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Day 198: A few miscellaneous photos from Toots!

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Just a few photos of the area and whatnot, compliments of Toots… Somebody (probably me…) touched my filter…it didn’t affect the photos though! The “other” camera! Art(sy). What is needed by every astrophotographer! As you can see, dust is going to be everywhere… Art?  Or Macro? Okay, I don’t have a clue…   ~More to […]

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Day 197

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The end of Totality did not mean it was over… We had to wait for the Moon to reverse the process of un-eating the Sun from the other side! It got lighter out, too.  These people had ridden up on an blue Indian Roadmaster.  Eclipsing in style! ** ** The sunspots are back! and the […]

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Day 196…or was it night?

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Total Eclipse!   What is that on the side there?  Solar Prominences…   During Totality you don’t have to wear the glasses for protecting your eyes, and the solar filter on my lens was too, too dark…which screwed up some of my plans and cut short (we only had a little over two minutes!) some […]

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Day 195: It starts!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

There are sunspots on the Sun! ** It took about an hour and a quarter to get from the start to Totality. It was getting darker as we approached Totality! Almost there!!! Watching for the shadow moving towards us on the valley floor.  It was too smokey to see much.  I do have a video […]

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Day 194: getting ready

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Our neighbor took our photo for posterity and the Dailylife Wife. Toots took this one of me. She also noted that there was a strict no fire policy in effect.  It was dry as a bone there! Everyone is lining up and starting to watch.  We found out spot about an hour and a half […]

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Day 193, or Chasing an Eclipse!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Toots and I left Great Falls on Sunday evening, and spent the night in one of the last rooms in Butte, MT.  We were on our way to Idaho to see the Total Solar Eclipse.  We would have stayed in Dillon, 60 miles closer to Idaho, but the only room I found there was priced […]

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Day 190

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Still off on a tangent…we’ll get back to Alaska yet!  {!-{> There is a Total Solar Eclipse coming on the 21st of August, 2017.  It can be seen across the whole center of the US, including Idaho…the area of totality (complete sun blockage by the Moon) does include five or six square miles of Montana, […]

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Day 186

Saturday, August 5, 2017

More light action at the Montana State Fair! Ghosts on the Tilt-A-Whirl!  Riding!   Dismounting! Waiting! More ghosts, now on the Midway… * ** * Okay, the last of the Midway lights, at least until I can get the GIF’s done… This field trip by the Camera Club was a lot of fun, and I […]

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Day 182, June 10th, part 10!

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Fin slap! * ** *** **   ~Curtis in Icy Straight! {!-{>

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Day 181, June 10th, part 9!

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Another!  Better photos! * ** My current wallpaper! *** ** * +++ ~Curtis in Icy Straight! {!-{>

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