KØXB - Rick at
On August 21, 2017, my wife and I and
two friends were in Columbia, Missouri, for the solar eclipse. Totality lasted
2 ½ minutes, and conditions were almost perfect.
Here are some photographs I took:
The moon is approximately at the
half-way point. Even though it’s approximately 1pm in the afternoon, the sky is
getting darker.
Totality
began at 1:12pm. Once that happens, you can safely look directly at the eclipse.
The solar corona becomes visible!
This
is my favorite photo. The sun stared to emerge from behind the moon at 1:15pm.
Glints of light become visible. These are called “Bailey’s Beads,” and are the
result of sunlight shining through the lunar valleys. There may also be one or
two solar flares barely visible.