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By Daddy, August 22, Tuesday, 2017, at 10:57 PM EST

Then, click on scroll bar at bottom of screen & drag it all the way to the right to see complete photos. 

I can enlarge 5 times on my widescreen laptop & still be able to see entire photo & text. It may be different for your computer screen.

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I adjusted time after these shots -

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017- Aug. 18 Friday 7.07 PM EST 009

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 20 Sunday 8.33 AM EST Momy's new 2017 Ford Focus. 005

Eclipse of Sun, Aug. 21, 2017, 960 Calvert Rd Rising Sun MD - Eclipse Pin Hole Viewer box made by Ezra & Seth

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.17 PM EST 007

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.21 PM EST 009 

010 As Sun dimmed, it got cooler; cicadas stopped singing; evening insects began singing I think; Dady had tape recorder outside & made 2 90-min cassette tapes of event 

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.23 PM EST 010 

Ezra, on left, made a 2nd (bigger) Eclipse Viewer box

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon.1.29 PM EST 011 

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.31 PM EST 012

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.36 PM EST 013

Crescent of Sun below brite spot in clouds

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.55 PM EST 014 

Sun image inside Eclipse Pin Hole Viewer - photo by Ezra

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 1.55 PM EST 015 

017 Sun image inside Eclipse Pin Hole Viewer - photo by Dady - cam on tripod on self-time-delayed shutter

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 2.00 PM EST 017 

018 Sun getting brighter again - getting hot & sweaty outside again

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 2.04 PM EST 018 

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.04 PM EST 019

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.04 PM EST 020

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.05 PM EST 021

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.05 PM EST 022

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.07 PM EST 023

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.07 PM EST 024

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 21 Mon. 7.09 PM EST 025

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Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - 

Aug. 22 (Micah's actual Birthday) Tuesday 6.11 PM EST 001

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.12 PM EST 002

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.13 PM EST 003

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.14 PM EST 004

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.14 PM EST 005

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.16 PM EST 006

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.18 PM EST Looking E. 007

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 22 Tues. 6.20 PM EST Looking W. 008

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Added on August, 23 2017 - Wednesday :

I forgot to mention something that y'all probably already know, but that I had to remind myself of; and that is, the moon has to be in "New Moon" phase in order to eclipse the sun. In other words, the moon has to be completely "black" (no reflected light from sun on it). 

1.  The apparent size of the moon & sun have to be identical; or, the moon's apparent size would have to be larger than the sun's. In the case of our own sun, and our own moon, they have, as far as I know, exactly the same diameter from our viewpoint here on earth.

2.  The paths of the moon & sun would have to coincide at the exact same spot at sometime during their apparent traverse across the heavens. In other words, if each had a visible dot in it's exact center, these 2 dots would have to touch at the exact millisecond of the sun's total eclipse.

3.  The moon has to be a "New Moon."

1. Is the apparent "speed" of the sun & moon across the sky identical? (I guess I have always thought that it is, but maybe I'm wrong.)

2. If the speeds are the same, then how does the new moon "move" across the face of the sun (or how does the sun "move" across the face of the new moon)?

3. At what angle did the paths of the moon & sun intersect?

See pix taken on August 23 2017 Wednesday below :

   

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Taken from sun room landing looking S.

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 23 Wed. 10.26 AM EST 001

Taken from sun room landing looking S.

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 23 Wed. 10.26 AM EST 002

The waxing (becoming visible from the new moon phase, as apposed to waning, which is becoming  "invisible" toward the new moon phase) Crescent Moon shot (looking W) below was taken with camera on tripod on driveway, 15 and 1/2 steps S on from SE corner of parking lot; camera set on time-delay auto shutter, f 11 and 200 ASA; time of exposure was set automatically by the camera; I think the number is displayed on the view-screen; I would have to write the exposure times down each time I took a pic to be able to give you that info. Maybe I should start doing that. Yeah, right! Anyway, the thin crescent of the moon is almost touching the tree tops, lower center of pic. This phase of the moon is approximately 3 days "waxing" from the New Moon. I would have called today's (the 23rd's) phase of the moon "the 3rd Crescent," back in my early daze of sky-gazing, when I was just a wee baby, or bairn. Be sure to hit "Ctrl +" several times for this one. Oops! I did that, but the crescent doesn't show up well at all when magnified. But it does in the original pic. So I'll email that one to y'all. But for those of you who may not get the original, a thin part of the  "right" side of the moon is lit.  

Micah's Birthday Pix 2017 - Aug. 23 Wed. 7.29 PM EST 003