Comments and anecdotes about the event:
Mark Strollo, TAAS President, and Deb Fennell, TAAS Night Sky Coordinator, traveled to Tupper Lake, NY for the eclipse. Here is their report. "Our friend, Marc Staves, is a co-founder of the Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory in Tupper Lake NY. We have friends, David & Susan Pratt, who have a place in Tupper Lake and graciously invited us to stay with them for the eclipse. We checked in with our friend, Marc, the night before the eclipse o see where he needed help. He had a group coming in from St. Thomas Aquinas College and asked us to help out at the observatory, which was reserved for members, astronomers, and scientists/scholars, in contrast to the more public event at the elementary school. Deb set up her Seestar, and Mark set up his Lunt H-alpha scope, and his TMB 92ss with a white light filter. Prior to the eclipse we were able to provide many of the college students and observatory members with a number of observations of the sun using all three telescopes."