ECLIPSE GLOSSARY
ANNULUS
The ring of light that is seen around the Moon during an annular solar eclipse.
CORONA
The outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, which is visible during a total solar eclipse as a halo of faint light.
PROMINENCE
Gaseous eruptions or loops of plasma that can be seen along the edges of the Sun during a total solar eclipse.
RING OF FIRE
Another term for annulus.
SYZYGY
The technical term for when three objects in space (like the Sun, Earth, and the Moon) line up. (Pronunciation of this term is tricky. It sounds like “si-zuh-jee.”)
TOTALITY
The period when the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon.
Jon Hewlett had access to a telescope!
Jon – sunspots
More sunspots
Sunspots
Sun flares!!
More sun flares!!
Below are the photos I took using my camera! I left Sunday evening (8-20-2017) at 11 PM. I drove the 635 miles to Clemson University and got there at 8 AM on 8-21. I slept for an hour in my car, then went to the park area and took these photographs. I left at 4 PM and got home almost 12 hours later at 3:30 because the traffic was so bad!
John let me use the filter from the top of his telescope (all my orange pics were taken using it).
Just starting.
Through a pinhole on a piece of paper!
Checking it out using a welders mask!
Using the glasses the university gave out:
Some clouds got in the way:
Sufficient clouds that I could take this with no filter:
Back to the filter as the clouds moved away:
It started getting dark:
The eclipse was almost full:
Totally full eclipse with a hint of the sun flares on the upper right and the lower right:
Coming out of the 100% eclipse.
Sun becoming more prominent (taken through the sun eclipse glasses):
I was at the 100% line!!
