Weather cooperated for an incredible experience with the total solar eclipse! Martha’s parent’s house in southern Indiana was ideally located in the path of totality.
See you next time on August 23, 2044! (but you’ll have to go to the Dakotas or Montana)
The sun’s corona, only visible during a total eclipse, can stretch five MILLION miles into space.
The small magenta spots around the sun’s rim are called Bailey’s beads. They are the result of the sun shining through narrow canyons on the moon’s surface.
We were lucky to have the eclipse timing coincide with some significant solar flares. The sun is 864,938 miles in diameter, or about 109 times the diameter of earth. That means the largest flare at 6:00 in the photo is over 5 times the diameter of planet Earth.
The “diamond ring” effect as the sun just begins to re-emerge from behind the moon.
Full sequence from first contact at 1:47pm, through totality, to last contact at 4:21pm. Totality began at 3:03:25 and lasted until 3:07:24, a full 3 minutes, 59 seconds at our location. About as good as it gets!