A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped at Arizona's Meteor Crater. It's officially Barringer Crater, after the man who first proposed it might be an impact crater, tried to understand its geology, but died before he could prove it. Later it became the first proven impact site after geologist Eugene Shoemaker noticed its geology was like Nevada's nuclear test blast craters, but vastly bigger. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112265956358306922 #astronomy #geology #space #spacegeek #travel

A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped by the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radiotelescope, near Socorro NM. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112261585762946997 #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel

A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I posted a picture (which I took the previous day) of the Sierra Madera impact crater near Fort Stockton, Texas. The crater is 8mi/13km wide and US Hwy 385 goes through the middle of it. But the highway is the only spot you can see it since the rest of the crater is private property. So it was easy to keep the stop quick, take a few pictures and continue the drive. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112258742599256023 #astronomy #geology #space #spacegeek #travel

A year ago I was on the drive back home on the #SolarEclipse2024 road trip. From the far point of the trip in Houston, I made some more #space related stops on the way home: Sierra Madera impact crater near Fort Stockton TX, NSF's Very Large Array radiotelescope near Socorro NM and Meteor Crater near Flagstaff AZ. Overnight stops were at Austin TX, Las Cruces NM, Flagstaff AZ and Brigham City UT. #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel

More of my pictures from a year ago today at Johnson Space Center in Houston, 2 days after seeing #SolarEclipse2024. #astronomy #NASA #space #spacegeek #travel

One year ago, April 10, 2024... 2 days after #SolarEclipse2024, I visited NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. That part of my itinerary was intended to be an easy success in case the weather turned the eclipse viewing into a failure. Fortunately, that succeeded too. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112252673054720555 #astronomy #NASA #space #spacegeek #travel

One year ago, the day after the April 8, 2024 total #SolarEclipse2024, I continued south from Dallas to Houston to see NASA Johnson Space Center, with a quick peek before the visitor center closed for the day. I returned for more there the next day. That day was the road trip's farthest point with dinner at the coast in Galveston. After that everything was on the journey back home. #spacegeek #travel

One year ago... #weather is what you get. Forecasted storms were late, cleared just enough just in time to see #SolarEclipse2024 totality in Mesquite TX. Since cumulus clouds grow with daytime solar heating, the partial eclipse leading up to totality apparently cooled the air enough to inhibit them. Not everyone was as lucky that day. Spring is unpredictable - actual cloud cover along the path of totality differed from average expectations. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112237121736018901 #eclipse #astronomy #travel

One year ago, April 8, 2024, was the total #SolarEclipse2024 across North America. I watched from the Totality Dallas festival in Mesquite, Texas. Located at a regional park in the eastern Dallas metro, it had longer totality (4 minutes) than the big sold-out event in downtown. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112236220385840532 #astronomy #travel

One year ago was the day before the April 8, 2024 Total #SolarEclipse2024. I got to Mesquite, Texas (eastern Dallas metro) around mid-day to try to arrive ahead of the crush of traffic as everyone came from everywhere to the path of totality. Even before I found a place to get lunch, I met a news crew preparing to cover the next day's festivities in downtown. I was interviewed by AP aerospace reporter Marcia Dunn. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112231193378607141 #astronomy #spacegeek #eclipse #travel

A year ago I was on the way to see the Total #SolarEclipse2024. With snowfall expected to close I-84 in eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains, I had to leave a day early on the road trip to stay ahead of it. The snow followed just behind me until the Rocky Mountains in New Mexico where the storm weakened enough that a slightly late 9:30am departure allowed the sun to melt snow & ice on the pass on I-40. Overnight stops were in Boise ID, Price UT, Albuquerque NM and Wichita Falls TX. #astronomy #travel

@jeffluszcz Cool, enjoy! I flew into Boston and drove north to Houlton, Maine for the total solar eclipse last year (I didn't live anywhere near the path of totality). Got this poster, some other souvenirs, and most of all an awesome experience. I was standing under that clocktower during totality.

"The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project" is #NASA #astronomy Picture of the Day #APOD - A clever composite photo of positions of the Sun in the sky from near Stephenville, Texas over a year between March #Equinox of 2024 (a year ago) & 2025 (today). For the April 8, 2024 image of the Sun, it shows #SolarEclipse2024 at totality as seen from that location. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250320.html

"Cloudy with a Chance of Eclipse" by @NASAEarth Observatory / @avoiland - Some observers during #SolarEclipse2024 helped #NASA collect geographically widespread data on #SolarEclipse effects on clouds. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152771/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-eclipse #astronomy #weather

City of Dallas posted "Totality Dallas Festival Recap" from April 8 #SolarEclipse2024. I attended that event, which was held at Samuell Farm Park in Mesquite. (Dallas owns the park. But it's southeast outside Dallas.) We had 4min 8sec totality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP1jy2HEbVY #astronomy #travel

"Eclipse Path Maps" by @XKCD comic - After #SolarEclipse2024, the cartoonist takes elements of #SolarEclipse2026 and others to add up all the worst fears of eclipse chasers in how to plan a trip to one https://xkcd.com/2921/ #astronomy #travel

"The April 8 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA" by @NASA - #SolarEclipse2024 images by #NASA from public presentations, studies of animal reactions, jets, satellites and space station astronauts https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/april-8-total-solar-eclipse-through-the-eyes-of-nasa/ #astronomy