The day started off all cloudy, but the clouds got less dense, and then when the eclipse in our front yard reached totality, we had a big break in the clouds.
The first picture has a sunspot in the middle. In the totality picture, slightly to the right of the bottom of the sun in the totality picture there is a hint of a reddish prominence which in my 8" telescope had lovely structure. A quick measurement from the photo shows that the prominence is about seven times the size of the earth.
I'm really glad you got to experience the total eclipse. Those are great photos! I only had a partial solar eclipse. It was still nice to see all the crescent-shaped shadows, though.
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