On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 9:57:01 AM UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:

Sun has been so quiet recently that a boring eclipse corona view is
possible with very little else to see when the photosphere is occulted.


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Regards,
Martin Brown

Boring indeed !, with theoretical tumbleweeds rolling through your brain no wonder you would find something boring about this great event but you are best left to you own devices.

The stars which make the constellation Leo ( outside any stellar circumpolar structure) are behind the Sun's glare so it is a rare chance to appreciate the purely heliocentric perspective of a central Sun and the relationship of the stars to the orbital motion of the Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQwYrfmvoQ

It gets rid of the theoretical riff- raff and their stellar aberration and brings into sharp focus of the Earth's orbital motion through space as the background stars move from an evening to morning appearance or the left side to the right side of the central Sun.

It is an amazing thing that after the use of dual perspectives between the motion of the inner and outer planets seen from a faster or slower moving Earth is followed by the orbital change in position of the stars using a central Sun and a moving Earth.

I personally don't know how people can ignore it even allowing for the hapless theorists who find astronomy boring and life pointless.