Christa and I drove to Niota, Tennessee the day before the eclipse and slept in the Euro- van in a Pilot parking lot off of Interstate 75.  I chose Niota because it was almost ex- actly on the centerline.   The next day we drove to a local elementary school which they opened for public viewing of the eclipse, and were lucky to arrive early enough to get a parking spot on a paved basketball court.  I set up a portable pavillion next to the van and then two telescopes with cameras. Our skies were pristine, which fortunately were en- joyed by most observers in the southeastern United States, including by those who observ- ed from South Carolina.

I set up my Nikon D40 on a C8 with full white light solar filter, and then my Canon Digi- tal Rebel XT (modified for Hα transmission) on my 120mm f/5 achromat, also fitted with a white light filter.  It ended up being that all of the images I acquired during totality were from the Canon and 120mm f/5 scope.  With only a few minutes of totality, and since I had to manually operate the cameras, I didn't have time to operate both. The binocular views were spectacular! I also didn't plan my exposure program very well, because I only turned the exposure wheel one click after each shot, starting with 1/4000", which result- ed in a bunch of short exposures.  So I ended up not taking any longer exposures that re- corded the outer corona, which was very impressive this time. Good thing it appears that everyone else got great pictures of the event!

				This last row of images were reprocessed and for- matted from the original images in May 2026 to be aligned with my current standards LOL.