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Baily’s Beads and Diamond Ring

Ben Cooper and Don Hladiuk

The diamond ring and Bailey’s Beads portion of our total eclipse. [Read the Full Story Behind the Eclipse-Chasing Expedition Here]

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Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper
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Ben Cooper is an award-winning photographer based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where he has photographed over 400 launches to date. As an official photographer for some of the biggest launch providers, as well as for NASA and several media outlets over the past 20+ years, he has captured many of the most well-known and iconic space mission photos taken in the last two decades. Ben is the author of the 2019 book Launch Photography and was the 2019 winner of the Kolcum Award "for excellence in telling the space story along Florida’s Space Coast and throughout the world."

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