In April I went up to southern Quebec...just over the Vermont border...to see the eclipse. It was total there for about 2 minutes.The sky was cloudless but I was expecting more. It got dark...like twilight...but it didn’t get *completely* dark. I was expecting 2AM darkness with starlight.
I didn’t get to a location with totality, but at my location in Northern Illinois the Sun was about 80-90% covered. It did get a little bit dim, and a little bit cooler. I managed to get some pictures with my iPhone thru the eyepiece. I had recently purchased a PlayerOne Mars-C planetary camera, but wasn’t really familiar with it to try to capture some images with it. And, having used Apple products for the past 10 years, I also bought a Windows laptop to process the images. I’m still trying to get used to Windows 11. Apple computers are way out of my price range right now.