getting ready for the 8 PM eclipse on the 2oth, I borrowed a #12 welding lens from Richard..and did a few mid day practice shots



Worked great, sort of a "skyshot" Ensor with a solar flare



Come the big moment...I used my own flash hood...IT DIDN'T FLASH with that low sun angle...



Just imagine the lower part is missing



But the special nature of the flash lens brought out some other previously unseen near solar orbiting
planets



Next 'clipse I'll stick with R's #12

Eclipse day finds



2 experts have judged the broken base to be Paleo..nice testimony to the very long history of the area. The tip below the paleo is clear quartz, hard to imagine it complete as it's the quartz that is well internally fractured.



Clear skies where it mattered made the eclipse a good one.