A single exposure of the total phase, edited to bring out corona details. The bright star Regulus (actually a 4 star system consisting of 2 pairs of binaries) is seen in this image to the lower left, only about a degree away from the eclipsed Sun.
A fast exposure nearing the end of totality highlights some huge prominences on the edge of the sun prior to the diamond ring effect bursting out.
As the eclipse is ending, the impossibly bright diamond ring effect bursts forth from the edge of the Sun.
