My wife and I traveled to Indiana to view the 2024 solar eclipse.  We eventually set up on the edge of a field just north of the town of Washington, Indiana after receiving permission from the farmer who owned the land.  Projected totality duration for this location was 4 min 0 sec.  We had viewed the 2017 solar eclipse from outside of Knoxville, Tennessee.  That trip included several family members and focused primarily on visual although I did bring my AT115 refractor with a homemade Baader AstroSolar film solar filter.  For the 2024 eclipse, I also brought my AT115 but with a Lunt white light solar wedge and my AT72EDII refractor (which I use almost exclusively as a guide scope) with a homemade Baader AstroSolar film solar filter.  The AT115 was dedicated as purely for visual with a 40mm eyepiece and the AT72 was purely for imaging with an ASI174MM planetary camera.

For those that watched this event, an additional bonus during totality was the visual presence of a fairly large prominence which was a bright red visually.  There were other prominences along the solar edge, but this one was visually dominant.  It was interesting that while viewing the event on my computer, the "large" prominence was not (to me) that impressive.  I used SharpCap to capture 300 frames automatically every 15 seconds allowing ample time for visual opportunity of this great event.  During totality both Venus and Jupiter were easy visually.

The image above was processed primarily using Photoshop's Camera Raw Filter routine with some work in PixInsight combining variously processed images as well as some Local Histogram Equalization (LHE) and sharpening to define the super interesting coronal streamers and loops.  The coronal loops are typically found around sunspots and active regions and are associated with the closed magnetic field lines that connect magnetic regions on the solar surface.