After my first experience viewing a solar eclipse in Oregon back in 2017, I was hooked, and knew I had to see the next one. Unlike in 2017, I didn’t have to travel very far to see this year’s eclipse as it was going right through Upstate New York. I booked a cottage on Lake Champlain about a year in advance (lodging was already filling up fast) right in the path of totality so that I would not have to drive on the day of the event (traffic for the last eclipse had been a nightmare).
Here are a few photos from the eclipse. The first two are closeups of the total eclipse. The third photo is a wider shot showing the dark sky at totality (though to the naked eye the sky was darker with more stars visible than what was captured by this photo). The final pic is a shot of Lake Champlain just after totality.
Michael Rappa 
These are so beautiful. You should have sent this to a magazine!
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