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mush

Prince Charming takes a breather

Cooling off in the snow

uphill

working hard, and loving it

Fall sunburst

sunrise on a cool october morning

october sunrise

over lake of the woods; our last of 2017

harvest moon rise

full moon on thanksgiving weekend, andy could not hold still for 5 seconds; that's taurus just under the branch on the left of the photo

long october shadow

in Maple Grove dog park

suns spots during solar eclipse

an hour after totality (at 3:34 in maryville, TN)

back yard eclipse

One way to experience a total eclipse: a friend's yard in tennessee, lace tablecloth, flowers and mint juleps; A portion of the picture is lightened to show the friend looking through a telescope. At 70 degrees altitude, capturing the sun and the ambience was a failed effort...

solar eclipse of 2017

just coming out of totality; maryville, TN

alpha leo and a solar eclipse

mid totality, photographed in maryville,TN at 14:35:21; a little overexposed on the perimeter, but it shows the star regulus (aka alpha leo, the brightest star in the constellation leo) in the upper left corner; at 79 million light years, alpha leo is 5 million times further away than sol, at 8.3 light minutes

2 minutes from totality

taken in maryville, TN, 2 minutes before totality, using a solar filter

first bite

viewing the eclipse at 10 minutes; the inset shows the view through a filter