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We observed the 2 July 2019 total solar eclipse with a variety of imaging and spectroscopic instruments recording from three sites in mainland Chile: on the centerline at La Higuera, from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and from La Serena, as well as from a chartered flight at peak totality in mid-Pacific. Our spectroscopy monitored Fe X, Fe XIV, and Ar X lines, and we imaged Ar X with a Lyot filter adjusted from its original H-alpha bandpass. Our composite imaging has been compared with predictions based on modeling using magnetic-field measurements from the pre-eclipse month. Our time-differenced sites will be used to measure motions in coronal streamers.

We present composite white-light images of the 2019 July 2, total solar eclipse, from the minimum of the solar-activity cycle. We exhibit high-resolution high dynamic range composites from three observation sites in Chile, including one made of 646 individual ground-based images and with such a wide field it exceeds the field of view of the Naval Research Laboratory's C2 and C3 coronagraphs aboard ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. We compare the resolution of the coronal streamers and other magnetic phenomena of the corona. We also show continuity of features on the solar surface as observed from NOAA's GOES-16 and GOES-17 Solar Ultraviolet Imager.