Hi All -- This was my fourth TSE.? 2003 Kruger Park in SA: cloudy. 2005 Libia: wonderful; 2008 Mongolia: wonderful;? 2024 Knowlton Quebec ( a bit SE of Bromont): very good.? There were thin high clouds during totality, so to reinforce Attilla's comments, the wider corona was at best barely visible, at least to my more aged eyes.? I didn’t see anything clearly like Adam’s sketch of the corona, though this may ?have been due to my aging eyes, or being a bit blinded from having looked at the sun for a few seconds before totality.

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However, this was the first time for my son, Robert, and Richard and others who were with us at the hill / small mountain top parking lot that Richard had spied out-- they were all mightily impressed.? Maybe their views were closer to Adam’s sketch.

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I brought my Lunt h-alpha plus some white light refractors, so folks were really impressed by the h-alpha views.? I didn't see the big prominence naked eye during totality, though it was easily visible in the Lunt.?

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Perhaps the bright ring immediately around the sun (the chromosphere) was too bright, or the thin clouds did too much scattering and it overwhelmed the corona, at least to my eyes.

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Our outbound drive was ~3 hours, but we too got caught in the traffic on the return, which was over 5 hours.

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