sleeping in my car for the past couple of weeks while going through with this dental treatment.

[burrowowl]

34. What do you have a stomach ache from

too much green chili!?

[twodogsbarking]

32. A ten. Thanks for sharing.

[CaptainTruth]

35. Nice!!!

[CrispyQ]

36. Wonderful photos!!

That last one though...fabulous!!