{"id":7380,"date":"2012-05-20T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:21:16","slug":"may-20-2012-annular-eclipse-from-jayton-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2012\/05\/20\/may-20-2012-annular-eclipse-from-jayton-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"May 20, 2012 Annular Eclipse from Jayton, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This page is dedicated solely to the annular eclipse on May 20, 2012, in West Texas.\u00a0\u00a0 A storm chase earlier on this date <\/a>terminated in a fortuitous locale —- just a county or two away from prime sunset\/moonset eclipse viewing!<\/p>\n

After our little supercell\/hailer fizzled well SSE of Guthrie, we stopped for a pit stop in Aspermont.\u00a0 From there, I had Chris and Bob take us west on U.S. 380 in order to find a suitable spot to watch the eclipse at sunset — which was only an hour or so away.\u00a0 I knew that the farther west we went the better. \u00a0 It would have been ideal to get up on the Caprock towards the Post, TX, area, but that was a tad too far away for us.\u00a0 It looked like the Jayton area would have to do.\u00a0 I wanted to be set up at least 20 minutes or so before sunset, and not frantically searching for a good high spot in these somewhat hilly wastelands as sunset neared.<\/p>\n

So, we found a decent spot along U.S. 380 a mile or so east of Jayton.\u00a0 Bob loaned me his gigantic 400 mm lens and I stuck it onto the Canon 5D, and plopped that onto the tripod and started to shoot!<\/p>\n

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  This page is dedicated solely to the annular eclipse on May 20, 2012, in West Texas.\u00a0\u00a0 A storm chase earlier on this date terminated… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,21,69,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-48","7":"category-astronomy","8":"category-eclipse","9":"category-sunsets-and-storms","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}