Picture of the Week 2017 - Week 34 - Total Solar Eclipse
special; August 21, 2017
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Topic: Total Solar Eclipse / Great American Eclipse; dated August
21, 2017
More information: Great
American Eclipse
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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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0121_900x655.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0108_900x720.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0106_900x720.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0105_900x720.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0130_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0130_900x630a_regulus.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0124_900x563.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0111_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0081_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0074_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0071_900x540.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0034_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0031_900x600_centered.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0031_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0028_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7100_f300mm_dsc0038_850x850.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_d7000_dsc0020_900x600.jpg)
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
![](tse20170821_observation_place_lebanon_dsc0015_900x600.jpg)
Our observation place, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21, 2017)
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Our observation place, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21, 2017)
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... ready for the eclipse, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21, 2017)
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My "airplane cabin ready" eclipse equipment (August 21, 2017)...
plus tripod
![](tse20170821_fireworks_after_totality_d7000_dsc0130_900x600.jpg)
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_lebanon_20170821_860x314.jpg)
Weather forecast for the eclipse day (August 21, 2017); location:
Lebanon, Tennessee
Source: weather.com; released ~ 24 hours before
![](tse20170821_nashville_area_1000x570.jpg)
Path of solar eclipse totality; our location: close to the letter
"e" of Nashville, Lebanon, Wilson County
![](hr_mb_pre_eclipse_breakfast_at_shoneys_lebanon_20170821_900x600.jpg)
Pre-eclipse breakfast @ Shoney's, Lebanon, Tennessee (August 21,
2017)
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Pre-eclipse meeting @ "The Stage", Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee
(August 20, 2017)
![](sun_f300mm_dsc0157_20170820.jpg)
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
![](hr_inside_the_stage_broadway_nashville_dsc0166_20170818_900x600.jpg)
Inside "The Stage", Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee (August 18,
2017)
![](hr_mb_walmart_lebanon_20170818_900x660.jpg)
With Martin @ Walmart, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee (August
18, 2017)
![](back_to_the_us_first_beer_20170818_900x600.jpg)
Back to the US, first beer, "cheers", Lebanon, Tennessee (August
18, 2017)
![](woodspring_suites_lebanon_i40_dsc0019_20170818_900x600.jpg)
Woodspring Suites, our "luxurious" accomodation for 1 week,
Lebanon, Tennessee (August 20, 2017); note: Interstate 40 in the
background
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