by John Church

I and my wife and two of our children were fortunate to have seen this spectacular eclipse under mostly cloud-free skies at a fairgrounds near Urbana, Ohio.  I had expected a large crowd, but there were only a few others.  One couple had come from West Virginia; they had also seen the 2017 eclipse from another location in Oregon.

The most striking feature was the strip of naked-eye prominences along the southern limb as totality was almost over. I had never seen such a display at my three previous eclipses.

I’ve attached a photo taken with my Canon.  The extremely bright inner corona is washed out, but the outer corona shows up nicely.  The little dot in the circle isn’t the long-lost Vulcan, but just a dead pixel.