Jon Hewlett had access to a telescope!

Jon - sunspots

More sunspots

Sunspots

Sun flares!!

More sun flares!!

Below are the photos I took using my camera! I left Sunday evening (8-20-2017) at 11 PM. I drove the 635 miles to Clemson University and got there at 8 AM on 8-21. I slept for an hour in my car, then went to the park area and took these photographs. I left at 4 PM and got home almost 12 hours later at 3:30 because the traffic was so bad!

John let me use the filter from the top of his telescope (all my orange pics were taken using it).

Just starting.

Through a pinhole on a piece of paper!

Checking it out using a welders mask!

Using the glasses the university gave out:

Some clouds got in the way:

Sufficient clouds that I could take this with no filter:

Back to the filter as the clouds moved away:

It started getting dark:

The eclipse was almost full:

Totally full eclipse with a hint of the sun flares on the upper right and the lower right:

Coming out of the 100% eclipse.

Sun becoming more prominent (taken through the sun eclipse glasses):

I was at the 100% line!!