Take a look at this image that one of the lads from the UKAI took. He tried a 5s exposure to bring out the detail in the corona and managed to capture detail in the moon too.
(http://homepage.mac.com/nick_king/.Pictures/eclipse_060329_comp01_huge.jpg)
wow... pretty amazing - never seen an image like that before - did he give details of the camera/ lens etc. that he used....?
John
Wow, that's one heck of a shot!
That is one excellent photo, something I would be very proud of, which is now my desktop background.
Tony G
Pete Lawrence posted this in uk.sci.astronomy:
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/solar/tse-20060329/tse-earthshine2.html
Cool pic