According to my
eclipse bible (a heretical text on my tour, which pays its fealty to
Mr. Eclipse himself), one of the first photographers to use Photoshop to build a composite photograph of the sun's corona took six months to come up with something he found satisfactory. I certainly didn't do better in a largely shadeless afternoon. I'll instead post
four pictures, which you can mentally lay atop of each other, observing the fine outer structure and trying to ignore the overexposed inner section. This is supposed to give you an idea of how the corona appears to the naked eye; anyway, I hope they're pretty.