It's Venus. The photos posted by other folks here show it too. Except during an eclipse like yesterday, it's not visible during the daytime since the sun is a lot brighter.

On clear days Venus is clearly seen in the east a little above the horizon about a half hour before sunrise. That's why it's called the morning star, and then with Christendom became associated with Our Lady, the stella matutina.

Oh cool. Thanks, Soubirous.  I see it is in the picture QVD posted as well.

This is a picture of the sun at >98% totality?  That's not what I would expect it to look like.

The corona's bright enough to flood the camera lens. Same as in the images in #157 & #163. 

The slightly darker circle of the moon is there but would need a good filter (like maybe what you posted yesterday @ #129) for the contrast to be apparent.   

Well, I'm not convinced.  Why doesn't the image flood the camera lens at 50% totality?  And why does it flood the camera in the exact shape of the fully-visible sun?  And I would think the 2% area should be noticeably brighter than the rest.

Because you don't know much when it comes to physics and stuff like that, as you repeatedly prove. Your last few posts really make you out to be a conspiracy theory nut, but I'll hand you the chem trail one. That was crazy. I wonder if they did it to cause all this rain.

Because you don't know much when it comes to physics and stuff like that, as you repeatedly prove. Your last few posts really make you out to be a conspiracy theory nut, but I'll hand you the chem trail one. That was crazy. I wonder if they did it to cause all this rain.

You prove repeatedly that you're a weak-minded individual who's easily programmed and incapable of thinking for himself, and posture as being knowledgeable for simply regurgitating what the scientific establishment spews.  You types never refute the actual evidence, objections, and observations, but merely produce ad hominems like the above.

While they've been chem-trailing as part of a larger program, this wasn't just your normally-scheduled chemtrails, but was concentrated along the path of the eclipse.

If they did it to cause rain, why?  That seems like a lot of effort to just cause rain ... AND it didn't actually work during most of the eclipse path.  Where we were, the skies were covered with these things, eventually spreading out into a general haze.  No rain.  And I was still able to take some very good pictures of the eclipse.

I wouldn't put it past them to be trying to start some kind of bird flu epidemic.  This even was hyped orders of magnitude more than the very similar 2017 event, so that you had people travelling from all over the country to go see it.  Now that they've returned to where they came from, they could be carrying whatever it is they sprayed all over the country.  Bird Flu is the top candidate, as they've been hyping it in the media lately, claiming some human cases in Texas (strangely near the path of the eclipse), and they've been culling millions of livestock due to "bird flu".

Picture of the chemtrails I took the morning of the 8th. The one on top looks particularly weird:

You prove repeatedly that you're a weak-minded individual who's easily programmed and incapable of thinking for himself, and posture as being knowledgeable for simply regurgitating what the scientific establishment spews.  You types never refute the actual evidence, objections, and observations, but merely produce ad hominems like the above.

Sometimes the hominem is the problem such that refutation is futile. A person can go overboard with conspiracy theorizing and doubting everything to the point of basically becoming some sort of Kantian who vomits whatever his feelings/opinions are on the phenomena regardless of what's rational.

Pictures I took

Pictures I took

Great pics, much better than mine. I had cloudy skies, but I watched the whole time of totality. It was amazing. I guess Y2K failed again!