Solar Eclipse 2024 April 8

[theskyhound]

That's a nice photo Phil. I think all of Texas was cloudy. We drove to the place that was most likely to be clear, and it mostly was--until about 40 minutes before hand. Then the clouds came from the south, chasing us away from the center line. Eventually we had to stop, and the mid-afternoon clouds built right over us. We only saw glimpses of the almost eclipsed sun before and after the main event. It got really dark though. There was a rooster and crickets. We could see a sunset about half way around the horizon. The crazy thing is that as soon as the sun went dark the clouds started clearing, I guess because of the lack of heat from the ground. But it didn't quite clear up fast enough to see much more than Venus, poking through a hole. Disappointing, but also memorable. I am lucky to have had a perfect clear sky in 2017.