We were in upstate NY, and got extremely lucky with a hole in the clouds right around the sun at totality.
The red at the bottom was unexpected and very cool to see. It's a solar prominence
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Back in the day, somewhere in the 90ies my dad took us children and drove 3 hours to Munich - and we went somewhere close to the airport so we could oversee the whole airport - to see the solar eclipse.
I remember it was so cool, the airport had to turn on the lights on the runways so the airplanes could still operate :D