Had a great time visiting with woodturner and wizard John Lucas today. Charlie Anderson drove down from Maryland and we bopped over to the Lucas estate. I took my 8" telescope with a solar filter and also projected an image of the sun into a cardboard box from a smaller telescope.

The most amazing thing for me was during the totality I took the filter off the big telescope and could see a number of red solar prominences around the moon - the first I've ever seen with my own eyes!

Some photos:

Me with some of my toys.
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I held the DSLR camera up to the eyepiece of the telescope. The optical configuration didn't allow a photo of the full sun but this shows the color and level of detail we could see.
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The cardboard box projection allowed several people to see the image at the same time.
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The sunspots are visible in this projection:
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These are eclipse projections on the sidewalk from pinhole lenses made by overlapping leaves high above:
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Lucas, friend, and son.
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JKJ