My friend Glenn Schneider is an astronomer, and also a little bit nuts. He's an umbraphile, an eclipse-chaser. But he's not just any guy who travels the world to watch solar eclipses, he gets neck-deep into them. He actually chartered a plane and organized an incredible trip to see the total solar eclipse a few weeks ago -- I wrote about this as he was planning it. Glenn sent me a note to say that the trip was a complete success! They had more than nine minutes of totality to watch -- that's literally more than is ever possible on the ground, because a plane can "chase the shadow", counteracting the rotation of the Earth. He has some details and some great pictures on his site. Check this out:
The blue streamers above and below the Sun (and the dark spot below the Sun) are not real, but artifacts produced ...
