[Credit & Copyright: Steven Gilbert]
Yep, the biggest H-bomb within four and a half light years. 600 million tons per second of exploding hydrogen nuclei, with us huddled near it like insects around a street light.
That’s about as much eclipse as we got. But we had a high overcast that was blocking a lot of light that day. I had to project through my binocular’s objective lens to get an image on paper.
Don’t forget the transit of Venus, moving in front of the the sun June 5.
No one currently alive on this planet will ever see it again.