Astro pics from the 4th

[CptTrips]

Nothing spectacular.  Too much wind, too much beer, too out of practice.

A nice little cresent moon:
http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/4jul/cresant.png

Saturn, Mars, Regulus, and the moon make a nice arrangement:
http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/4jul/satmarsregmoon.png

M57:
http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/4jul/ring.png

M16:
http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/4jul/m16.png

Clear Skies,
Wab

[moot]

Nice pics.. 
On the off chance you hadn't seen this yet : http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas.html
e.g. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2001.GIF

[CptTrips]

Nice pics.. 
On the off chance you hadn't seen this yet : http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas.html
e.g. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2001.GIF

Kool!  Thanks.  I was just talking to someone last night and said I'd love to see a totality at somepoint in my life.  Just didn't feel like having to go to Botswana.   Looks like 2012 May 20 is my shot here in Texas. 

I'll be there with bells on. 

Clear Skies,
Wab

[moot]

Red is annular, blue are the total eclipses, but yep .. 2017 it is..   The really wide ones like May 31, 2003 over Iceland and Greenland, or May 20th 2015 nearby ought to be really awesome.  If regular-sized and paced ones drop the temperature by whole degrees and jolt animals and insects into night-mode...