Former Los Alamos resident Gary Warren and his wife Marilyn traveled from their home in Denver, four hours to Alliance, Nebr., this weekend to enjoy the festivities and wait for the solar eclipse. Alliance was not just in the path of totality but it sat right on the line of maximum totality, 2 min. 29 sec. Photo by Gary Warren

The full total eclipse when the moon is blocking the sun except for a ring of light around the perimeter. That ring grows larger and more scattered during the Corona and then reduces back down to a ring again. Then, just as the sun begins to come out, for a few seconds there is a diamond effect where the ring looks like a diamond ring. Photo by Gary Warren

Scene during the full eclipse during which the sky was similar to the sky a few minutes after a normal sunset. The atmosphere had a beautiful glow of sunset type darkness. Photo by Marilyn Warren