Incredible Solar Eclipse Images From Our Readers

By Nancy Atkinson - August 21, 2017 06:29 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Holy moly, that was awesome! Incredible, fantastic, amazing...there just aren't the words to describe what it is like to experience totality. While I'm trying to come down to Earth and figure out how to explain how wonderful this was, enjoy the beautiful images captured by our readers from across the US and those from across the world who traveled to capture one of nature's most spectacular events: a total solar eclipse.

The images from those seeing partial eclipses are wonderful, as well, and we'll keep adding them as they come in (update, we just got some from Europe too). Great job everyone!

#Eclipse 2017 From Laval. Aug 21 2017. @CosmodomeLaval #meteoqc @universetoday pic.twitter.com/HFAeH695dD— FelipeSg (@SanFelipeSG) August 21, 2017

#Timelapse of totality over Salem, #Oregon. So cool! #eclipse2017 @universetoday @JimCantore @ericfisher @StephanieAbrams @ZachsORoutdoors pic.twitter.com/TzV4Vil2xq— Mike Cohea (@MikeCohea) August 21, 2017

Short video I took from McMinnville, TN. Can you see it!!! ?? #Eclipse2017 pic.twitter.com/zVNXvLOLSI— Holly ? (@absolutspacegrl) August 21, 2017

That moment of #SolarEclipse2017 pic.twitter.com/8u8Xz79aWi— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) August 21, 2017

Aerial panorama of the total solar eclipse over Kansas. Two minutes earlier it was still raining. #eclipse #eclipse2017 @DJIGlobal pic.twitter.com/1zSIsKlZ8E— Romeo Durscher (@romeoch) August 21, 2017

Still sorting through the 850+ photos I shot today, a rough edit #Eclipse2017 pic.twitter.com/r4SC4YABtD— Tony Rice (@rtphokie) August 21, 2017

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Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com