Sucker Hole

Yesterday my three solar telescopes waited for a promising “sucker hole” in the clouds to let me to do my daily observation and imaging of the Sun. For more than an hour, the opening in the sky lay tantalizingly close to the hot, cloud-muted Sun, but eventually closed, rather than opening. Overhead and to the west, clear blue sky taunted, but I waited patiently and did some tree trimming in the meantime. Finally, when the heat and humidity became nearly unbearable, the clouds melted away from the Sun just enough to allow me to take pictures. I was relieved to get the images and to escape the heat, however, because of the delay my saw palmetto palms are looking much better.

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