The relative sizes and brightnesses of the main prominences varied during totality due to the changing position of the Moon. I could see no prominences at the upper or lower limb. There is a less pronounced but broader, dark wedge at PA 185. This part lies in the opposite side of the detached prominence. Someone used a loudspeaker to inform the correct moment.
Ships blast their horns.
I look up and see the huge, silvery corona which is asymmetric and filamentary with a few streamers. It stretches about one lunar diameter in every direction. There is not much time left. Venus shines brightly to the left and Mercury to the right. Sirius happens to be behind the cathedral.