Totality Pictures
All totality photographs were taken with Kodak Gold 400 print film and without a mylar solar filter.
14:09a
Baily's beads and prominence
2nd contact
14:09b
Enlarged to show beads and prominence
14:09c
Extremely enlarged to show prominence
14:10
Baily's beads and prominence

f/32, 1/500 sec.
f/32, 1/500 sec.
f/32, 1/500 sec.
f/22, 1/500 sec.
14:11a
inner corona
14:11b
inner to middle corona
14:11c
middle corona
14:11d
middle to outer corona
14:11e
outer corona

f/11, 1/250 sec.
f/11, 1/125 sec.
f/11, 1/60 sec.
f/11, 1/30 sec.
f/11, 1/15 sec.
14:14a
Baily's beads
3rd contact
14:14b
Baily's beads
3rd contact
14:14c
Baily's beads and small diamond ring
14:15a
Diamond ring
3rd contact
14:15b
same as previous but printed more

f/32, 1/1000 sec.
f/22, 1/1000 sec.
f/22, 1/500 sec.
f/22, 1/500 sec.
f/22, 1/500 sec.
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Composite image of digitally added corona images using the DOS "addpix" program written by Matt Considine (see Astrophotography Mailing List [APML])
Composite image of digitally processed corona and ring exposures (14:10 and 14:11a-e) - ref. Gerald L.Pellett, "Eclipse Photography in the Digital Age", Sky & Telescope, January 1998, pp. 117-120.
Composite of the previous two images, multiplied using Photoshop 4.01

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