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

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

We had the clearest danged skies, start to finish.

Thank you!

Those are great!

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing them.

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.

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

into path.

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

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!

Kind of cool and creepy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!)

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

From the cloud covered ones.

for some spectacular shots!

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.

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.

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.

too much green chili!?

That last one though...fabulous!!