Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 8

RE: https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112237121736018901

2 years ago, April 8, 2024: I witnessed the total solar eclipse at Mesquite, Texas (eastern Dallas metro). We could see totality through thin clouds. It was a relief because it was overcast all morning. Cumulus clouds were slower to form than forecast because they depend on solar heating, which was diminished by the eclipse. We couldn't see the corona lines like I saw in 2017. But everyone noticed an enormous prominence (solar flare) peeking around the Moon. #SolarEclipse2024 #astronomy #weather

Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 13, 2025
A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped at Arizona's Meteor Crater. It's officially Barringer Crater, after the man who first proposed it might be an impact crater, tried to understand its geology, but died before he could prove it. Later it became the first proven impact site after geologist Eugene Shoemaker noticed its geology was like Nevada's nuclear test blast craters, but vastly bigger. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112265956358306922 #astronomy #geology #space #spacegeek #travel
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Arizona's Meteor Crater, also known as Barringer Crater, was the final planned #space related landmark on my #SolarEclipse2024 trip. It was the world's first scientifically confirmed impact site, instrumental in developing the science for later ones. #astronomy #geology #LowFlyingRocks

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Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 12, 2025
A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped by the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radiotelescope, near Socorro NM. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112261585762946997 #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Continuing to visit #space related landmarks on the way home from #SolarEclipse2024, I saw the US๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA)๐Ÿ”ญ in Socorro County, New Mexico. 27 radio antennas use interferometry to act like a big dish the width of the array. #astronomy

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Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 12, 2025
A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I posted a picture (which I took the previous day) of the Sierra Madera impact crater near Fort Stockton, Texas. The crater is 8mi/13km wide and US Hwy 385 goes through the middle of it. But the highway is the only spot you can see it since the rest of the crater is private property. So it was easy to keep the stop quick, take a few pictures and continue the drive. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112258742599256023 #astronomy #geology #space #spacegeek #travel
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images One more #space related landmark as last stop before leaving Texas on my #SolarEclipse2024 trip... I made my second visit to the Sierra Madera impact crater. It's 8mi/13km across. If you look up the Wikipedia page, it has a picture from my first time there. #astronomy #geology

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Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 12, 2025
A year ago I was on the drive back home on the #SolarEclipse2024 road trip. From the far point of the trip in Houston, I made some more #space related stops on the way home: Sierra Madera impact crater near Fort Stockton TX, NSF's Very Large Array radiotelescope near Socorro NM and Meteor Crater near Flagstaff AZ. Overnight stops were at Austin TX, Las Cruces NM, Flagstaff AZ and Brigham City UT. #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel
glasspshrApr 11, 2025

@TidalFlats @KrajciTom my astronomy club just informed me of this exquisite work.

Last yearโ€™s corona really stuck in my head as different. I immediately thought โ€œbrushed hairโ€. 2017 reminded me more of flower petals

https://hdr-astrophotography.com/

#SolarEclipse2024 #astronomy

HDR astrophotography by Nicolas Lefaudeux

WORK IN PROGRESS !!! This eclipse was really an adventure. It brought us all the way up to Illinois in search of clear skies. Despite some thin cirrus during the first half of the totality, the images are excellent, and the amount of data collected is just huge, so it will take a lot ofโ€ฆ

HDR astrophotography by Nicolas Lefaudeux
Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 10, 2025
More of my pictures from a year ago today at Johnson Space Center in Houston, 2 days after seeing #SolarEclipse2024. #astronomy #NASA #space #spacegeek #travel
Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 10, 2025
One year ago, April 10, 2024... 2 days after #SolarEclipse2024, I visited NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. That part of my itinerary was intended to be an easy success in case the weather turned the eclipse viewing into a failure. Fortunately, that succeeded too. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112252673054720555 #astronomy #NASA #space #spacegeek #travel
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images Some pics from my visit to #NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. Almost everyone I met there was also visiting as a next stop after wherever they went to see #SolarEclipse2024 . #space

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Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 9, 2025
One year ago, the day after the April 8, 2024 total #SolarEclipse2024, I continued south from Dallas to Houston to see NASA Johnson Space Center, with a quick peek before the visitor center closed for the day. I returned for more there the next day. That day was the road trip's farthest point with dinner at the coast in Galveston. After that everything was on the journey back home. #spacegeek #travel
Show threadAstro Hawk (Ian Kluft) โœ…๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธApr 8, 2025
One year ago... #weather is what you get. Forecasted storms were late, cleared just enough just in time to see #SolarEclipse2024 totality in Mesquite TX. Since cumulus clouds grow with daytime solar heating, the partial eclipse leading up to totality apparently cooled the air enough to inhibit them. Not everyone was as lucky that day. Spring is unpredictable - actual cloud cover along the path of totality differed from average expectations. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112237121736018901 #eclipse #astronomy #travel
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The clouds parted just enough just in time to view totality here in Mesquite TX. (my cell phone pic) #SolarEclipse2024 #astronomy #weather

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