Picture of the Week 2017 - Week 34 - Total Solar Eclipse
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      Topic: Total Solar Eclipse / Great American Eclipse; dated August
      21, 2017
      More information: Great
        American Eclipse
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:30 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0127
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/6.3; ISO 1,600;
      T=1/1,250s; location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0121
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/6.3; ISO 1,600; T=1/500s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0108
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/8; ISO 1,600; T=1/640s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0106
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/8; ISO 1,600; T=1/3,200s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0105
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/8; ISO 1,600; T=1/3,200s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0130
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/8; ISO 1,600; T=1/200s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      Note: Star Regulus (Alpha Leo) to the left; annotated
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0130; version a for outer corona
      camera: Nikon D7100; optics: f=300mm; F/8; ISO 1,600; T=1/200s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      Note: Star Regulus (Alpha Leo) to the left
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:29 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0124
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=10mm; F/8; ISO 2,500; T=1/15s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Strange light... Just before Totality (August 21, 2017; 06:26
      p.m.; UT); image # d7000; dsc0111
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=10mm; F/11; ISO 800; T=1/50s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:09 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0081
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=75mm; F/22; ISO 500; T=1/2,000s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:06 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0074
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/22; ISO 500; T=1/8,000s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 06:06 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0071
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/22; ISO 500; T=1/8,000s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 05:29 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0034
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/18; ISO 250; T=1/6,400s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 05:29 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0031, "zoom in"
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/18; ISO 250; T=1/6,400s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 05:29 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0031
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/18; ISO 250; T=1/6,400s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 05:28 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0028
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/18; ISO 250; T=1/6,400s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 05:20 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7100; dsc0038
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/16; ISO 1,600; T=1/2,500s;
      filter: Baader Astro-Solar
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Total Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017; 05:07 p.m.; UT); image #
      d7000; dsc0020
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=250mm; F/22; ISO 200; T=1/8,000s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      
      
      Our observation place, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21, 2017)
      
      
      Our observation place, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21, 2017)
      
      
      ... ready for the eclipse, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21, 2017)
      
      
      My "airplane cabin ready" eclipse equipment (August 21, 2017)...
      plus tripod
      
      
      Fireworks after phase of totality (August 21, 2017; 06:31 p.m.;
      UT); image # d7000; dsc0130
      camera: Nikon D7000; optics: f=10mm; F/8; ISO 2,500; T=1/15s;
      location: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
      

      Weather forecast for the eclipse day (August 21, 2017); location:
      Lebanon, Tennessee
      Source: weather.com; released ~ 24 hours before
      
      
      Path of solar eclipse totality; our location: close to the letter
      "e" of Nashville, Lebanon, Wilson County
      
      
      Pre-eclipse breakfast @ Shoney's, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21,
      2017)
      
      
      Pre-eclipse meeting @ "The Stage", Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee
      (August 20, 2017)
      
      
      The Sun one day before the eclipse, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 20,
      2017; 06:14 p.m. UTC)
      camera: Nikon D7100; ISO 1,600; optics: f=300mm; F/11; filter:
      Baader Astro Solar; T=1/2,500s
      
      
      Inside "The Stage", Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee (August 18,
      2017)
      
      
      With Martin @ Walmart, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee (August
      18, 2017)
      
      
      Back to the US, first beer, "cheers", Lebanon, Tennessee (August
      18, 2017)
      
      
      Woodspring Suites, our "luxurious" accomodation for 1 week,
      Lebanon, Tennessee (August 20, 2017); note: Interstate 40 in the
      background
      
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