Where will you be on August 21st?
Rich and I plan to be in Nebraska, chasing the 2017 total solar eclipse. Nothing like a sky event like this to make me drag out and dust off my old telescope, and then go ahead and buy a solar filter for it. I asked for vacation time off last year. I'm approved, and we plan to have a party "in the shade" . . . hopefully it won't be cloudy.
This will be the view of the sun through my telescope with a special Baader AstroSolar safety film solar screen attached to my 8" reflector telescope. I will have Rich bring the GoPro, and plan to record the entire 2 minutes and 36 seconds the total eclipse will last.
If you want to find out where the path of the eclipse will follow, and information about length of time, check out this really cool 2017 Eclipse Link.
Now we need to hope and wish for CLEAR SKIES!!
