Things here were raining in the morning then suddenly beautifully perfect.
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@Raygers and a few of his family, a few of my friends, and some family and grandkids showed up just in time for the eclipse to close in along with a sky filled with high altitude clouds. Crap.
The highway out front had hundreds of roadside viewers all along the north shore of Lake Erie. I heard one of them actually made a campfire!
Despite that, the Eclipse made its presence known through the hazy clouds. It got surreal, suddenly very cold, and nature went crazy. The night frogs started chirping, birds disappeared, red colours faded and green exploded! Amazing and spectacular!
Here is a partial as the moon started across the sun.
When the sun disappeared, the cloud cover formed a circular rainbow! My photo doesn't do it justice! The sun doesn't look eclipsed but it was. Just that's what the camera did to it.
The only planet I could see through the clouds was Jupiter slightly above and slightly left of center in the photo below.
I had hoped to glimpse Mercury and the comet Demon but it wasn't in the cards.
Here is one of a few photos of the Eclipse itself. There are lots of better ones on the net, but this is one of mine. The sun's atmosphere is clearly visible and alive.
Somehow I missed getting a photo of a jet contrail above the clouds that cast its shadow on the top of the clouds because of the way the clouds looked during the Eclipse. That was beautiful too, but no pics.
Very happy. It wasn't perfect, but it was spectacular!
