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Eclipse 2019, Vicuña CHILE
[note: if you want to see pictures from our Chile trip, besides these 5, click here]

I narrowed down the totality shots to 5 examples. Click on the thumbnail to see full picture. Feel free to share, but please don't remove credit line.

[note: The camera is a Canon SX40 HS. My tripod broke just before I started to shoot, and if it wasn't for Carlos King, who lent me his tripod, I wouldn't have these shots!]

This is almost beginning of totality, called the "Diamond Ring/" There is only a small piece of the sun surface peeking throught, flaring out the camera lens.

ISO 400, 150.5mm, ƒ8, 1/160 sec

Now into totality, this exposure is slightly quicker, which makes it easier to see the chromosphere (red areas around the rim) and a couple of prominences are visible too (red flares)

ISO 400, 150.5mm, ƒ8, 1/160 sec

Now, the exposure is a bit longer, so the corona is longer and more visible.

ISO 400, 150.5mm, ƒ8, 1/50 sec

The second "Diamond Ring" comes and goes so fast. Here in the lower left, you can see it about to happen.

For those of you into eclipses, it seems to me that if I had a better, quicker exposure, I might have captured a picture of Baily's Beads here. If you zoom in on the lower left hand edge, you can kind of see it, but it's too washed out.

ISO 400, 150.5mm, ƒ8, 1/50 sec

By the time I took the next picture, it was already too late. The "Diamond Ring" is too big, and overloading the shot. Still, it's kind of a fun shot, with all the weird lens flare and artifacts!

ISO 400, 150.5mm, ƒ8, 1/50 sec