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Great North American Solar Eclipse 2017 & Yellowstone trip

Calgary wedding photographer Maros Hana of Hanafoto.com traveled 3300 km into the heartland of NW United States chasing the Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2017. Travels took me to Spokane Washington and then on to Payette Idaho where had great hospitality and enjoyment of the anticipation of the eclipse on August 21 2017. Everyone was expecting huge traffic jams, gas and food shortages and cellphone network breakdowns – thankfully nothing like that happened – just a little bit of traffic jams immediately after the eclipse. I had my setup ready before the eclipse – Celestron 4 SE 1250mm with Solar Filter and Canon 5d3 with 70-200mm lens with 2x extender. After the eclipse I headed east towards Boise, Craters of the Moon and then home through Yellowstone National Park. – enjoy the photos.

A composite image of all the stages of the solar eclipse and images taken during the totality – it took me some 3 hours to compose this image

Image of totality – you can see the solar flares at 1 and 3 pm locations

Image during the totality eclipse from Payette ID, using my Celestron 4SE telescope – it lasted about 100 sec at that location – everything went dark and we could see Venus and other stars in the sky – a weird gray darkness covered the countryside. You can see a little star at the center bottom of the image.

Photo of the sun taken just before the eclipse from Payette ID, using my Celestron 4SE telescope – funny the sun spots look like the Hawaii Islands!

Our viewing location in Payette on the banks of Snake river bordering Idaho and Oregon

Driving through big sky prairies of Washington – somewhere by Ritzville

Craters of the Moon National Park

Buffalo in Yellowstone National Park – 6.30 am

Crisp August morning at -1c in Yellowstone – it was neat to see all the steam rising from hot springs everywhere.

Old Faithful – 6.45 am – there was only about 10 people there

Old Faithful blowing a steam ring

Morning mistAt grand prismatic pool – i did not see the colors sadly as the steam obscured the amazing blue & turquoise colors At Mammoth springs

and one more time the solar eclipse composite image

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