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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 192

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

From my star gazing last night: Horizon to horizon in 7 photos!  It took 13 last time!  {!-{>  Actually while the stars were out there was so much smoke in the air that the exposures took twice as long. North is at the top! Click on it a couple of times to see it best […]

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Day 191

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

A little star gazing and a bit of Milky Way! That is an airplane streaking across the left side…no meteors were photographed…seen, yes… A bit of Northern Lights competing with the lights of the City?  There are suppose to be more tonight! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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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 189

Monday, August 14, 2017

The Dailylife Wife was cutting a red pepper for an ingredient in tonight’s dinner… Where the heck was this three weeks ago?  The theme for the State Fair photography this year was red. <<sigh>>  All photos were from my cellphone, BTW. And the dinner was: Italian Zucchini Boats!  Pretty good, too.  And low carb…{!-{P ~Curtis […]

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Day 188

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Morning down by the River in mid-July. *** A one photo panorama… ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 187

Saturday, August 5, 2017

More action(?) at the Montana State Fair! A four photo panorama of the Photographic Exhibits, complete with Member(s), the Old Guard and the current Leadership. (Don’t forget to click on the photo a couple of times to enlarge it; BACK to return here!) A three photo panorama in fisheye mode…mildly noticeable… ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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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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