Eclipseblogging (with a five year delay)

[andrew_jorgensen]

My mother was kind enough to dig out our Black Sea slides and scan in one of the photos I took of the 1999 total solar eclipse. It's a little fuzzy, as it was taken from a (large, albeit) boat and I'm not a very good photographer at the most relaxed of times; but I think it has some charm. It demonstrates the existence of the chromosphere and a few prominences, though it certainly does not demonstrate these with clarity.

I hope I have the opportunity to take a better photograph, but it's hard to practice at these things.