It Was Incredible

Today's solar eclipse was just incredible IF you had solar glasses on and the weather cooperated. It was great even if you didn't live in or travel to the 70-mile path of totality, which in Oregon was in the Corvallis-Salem-Madras-Redmond areas as well as that stretch on the coast. However, some people around here in Medford whined that they didn't see it getting totally dark--it looked like a sunset here at 93-percent totality--and complained about the smoke, but they wouldn't have complained had they bothered to get the solar glasses.

I doubt I have any pictures to share. I did not get a solar filter for my SLR as I had intended to, and they were sold out a couple of weeks ago everywhere on the internet. Perhaps I will get around to doing it for 2024, the next total eclipse in the U.S. though it will start in Texas and wind its way to the Northeast. I will likely get it anyway in order to photograph sunrises and sunsets.

Some reports can be found at "ground zero" of 100-percent totality, Salem.