Phenomenons of the sky

April 8th Hercules and I headed to Waynesfield Raceway, in Waynesfield Ohio, to view the eclipse.  I found this site on an eclipse track Google Map that showed it right in the middle of totality.  We got up bright and early, beat all the traffic, showed up and there was a line to get in.  My response from the Raceway about if I could park there, was simply "Yes, that will be fine"...not oh yeah there are going to be thousands of people here also buying tickets because we bought a website to market it":-). It all turned out good.  Great people there and they let me park back in an area where other photographers and astrophotographers were set up from camping overnight.  

This was one of the greatest experiences in my life.  I'm still just in shock about it as I continue to see videos on YouTube.  I'm not sure how I get Herules and I to Iceland for the next one, but it is really tempting.  

Photos didn't turn out as great as I had hoped.  There were some high clouds that really kind of diffused everything.  

On May 10th we ran out to P DR N to try to view the crazy rare Aurora Borealis display that was hitting.  Again the clouds caused issues, as I couldn't see anything.  I was getting to leave disappointed when I noticed a very bright part of the sky behind the clouds.  I put my camera up to my eye and saw the following.

It was doing the crazy light show, but between all the city lights and the clouds it wasn't visible to the naked eye.  Regardless it was a great show for the camera.

We went back out the next day with clearer skies but a much less impressive, and shorter show.