These are instructions for how to look at the solar eclipse on April 8th 2024, DURING TOTALITY. The sun looks like it has gossamer butterfly wings formed from fully visible solar winds bent back by magnetic fields - I saw it safely during the 2017 solar eclipse DURING TOTALITY and you could too, it was the most beautiful and unexpected thing I have ever seen and it barely shows up in any photographs.
Step 1. Be in the path of TOTALITY, preferably dead center. In 2017 I...
When we began planning #Eclipse2017 activities in Glendo, Wyoming, in 2002, I thought we were getting way ahead of ourselves. (Turns out not: we pulled off a great event!)
Looks like others are taking a cue from out experience and starting WAY early. 😅
Thinking back to this morning six years ago when the shadow of the Moon swept across North America during #Eclipse2017. We watched it from Glendo, Wyoming, a town with a permanent population of 200 inhabitants that saw 185,000 visitors on eclipse day. Morning clouds parted before the partial phases began, and the view of totality was glorious.
Looking forward to doing it all over again 231 days from now, in Texas, during #Eclipse2024