2016 - France - Reunion Island - Annular eclipse of the sun - Baily's beads

At the last annular eclipse in Reunion Island on September 1, 2016, I took this multiple exposure just before the 2nd contact, then just after the 3rd contact. The image below is an assembly of these phases with the central image corresponding to the middle of the annular part of the eclipse. On the left, during the second contact, 20 seconds elapsed between the first and the tenth picture. The relief of the moon reveals Baily beads, the last rays of the sun visible through the craters of the lunar disk. The opposite phenomenon occurs when the moon tangents again the solar disk during the 3rd contact, visible here on the top of the image. Reunion island being not placed in the center of the line of centrality, the moon did not leave the sun at its opposite, but here at 90 °.