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Prior to First Contact8 viewsWith the H-Alpha setup, the Sun doesn't entirely fit into the field of view of the 70mm scope.
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First Contact plus 6 minutes12 viewsThe lightweight mount I was using made the scope sensitive to vibration - hence the shaky picture.
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About 20 minutes after First Contact8 viewsA big chunk of the Sun is gone already.
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12 minutes to Second Contact6 viewsSeems like the Moon has a long way to go to annularity - will it make it in time?
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About 4 minutes from Second Contact7 viewsThe Moon is rapidly overtaking the Sun.
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Second Contact9 viewsWith an annular eclipse, Second Contact is the moment when the Moon's disk becomes fully enclosed by the Sun's.
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Maximum Annularity7 viewsThis was the closest I could get to maximum annularity, when the outer edge of the Moon's disk is equidistant at all points from the edge of the Sun.
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Third Contact plus ~38 minutes7 viewsUnlike the H-alpha filter, the white light filter doesn't reverse the view, so we are seeing the real deal.
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The Sun sets in the weeds7 viewsThe still-partially-eclipsed sun is being increasingly obscured by tree branches on a distant hillside - but they look more like weeds in this view.
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Nearing sunset7 viewsThe foreground trees show up a little better in this shot.
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Sundown9 viewsTaken just after sunset, this unfiltered shot provided a fitting conclusion to the eclipse experience.
 
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