August 2017 - Spinning Code

Scenes from the 2017 Eclipse

Last week’s Eclipse passed right over us here in South Carolina. I live about 20 minutes outside the line of totality, so of my family came to visit and we went up to Camp Gravatt to watch the main event. I took a few hundred pictures of the course of the day, and figured there might be people interested in seeing a few.

My wife using one of the telescopes just as the eclipse begins.

USCA’s science center had setup several viewing stations, including this sun spot viewer.

My mother using her eclipse glasses.

Watching the progression on the sun spotter.

Several indirect viewers were setup as well.

Keeping the telescopes aligned as an ongoing challenge.

This picture of my feet and my attempt at an indirect viewer is the only picture of me.

People came with their glasses and got comfortable.

The live feed from NASA never really worked, but it was a good attempt.

The kids loved the telescopes.

More indirect viewers making it easy to see things progress.

A couple relaxing as they watched the sun slowly disappear.

The sun spotter was interesting for many.

Dr. Gary J. Senn from USCA’s Ruth Patrick Center tried to keep up with everything that was happening.

More families sit back and watch.

People of all ages were there.

This family posed for one of the local news camera crews.

Lots of people enjoyed trying to take pictures through the telescopes as the eclipse progressed.

A girl watching as totality nears.

As we got closer more and more people just started to watch and cheer.

Finally we had totality

Totality from Aiken, SC — A darker exposure

Another totality image

You can see a planet just behind the sun in this one.

As light returns people kept watching (but I didn’t readjust the camera settings fast enough)

People watching a little after totality passed.

This goat didn’t really seem to understand all the fuss, but liked the attention much of the day.