April 8, 2024 

Ed White and I enjoyed viewing the total solar eclipse April 8, 2024. Don and Ellen Ladwig kindly invited us to join them at the Huckstep Body Shop parking lot in Cape Girardeau, MO. About 20 people participated in the festivities. 

Here are a few pictures I took with my phone, plus 2 pictures Ed got with our DSLR.

Ed, over on the far right, is working with our C8 with a white light filter, our Lunt hydrogen alpha scope, and our solar filtered camera. My refractor with a Sun funnel entertained folks. 

Don and his brother Mark ran the telescopes over on the left.