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Total Solar Eclipse 2017 (Gallery)
Early in the eclipse, seen though glasses.
The outlet mall at Woodburn was offering eclipse parking for $20. Lots of people took them up on it, some of them with more elaborate equipment than a pair of glasses. Like this filtered telescope.
Further along in the eclipse.
Binoculars also work great as projectors (just don’t look through them!)
Light filtering through trees creates hundreds of tiny pinhole cameras, projecting the image of the eclipse!
Almost there…
Moments before the total eclipse. The camera’s auto-correction makes it look normal, but it was a lot dimmer than usual. Not yellowish like golden hour light or reddish like wildfire smoke (we got plenty of that later in the week), just…dimmer.
Corona! Photos really don’t do it justice. The whole sky turned dark blue, like twilight, with the shadowed moon looking deep black, like a hole in the sky. And the corona is *bright*! That’s something I’d never really grasped from photos: it’s not harmfully bright, and it’s not enough to drown out stars and planets, but it’s still *much* brighter than the sky around it.
Looking at the total eclipse
Something that photos never prepared me for: the sun’s corona is still very bright, just not harmfully so. In this shot, it’s bright enough to drown out the black circle in the center. But the fact that you can see Venus and the sun at the same time is kind of a hint as to what’s going on…
Special coffee drink for the eclipse. Not sure if all Starbucks had it, or only those within the total eclipse’s path.
