Casper for the Total Eclipse

It happened! It was great!

It was clear enough for us to see the total eclipse, though some clouds moved in toward the end before the moon had completely cleared the face of the sun.

First contact: 10:22am Mountain time

"Pinhole camera" crescents through a colander! 11:17am

Crescent shaped light through the leaves of the trees 11:18am

Crescent shaped light formed by my "pinhole camera" 11:19am

Crescent shapes through another colander 11:20am

This is what the other colander looked like.

The tools that we brought - solar glasses, a thermometer, and a "pinhole camera" with our location and date on aluminum foil.

My honey took people pictures - they will be in a separate post!

The sun is a smaller crescent now!  11:34am

The light through the trees also shows a smaller crescent 11:37am

Totality!!!! 11:43:14am

 Totality here was from 11:42:42-11:45:08am.

There were "sunset" colors in the sky 360 degrees around; it was quite dark!  11:43:41am

The arrow is pointed at Venus that we could see in the daytime.  11:44:14am

The temperature went down to about 67 degrees F (back up to 87 degrees after it was all over).  11:45am

Leaf shadow crescents are now facing the opposite way!  12:02pm

Everyone posting their updated status on social media!  12:03pm

The moon left the sun's edge at 1:09pm. It clouded up some about 12:50-1pm, but was clear enough that we could see the very end of the eclipse too.

We are so glad that Joe and Pat, Larry and Barbara planned this event! We are so glad we came!