Rare Annular Eclipse directly over Redding

Redding was not far from being directly under the path of totality for yesterday’s rare Annular Eclipse of the Sun.
So of course, I felt compelled to build a Solar Observatory.
Here are some images of what we saw. I was tweeting in real time using hashtag #ReddingEclipse, but only a few locals were using twitter. A great many images appeared on Facebook later. Some quite creative.

Interesting to look at the ring and see the shadow of the moon racing across the Earth. It was a big event around here. I hope nobody tried looking directly at it. There were plenty of warnings.
Free celestial science displays. It’s Really Redding.