I got quite a few peaks between 4 and 5pm, the sun appeared quite a bit at my place from 7:30-8:30 and my front porch shielded any wind, it was not easy to 1st spot venus with the glasses but once you did it was a clear small disc, if it was mercury probably would have needed to magnify it. I viewed 1st contact from NASA's webcast from Hawaii, Lundt had his ca and h-alpha filters providing the video, I assume that image processing is required to get best image, seems the eye is still better than video camera's. Lundt was predicting that a CME was forming from what he saw in his scopes.

NASA was really touting their unmanned space missions during this webcast, there was a lot info given during the hour and half I watched it. Was planning to go to the Museum but 50-60 mph gusts are to much for me to walk in. The true sign of good planning is when everything goes well even when the main event takes a long time to happen, good job, Steve. Erik I went to a friend’s house in Dammeron Valley. No clouds, quite a bit of

wind. I took about 330 photos. When I get time to review them I will post a link to my Flickr page for those that are interested. It may be a couple of days. I only photographed to midpoint. I couldn’t stay any longer. Such is life.

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